Becoming Naomi Leon by Pam Munoz Ryan
Naomi Outlaw is having a great life. Living with her Gram and younger brother Owen, Naomi still is missing part of her: her parents. When she was four and Owen was one, her parents took them to this shelter during a storm. Mysteriously, Naomi’s father disappeared and her mother no longer wanted her and her brother, so they went to live with Gram, their mother’s grandma. Now 11 and 7, Naomi and Owen have learned to love Gram and Baby Baluga (the trailer they live in). Suddenly, out of the blue, Naomi’s mother shows up at their trailer door. At first she is nice and sweet to Naomi and Owen, but soon things change, and Naomi sees the true side of her mother. Mean and harsh, her mother tries to take Naomi back to Las Vegas to her boyfriend and his daughter without any signs of wanting Owen. When Naomi stands up against her, her mother starts to threaten Naomi. As soon as Gram finds out the plan, she begins to arrange taking both children to safety. Gram and their loving neighbors travel all the way to Mexico where Naomi’s father lives. If they find him then Naomi has a chance at staying with Gram. Full of adventure, Naomi sets off on a search to find her father in the big country of Mexico! A great adventure story that proves family means more than anything else in the world. Review by Olivia
“But when she turned around, she found herself staring into the barrel of a gun –the lipstick gun. The face behind the gun was featureless –a dark shadow.” This is just one phrase in this intriguing mystery. When you pick up this book, you will be sucked into a psychic investigator world of spies, dark shadows, ghosts, and surprises. Gilda Joyce is a spunky almost-15-year-old with a hankering for spying. That’s why she really wanted to get a summer internship at the Washington, D.C. International Spy Museum. It will give her the perfect chance to sport her vintage spywear, cavort with real C.I.A. agents, and expand her knowledge of gadgetry and surveillance. But Gilda never expected some new cold war objects in the museum to stir up some trouble. Suddenly, Gilda’s dreams keep on getting haunted with Abraham Lincoln’s Ghost, and a mysterious woman with a bloodstained star keeps on showing up in the museum, fascinating Gilda to investigate. But when a doe shows her a loose brick in a cemetery wall, uncovering an encoded message, she finds that she jumped into a deeper mystery than she thought. If you like suspense, mystery, or tension, I bet in the first five minutes of reading you will be buried in this book! Gilda isn’t the perfect spy, but she is very unique –how many girls do you know that have psychic powers, type on a typewriter instead of a laptop, and wear vintage clothing all at once? I don’t think many girls do. As you can probably tell, Gilda Joyce books are for girls ages 9+ because of the complicated plot and humor. They can make you shiver with fear, and laugh out loud both at once! These books are suspenseful but funny at the same time. If you like this book, check out the other Gilda Joyce books: Gilda Joyce: Psychic Investigator, Gilda Joyce: Ladies of the Lake, and Gilda Joyce: The Ghost Sonata. Read them all!!!! Review by Anusha
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