The One and Only Ivan

By K.A. Applegate

This book is about a gorilla named Ivan who lives in a circus. He is friends with some of the other animals especially Stella the elephant and Bob the dog. When Stella dies Ivan decided to make sure her friend Ruby doest have a life in captivity. I really liked this book because it was a very unique story and fun characters.

Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

This book is about four girls who have been best friends forever. When they find a pair of pants that magical fits all of them perfectly they decide to share them and send them back and forth during their first summer apart. I really liked this book because all of the character had really interesting stories and were all very different. The characters were all interesting and very well developed. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes realistic fiction books. 

Number the Stars

by Lois Lowry

This book is about a girl named Annemarie who is living in Denmark during WWII. Her best friend, Ellen is a jew and the nazis have started to relocate jews so they take her in and try to protect her and her family.
I liked this book because the characters are all developed really well and there is enough description to really know what is going on but not too much that it was boring.