LCE 6th grade Electronic Book Review

1. Student Reviewer’s Name: Hannah R.
2. Date of review of book: February 28, 2008
3. Complete Book Title: The Indian in the Cupboard
4. Author of Book: Lynne Reid Banks
5. Year the book was published: 1980
6. Genre: Fantasy
7. Student rating of the book (1 the highest, 5 the lowest): 2

8. Main conflict in the book: A boy receives an Indian figure and a cupboard for his birthday but he finds out that the cupboard turns the Indian alive.

9. Setting of the book: (place and time) The time was supposed to be in the 1980’s

10. Main Characters and part they play in the book:
(1) Omri the boy who receives the cupboard
(2) Little Bull the Indian that comes to life

11. Are the characters believable and interesting? The characters are believable because it’s a boy and an Indian.

12. One excellent direct quotation from the book: (include who said it, page number, and use
quotation marks!)
Omri speaking to the cowboy, “I can’t take you to school.”
“Why?”
“It’s too risky.” Pg.145

13. Good reasons to read the book: It’s good because the boy starts to appreciate and find out things he didn’t know about life.

14. Any reasons not to read the book? If you’re not into conflicts and problems you shouldn’t read it because it has lots of conflict.

15. Did you like this book or not? And why…. I thought this book was good because it had a lot of parts you could relate to and some exciting parts.