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The Indian in the Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard

By Lynne Reid Banks

The book The Indian in the Cupboard takes place in the England. The time is the early 1980’s. The main character, Omri, lives in the city. Apparently, he lives in a two-story house with his two brothers and his parents. (Although, later he lives with his small Indian, Little Bear, also.)

Omri is a boy is middle school with a strange personality. He isn’t what you call “tidy”, but he is not messy. He actually likes cupboards, and wasn’t disappointed when he got a medicine cupboard for his birthday. He is an average student, though he is known by the principal well. He actually is a bit of a loner, as he prefers to be alone in his room and doesn’t like all the hustle in the morning past his bedroom. In the book, his favorite class seems to be art.

In the story, there is one main problem. When Omri locked away a plastic Indian his best friend Patrick gave him in a cupboard, the Indian, “Little Bear”, comes to life. Omri has to figure out what to do with him, as Little Bear is a live person and has the same human needs, but in miniature sizes. (He needed things like food, shelter, etc.). The problem becomes bigger when he loses the magical key that brought the toy to life, so Omri couldn't solve the problem by “sending” him back, as the cupboard also sent back toys to plastic figure.

This book related to me since the theme is it is a really about believing in magic and thinking anything is possible, and I can sometimes have great imagination. I actually would recommend this book to anyone who likes magic and imagination. I would recommend this book because it is one of the greatest books I ever read, and I would give it one-hundred out of one hundred. It is really hard to find a great book like this. The rest of the series is amazing and wonderful, too.

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Again, another school project. My teacher may seem very mean, but I like all the extra work. :P

A Series of Unfortunate Events Summary

A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator

By Nicolette Cheek

In the book A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket there is three main characters. The characters are Violet Baudelaire, who usually has her hair tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes when she is thinking hard, Klaus Baudelaire, who wears glasses and is very smart, and Sunny Baudelaire, who also has a ribbon on her head, and is very small for a baby of her age. The setting is on 667 Dark Avenue, which is only a few blocks away from where their mansion was, which got burned down in a fire.

In the beginning, Violet, Sunny, and Klaus move to their new gaurdians’ penthouse on 667 Dark Avevue. (This time, they have two guardians, who are married). Their guardians, Jerome and Esmé Squalor, live in a very dark neighborhood that looks like its always night. Next, the siblings discover that their new guardians are very, very wealthy, but that they live in a place where things that are “in” and “out” are always changing. The place the Baudelaires live in are currently in a phase where dark is “in”, but later in the story light is “in”. After that, the siblings are not typically enjoying their new seventy-one room home, as they find it very boring since the things they like are not “in”. Later, Count Olaf, the siblings’ enemy who is trying to steal their fortune, returns in disguise as Gunther. Finally, the siblings find Count Olaf’s secret hideout in an empty elevator shaft.

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This is a thing my teacher assigns us each week, where we have to write short summaries about the book we read.