Lauryn's Book Review: Samantha Books

I read the series of Samantha books, well not all of them. The first one I read is called "Samantha's Surprise". At the very beginning Samantha is at the store with her friend looking at one of her favorite dolls. She's always wanted it. She gave her last doll to one of her other friends cause she had never had one. She was afraid to ask her grandma if she could have it because she gave away her other one. In the middle of the story they're getting ready for Christmas. Samantha gets a new Christmas dress. At the very end her uncle buys the doll for her and gives it to her for Christmas. I really liked the book. It's one of my favorites in the Samantha series. I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

The next book I read is called "Samantha Learns a Lesson". The story starts when Samantha was on her way to school. Her best friend had just moved and she really missed her. A little while later Samantha finds out that her friend Nellie just moved back and she's working for a lady two or three houses down from her. She is so excited because Nellie gets to go to school with her. Nellie's never gone to school before so she has to go to the second grade and all the second graders are making fun of her because she's ten and in second grade. They decide to have the tower of Samantha's house be a new school room for Nellie and she gets into the third grade really fast. I liked the book because Samantha helps Nellie. I give this book four stars.

The next book I read was "Happy Birthday, Samantha". It's almost Samantha's birthday and her cousins are coming over for her birthday. When she gets dressed she helps the cook make her birthday cake and ice cream. Her cousins help make ice cream too and then it is finally time for all her friends to come over and open presents. Her friends come in and they're all carrying their favorite dolls. She gets a teddy bear and other things. The ice cream is too salty and Samantha gets to go to New York City with her cousins to get ice cream. I really liked this book a lot. I give it five stars. It was my favorite book in the series.

Samantha saves the day wasn't quite as good as all the others. It starts out when her cousins and uncle and aunt come off a boat with her grandma's friend. They're going to be staying in a cabin for the summer. Samantha finds a book in the attic that shows a very pretty waterfall. They go there the next day and go under the waterfall and get soaked. Then they get out and sit on the grass. That's about all I read because I didn't really like it after that. I didn't like it because you could guess what the whole story was about by the title and the pictures. And in all the other ones you can't guess a thing about what's going to happen except in Happy Birthday Samantha. I give it two out of five stars.