Meghan Chase’s sixteenth birthday is far from sweet. Her baby brother kidnapped, mom injured, best friend was a bluff, and she’s brought into a fantasy world full of creatures who all want to eat oor use her. What choicce does she have but try to rescue her brother? Will she save her borther, find true [...]
Browsing the blog archives for September, 2010
27 Sep 10
Book Review: Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Sophie’s the eldest child, meaning she’ll fail first and worst when she becomes independent. The thing is, she never goes out to make her fortune. She is stuck in her step-mother’s hat shop with only the hats for company. Until one day, she recieves a visitor – the Witch of the Waste, who puts a [...]
24 Sep 10
Book Review: The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry
Lucinda Chapdelaine’s parents died when she was five, and they left her with nothing. She lived as a servant girl with her uncle and step-aunt until one day everything changed. A mysterious woman dropped off a stone at her uncle’s goldsmith shop. The Prince dropped by, a boy stole everything, and her uncle died. After [...]
22 Sep 10
Book Review: The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
Thomas Ward is the seventh son of the seventh son born for one reason – to be the last apprentice to the current spook. When he innocently lets loose a bound evil witch, he must set things right, but does he have any chance of success without the help of the Master Spook? With so [...]
21 Sep 10
Book Review: The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
A boy named Gen, short for Eugenides (a mouthful), is in prison for stealing the King’s seal, and ironically, snuck out of prison by the King’s overseer to steal an object of great interest. The task could end all their lives. Will Gen succeed? Could the retrieval of the stone bring peace to the three [...]
17 Sep 10
Book Review: Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
Our two main characters live in two very different worlds. Claudia is on the “outside” betrothed to the Heir Prince, and Finn is in Incarceron, the prison, “below.” Both are fighting for their freedom yet continually finding themselves pawns in everyone else’s games! Will they ever be free? Will Finn ever get out of the [...]
15 Sep 10
Book Review: Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
In Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, Fern rescues a runt pig from being killed by her father, only to have him be fattened for a Christmas feast by her uncle. Can Charlotte, a spider, save him? I really enjoyed the comradery between the farm animals. It seemed like one noisy fussy animal family, not unlike [...]
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13 Sep 10
Book Review: The Mouse and the Motorcylcle by Beverly Cleary
In the The Mouse and the Motorcylcle by Beverly Cleary a thrill-seeking mouse meets a boy with a toy motorcycle, a motorcycle that fits him perfectly. Will he be killed by the dog? Exterminated by the hotel? Tricked by the boy? This was just sort of a silly tale. I mean who would give a mouse [...]
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10 Sep 10
Book Review: Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins
The book Gregor the Overlander by Suzanne Collins begins with our main character Gregor chasing his sister down a laundry shoot into a mysterious world – Underland, a world of oversized cockroaches, spiders, bats, and worst of all… rats! Will they ever make it out of this creepy land back to their Mom? Will they [...]
8 Sep 10
Book Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlie, the main character of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, is a malnurshed poor child from a good family. He is one of the lucky five children selected to visit the Chocolate Factory for on special day. The children have no idea how much their lives will be affected as a result. [...]
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