Thursday, January 20, 2011

A Wrinkle in Time (***)


When the odd visitor introduced herself as Mrs. Whatsit Meg and her mother did not know what to think. So they did the polite thing to do, they got her some tea and made her a sandwich. After that night it all changed. Meg and Charles took Fortinbras (the dog) out for a walk and came across Calvin (whom Meg didn't think very much of.) Together they went on a dangerous journey, meet strange creatures, and tryed to rescue Meg and Charles's father in the middle of it.

This book is 211 pages long. I gave it three out of for stars (***.)


A Wrinkle in Time by, Madeleine L'engle

Shiva's Fire (***)


This book is about a girl named Parvati who has a gift to dance. Right when she was born a terrible storm broke out and the sky turned green. Then it turned into a cyclone and roused the elephants who broke free from their chains and trampled Parvati's father killing him. the cyclone ruined their house and many many others. It killed people, chickens, water buffalo, dogs, elephants, monkeys, birds and many other innocent creatures. When she was eight she went to the river with a basket of laundry and was found surrounded by many, many types of animals, fish, and birds. when she was ten she danced in fire until her mother saw, her and pulled her out. To her mother's surprise she wasn't bunt at all. She could talk to animals.
and she remembered her whole life, since the day she was born. This book takes place in India.

This book was 270 pages long. I gave this book three out of five stars (***.)


Shiva's Fire by, Suzanne Fisher Staples

The Giver (*****)


This book is about a boy named jonas. He is assigned to a job called the reciever of memories. His trainer is an elder who wants him to call him the Giver, and so he begins to give him good memories and terrible painful grusome ones. Read the book to find out what they were.

This book is 179 pages long. I'll give it five out of five stars (*****.)

The Giver by, Lois Lowry

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Choke (***)


This book is about a boy named Beck who lives with his uncle and 3 servants in a mansion. Well, mansion is an understatement. More like a castle, with five stories, plus an attic and a basement. This is the second book to a series. The first one is called Pillage and I very much recommend that one, too. When Beck finds the last dragon egg a white dragon hatches from it. She was so beautiful that he and his two friends name it Lizzie, after queen Elizabeth (because a stranger tells them that she is a queen.)

This book is 327 pages long. I will give it three out of five stars (***.)

Choke by Obert Skye

Grimm Legacy (****)


In this book a girl gets picked by her social studies teacher to work at a thing called the library. When she arrives her test is to sort buttons. At first it all seems very odd, but as she got used to people putting tea sets on hold and renting shoes it seems that anything is possible. When she gets put to a second test to see if she is fit for a key to somthing called the Grimm Legacy, and passes, she finds that indeed anything is possible...

This book is 325 pages long. I gave it four out of five stars because I could not put this book down. It is action packed. I suggest it for ages 11+ only.

Grimm Legacy by, Polly Shulman

Monday, January 17, 2011

A Finders Keepers Place (**)


This book is about a girl named Esther and her little sister Ruth's life with their mom, Valley. Their mom smokes, doesn't go to her job as required, and is constantly remodeling the house (which costs a lot of money in which they do not have.) One time her mom knocks out the main support walls and the ceiling falls in. It almost kills Ruth, who is about eight years old. Valley tried to tell the sisters that their father died when they were very young, but they think that he left them to go live somewhere else.

I gave this book two stars out of five stars (**) because I think that it lingered too much on simple unimportant things. Like trying on a skirt, or eating a sandwich, and many other things similar to this. This book is 259 pages long.

A Finder Keepers Place by, Ann Haywood Leal