The Tiger's Curse (*****)

The Tiger's Curse
By, Colleen Houck

This book I could not put down. It is an action filled romance from a quirky teenage girl’s point of view. Kelsey gets a two week job at the circus that is in town. Her two jobs are to walk the dogs and to feed the tiger whose name is Diren. She finds she has a special connection with Diren and so she spends almost all of her free time with the tiger. She reads to him and asks him questions, even though she knows he can’t answer. Then a business man named Mr. Kadam comes and makes an offer to buy Diren. Kelsey is devastated. What will she do without her Tiger? Then Mr. Kadam offers a job to Kelsey. The job is two months in India to transport Diren to a tiger reserve. Kelsey of course accepts. She flies first class in a private plane belonging to Mr. Kadam. She is very curious about India and why Mr. Kadam’s wealthy employer wants Diren so much. Read the book to find out why Mr. Kadam says Kelsey and Diren are both so special.

This book is five out of five stars (*****)! This book is 402 pages long.
*recommended for grades seven and up!*

The Farther You Run (***)

The Farther You Run
By, Davida Wills Hurwin
The farther you run is a short read about two girls who have two totally different problems with their lives. Samantha’s best and only good friend died a few months ago and she isn’t taking it easily. There is no one she feels she can truly talk to, no one to tell her thoughts and feelings, her dreams and secrats, gossip, and absolutely no one to go to dance class with, so why go alone?
Well, Mona has some troubles of her own. Her mother is bipolar and growing up has been hard, a long list of new schools and different “friends”. So she has basically and opens herself up to no one and makes no attempt of being good in her English class, which she has to redo because she knows she will gone soon anyways.
Then they met. Samantha likes Mona, who can make her laugh like Jules did and they become friends right away. Mona likes Sammie, she understands about her mother, but doesn’t show disgust or make her a pity-friend. She treats Mona like she wants to be treated, no different than anyone else. They get an apartment together and do fine the first two months, but it is rounding the anniversary to Jules death and life is becoming more difficult and she and Mona’s friendship are to be falling apart quickly. Can they tell each other the truth and begin to become better friends than before, or will they both fall apart and be left with scars and vulnerable? Read the book to find out.
This book is 217 pages long. I’ll give it three out of four stars (***).
*recommended for grades 7 and up!*

Forever (***)

The wolves of Mercy Falls are going to be hunted. Two people were killed by them in three years. Not good on their part. The man leading the hunt has a large room stuffed full of his game. Not good either. Grace has been in and out of wolf form uncontrollably so she has to be locked in the bathroom. What Grace wants is to run. To be free. Not locked in a tiny bathroom that reeks like humans. Not good on her part. Sam knows that she dislikes it, but he would rather have her be uncomfortable than in the risk of dying. Isabel and Cole are falling in love like Sam guessed.

I liked that this book wraps up the story well and has a good strong plot line. Another thing I liked is that the end isn’t entirely hunky-dory. What I didn’t like was that a lot of things were predictable. Another thing I didn’t like was that the book was super fast getting into the good parts. In some cases that is good, but sometimes I do not like that.

This book is 386 pages long. I’ll give it three out of four stars (***).

Forever
By, Maggie Stiefvater

Science Fair (***1/2)

Science Fair is about the Hubble Middle School's science fair and what one kid, Toby, does to try to save it. When a small country tries to take revenge on the united states for the oddest reason, but with a cruel punishment, can he save it in time? Read the book to find out.

Science Fair is 400 pages long. I'll give it three and a half out of five stars (*** 1/2).

Science Fair
by, Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Incarceron (****)

Claudia will soon be wed to the terrible prince Casper, who shouldn't even be a prince. She will move to the castle and be even moremisreble then before. She wishes she could escape to somewhere else and be free.
Finn knows he wasn't born in Incarceron, or that he has been here all his life. He has haunting memories of an old life somewhere else, of a cake and singing, small things that wouldn't seem to matter to someone who sees the stars.
Then they each find a key in which they can talk to each other through and see each ther as well. Read the book to see if Claudia can escape the marrige and Finn can escape Incarceron.

52 pages long. I'll give it four out of five stars (****)

Incarceron
by, Catherine Fisher

Chasing Redbird (***)

Zinny Taylor lives in a house with six siblings and her parents, right next door in a sort of adjoining town house, her uncle lives. ziinny hates being mistoke for her sisters, she hates being asked, "Which one are you,"and then, "Taylor I mean."
She wants to be known for something, when she begins to start uncovering an abandoned path, which she found was named Bybanks-
Chocton Trail Bacause it started at the town of Bybanks and ended at the town of Chocton. The only reason she found out was because she found a map of the trail when she asked a historion and then made a copy of it. Read the book to find out if she ends up recovering the whole thing.

This book is 261 pages long. I'll give it three out of five stars.

Chasing Redbird
by, Sharon Creech

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (****)

This book is about four girls who call themselves the Septembers. Tibby is the small one, Karmen is the one who always seems to do everything wrong, Lenny is the "invisible" one, and Beatrice is fearless. These entirely different girls have been friends all their life, no literally. They were all born within a week of each other and their mothers knew each other from the start of their pregnancy. They have never left each other for their lives, so when they spend the summer apart for the first time ever the week before they find the traveling pants, they fit all of the girls perfectly, but do they have the magic to keep them together, even when times get tough? Read the book to find out!

This book is 290 pages long. I'll give it four out of five stars (****)!

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
by, Ann Brashares