Monday, May 10, 2010

Wings (*****)


This book is about a girl maned Tamisin and a boy maned Jak.  Tamisin is part fairy, when she was younger she got in trouble for wearing sparkles on her cheeks, they told her to wash it off, but they couldn't.  She had always had pointed ears, and now she grew wings!  Her mother is the queen of the Fey world and her father was a human.  She did not know she was adopted until she grew the wings, her parents were waiting until she was older to tell her.  Read the book to find out about Jak and more about Tamisin.

This book was 307 pages long.  I'll give it five out of five stars (*****), I could not put it down and I also really enjoyed it.


Wings by, E.D. Baker

Sunday, May 9, 2010

13 Treasures (****)

This book is about a girl who has an ability to see magical beings.  Her mom sends her to her grandmothers house to stay for most of the summer because she broke her light in her room because of a incident in which fairies made her seem to be falling, the light was the only thing she could see, so she grabbed it and it broke.  She finds a few books on fairies and in one it gives her tips on how to make her self invisible, she finds that it only makes herself invisible until she talks.  When her dog chases a rabbit into the woods she and the grounds keeper's boy, Fabian, have been forbidden to go into they are forced to.  They see a mysterious girl who they think to be Morwenna, who had gone missing in the woods herself fifty years ago.  Read the book to find out more!

This book is 350 pages long.  I'll give it four out of five stars.  This book just came out in april!

13 Treasures  by, Michelle Harrison


Sunday, April 25, 2010

Lionboy (***)

This book is about a boy who can speak cat.  His mom writes a note in blood and tells him to take it everywhere he goes.  His parents are kidnapped.  He joins a circus and helps lions escape.  Read the book to find out all that happens.

This book is 275 pages long.  I'll give it three out of five stars (***).


Lionboy  by, Zizou Corder

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Magyk (**)

This book is about a girl named Jenna who is actually a princess, and she does not know it. Read the book to find out who she meets along her way and who is after her.

This book is 564 pages long. I will give it a two out of five stars (**).

Magyk
by, Angie Sage

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The Pharaoh's Secret (****)

This book is about a girl and her name is Talibah, she has a little brother named Adom, he is 11 years old. Talibah and her Dad, along with Adom, go to visit Egypt, wear their Mom and Dad were born. Her Mom died when she was nine and her brother was five. They have to solve a mystery about Egypt's only woman Pharaoh, Hetshepsut. She loved a man named Senenmut, who was a from a common family, and should not be treated with respect. They could not marry, so Senenmut promised they would be together in the after life. When Senenmut disappears and they have to figure out what happened to him.

This book was 302 pages long. I will give it four out of five stars (****).

The Pharaoh's Secret
by, Marissa Moss

Monday, April 12, 2010

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (*****)

This book is about a girl named Calpurnia Virginia Tate. She lives in 1899. In her household she lives with seven brothers, her Mom & Dad, and a very mysterious Grandfather. Her oldest brother, Harry, gave her a little red notebook to write her observations in. When she has a question about grasshoppers she goes to her grandfather as a last resort. He does not give the awnser, only clues. When she finally finds it she makes a close relationship with her Grandpa, who is a naturalist and also is trying to find a way to make pecans into whiskey. Read the book to read Calpurnia's whole story.

I listened to this book and it was nine hours and six minutes total. I will give this book five out of five stars (*****) because it was a good story and interesting to learn about how life was in the 1800's.

The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate by, Jacqueline Kelly

Sunday, March 14, 2010

Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place The Mysterious Howling (***)


This book is about a fifteen-year-old girl who gets hired for a governing job for three children at a house called Ashton place. Lord Aston claims that he found the children in the forest of Ashton place. Penelope Lumley is a very smart and creative Governor who is determined to get the three children out of their old dog-like habits.

This book is 263 pages long. I'll give it three out of five stars (***).

Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place the Mysterious Howling
by, Maryrose Wood