Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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

Friday, August 5, 2011

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

Friday, July 8, 2011

The Six Rules of Maybe (***)


This was an okay book about a girl named Scarlett who tries to help everybody and make everybody happy. Then Juliet, her older sister, comes home with a husband, a dog, and a baby. Scarlett and her mother were so shocked neither of them knew what to do with Juliet, her mother was concerned with Juliet, who hadn't told them when she got married, she had been foe six months. Read the book to see how this odd family turns out in the end.

This book was nine hours and fifty-two minutes. I'll give this book three out of five stars (***).

The Six Rules of Maybe
by, Deb Caletti

Matched by, Ally Condie (****)


Matched is about a girl named Cassia whom lives in a society where the citizans make no choices, at any point after a girl or boy turns seventeen they will be called to go the matching banquet where they will recieve a match. The only people do not get matches are the Abberations (law breakers) and single (men or women who are chosen to be a single for life). Everyone in the society have three pills, a blue one, to cure sickness, a green one, to relieve stress, and a red one , but nobody knows what the red will do, will it kill you? Will it knock you out? Will it make you forget? But nobody knows.
A few days after Cassia turns seventeen she gets called to prepar for the matching banquet she gets to rent her choice of a dress and picks a green silk one to match with her eyes. On the night of the matching banquet she sits next to her childhood friend, Xander. Read the book to find out who she is matched with and who she falls in love with...
This book is 366 page s long. I will give this book a four out o ffive stars (****)!!!

Matched
by, Ally Condie

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Hero (***)


This book is about a boy named Billy whose father dies on a secret mission for the US president. He decides to go visit the field where his father died. He finds that it is miles back to any town. He meets a mysterious old man who tells him that he trained Billy's father, but his father never completely trusted him. Then he tells Billy that now Billy has the magic then quite suddenly the man disappeared. So Billy runs after him. He felt a lot of wind and then suddenly he was in the middle of New York. Read/listen to the book to find out more.

This book is 5 hours long. I'll give this book three out of five stars (***).

HERO by, Mike Lupica

Sunday, April 10, 2011

No Passengers Beyond This Point


This book is about three kids who lose their house to the bank because their mom couldn't pay the taxes. They have to go their uncle Red's house,who they can't even remember and he lives in the middle of Colorado. They end up landing in a strange place called Falling Bird where a pink feathered taxi picks them up. They find out the driver is fourteen years old, and that the age you can get your drivers licence at is twelve. When they arrive everybody knows everything about them. On large screens it shows the life of India, age fifteen, Finn, age thirteen, and mouse, age six. They are taken to their dream house with their dream parents and everything they ever wanted to have, from cats to mice to dogs to whole rooms just for trying on clothes! They think that they have everything could ever need until the next morning when they tumble down a large tunnel and find themselves on a quiet street. All but Finn, first Finn is taken to a high building where a guy named Sparky offers him a job in Falling Bird. India is separated and becomes a welcomer, a person who welcomes new people. Find out if they make it out of Falling Bird.

This book is hours and 6 minutes. I'll give this book a three out of five (***)

No Passengers Beyond This Point by, Gennifer Choldenko