The Bad Beginning

If you enjoy stories that fill us with unsurpassed beauty and happy endings, I am sorry to say that that if you picked this book you are picking out the wrong book entirely. For this book has no happy ending. Even though the Baudelaire children are quick-witted and clever their lives are filled with misery and woe. In this book they encounter a horrible villain, itchy clothes, and cold porridge. If you do not have the guts to read such a book, it would be best if you find another book to read unless you dare to read this tragic tale.

Double Fudge

Everyone's favorite boy Fudge has a new habit, MONEY! In this fun filled story, Fudge is all about money and nothing but money. He is so obsessed with money. He makes these things called Fudge bucks and says that he will have enough fudge bucks to by the WHOLE WORLD!. or at least Toys R US. Find out what happens in this amazing story.

Dogsong by Gary Paulsen

Dogsong is a good kind of survival book. I would recommend this book to a type of outdoors kind of person. It is about a boy named Russel who is tired of waking up every morning to his dad coughing and hearing the sound of snowmobiles. He leaves his house and goes to a guy's house whose name is Oogruck. Oogruck is a very old fasion kind of guy. He wants the world to be like it was in the old days, without snowmobiles or guns. He said that when someone killed an animal, it was because they wanted to die. When you kill them with guns, they don't really have a choice to die. He also said that when you killed a animal you would have a song that you would sing. Russel wanted to learn what his song was.

He started off on his journy to live off the land. He didn't ride a snowmobile, he had a dog sled. The weapon he used was a bow an arrow and a harpoon. Then after awhile on his journey, he started having some dreams about a guy with a beard and long hair. After awihle in his first dream, Russel realized that he was the guy in his dream. The first dream involved wolves attacking him, but eventually he killed them and ate them. The second dream was about a mamoth that he killed and ate. After every time he killed an animal Russel in his dream would start singing a song. Russel didn't know the words, but he knew what they meant. eventually that became his song that he would sing in real life.

Twilight

Hey all you tilight freaks out there! I know what you mean about how amazing the book is.WOW! The movie was good ,but the book is so much better.
Twilight is a book based on a shy girl named Isabella, but she preferrs Bella. Bella moves in with her dad who lives in the tiny town of Forks. In Forks Bella joins a new school.

Instantly she became popular and attracted many people,but Edward Cullen was more than atracted to her he loved her.
After saving her life Edward was a hero and Bella fell in love with him. Bella new that Edward was different, but had no idea he was a vampire until she researched it and matched the facts together. Edward was a vampire.

As bella grows closer to Edward he warns her to stay away. Bella cannot possibly do this so instead she becomes a girlfriend of Edward until one baseball game changed her life more than she ever imagined it would.Bella was now hiding from death. Otherwise known as the evil vampires.
This book is the first in the SAGA
-New Moon
-Eclipse
-Breaking Dawn

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

All of you teen fiction fans, City of Bones by Cassandra Clare is a great pick for you!

When Clary Fray goes out with her friends Simon to a club called Pandemoniom, she never expected to witness a bizarre murder. How can she report the murder though, when the body disappears into thin air, or when the teenagers carrying bizarre weapons and wearing strange tattoos can only be seen by Clary? The teenagers are called Shadowhunters. When they discover Clary has The Sight, and Clary's mom suddenly disappears, she is immeadiatly plunged into the shadow world. The only thing Clary has left is her best friend Simon, and her many questions. Why are demons attacking her, and kiddnapping her mother? Why does she have The Sight?

This is a gripping story of action, love, betrayal and dark lies. Clary has to face the hard truth about who she really is, and how far she is willing to go to find out. But how much of the truth can she take?
Cassandra Clare's website: http://cassandraclare.com/
The amazing sequel and third book to this awsome series:
#2:City of Ashes
#3:City of Glass

Loser

The book I read was Loser. I would recommend it to people who are not feeling so confident. The reason I say this is because once you see what Donald Zinkoff's life is like, it will make you feel alot better.
Loser is about a kid who never wins. Everything hedoes, he loses. At first, he or anyone else dosen't notice that he loses at eveything. He loves school. Homeschooled until first grade, Donald (or as every calls his by his last name Zinkoff) never really had any friends. Eventually, he found some. His first friend he got was in first grade. His name was Andrew. When he moved, Zinkoff didn't really have any friends until forth grade. His teacher gave him a end of the year test. One of the questions was "who is your best friend. Zinkoff realized that he did not have a best friend. Then he thought of someone. His name was Harry and he was very weird. That friendship didn't last very long. Later on in the book, he found Andrew again. He was in his grade and became popular and athletic. Then winter came. Zinkoff loved the winter. He loved sleding and snowball fights. One day he was playing in a snow ball fight and got done a little late. When he was walking back to his house, he saw a ambulance and a cop car. He found out that a little girl was missing that was his old friend when he was yonger. When he noticed that she was gone, he looked for her. Well actually, he looked for her for seven hours in the freezing cold. Eventually a truck driver saw him and took him back to is house. When he got home his parents were woried sick. Then his parents told him that they found the girl and the ambulance and the police were actually looking for him. The next day when he went to school he was waiting to be picked for basketball at recess. The two people who were captians were the most athletic people in their grade. One of them was Andrew. As usaual, Zinkoff was one of the last ones left. Normaly he wouldn't get chosen, but he was because Andrew was curious of what is was like during that seven hours of searching for the little girl, and he became a winner.

What If... Everyone Knew Your Name by Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James

Everyone interested in a story that YOU can control, What If... Everyone Knew Your Name by Liz Ruckdeschel and Sara James is the book for you!

Hailey Miller isn't that happy about leaving her hometown behind, but moving to New Jersey means a fresh start. That gives her the chance to get off to a good start, make some new friends, and meet some cute guys. When she meets Reese Highland, she practically falls at the first look at him. The choices Hailey Miller makes are all up to you, and if you choose right, her life could be perfect. Choose wrong, and you could turn her school year into the worst in history.

Along the way, the choices become harder to make, and the risks get higher and higher. Will Hailey Miller go to Homecoming with Reese? Will Coco DeClerq tear her social life to shreds? It all depends on you, and how you want Hailey to spend her High School year.

One of the author's website: http://www.sarajames.com/
Other books in the Choose Your Destiny series:
#2:What If... All the Boys Wanted You
#3:What If... You Broke All the Rules
#4:What If... Everyone Was Doing It

Dinotopia - Chomper, by Donald F. Glut

Dinotopia - Chomper, is one of many books in the series which is based on DINOTOPIA, authorized by James Gurney, the creator of Dinotopia. Dinotopia is a hidden island, where dinosaurs and shipwrecked humans have joined together to build a fantastic new world.

In this book, a young teenager name Perry visits the outskirts of Rainy Basin. The night before there was a big storm, the next day he discovers the bridge is down. He also discovers a young dinosaur that is a Giganotosaurus and he names him Chomper. He couldn't just let Chomper die there, so he takes it home with him. Then he discovers that he is getting bigger every day! When he goes to the market Chomper gets his first strike (if he gets three he has to leave the town and is sent to the Rainy Basin). Does Chomper get three strikes resulting in his being banished to the Rainy Basisn or does he get to stay in the town with Perry forever? Read this book to find out.

One of the great things about this series is that it is written by many different authors. Donald Glut, the author of this book is internationally known for his work with dinosaurs. He wrote the Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia book series.

Last Olympian

This is the last book in the Percy Jackson and The Olympians series. It is based around the time we are today and is about the Greek Gods being real. While I was reading this I couldn't put it down. It was exciting every second. This book is about the final attack on Olympus from Kronos. Kronos has a way bigger army, Typhon, A huge monster that almost destroyed the gods, and is turning to his true form slowly. Percy and the other halfbloods and creatures have to help defend Olympus from the constant attacks from Kronos's army. The gods are to busy fighting off Typhon to help leaving them to fight the army alone. Kronos is bringing back anchient monsters that destroyed everything when they were alive. There are many tricks and creatures that he fights Percy with. Percy will finds out secrets about his friends and figures out Luke's, A halfblood who went to Kronos's side, past. This was a great book i couldn't keep down and was always thinking of. I highly recomend this book to any readers.

Trudy

Jessica Lee Anderson does a fantastic job of giving Trudy a real personality.

Trudy is a middle school student who has parents that are quite a bit older than most parents. Now in 6Th grade year her mom and dad are in their 60s and 70s. When Trudy's best friend dumps her for the cool crowd a girl named Roshanda comes along and happily fills the shoes of the ex-best friend. Alfred (Trudy's dad) starts to forget things and stops doing the things he has always loved her and her mother get worried for his health. In this story it describes the social challenges, family issues, and friend problems and has unexpected twists on each page.

To see more from Jessica Lee Anderson visit http://www.jessicaleeanderson.com/
Also read...

• Border Crossing
• What is a Living Thing?
• "Miracle on Stone Street"

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

If you find history interesting then this book will shed some like on the Holocaust that you never would have expected.

Bruno, a boy who grew up in Berlin only knew that his father had a very important job and that Bruno was not to disturb him while he was working. When he came home from school one day and found his maid packing his belongings this 9 year old boy realizes that his family is going to have a dramatic change. His father moves his family to the country side and Bruno absolutely hates it until he met a boy in striped pajamas named Shmuel. Their friendship grows closer, but Shmuel lives on another side of a fence that is to not be crossed. Find out what Bruno will do for the two boys to play in person.

If you want to visit John Boyne's website go to http://www.johnboyne.com/index.html.
Also read...

• Mutiny on the Bounty
• Next of Kin
• The Thief of Time

Shooter by Walter Dean Myers

Shooter by Walter Dean Myers is easily in my top ten favorite books I have ever read. Just like most other Walter Dean Myers books, Shooter is written in a very unorthodox fashion.
Shooter doesn't really have a plot, just a series of important events that lead you to the final crime. Throughout all of the book until the end, it is just records of police interviews to the survivors involved in the crime. With all of the interviews strung together, you start to form a picture of the crime in your head, and finally, at the end of the book, it gives the final interview when you find out what really happens. By then, you are dying to find out what happens!
Shooter really shows how insane someone can get because of pain, torture, and bullying at school and is a very addicting book to read. Once you start, you can't put it down. I highly recommend reading this book!

Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Walter Dean Myers usually likes to write his books in a different assortment of ways. Not surprising, this book, Monster, is exactly that. Monster is about a boy in his late teens who is arrested for a being a lookout for a drug store theft. He writes his about his thoughts and everything around him in a "journal." It sounds normal but he actually writes it all in a movie script format, which makes this book very interesting.
It takes a little bit of time to get into this book, but once you do, it is very addicting. All of the events and flash backs in the story lead up to the final jurisdiction of the boy. Monster really lets you look at a prisoner's point of view during a trial, and it really opens your eyes.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to read something different and new, instead of a normal book.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Glass

If you've already read the first two books in the trilogy... City of Glass by Cassandra Clare is the best one yet!

Now Clary must travel to the City of Glass to awaken her mother from the magical coma. Jace is beginning to understand the strong bond between them and that their pasts are uncertain. With Valentine gathering forces to destroy all of the shadowhunters, Clary must learn to control her newfound power. She befriends Sabastion, a mysterious, ellegant, shadowhunter that has an untold past and a strong will to succeed. Valentine's quest causes enemies to unite, many disputes to be solved, and plans to be unfolded. Can Clary save the Glass City? Who will prevail?...

Other books in the Trilogy include:
#1 City of Bones
#2 City of Ashes

The Mortal Instruments: City of Ashes

If you have already read City of Bones then try City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare. It's another good one!

When you can suddenly see a world full of vampires, faeries, and werewolves, your life definately isn't normal. When your mother is in a magical coma and your newfound/evil father, Valentine, is trying to take over the shadowhunting world, you've got a lot on your mind. Clary is certainly in for a dangerous ride this time. That's not all of it though. Her new infuriating, but handsome shadowhunter brother, Jace, could be giving up everything that matters to him to help their very persuasive father. Once the killing of downworlders begins, and the second mortal instrument is obtained, the inquisitor is sent to investigate.Who knows what will become of everyone...

Other books in the trilogy include:
#1 City of Bones
#3 City of Glass

Bone The Great Cow Race

This is the second book of nine of the Bone series by Jeff Smith. Jeff Smith got me hooked on the Bone series by the first book I enjoyed it so much I gave the second book a chance and I didn't regret it. In the second book Phoney Bone who is obsessed with his wealth is cheating on the cow race which he bet a lot of money on. As normal Phoney's plan goes way wrong and that puts him and the others plan of heading back to Boneville in danger. As always the Rat Creature and there boss are still hunting to find Phoney Bone. Learn more about the author and his books at his . http://www.boneville.com/bone/

Also by Jeff RASL

Bone

Bone by Jeff Smith was a funny, fun, and an adventurous book to read. This book is one in a series of nine. This book is like one long comic but put in a chapter book format. In this book of nine Bone and his Family run away from their home, because Bone's friend Phoney Bone is not the smartest and causes a lot of trouble. Phoney puts other Bone people in the town in danger. Phoney, Bone, and Simley Bone (another one of Bones friend) flee the town and along the way they are split up. They're all on a mission to find eachother, but there is one problem the Rat Creatures are trying to capture the Bone. I do recemend this book if you enjoy a good fun adventure book. You can learn more about the Bone books and the authour Jeff Smith at his website. http://www.boneville.com/bone/
Another series by this other is called RASL.

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones

For anyone that likes fantasy... City of Bones by Cassandra Clare is an exciting book that will not disappoint you!



Clary Fray is just an ordinary girl, or so she is led to believe, that accidentally uncovers a hidden world. One day at Pandemonium (a club in New York City) she spots two mysterious figures following some kids towards the back. They are in all black, tattooed all over, and have strange weapons in their hands. With curiosity overpowering her, Clary follows them and witnesses a murder. The weird thing is that the dead body vanishes into thin air! She knows she should have called the police, but that wouldn't have worked since the murderers were invisible to everyone except her. These mysterious people explain themselves as shadowhunters or a group of people that are trying to rid the world of demons. They explain that she has the sight and when her mother disappears, Clary wonders if it has something to do with this new world she has fallen upon.



Other books in the trilogy include:

#2 The City of Ashes

#3 The City of Glass

Breaking Down

Breaking Down is a book in a line of series by Stephenie Meyer. Breaking Down is a romance but still good for any gender it has action, suspence, and connecting charecters, oh ya and vampires!
Contiue the series with Edward and Bella in this book. Will the Voltrie get them in the end, or will a new charcter add fuel to the fire find out in the Twilight series. Don't forget to read the first books or you'll miss out Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipes.

On The Run-Stowaway Solution

Aiden and Meg are running away from the police and now stowed away on a boat by the Idaho coast. As one night when they were outside on a raft, and when they woke up the waves were hitting them. Soon they fell and so did the raft. As they were tring to find eachother they couldn't and started drowning. Meg found the raft and got on it, but Adien was still floating in the ocean. Meg fell asleep after hours of looking for Adien and fell asleep. When she woke up she was by the shore. She got out of the raft and started looking for a high tree to climb to start looking for Adien. Adien was still floating in the ocean and finally hit the coast and collapst (he pasted out). Two tourists found him on the ground and brought him to the hospital. Meg finally gave up looking for Adien and went to the closest town. When she got there she went into a a store and looked at the tv in there. It showed Adien on it in the hospital, and it was an ad for Meg. Meg ran out of the store and started running. When Adien woke up (in the commercial he was sleeping) he found their worst nightmare, Agent Emmanuel Harris.

After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away.

This book by Joyce Oates was sooo good and I loved it.
Jenna is just a normal kid with a good life. Until once car ride changes everything. While riding in the car with her mother, Jenna sees something. A dog? A bird? She thinks nothing of it, but before she knew she was in a ditch surrounded by glass and the remains of her dead mom. Jenna only got a little bit injured. She cannot face the guilt of knowing if she could have changed the fate of her mother. Since she dislikes her father and his new family, she is forced to live with her aunt and her family. Jenna tries everything to recover from guilt she is in, therapy and even some drugs. Neither of them helped, but someone did. While on a walk, she meets Crow, a kid who goes to her school. She is annoyed by him at first, but as their relationship progresses, she finds out who he really is. He teaches her the important things in life, the things that really matter.
Another book by this author is: Freaky Green Eyes.

Saving Zoe

The book Saving Zoe by Alyson Noel was very exciting!
Echo has always had a hard time living up to her older sisters so called perfect life. Echo's sister Zoe was full of life and held the family together. Zoe's life didn't end so perfect. As a late teenager Zoe was murdered. Even though its been a year since that event Echo is still having a hard time dealing with it.

Between friends, homework, and drama at school, this is the last thing Echo wants to be thinking about. But it is hard not to think about it when Zoe's old boyfriend shows up with her diary. At first Echo wanted nothing to do with it, she thought she knew everything about Zoe's life. Out of tempation, Echo starts to read it. There were things she knew about Zoe in there, but Echo unconvers a secret world that Zoe shared with no one.
Find more about the author and her books at this website:
http://www.alysonnoel.com/

Saving Zoe

Freaky Green Eyes

The book Freaky Green Eyes by Joyce Oates is a great read.
Francesca, Franky for short is uncomfortable with her red hair and her freaky green eyes. Her relationships with her friends are not heading in a good direction and her parents are constantly fighting. Franky overcomes her "freaky" appearance by putting it to good use. She convinces herself that she is fine just the way she is. Now that that issue is resolved the issue of her parents is getting much worse. It gets to the poing where Franky's mother moves to a house in Skagit Harbor. She loves it there and although she says she just needs a place to do her art, Franky knows she went there to get away from her father. When Reid (Franky's father) finally allows her to go visit her mother she loves it. It is so peaceful and the people there are all so nice. Franky now faces the problem to choose which parent she would like to live with. When she just about had her answer, her mother gets reported missing. The only thing left so far of Franky's mom is her journal. Francesca finds out a lot more about her mom than she ever new. This just might be the key to finding her mother.
Another book by this author is After the Wreck, I Picked Myself Up, Spread My Wings, and Flew Away.

On The Run-Now You See Them, Now You Don't

Adien and Meg have always when running from the law. They have broken it many times, either if it is stealing cars, stealing money or running away from the police. They are fugitives that have escaped from a farm prison and are now trying to prove that their parents are inocent. In this part of the series there is only one person that can save his family. They travel around the U.S. searching for the person that can save their family; Frank Lindenauer. In California they run into some gang members and saved their leaders life. As a repayment he lets Aiden and Meg stay with them were they learn things about most of them that break the law and more. As they leave they begin search of Frank Lindenauer, then they run into their two worst nightmares, Agent Emmanuel Harris and Hairless Joe. This book is filled with adventure and I would recommend this to anyone that likes adventure.

The Lovely Bones

Hey all readers! I'm here to tell you about one of my favorite books, The Lovely Bones- by Alice Sebold.
This emotional book is about a 14 year old girl named Susie Salmon-like the fish- who is murdered.
Now, the catch about this book, is that it's in Susie's point of view. So you get to read about her new home in heaven, and learn what her family is up to.
Susie's sister, Ashley, is finding a romance with a boy named Samuel. While at the same time, Ray Singh, Susie's old boyfriend, is smitten with Ruth. You get to experience the lifetime of her little brother, Buckley, of 4, and see where his troubles take him.
Watching Mr. Harvey was my favorite part. The mysterious man is so good at hiding the evidence, that you will just want to scream, because it's always right in front of the characters faces!
Watching the scenery and characters grow and change definitely relates to real life, of emotional and mysterious deaths.
This book gives such an image, you'll never want to put it down---it's such a catch!
Now, you may be thinking that I've given things away, but trust me, I haven't. Because of Susie's point of view, you get to know everything that is going on, it's like your the one that was murdered, that's not freaky at all...! You''ll love this book, I hope as much as I did!
The book is always better
Carlie J Koets

The

Alias Recruted

Hey, if you like the Alias series then you will really love Alias Recruted, I know i did.

Sydney is a young college student who is attending UCLA. Sydney is very shy and quiet and not very outgoing. She has a best friend named Francie that she rooms with at the college. Sydneys mother died when she was young and she barely talks to her dad anymore, all he does is send her money once in a while to help her play for college. All Sydney wants is a better life.

Sydneys life starts to turn around when a weird man approches her on campus, he gives her a card and tells her call the number,but not to tell anyone. At first she throws the card away, but then goes and gets in because she realizes this might be a chance to turn her life around. She ends up working for the CIA as an under cover agent. She complete changes as a person and becomes more outgoing and always smiling.

What Happened to Cass McBride?

What Happened to Cass McBride? is one of the best books I've ever read, you should give it a try!

Cass McBride, a 17-year-old, is a straight-A student, who gets in all the boys and what she wants. Well one day, David Kirby, a dorky "nerd" asks her out on a date. Shortly after Cass's rejection, David commits suicide. David's older brother, Kyle, takes matters a little too far and decides to snatch Cass at night and bury her alive.

Kyle connected a plastic aire tube to the box she was buried in, underground. Cass trys to talk
Kyle into letting her free, so she can live. This book is from the view points of three different people, Cass, Klye, and a detective (searching for Cass.) The question is, will Cass live? Read the book to find out.

Other books written by Gail Giles:
-Right Behind You
-Playing in Traffic
-Dead Girls Don't Write Letters
-Shattering Glass
-Breath of the Dragon

Walk Two Moons

Hey, Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech is a very interesting, meaningful novel, and I think you should give it a shot!

Sal, the narrator, goes on a journey with her grandparents to visit her mothers burial ground. Along the way Sal tells her grandparents about her best friend, Phoebe Winterbottom, whose mother, like Sal's, unexpectedly decides to leave home.

Sal tells her story with strength and humor. Sal and her grandparents continue on with their trip to reach Idaho, where Sal's mom lies dead. Throughout the trip they experience many encounters and Sal continues on with her story of her best friend. This book is very sad, emotional ending, but is definately worth reading.

Other books by Sharon Creech:
-Hate That Cat
-Heartbeat
-The Wanderer
-Who's That Baby?

Betrayed

If you liked the book Marked youll love the next book Betrayed also by C.P. and Kristen cast
In this book Zoey Redbird is now the leader of the Dark Daughters along with her friends Stevie Ray, Damen, and the twins she has to balance her Blood lust, a boyfriend, an ex-almost boy friend, the Daughters and she has to try to figure out why teens keep going missing,all teens that she knows. In her quest to find Heath when he is one of those teens she stumbels on a dark secret and the terrable truth that death can strike at any moment even to one of her friends.
Check out houseofnightseries.com
Also by C.P Cast

• Marked
• Chosen
• Utamed
• Hunted

Marked

If you like books with mystery,romance,adventure,and yes vampires you'll lovt the book Marked by P.C. and Kriston Cast.
In this book you meet a teen normal teen aged girl named Zoey. She lives a pretty average life with having to deal with overly religus a step -loser, school and her ex-almost boyfriend Heath. That is untill one day at school Zoey is marked. She now has to go to the house of night, a school for vampires. When she gets theire she finds out that her cresant shaped mark is filled in unlike any other new vamp has ever had.now she has to deal with the Dark Daughters a stuck up bunch of people with special gifts,her new mark and the fact that her ex-almost boyfriend wont leave her alone and the only member of her family who will except her is her grandma. Now with the help of her new friends she has to do whats right even if it means being a Dark Dauter. I f you want to know more chek out Houseofnightseries.com.
also by C.P cast

• Betrayed
• Chosen
• Hunted
• Untamed

The Teeth of the Tiger

If you like action and counter-intellegence you should read " The Teeth of the Tiger" by Tom Clancy.

Dominic and Brian Carouso are the nephews of a former president, but they have made their own way in the world. Dominic became a FBI agent while Brian Carouso became a major in the marines. Then they both got recruited to The Campus, a covert anti-terrorism organism with clearence above top-secret. You'll have to read it to find out what happens to them and their cousin, Jack Ryan Junior.

Other books by Tom Clancy include:

• The hunt for Red October
• Red Storm Rsing
• Patriot Games
• The Cardinal of the Kremlin
• Clear and Present Danger
• The Sum of All Fears
• Without Remorse
• Debt of Honor
• Executive Orders
• The Bear and the Dragon
• Red Rabbit

and others

The Tail of Emily Windsnap.

The Tail of Emily Windsnap by Liz Kressler is a great book you will love. Emily is a 12 year old girl living on a boat on the beach. On the first swim class of the seventh grade Emily found out something about her self that is very fishy. Emily's mom hated swimming and would never get in the water, she never let Emily swim. She thought this was very weird when she started growing a tail in swim class. Emily get off the boat and swims in the harbor at night. Emily meet a girl named Shona, a real mermaid. When she find out that her mom is half mermaid she tries to figure out why her mom didn't remember any of it. Shona finally gets the guts to tell and prove that Emily's Father is in prison under the sea. Emily goes on an amazing journey to find her dad and to find out about her past.

Review

a great book

I have read it three times it's so good.

my favorite so far

love this book so much

Website

http://www.lizkressler.co.uk/

other book

Emily Windsnap and the Monster from the Deep

Emily Windsnap and the Castle in the Mist

Emily Windsnap's Friendship Book

A Corner of the Universe

A Corner of the Universe by Ann M. Martin is a book about a girl named Hattie Owens. If you are looking for a good book then you found one. Hattie Owens a normal 12 year old girl who says that it is the first time she has stepped out of her corner of the universe. Her small town life is interrupted when her uncle who has mental illness steps into her life. When the carnival comes into town she meets a very good friend Leah. The night she took Adam to the carnival was a scary night for her on the farris wheel with him. Adam is picked on my everyone including the people in the boarding house. This is a great story of friendship and love and will warm your heart.

American Chillers

I read a book that is titled Ohio Ogres and that is really good.

It is about these two kids that found a door and when the got in it they got attacked at and they were saved by the good guys and they have to save there land the magic land. And if you read more you will know the rest of it and it is by Johnathan Rand and he is a good story writer.

By: Corey Byron

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a good memoir. This book is a tale of a young black girl in the time before the Civil Rights movement. In this book Maya Angelou and her brother Bailey go to live with their grandmother and Uncle Willie in the Stamps, Arkansas after their parents divorce. While Maya is living with her grandmother and uncle she feels like an outcast in society. She is not pretty like her brother, instead she is tall and gangly with wild hair.
In Maya is eight years old she moves back in with her mother and mother's family in St. Louis, Missouri. There she is sexually abused by her mother's boyfriend Mr. Freeman. After that she stops speaking and her and her brother return to Stamps. After a few years in Stamps they return to St. Louis to live with their mother. Their mother then moves to San Fransisco. During the summer in California she goes to visit her father. While with her father she ends up driving her father's car home after he passes out, gets yelled at by her father's girlfriend, gets stabbed by her father's girlfriend, and finally runs away.
After living with a group of homeless children in a junk yard for a month she returns home. Her she becomes the first black person to conduct a streetcar. While she is back up she seduces a neighborhood boy. After the seduction she ends up with some rather unfortunate consequences.
This is the moving tale of Maya Angelou's childhood days.

Books by the Author

• All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes
• A Song Flung Up to Heaven
• The Heart of a Woman
• Signin’ and Swingin
• Gettin’ Merry Like Christmas
• Gather Together in My Name
• Letter to My Daughter
• The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
• Hallelujah! The Welcome Table
• Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
• Maya Angelou: Poems

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This book was writen by Laurie Halse Anderson. She puts deep feelings into her characters.

This book is about a younge girl who struggles when the plague kills off everyone around her. She sits there and watches everyone around her die. She is a high sprited younge woman who is detremed to help out other people. Find out what happens to her and her grampa, the only one left of her famliy. Does Matilda Cook live? Find out more!


This is a great book, i would reconmend this to younge girls.

The Last Olympian

If you like adventure books with dry humor and minimal romance, then I highlyrecomend"The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan is definitely the book for you!

The final book in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series is, I think, the best book in the series. My resoning to back this up is that it has more intense action than the first four but there is still Rick Riordians normal humor. Percy Jackson was a normal kid but then he went through a series of events leading up to him making a choice to save or destroy the world as he knows it as well as fighting for his and his friends/ relatives ( their all half bloods/ half human half god).
This is a definite page turner.

The other books in this series are:
#1: The Lightning Theif
#2: The Sea of Monsters
#3: The Titans Curse
#4: The Battle of the Labyrinth

Dinotopia - Rescue Party, by Mark A. Garland

Dinotopia - Rescue Party, is a book in the series based on DINOTOPIA by James Gurney, published in 1992. Dinotopia is a hidden island, where dinosaurs and shipwrecked humans have joined together to build their own world.

In this book, Loro is a free spirited teenager. He wants to be the first person to see the Skybax land and to greet the rider. He spends many days on the platform just waiting for the shadow to go over him. On one particular day a storm is brewing. After a horrible storm, Loro and his friends notice a balloon go over the dangerous jungles of Rainy Basin. They knew they had to save the rider of the balloon. So they sneak away to the dangerous jungle of Rainy Basin and go on a rescue mission. But with Loro as the leader, they may have a few run-ins with some very, very dangerous ceatures. Read this book to find out what they encounter and if they will make it back safely.

One of the interesting things about this series is that the books are written by many different authors. Mark Garland, who wrote this one is an avid science fiction fan and has written two Star Trek novels.

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Blurb by Anne Schultz

Practical Magic is an unearthly story about two sisters who come from a family that is blamed for all the unfortunate occurrings in their Massachusetts town. When disaster strikes, the bond between the sisters that seems to pull them farther apart, happens to pull them closer together.
Sally and Gillian Owens have lived with their aunts all their life. They listen to all the woman that show up at the door cry to the aunts to fix their heartache. This is when Sally and Gillian promice to never go crazy for love. But when Gillian grows older, all the guys are trapped by her beauty. This makes it almost impossible for Gillian not to fall in love.
When the perfect guy eventually comes along, Gillian decides to run off with him and away from the Aunt's house. This just may be the biggest mistake of her life.
The story drags on and on about how Gillian travels the US with a new man every week. And when Gillian makes a mistake that could result in the rest of her life in jail, she runs to her sister that seems to be a part of another life.
The two sisters then have to figure out how to solve the problem that Gillian created, but there are some road blocks along the way that are hard to overcome.
This story concludes with nothing special, but the two Owens sisters finally discover true love, and that completes the fairy tale of the story.

Want more from the Alice Hoffman? Check out her other books:

• The Story Sisters
• The Third Angel
• Skylight Confessions
• The Ice Queen
• Blackbird House
• The Probable Future
• Blue Diary
• The River King
• Local Girls
• Here on Earth
• Second Nature
• Turtle Moon
• Seventh Heaven
• At Risk
• Illumination Night
• Fortune's Daughter
• White Horses
• Angel Landing
• The Drowning Season
• Property Of
• Incantation
• The Foretelling
• Green Angle
• Indigo
• Aquamarine

These can all be found at alicehoffman.com!

Time for Andrew

Time for Andrew was a very good book about a boy who moves in with his grandma in a old and scary house. Obveusly Andrew wasn't very happy about the move but he had no choice. His parent made him. So one dark and scary night he meets a ghost. he was not a mean or bad ghost, He was nice. So now he is becoming friends with him. So now people are wondering whats up.
I would recommend this book to people who likes scary books, funny book and seirious books. Even if you dont like those kinds of books i think you will enjoy it.

To know what will happen to andrew and his ghostly friend you have to read the book. You will enjoy it.

The Bomb by Theodore Taylor

In this book the people of Bikini Atoll have just heard of the nuclear bomb during World War II. After the World War ends the Americans come to Bikini Atoll to use the lagoon for a nuclear testing sight. The people of Bikini decide to let the Americans do their tests because they have been promised that they can return to their island within several years. Only a couple of natives know the truth. One native Sorry decides to protest against the bomb being dropped. His plan is to stop the Americans by painting a canoe all red and row it six miles away from the bomb site and stop their canoe there. Sorry hopes that the plane dropping the bomb will stop and move away from Bikini Atoll. As he arrives there he realizes that they will not be looking at him just at the boat.

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uglies by scott westerfield

in a world of beauty anyone normal is ugly.

we have our popular and our jocks and our shy people it is the same in this book you have the main character tally and the minor characters peris the cute hunk and shay tally's best friend you would love this book anyone would love this book

other books by Scott westerfield
coming soon: pretties

The Pigman and Me

Y'all interested in hilariously sad books? Then check out The Pigman and Me.



This memoir is about a young boy named Paul. Yeah see Paul has had a pretty hard time, what with his mother threatening to murder herself every other day, his sister being able to fight better than he can, and moving! Really moving isn't that different because Paul's family moves every three or for months because they usually can't pay the rent. But this move will be different! This time Paul gets Nonno Frankie into his life. Nonno Frankie is like the father he never had, seeing as his ran away with his girlfriend, and he teaches Paul lots of things, like how to fight. This memoir is a VERY funny book, try it!

Other books by Paul Zindel:

• My Darling, My Hamburger
• Loch
• The Doom Stone

Hunters Green

All mystery dudes, try Hunters Green by Phylis A. Whitney!

Hunters Green is a moving story about Eve North, a common American with a not-so-common history. Eve, at age nineteen, falls in love with a handsome Englishman who is the owner of the great estate, Athmore! Eve and the handsome Englishmen, Justin, get married. But after only one year of marriage Eve feels she's betrayed Justin's trust and she leaves.


Now three years later Eve comes back due to a desperate pleading note, only to find that the man she's never stopped loving has changed for the worst! Eve fears that she can't change persuade Justin against the "best", or maybe the worst, thing that's ever happened to him. Just as Eve decides to return home an old stone wall cruses the game-keeper, and Eve doesn't think it was an accident. Throughout her stay at the old castle Eve's mind is filled with questions, "Who would want to hurt the game-keeper?", "Whys someone messing with Justin's secrete project?", "Can she really trust Marc?", "What did old Daniels final words mean?", "Who's Alicia Daven?", "Is Maggie really so innocent as Eve first believes?", "Can the person Eve shot in one of her pictures have anything to do with Daniels death?", "Is her room really hunted?". As Eve races against time she finds she is also a player in the deathly game of Hunters Green!


Phyllis A Whitney's web site: http://www.phyllisawhitney.com

Other books by Phylis A. Whitney:

• Daughter of The Stars
• Rain Song
• Listen for the Whisper

Eggs

Have you ever moved to a new place and didn't no anyone? If so, Eggs by Jerry Spinelli is a book for you!

David had just moved with his grandmother and his dad shortly after his mother died. Ever since David's mom died he has follows all rules. On Easter, David's grandma takes him to an Easter egg hunt and when he goes to look for an egg he finds a beautiful girl who he believes is dead. Later that week he meets Primrose, the girl he believed was dead. Over times they became friends although Primrose was five years older than David.

One day, David and Primrose get into a fight and don't talk to each other for a couple months. Until one day when Primrose comes to take David to find the waving man with her. The waving man lived in Philadelphia where he waved at every car that drove by. They runaway to find him without any clue of where they went. They discover the true meaning of friendship and the waving man's secret.

Jerry Spinelli's website: www.jerryspinelli.com
Other books by Jerry Spinelli you might enjoy:

1. Crash
2. Star Girl
3. Love, Star Girl
4. Maniac Magee
5. Wringer
6. Loser
7. Milkweed
8. Knots in my Yo-Yo
9. Smiles to Go
   

Dead is the New Black

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be in a psychic family where you're the only one without psychic powers other than your father who vanished many years earlier? Well if so, Dead is the New Black by Marlene Perez is just the book for you!

Daisy Giordano is a junior at the local high school, Nightshade High School, where a series of murders have been happening and one thing has changed, Samantha's new look changing from prep princess to a beautiful goth girl. Daisy who is the only one in her family who doesn't have any psychic powers other than her dad who vanished many years earlier. Daisy's mom tries to help the police with their investigation, but Daisy takes matters into her own hands.

During the investigation, Daisy joins the cheerleading squad to get some insight on Samantha. While after school, going to local clubs and sleuthing with Ryan, her best friend/boyfriend, she discovers more than just who the murderer is, but also many other family secrets.

Other books by Marlene Perez that you might enjoy:

1. Dead is a State of Mind
2. Dead is so Last Year
   

Drag Racing

Drag Racing takes through the history of drag racing. The types o f cars in what time, or how the car have advanced through drag racing history. It also explanes the parts of the car like the engines the divice that they use to slow down the car at top speeds. Or if you want to know about the crashes and explosions through out it it tells about that to like when Garlits's trasmision blew up. I prefere this book to all pepole that like fast cars, big engines, and pepole that like big explosions.

The Black Belt Club - Beware of the Haunted Eye, by Dawn Barnes

Beware of the Haunted Eye, is the third book in this series which features the adventures of the BBC (black belt club) kids. This book is probably the scariest of the three. The BBC, now entering their third mission, must save the world yet again from being destroyed. This time they are saving it from having 1,000 years of darkness. To save the world, they must defeat the Haunted Eye, save the green man, and have him see the first light. If the Haunted Eye sees the first light of spring, 1,000 years of darkness will occur. Who is the green man, where are they, and what exactly does the Haunted Eye do? Read this book to find out.

Other books, by Dawn Barnes:

The Black Belt Club - Seven Wheels of Power
The Black Belt Club - Night on the Mountain of Fear

Check out the website: www.theblackbeltclub.com for more information regarding this series and karate.

The Black Belt Club - Night on the Mountain of Fear, by Dawn Barnes

Night on the Mountain of Fear, is the second in this series featuring the BBC (black belt club) kids. In this adventure, the fate of the world is yet again in the hands of the BBC. Who is it this time, is the Death Master back or is is someone new? You guessed it, it is someone new. This time they must battle the Hate Master.

From my opinion, the Hate Master is a giant coyote, possibly twice the size of Mrs. Wizner! Their mission, if they choose to accept it, is to defeat the Hate Master and save the stone man. Who is the stone man? Read this book to find out!

Other books in this series include:
The Black Belt Club - Seven Wheels of Power
The Black Belt Club - Beware of the Haunted Eye

Also included in the books are some karate moves, but please, don't use them on your friends or family members!

The Black Belt Club - Seven Wheels of Power, by Dawn Barnes

Seven Wheels of Power, is the first book in a new series by Dawn Barnes. This book is about the BBC, (black belt club) which is a group of four kids. It is Max's first day in the BBC and it is his first mission. He must defeat the Death Master -- who is an evil person. He tries to kill the tree of life -- which if it dies, their world and our world will be destroyed. To save it, the BBC has to collect the Seven Wheels of Power and defeat the Death Master.

Will Max and the rest of the gang save the tree of life and defeat the Death Master? Read this book to find out.

About the author: Dawn Barnes is a third-degree black belt and has been teaching karate to children for almost twenty years.

Watch this blog for the other books in this series.

Dinotopia - Lost City, By Scott Ciencin

Dinotopia - Lost City is one of many in a series authorized by James Gurney, creator of DINOTOPIA. Dinotopia is an island where dinosaurs and shipwrecked humans have joined together to build a fantastic world.

In this book, three teenagers explore the ancient ruins of a lost city that they have discovered. Upon entering the lost city they are attacked (not really) Their attackers which were the smallest bug eating dinosaurs just wanted to lick their faces. Then, they see a light and a dinosaur about the size of one of them appears. They don't know if it is friend or foe. When it leaves, they decide to follow it. While following it, they discover it is a Troodon. Now they might become permanent residents of the lost city, if they don't find a way out.

One of the cool things about this series is it is written by many different authors. Lost City is written by Scott Ciencin who also wrote, Windchaser, Thunder Falls, Lost City, Return to the Lost City, The Explorers and Sky Dance in this series.

Watch this blog for other books in this series.

Dinotopia - Survive! By Brad Strickland

Dinotopia - Survive! is one of many books in a series authorized by James Gurney, creator of DINOTOPIA. Dinotopia is an island where shipwrecked humans and joined with dinosaurs to build their own world.

In this book, the main character is Kurt, his father and his Deinonychus friend. They go on an expedition to collect rock willow samples. This takes them to the second most dangerous part in the island. While collecting, Kurt and his pal go exploring. Which on a dangerous island is, well, quite dangerous. He spies a new species of plant. While examining, the ever erupting volcano explodes, causing an earthquake. Kurt is injured because the plant he was examining is poisonous. Now he is 1,000 feet below his father and his friend. What will he do stranded in the most dangerous place (second only to the rainy basin)? Read this exciting book and find out.

One of the cool things about this series is it is written by many different authors. This one is by Brad Strickland who is author of over 45 novels, most of them for younger reads. He is an avid dinosaur fan.

Watch this blog for other Dinotopia series books!

Birdwing by Rafe Martin

In this book Rafe Martin brings the Brother's Grimm children story into the next chapter. For those who don't know the story, 6 brothers get turned into swans by their step-mother, and their sister must sow them sweaters out of thorns in the time slot of 6 years. The problem is the sister must not talk or laugh ever. As she gives her brothers the sweaters, at the end of the 6 years, 5 of them are finished and one is missing a left arm. The littlest brother, Ardwin, is left with his left wing.
This book is about Ardwin when he is a a young teenager. Ardwin has lived his entire life being a either a swan or as a boy with a deformity. Ardwin wants to be a swan agian. He misses flying in the sky and living in the wild. He is the only brother who misses this. All the other brothers resent him and his wing and craving for the sky. Ardwin finally fed up with people resenting him he plans to leave the kingdom. Before he leaves he finds that his father wants to cut off his wing. On his adventures he stops at his sister, Rose's, castle and they talk about his wing. After Ardwin leaves his sister's castle he tries to find the swan herds and feel accepted but they reject him. As he is leaving he finds himself in the house of the man who worked for his father's enemy.
This man helps him to recover from his harsh travels and he helps Ardwin to plan to find his step-mother. Ardwin wants to find her because she will lift his curse. On the way to the find his step-mother he finds a girl who he falls in love with. What will happen to Ardwin when he finds his step-mother.

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Dr. Franklin's Island

If you like scifi/adventure and strange experiments than "Dr. Franklin's Island" by Ann Halams is the book for you.

Semi is a exchange student who won a trip to attend a conservation program in Equador. She thought it would be a nice, quiet trip. She was wrong! Halfway through the trip the plane crashes and explodes leaving three kids to fend for themselves. Will the rescue planes come? Why are there strange animals where they crashed, and what are the men doing down in the valley. Read "Dr. Franklin's Island" and find out.

Because of Winn-Dixie

Because of Winn-Dixie by:Kate DiCamillo is a great book filled with detail and also, filled with action.

Because of Winn-Dixie is a story about a girl running in to a dog in a grocery store, she claims him in front of the grocery staff and names him after the store, Winn-Dixie. This girl is new to town so she doesn't have alot of friends. The dog she founds gives her a whole new meaning to friendship. She meets new friends and when she decides to throw a party for all her new friends, Winn-Dixie goes missing. It's up to the girl and and her father to find him. To find out what happens next you have to read the book.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Last Stand

Anyone who wants or needs a funny book to read, Diary of a Wimpy Kid:The last Stand is the perfect book for you!

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a series of books about Greg Heffley and all of the crazy, funny things he does. The Last Stand is the 3rd and final book of the series and it's absolutely hilarious book. It's about Greg's father who threatens him to go to military school if he doesn't choose to be more athletic. He tries his best to be as athletic as he can be just so he doesn't get shipped out to military school. It is full of hilarious moments. If you think this is the right book for you, give it a try!

The first two books in this series are:

1. Diary of a Wimpy Kid
2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Valentine Princess

The book I read was Valentine Princess by Meg Cabot.

Mia is on a plane to Genovia for the summer. She finds her old journal from Valentines Day and decides to read it. Mia finds out that Michael, her boyfriend doesn't like Valentines Day, because it is just a time of the year for card stores to get more money. She is disappointed by this and doesn't know if she should still get a gift for him. Mia thinks about this for a long time and asks her friends and mother what she should do. Her Valentine's Day goes much better than she thinks it will. Read the book to find out what she does for Valentines Day.

Other books in the Princess Diaries Series:
1. The Princess Diaries
2. Princess in the Spotlight
3. Princess in Love
4. Princess in Waiting
5. Valentine Princess

Hoot

Hey, if you like animals and saving them, then Hoot by Carl Hiaasen is great for you.

Roy just moved to Florida and his school days are not the best. He always has a bully picking on him on the bus. One day he sees this kid running with no shoes on and he wants to find out why. In Florida they are building a Mother Paula's Pancake House and there are little burrowing owls that live on the land.

One day he meets the running kid and he knows about the owls and he wants to save them along with his step-sister. At the Mother Paula's Pancake House Grand Opening Roy, the running kid, and his step-sister and other people, Roy tries to tell people about the owls. After that Roy, the running kid, and his step-sister are hero's.

American Chillers

I read a American Chillers book and the title is New York Ninjas and it is by Johnathan Rand.\

It is about these kids go to the halloween party at school and they found a mask in the bushes. When they were going to the party and all of a sudden the a face was in the sky and it was the same mask they found and then it shot 3 lasers down in the middle of them. Three ninjas came down and sat there standing and they were scary. Read more about it to know the rest of it.


by: Corey Byron

American Chillers

I read a American Chillers book and the title is Florida Fog Phantoms and it is by Johnanthan Rand.

It is about when kids see something outside and they don't know what it is and so they went outside to see what it is and it was really foggy. They were scared of what of what is out there. So they went out there and something or someone got one of the kids and it was a phantom.

IQ Independence Hall by Roland Smith

When IQ's mom, Blaze, marries Angela's dad, Roger, things start going down hill. The day after the wedding the family motor home breaks down at night. When IQ wakes up and goes outside he finds Boone. Boone ends up being 2 things. 1 he is the motor home driver and 2 he is protecting IQ and Angela from 4 Massod agents. According to Boone these 4 terrorist are looking for Angela's mother, Malaka (or in arabic Angel). The catch is that Angela's mother had died 4 years ago while trying to diffuse a bomb that was planted in Independence Hall. How can her mother be dead if she was seen in a Paris cafe 2 years after she died. The only problem is that the face from the body by the bomb and the face on the woman in Paris are the same. How could her mother be dead and also alive? That is exactly what Angela, Boone, and IQ plan to find out.

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• Zach's Lie
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• Elephant Run
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• Sascuatch
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Daniel's Story

The book I read was Daniel's Story by Carol Matas.

This book is about a boy named Daniel who lived during the time of Adolf Hitler. Daniel and his family were Jews. Daniel's father owned a shop and it was boycotted by German's. This was just the start of all the things that happened to his family. In 1941, when Daniel was 14 years old his family was deported to Lodz, Poland to part of the ghetto. They stayed there for 3 years and had met friends and had jobs. Then in 1994 they were deported to Auschwitz, a concentration camp. After stay there for a few months, they were moved to Bechenwald, another concentration camp. There are many more adventures and sufferings they encounter. Will Daniel's family survive all of this? You have to read the book to find out more.

In this book Daniel is a fictional character, but this is about based on many real experiences that some people faced during the Holocaust. This book was published with the help of the United Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Some other book that are about the Holocaust are:
1. The Promise
2. Best Friends
3. Diary of Anne Frank

Crashes & Collisions

All you nascar fans would like this book it is about some of the biggest crashes and collisions in history dating all the way back to 1911. There are some said stories ,some intense some smart, for instense one guys fast thinking saves the whole pit from blowing up. I liked this book alot and i am not really a nascar fon but i am now. So i prefer this book because i injoyed it alot and i think you will to.

City of Glass

Betrayal, love, hatered, killing, mysteries.... in a world like this, who could you trust? Life as a Shadowhunter isn't easy, but in City of Glass by Cassandra Clare, Clary is trying to make the best of it.

Still trying to save her mother, Clary must go to the City of Glass. But as she gets there she discovers that things are a lot more complicated then they might seem. When Clary gets there, she discovers many secerets, but some are better kept that way. She also has to deal with the fact that she broke the law by getting there, so she seeks the help of Sebastian to find the warlock with the white book. But Sebastian isn't who he appears to be, and soon the Clave and the rest of the Mortal World is in terrible danger. But what is Clary to do when her best friend's in jail, her father's trying to take over the Clave, and she is in love with the one person she can never be with? The truth is too much to bear.

Check out the authors website:http://cassandraclare.com/cms/home
Other books in this series:

• City of Bones
• City of Ashes

City of Ashes

What would you do if life as you knew it was stripped away from you, and you suddenly could see the world in a whole new perspective? If you found out that there are such things as vampires, werewolves, and faeries? That they weren't just fairytale, they were real. And you were the highest rank of the hidden socitety, a Shadowhunter.

Well, in City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare, that's what happens to Clary. Her mother is stuck in a magial coma, her father is trying to take over the Shadowhunter world, and Jace, the handsome, smart mouthing wonder, turns out to be her brother. But no matter how hard she tries, Clary can't escape the Shadowhunting world. Someone keeps killing the Downworlder children, but who? And what would they want? Not to mention that Simon keeps trying to pull her into a normal world, where they can be something more than friends. But is Clary ready for that? And are Jace and Clary ready to sacrifice their lives and everyone else's that they love to stop Valentine?

Cassandra Clare's website: http://cassandraclare.com/cms/home
other books in this series:

• City of Bones
• City of Glass

Princess in Waiting

The book I read was Princess in Waiting by Meg Cabot.

This book part of the Princess Diaries series. Princess Mia takes a trip to Genovia for the holidays. While there she stays in the palace with her grandmother, father, and cousin Rene. She has to attend many parliament sessions and other group meetings. This is Mia's first time visiting Genovia. She has to meet many of the people and give speeches. Her grandmother has been giving her princess lessons after school since fall to prepare her for this trip. It is very important that see makes a good impression the first time there because she is the heir to the throne. She struggles through this whole trip because all she can think about in her boyfriend Michael. Finally when she is back home in Manhattan Michael asks Mia out on there first date. It doesn't go quite how it was planned. Find out more by reading Princess in Waiting.

Other books in the Princess Diaries Series:
1. The Princess Diaries
2. Princess in the Spotlight
3. Princess in Love
4. Princess in Waiting

Rebel Angels, by Libba Bray

Rebel Angels, by Libba Bray is a great book! Get your fill of suspense and adventure in this sequel to A Great and Terrible Beauty.
It is 1895, and Gemma Doyle is getting ready to leave Spence Academy for the holidays. She is eager to spend time with her friends in London, attend elegant balls, and visit her grandmother's fancy friends. The girls must first complete a task: bind the magic in the realms. The realms are a magical world where only Gemma can take them, but the task isn't that simple. They must bind the magic before Circe, the enemy, does. Until Circe is destroyed, Gemma cannot live out her destiny.
Before you read this awesome book, check out the first in the series:
A Great and Terrible Beauty
Libba Bray's website:
http://www.libbabray.com

A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry

The book A Summe to Die is an awesome book.
Meg's life seems to be going really well, even though she sometimes fights with her sister. It is also hard for her to live up to all of the accomplishments of her older sister Molly. Their father announces that they must move to the country side for the summer. The reason for this is he needs a nice quiet place to write his book. Meg is not happy about this and either is Molly. But when they arrive, Meg never knew she would love it this much. She ends up meeting a young couple expecting a baby and an old man. Meg discovers a love for phography. Everything changes when Molly gets a very rare disease. Meg doesn't know how to react to this. She knows that Molly could die any day, so Meg spends some more time with her. After the young couple has their baby, Meg realizes how life is such a miracle. Somewhere in her Meg finds the courage to go visit Molly in the hospital. As summer drew to and end, Meg found it even harder to leave the countryside than to come there in the first place. Later in the book Meg reflects on how so much can happen in one summer.
The author's website:
http://www.loislowry.com/

I loved this book and couldn't put it down!

City of glass

The "City of Glass" by Cassandra Clare is a book about fighting, betrayals and love.

As the end of the Mortal Instruments trilogy, the "City of Glass" shows you the famed Idris as well as showing you what happens when the impossible happens. This book is a great book because it has alot of cliff hangers as well as a good plot. I give it 5 stars.

Cassandrsa Clare's website is http://cassandraclare.com/cms/home
The other books in this trilogy are:
the "City of Bones"
and the "City of ashes

City of Ashes

"The City of Ashes" by Cassandra Clare, is a book about loyalty, friendship, and...
fighting.

As the sequel of "The City Of Bones" this book had a lot to live up to, and to me, it did. In this thriller you get more of the action you got in the "City of Bones", only with a different, and more exiting in my opinion, plot and a different setting. Clary is a half shadow hunter girl but she is more than just that.

The Third book in this series is "City of Glass" the firs book was the "City of Bones
Cassandra Clare's Web site is http://cassandraclare.com/cms/home

The Boy who Couldn't Die

If you like disturbing books with zombies in them, then "The Boy who Couldn't die" by William Sleator, is the absolute best book for you!

Ken Pritchard is an ordinary guy whose best friend dies in a plane crash. He goes to Cheri Buttercup to try to make his body invulnerable, by hiding his soul. All good right? Wrong, he turns out to be a zombie,killing anybody that Cheri Buttercup wants him to.

This is a stand-alone book, so there aren't any others in the series, but William Sleator's website is http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sleator/billy/

Other books that Sleator has written include:
"Interstellar Pig"
"The Green Futures of Tycho"
"House of Stairs"
"Strange Attractors"
"The Spirit House"

Heart of a Jaguar by Marc Talbert

In this book Balam, a boy who grows up in Mexico, lives in a village outside of Chichen Itza. In his village there has been a major drought for many years. The people have wanted to lift the drought for many a year. As they are preparing for a ceremony to help end the drought and make the gods happy Balam's betrothed has been kidnapped by neighbor villagers. The villagers want to find Ix Bacal before the bandits sacrifice Ix Bacal to end the drought. One night while Ix Bacal is still missing Balam had a dream where he saw his dead twin and dead mother. They showed him where Ix Bacal was kept. Before he could save her the bandits threw her in the well. He then tied a rope around his waist and dived into the well. By time he reached Ix Bacal she was dead. When Balam woke up he had a rope burn around his waist. When the bachelors heard of Ix Bacal's death they went to find the bandits and Balam followed them. While in the woods he lost the bachelors. What he found though was a jaguar. To save his own life he killed the jaguar. Had him killing the jaguar sealed his fate?

Related Books

• Well of Sacrifice
• Secret of the Andes
• Elephant Run
  

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

This is the final book in the Mortal Instruments Trilogy.
In this book Clary is still trying to find a way to save her mother who is in a self induced coma. Clary travels illegally to the City of Glass on a mission to find the mysterious warlock that is the only one who can lift her mothers enchantment. While she is in the City of Glass she finds out about her mangled family tree from Luke's sister Amatis. After a couple of days in the city she meets up with Alec, Isabelle, Max Lightwood, and Jace. One evening she gets mad at Jace because he keeps treating her like a baby and runs out of the house in tears. As she is reaching Amatis's house she meets up with Sebastian, a friend of the Lightwood's. Then Sebastian and Clary start hanging out much to Jace's disagreement. One day Clary goes with Sebastian to the mysterious wizard's house and finds it empty.
Also throughout this book Clary not only deals with trying to save her mother, but she must also save her friend Simon, the only vampire who can go out in the sun, from prison.

Related Books

• City of Bones
• City of Ashes
• Revalations
• Masqurade
• Blue Bloods
  

The Wofl King

This book takes place in an early colonial period of as you would say Ancient times with belief of powerful magic and just starting to reveal the secret of forging. This book is about a boy named Coll who searches for his brother Ruadh who broke a agreement by killing a wolf. On the way to save his brother from the "wolf king" if he still lives or to avenge his death, he helps this smith's daughter named Grayla who is looking for her father who recently gets lost too while helping Colls kinsmen. Also read this to discover what Colls sword was made of. But there is a surprising twist to this story and an interesting ending read this book to discover who really is THE WOLF KING!

1776 by David McCullough

In this book David McCullough describes in detail the plans and letters written and planned out by George Washington and his Generals. He talks about historical fights such as the Battle of Bunker Hill and how it affected future fights and battles in the war. This book is all non-fiction and is a lot of facts. It is a good book and very informational but is not very exciting for people who are mainly fiction readers. Also in this book David McCullough looks at all sides of the war. He talks about what the British, Loyalist, Minute Men, Patriots, and citizens were thinking of or what they wrote during the war. This book is very fascinating for those who have a thirst for knowledge about the behind the scenes war.

Related Books

By David McCullough

• John Adams
• The Course of Human Events
• Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
• Why Freedom Matters
• Washington's Spies
  

The Last Cato by Matilde Asensi

In this book a nun, Sister Ollivia, a Swiss Guard, Glausier-Roist, and a Egyptian scholar, Fraj, all embark on a journey to find the true cross for the Roman Catholic church and the Orthodox churches who keep finding that their pieces of The True Cross. To get to the Stauroflakes who have the cross they must first cleanse themselves of the seven deadly sins in seven of the most sinful cities in the world. Some of these cities they have to go to include Ravenna, Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Rome, and Jerusalem. In these cities they had to go through tests like walking through a maze of thorns that's path gets skinner with every lap around or surviving in a crypt with little food for days before finally finding the solution to get out. This book is full of drama, romance, and adventure.

Related Books

• The Da Vinci Code
• Angels and Demons
• The Heaven Shop
  
• Parade of Shadows
  

Tiger, Tiger by Lynne Reid Banks

This book reminded me of the movie "Two Brothers". If you are not familiar with this movie it is about two baby tigers who get separated after they are captured by poachers. In the end they have to fight each other. The movie from the book in a couple of ways first the brothers are sent to completely different settings. One is sent to the Colosseum to be a man-eating tiger to entertain and one is sent to the Emperor's daughter as a gift. In the book the Emperor's daughter (Aurelia) falls in love with the tiger's (Boots) trainer(Julius). When Marcus and Aurelia play a joke on Julius by hiding Boots in a wine cell the joke go's really wrong when Boots escapes. Julius is sent to the Colosseum to pay for losing Boots and ends up having to fight Boots and Boots man-eating brother.

Related Books

• Last Girls of Pompeii
• Daughter of Venice

Vladimir Tod Chronicles (Ninth Grade Slays)

This book is the Sequel to the previous book Eight Grade Bites. In this book Vlad is being stalked by a Slayer, who turns out to be a surprising person read to find that out. But also he journeys to Russia to see more Vampire Kind and learn to develop his Mind Controlling skills. Advances his romance with the girl of his dreams. Is he being stalked by an amateur reporter who knows Vlad is more than human? Is it true that he is the Parvus and did the stake really go through his heart, shouldn't that have killed him or should it? Read to know more of this exciting epic novel.

Invasion of the Boy Snatchers, by Lisi Harrison

The clique is back, in the fourth novel of Lisi Harrison's Clique series: Invasion of the Boy Snatchers.
Alicia Rivera's Spainish cousin, Nina, is visiting, and the clique's leader, Massie, absolutely despises her. Nina starts flirting with all of the boys from Briarwood Academy, including Massie's crush! Nina has got to go. Massie, Kristen, Dylan, and the newly accepted Claire will get Nina sent home somehow, but will Alicia choose the clique over her own family?... You'll have to read to find out!!

First three books in the series:

1. The Clique
2. Best Friends for Never
3. Revenge of thr Wannabes

~Go to lisiharrison.net to find out some cool stuff about the author!~

City of Bones

Do you enjoy suspence, action, adventure, betrayal, and even a little bit of romance that keeps you hooked onto the book untill the very last page? If you do, then you will love the book City of Bones by Cassandra Clare.





All her life Clary has thoght she was just another normal girl. Nothing in her life has seemed out of the ordinary. That is, untill she meets Jace, Alec, and Isabelle.

There are no such things as demons, and certainly not shadow hunters, right? Well, then why is she the only one who can see them, when no one else is suppose to? And how do you report a murder when the body just disappears? Clary is convinced that she is just imagining things. That is, untill her mother goes missing.



Follow Clary and Jace on a captivating adventure that leads them to many encounters with Underworlders, the evil Valentine, and even eachother as they race to get the mortal cup out of the possestion of someone who will risk everything to get it. Throught this whole story Jace and Clary will also find out the truth of their pasts, and it isn't very pleasent.

Other books by Cassandra Clare:

1. City of Ashes
2. City of Glass

Revenge of the Wannabes, by Lisi Harrison

Massie and her clique are at it again in Lisi Harrison's third book in The Clique series, Revenge of the Wannabes.

Alicia Rivera, Massie's "best" friend, gets sick of Massie always being in charge. So Alicia starts her own clique. This really stirs up some drama between the two. Now Dylan and Kristen, the other clique members, don't know which group to join.

When Alicia is officially in The Reject Pile, Massie lets Claire be in the 'inner circle'. It may be hard to stay in though, when Claire is adored by Cam, Massie's secret crush.

The first two books of The Clique series:

• THE CLIQUE
• BEST FRIENDS FOR NEVER

a child called it

you should read this book for 3 reasons

1. if you like sadness you will like it (warning very very sad and terifying)
2. you will realize the real reason why child abuse is so serious and why we have to try to stop child abuse
3. very scary you may cry

now here are other books by him

• the lost boy
• a man named dave

Heir Apparent by Vivian Velde

Giannine is a fourteen year old girl who's father finally remembers her birth day. For her birthday he give her a gift card to Rasmussem Enterprizes, a virtual reality arcade. Giannine decides to play a game called Heir Apparent. The game is about a girl who becomes the heir to the throne once the king dies.

While Giannine is in the virtual reality game rioter destroy equipment. Now the only way for Giannine to get out of the game is for her to survive two days without getting killed. If she dies she most start over and over again.

If you like this book you may also like to try out the Artemis Fowl series.

Let the Circle be Unbroken By: Mildred D. Taylor

This book is the second book of the Roll of Thunder series. This book is all about T.J.'s trail and the news that all the kids must take when they find out T.J. might be hung. Also in this book they find out that they have a cousin who is half white. When the Logan children find out Suzella (their cousin) must stay with them while her father is going away Cassie all of a sudden finds herself jealous of Suzella because she gets all the attention. In the end of the book they become closer and help one and another.

Related Books

• The Land
• Roll of Thunder
• The Road to Memphis
  

P.S. I Loathe You

P.S. I Loathe You is the 11th book in the Clique serise. It is an easy book to read and fallow.  

The main characters Massie, Claire, Dylan, Kristen, and Alicia are all best friends. Of course with all friendshis come promblems and each girl has their own. Kristen is debaiting their friendship's strength, Dylan is interfering with Massie's 'love life', Alicia feels that Massie is to controlling of everyone's life, Massie is facing difficult resposabilities as alpha, and Claire feels insicure about everyones problems. All of the girls gelp each other overcome their issues. 

Lisi Harrison has written many young adult serise such as...

• The Clique 
• Gossip Girl 
• The It Girl 

Visit pickapoppy,com to learn more.

Nothing's Fair In The Fifth Grade

These four girls are going into the fifth grade and there a little nervous about it. In the school district that they go to one school is from Kindergarten through 4th grade and another school that is from 5th grade though 8th grade. Since there moving schools they have no idea what the other school is going to be like. In the summer they spend all of there time worrying about if there going to get beat-up by al the eighth graders. This book explains there horrible year in the fifth grade. By the end of the year there is a surprising twist that makes fifth grade the best year ever.

Nothing's Fair About Fifth Grade was the only book that Barthe Clements ever wrote.

Zach's Lie

Hey everyone who loves a good mystery, Zach's Lie by Roland Smith is a great book!

7th-grader, Jack Osborne, his sister and his mother are one night robbed and terrified by three men who came into their home and threatened them with death. They all did what they were told and ended up safe. Well, at least they thought they were safe.

The police came to investigate the next day and asked them questions. They all wouldn't answer many because they knew they would be killed by the three men if they did so they didn't, but since the police still knew they were in danger, they moved the Osborne family into a near by hotel. They now lived here until they figured out what was going on. It ended up being that the father of the family was smuggling drugs into the country and the mean were sent to hurt the Osbornes so they wouldn't get into trouble. They again move, but now out of state to Utah because that will be the safest thing. The now aren't aloud to contact anyone they knew before, even family, and restart their lives there, but will the Ozborne family be safe for long in their new home?

Roland Smith's website: http://www.rolandsmith.com/

Other books in the Roland Smith:
1. Jack's Run
2. Peak

The Babysitter 2

He's Back! Once again Jenny's being haunted by the mysterious attacker. Jenny quit her other babysitting job with Donny but now she has taken a new position as the babysitter for a ten year old boy named Eli. Eli is a genies with very sensitive emotions. The first night out babysitting for Eli did not go as expected. The telephone rings "Hey, Babes, I'm Back!"

Jenny is seeing a psychiatrist who she thinks is extremely cute. He had been helping her with her problems ever since the incident with the phone calls and the threats. Once he heard about the second rounf phone calls he could not believe how bad this person was torturing Jenny. Jenny figurs out who the mysterious caller was in the first book and she knows it's not him because he's dead. She goes through the same tourcher with the treatening calls.

Other books R.L. Sine has wrote:

• Blind Date
• Twisted
• Call Waiting
• Hit and Run
  

Island Shipwreck

Island is about a boy named Luke that is sent to a ship to learn about things in the Ocean. Him and the rest of the kids there learn how to chart maps all this fun stuff. But soon a storm came and the Captain fell overboard and they couldn't find him. They had one more Captain and a few days later another storm hits them and does lots of damage to the ship (engine is completely underwater so it can't run). As the last Captain leaves the kids in the night they try to fix the engine by pumping out the water and fixing everthing that was broken. As they turn it on it exploudes and starts the ship on fire and everyone jumps into the water. As they find themselfs at sea the ygo through lots of adventure.

Danger.com: Stalker

Hey all you readers who love suspence, Danger.com: Stalker by Jordan Cray is the perfect book to lay your eyes on!

Mina was once best friends with a girl named Camille at school, but things took their different paths. One day though, Camille called up Mina and they both went to the mall. They weren't having the best time, but they still haad fun. As they are about to leave, they decide to go get a frozen yogurt. As they're enjoying their treat, they're talking about what they missed out on and how their lives have been. Camille mentions she met someone online and wants to meet him, but she already has a boyfriend so they now get into a big arguement and Mina ends up leaving Camille without a ride home. She soon discovers that night that Camille is now missing.

Days have gone by and she hasen't returned. Mina and Camille's old boyfriend, Mick, and trying to find where she could be. As they're investigating what could've happened, Mina ends up getting kidnapped by the same person who kidnapped Camille. She is terrifyed of what could happen, but she does everything she can to get away which she finds is almost impossible.

Danger.com series and author website: http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/jordan-cray/

Some of the books in the same series:
1. Gemini 7
2. Firestorm
3. Shadow Man

Escape From Egypt

Escape From Egypt is a romance and an adventure. It is not the easiest read, but it touches on points of view that are usually left forgotten. 

This novel is told in two points of view. The poor Hebrew slave Jessie and the wealthy, Egyption lady in waiting Jennat. The to are in love, but it are forced to meet in secret. When Moses sets the Hebrew slaves free Jennat tags along for a journey to find promised lands with Jessie and many Hebrews. Tenssion rises between Jessie, Jennat and Jessie's betrothed cousin. 

As the journey carries on emotions are challenged and stamena is tested with eachother, Moses, family, and religion. 

Sonia Levitin is an award winning auther that has writtne over 40 books. 

• Strange Relations 
• The Goodmess Gene 
• Silver days 

* SoviaLevitin.com 

The Babysitter

Jenny is a 14 year old girl who live her mom. Her and her mom are a little tight on cash, so Jenny wants to get a job to help pay for things like college when she gets a little older. Jenny and her friend Laura go to the mall to look for some back to school clothes and they meet a family with a son. The family asks Jenny if she would be able to babysit for the little boy. the little boy's name was Donny. Jenny babysat for Donny every Thursday and Saturday.On the first night babysitting Jenny gets mysterious phone calls saying "Are you all alone?" or '"Hi, Babes, companies coming." Jenny started getting very scared. At around the same time Jenny had just started going out with this guy named Chuck who just moved into the city. Chuck was a big prankster and was the big class clown. Jenny was imagining Chuck was doing all of this, but Jenny confronted him about and he didn't do it. Jenny wants to know who is giving her these prank calls. Jenny goes through alot of tourture to see who is the one doing all of it.

Other books written by R.L. Stine:

• Goosebump Series
  
• The Babysitter 2, 3, 4
• Beach Party
• The Dead Girfriend
  

On The Run-Chasing the Falconers

Chasing the Falconers is about Adien and Meg, they are brother and sister and there parents are College Professors who write Mystery Novels. An unexpected arrest of there parents send Aiden and Meg to a place called the Department of Juvenile Corrections. As Aiden was in the barn feeding the animals he tips the lantern over and it breaks and starts a fire. As the place burns down Meg and Adien run away from the the place. After a day of running away from it they find a house where they have food and water. They steel some things from the house like food, clothes and 2 bikes and then ride away as fast as they can. As they run away from the police and other people that are looking for them they find a person that was at the Department with them.
They all run away from the police and find themselfs in lots of adventure on the way.

Cover-Up

In Cover-Up a boy named Stevie and a girl named Susan Carol star in a new USTV Show. As they were about to go to the Super Bowl to make a new show Stevie gets fired and replaced by a dumb celeberty that knows nothing about sports. As Stevie is getting mad that he got fired he gets a new job at a newspaper, and has the chance to go to the Super Bowl and write articals. As Stevie gets off his plane ride to Indianapollis gets gets a CBS credential that allows him to go anywhere. As Susan Carol and Stevie meet up at the Super Bowl they find out shocking things about one of the teams in the Super Bowl.

Tucket's Ride

Tucket's Ride by Gary Paulsen was a short adventure book it is the the third book of three about Fracis Tucket. It is about Francis and his adopted family of one boy named Billy and one girl named Lottie. There are moving south for winter and are caught right in the middle of the Mexician and American war, but when they captured by one of the worst gangs of men.They have to find away to escape.

The otherbooks about Francis Tucket are "Call Me Francis Tucket" and the other is " Mr. Tucket" they both are by Gary Paulsen.

Calling all mystery freaks! The Complete Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a fantastic book!

The stories are told from the point of view of Dr. Watson. When the doctor starts shcaring a room with the remardabull Mr. Sherlock Holmes. But Watson soom relizes that he got alot more than he barganed for. As it turns out, Holmes pozesis a uncanny abilaty to help police solve crimes! Watson is quickly intregued by his friend's detective skill and he soon takes up the habbit of helping Holmes on many cases. In total the book contains all four novels by Sir Doyle, a total of fifty-eight cases, and a slightly frightening 1122 pages of small print.



Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's website: http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/

Other mystery books:

1. Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
2. The Hardy Boys by Franklin W. Dixon
3. Feather on the Moon by Phyllis A. Whitney

Mary,Bloody Mary

In mary, Bloody Mary the main character is mary and it is told from her point of view. She is a young princess who lived the life of the wealthy.  She was banished from her father because of  the new Queen.  After she had to live a life without riches, and no longer was the princess and could no longer see her mother.   She was told to live where ever her father put her.  She soon becomes the servant of the Queens new daughter in her own home.  That ended quickly because the Queen was sentanced to death and her father re-named mary the princess. King continued to re-marry many more times until he got a son that could inherit the throne.  After the King died he left in his will that his son to be king then if Mary out lived him she was next in line.      

The Chocolate Touch

Hey this book, The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Catling is an adventurous tale that you might like to read.

It all started with an old coin, and the man at the candy store was more than happy to give John a box of chocolates for it. John thought this was a great trade he loved chocolate more than the world it was so yummy. John was just let down by the box of chocolates though. The big box only had one chocolate. He ate that one piece of chocolate and everything else after that tasted like chocolate too. After he discover that everything he ate would always be chocolate from here on out John realizes that the man at the candy store may have had something to do with this unfair deal. This chocolate touch was more than he had bargained for.

visit :
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