Dairy of a Wimpy Kid, The Last Straw, by Jeff Kinney

Hey all you wimpy kid fans, this is the third book of Greg Heffley's "journal." Greg Heffley is a student that is extremely below average if you see everyone else at this school. He isn't the strongest or the smartest, but he is the funniest. Greg's journal is a day by day account of his life. In his journal he shares how he survives his life with an overprotected little brother, Manny, and an extremely aggressive older brother, Rodrick.

Greg faces lots of challenges including being constantly picked on by Rodrick, dealing with his father's disappointment in his not being athletic and his mom's frustration with his lack of social activities. Greg journals his challenges and how he survives. But this time, the biggest challenge he faces is his dad making him go to Spag Union a military boot camp. Will Greg go to boot camp, will his story have a happy ending and maybe he will meet someone new? Check out this great book to find out!

If you haven't already, be sure to check out the first two of Greg's Journals.

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules

Best Friends for Never: By Lisi Harrison

Did you love Lisi Harrison's first book-The Clique? Then you'll die for the sequel-Best Friends for Never! The books starts with another cat fight between your two favorite characters, Massie and Claire. They end the fight with a bet: Claire, who hardly has any clothes, can't wear the same outfit-including shoes-for a month. Massie, who hasn't walked through the door of her house without a shopping bag in four years, can't buy anything for a month. The loser has to wear Massie's old one piece snow suit to school! In a desperate attempt to wear something brand new, Massie goes to school in her skimpy "dirty devil" Halloween costume. Her three best friends wear them too. The costumes are highly against their dress code, and the teachers are furious about it. Will the consequence affect the whole school? Will Massie fix the problem she has created, or will she just make it worse?You'll have to read to find out!
Liked this book? Check out the third- Revenge of the Wannabes
or, go to Lisi Harrison's website: http://www.lisiharrison.net/

The Clique: By Lisi Harrison

Need your fill of designer shoes and purses? Then The Clique:By Lisi Harrison is the book for you! Meet Massie Block, your typical spoiled, stuck up, and rich seventh grade girl. She has it all going for her. She has the coolest clothes and the coolest group of friends. When Claire Lyons and her family come to live in the Block's guesthouse, Massie's world is turned upside down. Claire has never had a purse over ten dollars, and her favorite store is the Gap! Can Claire earn her way into the hottest clique at Octavian Country Day? Or will she be tormented by them for the rest of her school career? You know what they say- the only thing harder than getting in (to the clique), is staying in!
Loved this book?...try the sequel-Best Friends for Never

Let the Circle be Unbroken By: Mildred D. Taylor

In the book, Let the Circle be Unbroken, Cassie is trying to figure out if they will lose the land and what will happen to T.J. As if that isn't enough her cousin, Suzella, who is half black and half white moves in with them. Suzella's mother has always told her you can pass for a white person so just do it. Down here in Mississippi it isn't that easy. Suzella first catches all of the black boys eyes but on a walk with Cassie, Christopher-John, and Little Man she catches the eye of 3 white boys.

In the book Cassie must deal with her guy-friends falling for her cousin while she is being pushed away. She must also deal with trying to accept Suzella into her life.


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How to Twist a Dragon's Tale, The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III as told to Cressida Cowell

For those of you who are following my posts, you will know this is the 5th book in a series of fantasy adventures featuring Hiccup and his friend Fishlegs. In this book a volcano is threatening to destroy the island of Berk, which is where the young Vikings live. Hiccup must return the Firestone that his father has taken from the lava and bring it to the volcano on volcano island. He must also stop the exterminators from wiping out the entire known world.

Hiccup has faced extremely dangerous foes, but this might just be is most dangerous adventure yet. Will Hiccup save the day once again? Will the fires of the volcano burn him to a crisp? What can an exterminator do to destroy the known world? You'll just have to read and find out....

Be sure to check out the first four books of this great series. They are:

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Be a Pirate

How to Speak Dragonese

How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse

How to Cheat a Dragons Curse by Hiccup Horredous Haddock the III, translated by Cressida Cowell

Hey lovers of fantasy and adventure, the adventure continues with Hiccup and Fishlegs in this exciting 4th book of the series. In this book, Fishlegs becomes sick and Hiccup thinks it is the always fatal disease Vorpentitis. Hiccup sails to the island of Hysteria where the legendary potatoe is there. It is this rare potatoe that will cure Vorpentitis.

On his quest to find the potatoe, Hiccup has to go over the wrath of Thor which for the last 15 years is where the doomfang has lived. Hiccup has to get to the potatoe, steal it and get back to Berk before the ice melts and the doomfang is released. He must do all this before ten in the morning on Frey'sday Friday.

Will Hiccup succeed? Will Fishlegs become another victim of Vorpentitis? And just what is a doomfang? You'll have to read this great book to find out.

If you haven't read the first three books in this series be sure to add these to your reading list:

How to Train Your Dragon

How to Be a Pirate

How to speak Dragonese

SO Far From The Bamboo Grove/By John Baltusis

Yoko Watkins lives in a nice house in a bamboo grove. She should seam as a normal little girl living a normal life in 1945.The catch.The Americans have won the war and she is a Japanese girl living northern Korea. Hideyo is Yoko brother and is separated from them his only hope is to see his family again.........ALIVE

During this book you will fallow the family across thousands of miles in Korea and japan and you never know what will happen next.

This book is at the Herbison woods library

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Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye

Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo by Obert Skye is a riveting fantasy story!

Leven is an only child forced to live a miserable life with his "aunt" until he he meets Clover. Clover is a sycophant from the land of Foo. Foo is a land where dreams are made. Without foo there are no dreams. The ruler of Foo is an evil nit named Sabine. Sabine is trying to collide Foo with Earth so that he can rule both.

Leven works along side with Winter, a nit from Foo, and Clover. They are on a quest to find the almighty Geth. Geth is the natural heir to Foo but was kicked out of by Sabine. On their way they have to fight the law, avalands, and Sabine's shadows. Try to keep up with Leven's fast paced adventure across the globe.

Other books in the series:
book 2 Leven thumps and the Whispered secret
book3 Leven Thumps and the Eye of Want
book4 Leven Thumps and the Wrath of Ezra

Ink Death

Have you read the first two books in the Ink Hearh series? If so you will love the book InkDeath.

In this book Meggie ,Farid, Mo, and Risa have all taravled intho the ink world and have to try to stop the evil Adderhead to save the world that they love. Well at least mo does.Mo is know known as the fameous theif the Blue Jay. which means that he is always in danger . Him and his family. when Mo goes to the castle to see the beautiful pictures drawn by the castle auther he is tracked down and offered a deal. Help Her Ulgyness kill her father the Adder , or have the kingdom fall under his evil rule. Can Mo trust Her Ulgyness? Will he die ?And will they ever get home? If you want to find out read Cornilia Funke's Inkdeath.
IF you like romance, adventure, mystery,and excitement you will love InkDeath.

Other titles by this auther

• Dragon Rider
• Inkheart
• Inkspell

Megans Isalnd

megans has one week of school left untill vacatin but she gets a suprise, she is moving in the middle of the night and she secnces that her mother is frightened. She has no idea what though so this book is just all about her advntures throug the expeace. At the end she finds out what here mom was running away from
by taylor milnes

How to Speak Dragoneese by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III translated from the Old Norse by Cressida Cowell

Avast readers of fantasy, this is the third book in a series (see my previous two posts for highlights of the first two books).

In How to Speak Dragoneese, the adventures of Hiccup and Fishlegs continues as they pursue their quest to be viking heros. At the start of this adventure our heros, Hiccup and
Fishlegs, have just escaped being executed by Romans. Not soon after, they are taken to the dreadful Roman camp of Fort Sinister. There they meet up with another tribe's hier, named Camicazi. They join forces with Camicazi to escape Fort Sinister. Unfortunately, this takes many attempts and the reader follows along for all of them.

After that, they are sent into a Colossium to face the thought to be unkillable sharkworms. Sharkworms are dragons that are so scary you would only picture them in your worst nightmares. They live in the water, but they have the ability to go on land and can run faster than any human. Does Hiccup succeed? Does Hiccup fail? You can only find out by reading this exciting novel!

If you missed the first two books in this series, be sure to check out How to Train a Dragon and How to Be a Pirate. Stayed tuned for my post of the fourth book in this series, How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse coming soon.

How to Be a Pirate by Hiccup Horrendouse Haddock III, translated from the Old Norse by Cressida Cowell

Avast readers of fantasy, this is the second book in a series (see my previous post for a quick preview of the first book).

How to Be a Pirate continues the adventures of Hiccup and Fishlegs. In this book, they search for the treasure of Hiccup's greatgrandfather, Grimbeard the Ghastly, the most ruthless of all viking pirates. In their search they encounter deadly foes, cannibal tribes and that's just a few of the more friendly people they encounter. Hiccup is forced to use his wits to stay alive.

Once they have gotten "the treasure" they get trapped in a cave. Luckily they find a door. What's behind this door??? If I tell you that would ruin the story, so you'll just have to read the book and find out.

If you missed the first book in the series, don't forget to check out How to Train Your Dragon. Stayed tuned for information on the third book in this series, How to Speak Dragoneese.

How to Train Your Dragon by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III translated from the Old Norse by Cressida Cowell

Avast readers who love fantasy books, have I got a series for you.

How to Train Your Dragon, by Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III is the first of many books. A 13 year-old viking by the name of Hiccup and his best friend, Fishlegs, with other vikings that are much better at doing what vikings do, go to the wild dragon cliffs. Their purpose is to catch a dragon for training. They are all successful in catching dragons and that's when the adventure really begins. But Hiccup's dragon "Toothless" is very bad at being a dragon.

What follows next is the details of many humorous, gripping and mysterious adventures centered around Hiccup's and Fishlegs life, and of course Toothless. At the end of all this excitement, Hiccup and the reader learn that Toothless has unseen courage.

The next book in this series is How to Be Pirate. See my next post for highlights of this exciting novel.

Freedom's Fire by J.P. Trent

The Boy in Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

In this book a boy who has a father that is a general for the Germans in WW2 has to move to a new house that is right next to a concentration camp. While there the boy is told to stay away from the back of the yard because that is where the camp is. One day the boy (Bruno) decides to go adventuring and then finds himself at the fence separating him from the camp. There he finds a boy who is just sitting there. These two boys then become friends and talk almost everyday. One day Bruno is told they are moving back to his old home. Bruno then decides to go see his friend one last time and wants to go into the concentration camp. What will happen?

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• I am the Messenger
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The girl who owened a city/by john baltusis

Everyone who likes SiFi should pick up the book "The Girl Who Owned a City" by O.T. Nelson.

It is a child's worst nightmare that every person on Earth above the age of twelve has died,

and for fifth grader Lisa, it is a challenge to survive.

Rival gangs begin to fight over control of the city. Lisa and the kids that live on Grand Avenue have to find a safe haven in which to live. The book chronicles Lisa's quest to survive and find a safe home for herself and her friends.

Disappearance

Disappearance is about a girl named Gracie, who is 14 years old. Gracie's mom died in a car crash two years ago and her dad left the family when Gracie was three years old. Gracie lives with her Aunt Shay and cousin Diego ion Beewick Island.

Gracie's cousin Diego has a girlfriend named Marigold. Gracie does not like Marigold at all! Marigold also has a brother who Gracie does not like very much either. Marigold is a very tall, skinny, blond who is very clinging to Diego. Mason on the other hand is the athletic type who loves soccer and swimming.

One afternoon Diego asks Gracie if she wants to go out to eat with Marigold and him. Gracie doesn't get asked out to eat by Diego very much, so this was a surprise to her. She gives in to him finally. She get there and she sees Mason and all of his friends. She also sees an old friend named Zed who she accused of raiping her two years ago.

Mason and his friends are making fun of a couple sitting at the next table. Then Mason says "Let's see who knows Beewick Island the best." He goes on to say "Let's test it by jumping from the deck of the restaurant, so if you really know the currants then you won't get caught in them." One of Mason's friends named Dylan agrees to do it.

1, 2, 3....... Dylan jumps over the side of the restaurant deck . Mason and his friends meet Dylan at the shore. Dylan walks over to his friends with a blank look on his face. With fear in his voice Dylan says "I felt something hit me and I'm having a feeling it was a body.

Other books Jude Watson has written:

1. Premonitions
2. Star Wars: Dark Rival
3. Star Wars:Mark of the Crown
4. Star Wars: Hidden Past
   

Among the Hidden

If you are a reader then Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix is the book for you cause you won't want to put it down.

In the future you can only have two kids, so when a boy, Luke, is born is parents lie to him about the government and make him hid in the attic (his room). Luke lives by a forest so he could go outside and play, but when the city planes to build houses by Luke's house he cannot go outside. So when the houses are up his mom does not want him to be near the windows, so he as to sit on the steps to his room or in his room all day.

So one day Luke sees a shadow in a house in the back of his house and he thinks it is a third child. One day he goes over to the house and meets a girl, Jen, She tells him about what the government can and cannot do. When Jen tells him about a rally for third kids, and Jen asks 

Luke if he wants to go, and he says "no". So Jen goes and some trouble happens at the rally.

Other books by Margaret Peterson Haddix:

1) Found

2)Running Out of Time

3)Don't You Dare Read This, Mrs. Dunphrey

4)Leaving Fishers

The Hidden Staircase

Carolyn Keene's second Nancy Drew, The Hidden Staircase, is a great mystery.

Nathan Gomber has just called Nancy involving her father's safety . But , before Nancy could visit her friend Helen she and her father nearly get run over by a car . When Helen and Nancy arrive at the Twin Elms they hear that there was a robbery at the mansion . This robbery was committed by a ghost.

During her stay , the ghost returns and tries to scare the girls. But, Nancy isn't scared so she tries to solve they mystery. On the way, Nancy finds clues and secrete passage ways. She also finds the motive and the culprit of the crime.

Other Nancy Drew books are:

1. The Bungalow Mystery
2. The Lilac Inn
   
3. The Secret of Shadow Ranch
   

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards

Hey Bloggers!! The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun is a great mystery.

Jim Qwilliern is new to a newspaper, and there is a mean art critic who works for the newspaper. When Jim is asked to interview artist he meets an artist, and he is invited to a party and meets other artists. When Jim doesn't think the critic is real, Jim's old friend who works on the newspaper sets up a dinner and Jim goes over to the critic's apartment. Later Jim sees his cat and asked why his eyes turn red.

When an artist is murdered Jim tries to find out who killed him. When the critic goes away Jim is left to watch his cat until he gets back. When the critic gets back Jim interviews the artist wife and she tells him about another artist who works with her friend. When his show is ruined he almost died. A couple of days later the critic was found dead. 

Other books by Lilian Jackson Braun are:

1) The Cat Who Moved A Mountain

   By: Andrea Griffiths 

The Odyessy of Homer Translated by Samuel Butler

In this book it tells of the story of Odyessey's 10 year trip home. In this story Odyessey's meets witches, sea nymphs, sea monsters, and many more. In this book Odyessey has seen the shore of his home land Ithica and he is not allowed to make it. The cause of all of his trails is that Odyessey's has offended the sea god Neptune by blinding his son. He is now being punished for that actions by not being alloowed to reach his home land with is wife and child. When Odyesseys is befriended by the grey-eyed god Athena his trip turns around. When he reaches home he finds hundreds of suitors searching for the hand of marriage. Can Odyesseys defeat them all and save his wife?


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Death comes as an End

Death Comes as an End is one of those books that you can never put down because it is so spectacular well written by no other than Agatha Christie! Hope you enjoy it has much as I have.

Renisenb, who is the widow returns to her family home after several years away. Problems come up within the family as her father brings home a new concubine, Nofret. Nofret begins to turn family members against each other in her own evil wicked ways. Later on Renisenb and her brothers realize that Nofret was the one that was making everyone go against each other all along and before they could even react to this she was found dead. The only people that are puting two and two together are Renisenb, the family scribe, and the wise woman. They then realize that the death was no accident at all, and together they set out to solve the mystery, as more family members are killed. Will they find who killed Nofret or will they all suffer without finding who did it? Read the book to find out.

Here is her website to learn more about her and the many books that she has made.
http://www.agathachristie.com/story-explorer/stories/death-comes-as-the-end-1/


Other Books that she has wrote are:
1)Taken at the Flood
2)Captian Hastings
3)Miss Marple
4)The thirteen Problems
5)Sleight of Hand

Agatha Christie is one the best selling author of all time.

She has sold over two billion books worldwide and has been translated into over 45 languages.

In a writing career that spanned more than half a century, Agatha Christie wrote eighty novels and short story collections.

She also wrote over a dozen plays which is now the longest running play in theatrical history.

Return from Tomorrrow

Return From Tomorrow by George G. Richie and Elizabeth Sherrill is a great book to sit down and read! It is the most spiritual book I have ever read in my life. Well, close enough though.

This Book is about a Man named George Richie at the age of 20 that dies in an army hospital and comes to life 9 minutes later. I know what you are thinking "that is giving away the whole story" Right. Wrong. The thing is what happens when he is dead changes his whole aspect on life. Now you are going to be thinking that is pretty weird. It is actually really cool when you read the insight of what he was seeing, feeling, and hearing. He supposedly with God when he is dead. He sees things that not everyone has seen on this earth, but some people claim to hear upon it.

So, I ask you before you read this book, "What are you doing with your life?", because you will be asking yourself a lot about it when you are reading also. Hopefully this wonderfully descriptive book will change your life, too for the better than for the worst. This book will give you so many ideas to what is to come ahead in this life. It is unimaginable of what is to be in the next so called "Life".

Some other books that he has wrote are:
1)My Life After Dying: Becoming Alive to Universal Love
2)Ordered to Return: My Life After Dying
3)Organ Technique: Modern and Early

Danger.com:Most Wanted

Hey everyone! I loved the short mystery Danger.com by Jordan Cray, and I encourage you to give it a shot.

Andy MacFarland thought he knew everything. This was until the day he found out he was adopted. The 16-year-old boy was stricken by this. Immediately he was determined to find his natural parents, and nobody was going to stop him. The place to start: the Net.

He soon found his father with the help of Syd, his best friend, and the town nutcase, Dolores, on the internet. He gets to know Silas, his "real" dad, who used to be in prison. He talks to Silas regularly on the interent, but then, Andy must deal with the consequences of what he discovers. And if there's one thing you will learn from this book it is to be careful what you wish for. It just might come true.

Jordan Cray doesn't have his own website but here's a link involving him: http://www.amazon.com/Most-Wanted-Danger-com-Jordan-Cray/dp/0613083857
one review:
I think this was an excellent book to have read because this book is full of mystery and suspence. I would highly recommend this book to people because it is a great book. One minute you think you know who did it and the next chapter you have a new victim. I would highly recommed this book to other people who love to get a good scare and suprise. -Sally
other books my Jordan Cray:
1.Dead man's Hand
2.Stalker
3.Shadow Man
4.Firestorm

The Ruby in the Smoke

If you can't take your eyes of a good book and you're dying to get your hands on good mystery then Ruby in the Smoke written by Philip Pullman is the book for you.

Sally Lockhart a seventeen year old girl living in Norwood England is dying to find out about her fathers death. An employee of the Lockhart shop hears about her fathers death and dyes of fear. The shop that used to be Lockhart's and Selby's is now only Selby's. Sally goes on a journey of a lifetime to find out more about her fathers death because all she knows is something about the south china sea.

Sally travels to London and meets some great and not so great people. their she starts a photography shop, but she says that living in the late eighteen hundred their will be better pictures in the future. Ever since her father death she has been having the scariest Nightmares. Sally says that a man stands in the dark with big eyes and says her name with a dagger in his hands and comes closer and closer to her.

Sally gets a little information about her fathers death but it still doesn't clear anything up. Sally gets in a cab which is a horse drawn carriage in her days. The cab driver is the man who is trying to kill Sally. Jim puts a dagger in his hand a tries to kill Sally, but he doesn't know that Sally carries a gun in her bag she takes out the gun and shots him in the face for trying to kill her. Later when Sally returns home she finds out that to get the information that she want she didn't even need to leave her home.

some reviews say,

A rip-roaring good adventure story,

A gripping page-turner, and

A spendid mystery novel

Winner of the International Reading Association's Children's book Award


Other books by Philip Pullman in the Sally Lockhart Series are, The Shadow In The North, The Tiger In the Well, and The Tin Princess. Books not in the sally Lockhart series are, His Dark Material, The Golden compass, The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, Lyra's Oxford, The Broken Bridge, The White Mercedes, Count Karlstein, I was a Rat, Puss In Boots, and Spring-Heeled Jack.

The Ruby in the Smoke

The Mystery Cottage In Left Field

The book I read is called The Mystery Cottage In Left Field by Remus F. Caroselli and it was a very scary and sad book.

It was about a little boy named Jimmy that was twelve years old and lived in a very dangerous neighborhood. Jimmy was very excited for baseball season to begin so that the bullies, Roy and Eats, wouldn’t act so cool. Then Jimmy and his friends get into a dangerous situation involving the person living in the cottage in left field and they try to find out who the secret person was visiting her house every Tuesday, very late at night. Then this small problem lead up to even bigger problems.

The other book by Remus F. Carselli is Mystery At Long Crescent Marsh.

The Cobra King of Kathmandu by: P.B. Kerr

In this book the plot line is that John and Philippa's uncle and friend Mr. Rakashasa go missing. They must travel to India with Mr. Groain, their uncle's butler, to save them. Before they can go the must first rescue their friend Dybbuk who is being hunted by the Nine Cobras. Though they do not know it then Dybbuk will help them greatly. He will give them the final clue to unlocking the exact location of their uncle. While in India they Travel to an ashram and find that their uncle and Mr. Rakashasa are being held here. On the way to freeing them they are captured by the Nine Cobras. They are wanted for they are Djinn (genie). The leader of the Nine Cobras though wants to use their very blood so he to can become a Djinn. The question is can they save not only themselves but their uncle and Mr. Rakashasa in time?

This is the 3rd book of the Children of the Lamp series. The first 2 are The Akhenaten Adventure and the The Blue Djinn of Babylon. You should read these before you read The Cobra King of Kathmandu.


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• The Day of the Djinn Warrior (book 4)
  
• The Eye of the Forest (book5)

Suprise Suprise

The book I read was Surprise! Surprise! It is written by Agatha Christie. It is a great mystery book for any type of reader.

The book Surprise! Surprise! is a series of short stories. Each story is around twenty pages and so suspenseful you won't want to stop in the middle. The stories are very tricky and very good. I personally believe that these short stories take a little while to develop, because of this it is not as detailed as some people would like. Something interesting is that most of the stories take place in a different locations around the world in the early 1930's.

Some other books by Agatha Christie

The ABC Murders

The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

After the Funeral

And Then There Were None

Appointment with Death


The Big Four

The Body in the Library

By the Pricking of my Thumbs

Cards on the Table

A Caribbean Mystery

Cat Among the Pigeons

The Clocks

Crooked House

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon

If you like action packed books, don't mind the length, and love fast cars, then Alfred Kropp: The Seal of Solomon, by Rick Yancy is the one for you.



Alfred Kropp is a husky kid who saves the world, by messing up on everything. In the brilliant sequal to the Extrordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp Alfred is thrown back into the world of the world-wide orginazation OIPEP. when he tries to figure out what is going on he just about kills himself, again.

Other books in this series include:

#1 The Extrordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp

#3 Alfred Kropp: The Thirteenth Skull

The link to his website is http://www.rickyancey.com/

Also the #1st book in this series is becoming a movie, I can't wait!

H.H.

The Case of the Crimson Kiss

If you ever need a mystery, The Case of the Crimson Kiss, by Erle Stanley Gardner is the one for you.

This book is a collection of short mystery stories, including:

The Case of the Crimson Kiss; a Perry Mason mystery

Fingers of Fong

The Valley of Little Fears

Crooked Lightning

At Arms Length

These stories are about gangsters, secret lovers, and thefts. It will keep you on the edge of your seat, but the truth won't come out 'till the end.


http://www.erlestanleygardner.com/ is his home page.


But keep in mind that it was published from the 1920's to the 60's.

Troy by Adeldes Geras

In this book, Troy, the goddess Aphrodite is bored of no new love or little love being made because of the on going Trojan War that has lasted for over nine years and is approching the tenthe year of the war. Aphrodite then decides to make a sister,, Xathe, fall in love with a boy, Alastor, and the Alastor then falls in love with Marpessa, other sister. The problem is that Marpessa knows Xanthe loves Alsator but Xanthe doesn't know that Alastor loves Marpessa. That is only one love triangle. Also in this book Xanthe is best friends with Porpexa (not sure if that is actual spelling) and with Iason. Now Iason loves Xanthe but Porpexa loves Iason and Xanthe doesn't know.

Now if you are thinking this book is all about love and romance you are wrong. This book includes the trials of the Trojan War. It includes the fear, starvation, and death of the war. This book tells of the Trojan Horse, Achilles, Prince Hector, Prince Paris, Helen and many other characters of the Trojan War.

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• Odyessy of Homer
• The Goddess of Yesterday
• Helen of Troy
• The Iliad
• The Trojan Horse : A Fall of Troy : A Greek Legend
• Black Ships Before Troy : The Story of the Iliad
  

The Barn at Gun Lake

The book I read was The Barn at Gun Lake by Jonnie Tuitel and Sharon Lamson.

Jonnie has cerebral palsy and is in a wheelchair. He doesn't think he is much different from other people, but does know it is a bit more challenging for him to do things. There are a lot of kids in this neighborhood that he has just moved into. They created this club called the Gun Lake Gang that Jonnie wants to be a part of. To be a part of the Gun Lake Gang he has to go through an initiation. For this he has to go to the old barn and bring out something to prove that he went inside. Jonnie brings out a CD case. The kids think it might be part of CD pirating. Jonnie and his new friends go through some exciting adventures. Your have to read the book to see if they get caught spying or if CD pirating is really happening.

This book is based on a true story and it takes place in Michigan. Jonnie Tuitel now goes around and is a motivational speaker.

The Barn at Gun Lake is part of the Gun Lake Adventure series. This website tells a little bit about Jonnie Tuitel http://www.johnnietuitel.com/home.html.
This website tells a little bit about Saron Lamson

http://www.zondervan.com/Cultures/en-US/Product/ProductDetail.htm?ProdID=com.zondervan.9780310711971&QueryStringSite=Zondervan

Murdered, My Sweet

The book that I read is called Murdered, My Sweet, by Joan Lowery Nixon.

The main character, Jenny and her mother, Madeline Jakes (a famous mystery writer) are staying at a hotel in California. They are there to visit some distant relatives, Celebrate Arnold Harmony's Birthday (a distant relative), and to hear the reading of Arnold's will, even thought he isn't dead. Arnold owns a chocolate company named Harmony Cholcolates. The reading of the will is deylayed when Arnold doesn't show up. When a relative goes to look for Arnold, they discover that it wasn't Arnold that has been murdered, but Arnold's son. Even thought Madeline is the mystery writer, will Jenny really be the one solving the mystery??? Alot of very interesting events follow this scene. (But i cant give them away.)

I highly recomend this book if you like a lot of suspense.

Related books:
Nightmare
The Seance
Whispers from the Dead
The Stalker
& Many More!

Author web site: http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-nixon-joan-lowery.asp

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

In the first book, City of Bones (book before the one I am blogging about), a girl named Clary Fray can all of a sudden see these other creatures in her world that are from another dimension. Also Clary has found her long lost brother and father (wants to take over the world) and her mother who placed herself into a coma to protect her daughter. Now in City of Ashes she must find her father and stop his evil plot of ruining the world as she knows it. She must also fight for her mothers life and overcome the affections felt towards her brother. Clary also ends up juggling her mundane (human) best friend being wrapped in the drama and horror of her new world and life.

In the second book of The Mortal Instruments series, by Cassandra Clare, Clary is faced with new choices, forbidden love, and new heartaches. She must find her way in the new world she has been so forcefully thrust into.

Related Books

The Mortal Instruments Series
#1 City of Bones
#3 City of Glass-coming March 24

Out of Series
Blue Blood Series
Blue Bloods
Masquerade
Revelations
All by Melissa De La Cruz

Eagle

For all of you Martial artists out there, Eagle, by Jeff Stone, is the book for you.

Eagle is the fifth book in a series about children monks who are battling the forces of the Emperors corrupt millitary-men. The children, aged 7 to 12, are from a temple that was burned to the ground by one of their former "brothers". Each of them has a animal name in mandarin, a chinese language, and Eagle/ Ying is the brother that attacked the temple.

This is a book about strenght, cunning, and inner peace. If you like action packed books with a interesting storyline, this book is for you.

Other books in this series include:

1. Tiger
2. Monkey
3. Snake
4. Crane
5. Eagle
6. Mouse/ coming Feb. 10th

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