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Jun
09
2017

We Are Not Eaten By Yaks, by C. Alexander London

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Warning: there are some spoilers

We Are Not Eaten By Yaks is part of a series called An Accidental Adventure. The book takes place in China or Japan in the early 21st century. It’s a mind blowing adventure about two kids named Oliver and Celia. They’re both eleven years old and Celia’s older by one minute and 47 seconds. Their parents are explorers and worked at The Explorers Club. They would find and look for magical and mythical and unknown things. The thing about Oliver and Celia is that their favorite thing to do is watch TV. They liked television more than anything else in the world. They would watch for hours and hours without even a budge. But Oliver and Celia only wanted one thing in life… cable. When Oliver and Celia were about six or seven, Oliver and Celia’s mom got lost trying trying to find the lost tablets of Alexandria and sort of Shangri-La. Two mythical and magical places. Oliver and Celia’s dad has an arch enemy, Sir Edmund. One day at a discovery festival, a person came in who somehow found a piece of paper that Celia and Oliver’s mom wrote close to where people say Shangri-La and the lost tablets of Alexandria are. Then Sir Edmund made a bet with Oliver and Celia’s dad to find the lost tablets. If Oliver, Celia and their dad found the lost tablets, they would get cable. If they didn’t find the lost tablets, Oliver and Celia’s dad would get expelled from the explorers club and Oliver and Celia would have to work as slaves to Sir Edmund on weekends and breaks.

 

Oliver and Celia have the same personality. They’re smart. In the book, there are these poison witches that have a set of TVs. They don’t know what’s on TV but it makes no sense. They’re powerful witches and they want to watch TV but they can’t. Anyway, the witches poisoned Oliver and Celia’s dad and there were only five days for their father to live. So on the last day, Celia and Oliver gave the witches a TV guide for their father. A TV guide for a life at stake. It’s such a wonderful moment I cried. But that shows smartness. Celia and Oliver are glued to the TV. They once both watched Love at 30,000 feet for 54 hours straight. They’re weird. Their parents are explorers but they are (sort of want to be) the opposite. I guess it doesn’t run in the blood.

 

One weird part of the book was when Oliver and Celia made a parachute tied to a lifeboat to save them and their father. That was weird because Celia and Oliver hate adventures and what they did was very adventurous. Another weird part of the book was when the poison witches traded the TV guide for Oliver and Celia’s father’s life. I don’t think poison witches are supposed to like TV. Lastly, it’s weird that Oliver and Celia hate adventures. Their parents are famous adventurers. Like I said, I guess it doesn’t run through the blood. After when Celia said that Sir Edmund was going to kill their father, Oliver mumbled under his breath to his father, “can we get cable now?”. That means Oliver is a greedy kid. Just because somebody spreads a rumor that might save your life doesn’t mean you give them something right away.

 

I loved We Are Not Eaten By Yaks. It’s funny. It’s funny because there are odd things in the book (think of the odd part as funny-odd). It’s a mystery. It’s a mystery because you don’t know if Oliver and Celia’s mom lived or died and there’s a bunch of other mysterious stuff. There’s adventure. There’s adventure because you could tell by the name of the series that it’s an adventure story. It’s fantasy. It’s fantasy because there are poison witches and yeti’s and… I shouldn’t spoil the book anymore. I don’t want to spoil the book.There’s survival. Oliver and Celia have to survive a 38,000 foot drop from an airplane and there are a bunch of other survival stuff. The book reminds me of the books by Rick Riordan. It reminds me of them because We Are Not Eaten By Yaks is a mystery, adventure, survival and magic book just like the Rick Riordan books. I rate this book five out of five stars.

 

May
04
2017

Upside-Down Magic, Sticks and Stones, By Sarah Mlynowski

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The book I read was Upside-Down Magic, Sticks & Stones by Sarah Mlynowski. The book takes place in modern times. The main characters are Bax and Nory. In the book, everybody has a magic power. You can only have one power and there are only a few different powers. Flyers can fly, fuzzies can speak to animals, fluxers can change into different animals and there are a few other magic powers that I forgot. Nory and Bax are fluxers. But there’s something wrong with their magic. Nory can make a mix of two animals and Bax can only flux into a rock (but once a leash but that’s a whole different story). That’s what you would call UDM, upside-down magic. But UDM isn’t just for fluxers. It can be for anybody. So the UDM kids take different classes than the normal kids. One day (going to the book) there were rocks all over the ground in Nory and Bax’s school. Everybody was tripping all over the place. And there’s also a pennies for potions jar to help hospitals get better potions. That day, there were no pennies in the jar even though the day before there were pennies in the jar. Everybody knew the pennies were turned into rocks. There was this one mean girl whose name was Lacey Clench who blamed the UDM kids for doing this so she made a petition to get rid of the UDM kids. Does the petition work out for Lacey Clench or not.

I’m going to describe Bax in three adjectives. He’s quiet. He gets tutored with Nory for fluxing but he says nothing so the tutor only pays attention to Nory. He’s mysterious. When everybody was trying to figure out who turned the pennies to stone, everybody glared at him because of his rock magic. He’s personal. He doesn’t share anything about what’s happening in his life or his feelings. Like when his dad told him that he (the dad) got fired, he (Bax) didn’t tell anybody.

An interesting part of the book is that people talk about other people even though they don’t know that that person is listening. Another interesting part is that the book gives all of the mystery away but you still can’t figure out what’s happening. Lacey Clench said, “If I get fifty signatures, the UDM kids get kicked out.” That means Lacey Clench is mean because if you’re a student, it doesn’t mean you can kick other students out of school.

I liked Upside-down magic. I liked it because it was mystery and I love mystery. The book is filled with mystery. Page by page, something mysterious has happened. There’s also a bunch of magic. That’s why the book is called Upside-Down Magic  It’s a mystery book because something bad happened and people need to find out who did the bad thing. The book for me is really unique, but if you read it, you’ll be able to make a connection with another book or with a movie. I rate this book four 1/2 out of five stars.

Mar
17
2017

The Red Pyramid, by Rick Riordan

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I read a book called the Red Pyramid. The book is by Rick Riordan and it’s part of a series called the Kane Chronicles. The book is about two siblings named Carter and Sadie Kane. They only see each other two times a year because they got separated. Somehow, their dad unleashed mysterious gods and everything goes wrong. One of the gods is evil and tries to destroy the world (starting with North America). Carter and Sadie have to try to stop the god from destroying the world. The book takes place in America, Egypt and London in the 21st century.

 

The first character you meet is Carter. Carter is a scaredy cat. In all of his battles he thinks things are scary. At the same time though, he’s brave. He can fight off a really-powerful-obsessed-with-killing-and-blood god. Also he’s an ally. Carter is an ally because his friend was saying his uncle was a bad person. His uncle was actually not and Carter knew that, so he stood up for his uncle to prove that his uncle was not a bad guy.

 

One of the most interesting parts of the book was that some curses that you do can’t be done again within a certain amount of time. It’s sort of unfair because it’s an all powerful curse. I mean if you have a lot of troubles in one year and you’ve used a curse you can only use once a year and you need to do it in the same year, what would you do? I mean they use those curses for a good reason, not for a bad reason. Another interesting part of the book is that the book is sort of like a story with queens and kings. Rulers be selfish like Desjardins. Desjardins is the chief lector which means he sort of is the king of magicians. It’s illegal in magician law to host a god (which means share your body with a god). Carter and Sadie both host gods (not on purpose). Desjardins figures this out and try to stop them from completing a quest. With the strength of the gods, do Carter and Sadie complete their quest with the most powerful magician trying to kill them?

 

I liked the book. I liked it because the book is action packed and has funny dialogue. The book is action packed because there is a lot of fighting outraged monsters and evil gods. The book is funny because the author (Rick Riordan) pretends pretends that Carter and Sadie are speaking into a mic so when somebody “says” something not so embarrassing like if Carter said “I grew feathers and I saw myself sleeping. Then I flew to this place where evil gods were planning a scheme” (which means your ba left you. Your soul left you. You could die in your ba form). Then you would read Carter say: [Sadie just called me a human chicken]. Then he would go on with what he was saying. I recommend this book. Like I said, the book is action packed (which is my favorite genre!). The book is really unique because it’s an all-about-the-action type of book with a little bit of lovey dovey stuff that is really hard to realize it’s there. I rate this book four out of five stars.

Feb
16
2017

The Blood of Olympus, by Rick Riordan

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I read a book called The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan. This book is part of a series called The Heroes Of Olympus. The book/series takes place in 2016 and a bunch of places I can’t even list, but it mostly takes place in Italy, Greece, America and Tartarus. The main character’s names in the book/series are: Hazel, Leo, Percy, Annebeth, Frank, Jason and Piper. In the book, seven demigods take a journey to Athens, Greece to fight/send back to Tartarus/kill giants (the sons and daughters of Gaea, the earth goddess who was the first goddess to live that is evil) to stop them from waking Gaea. The giants needed two demigods blood spilled on the Parthenon (which is where Poseidon, the Greek god of water and hurricanes and Athena, the Greek god of wisdom and weaving, did something to declare who Athens would be named after and Athena won) to waken Gaea. Before the demigods get to Athens, Greece, they make a few stops they might need. But they don’t just get together and try to save the world, there’s a whole story to it.

One of the most interesting characters is Annebeth. She’s smart. I mean, she’s a daughter of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Of course she’s smart. She’s strategic. When you’re smart, you’re also strategic. She once broke her leg and she didn’t have a boot or anything like that. She had to make a boot made out of a piece of wood and bubble wrap and she had to use sticks for crutches. She’s brave. She fell into Tartarus (a pit where Greek and Roman monsters come back to life. Tartarus was also the first god to live) and didn’t even have a heart attack.

The demigods didn’t just have to stop Gaea from waking. They had to do much much more than that. They had to bring a statue to Camp Halfblood (a sleep away camp where Greek demigods stay to be protected from monsters) and set it on Halfblood Hill to stop a war between Greek demigods and Roman demigods. One of the most interesting parts of the book is that the seven demigods had to get a cure that can heal you from death. You can not come back to the human world death. You stay dead. Another interesting part of the book was that Leo could make killer robots try to kill themselves. It’s called idiot mode. Another interesting thing that happened in the book was that the giants didn’t spill Annebeth and Percy’s blood on the Parthenon right away. That’s interesting because the giants want to be the rulers of the world. The only way they can do that is with Gaea.

This book is probably one of my favorite books out of the many books I’ve read. You will literally fall in love with this book (which I did). If you like the Percy Jackson series, you will love this book. There are relationships, like relationships in the Percy Jackson series (which I mean girlfriend- boyfriend relationships). It has similar writing, and it’s a mix between Greek mythology and Roman. It has everything. It’s action packed and fantasy (just like Percy Jackson). One of my favorite parts of the book was when Leo tricked nymphs into thinking Leo was more handsome than Narcissus (who is crazily handsome). In case you don’t know, a nymph is a nature spirit. I liked that part because tricking nymphs into thinking you’re hotter than the hottest person in the world is pretty darn hilarious! Imagine looking at the poor guy’s face. It was probably red with envy. I rate this book five stars. That’s why I want you to read this book.

Jan
27
2017

The Heroes Of Olympus: The Mark Of Athena By Rick Riordan

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I read The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. I think the most important part of the book is when the Greeks meet the Romans because it did or didn’t start a war between the Greeks and Romans. I also think that was important because it’s what starts the prophecy to save the world from the earth goddess Gaea waking. The book is full of action, fantasy,secrets and mystery. The book is part of a series and the series is the best series I’ve ever read: The Heroes of Olympus.

Dec
08
2016

Intro

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Hello! I’m Chase. You might not know me but I’m a 4th grade student from LREI. If you don’t know me, this is one of my favorite things to do. I like to play soccer. I’m on three different teams.