Category Archives: 2014-2015

Dec
12
2014

The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

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My book is called The Lost Hero it is written by Rick Riordan. The series is called The Heroes Of Olympus and it is kind of like the Percy Jackson series. The main characters are Jason, Piper, Leo and Coach Hedge. The book is about Jason, Piper and Leo trying to defeat the evil mother earth and her son Porhryion the giant and to save Hera the Queen of Greek gods. There are many settings in the book but one of them is called Camp Half Blood.

Something interesting is that you would think Aphrodite is all about being pretty but really it’s about who you are on the inside and not on the outside. Something that I also like is that you get to learn about the main characters thoughts and feelings descriptively and nicely worded.  Every two chapters each character takes a turn to speak about what their perspective is of what is happening. Something that is really important is that you really understand what the characters are like, and how they think.

I think Piper is really daring, caring and she believes in herself. She is very caring because when Jason is very hurt by a blinding light she really tries to help him. She is daring because even though her dad is hurt she still leaves him with someone she knows will help him. She believes in herself because when she meets a evil princess named Medea she believes that she  can defeat  the evil princess.

I enjoyed this book because the book usually leaves cliffhangers after every chapter. When you really want to know more it just stops and then you get all sad. But then you get into another character and then you go to another characters part. I would recommend this book to people who like gods and for people who like problems you need to solve. Also for people who like a little bit of violence in their book. A similar book is the Kane Chronicles they are written from the same author and they’re also about gods but Egyptian gods. I would rate this book a four out of five, because I wouldn’t read it again but it was a really good book.

Dec
12
2014

Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

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The  amazing book I read is called Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling. The main character is a boy named Harry Potter. Harry goes to a school in a place called Hogwarts and meets these two nice kids named Hermione and Ron. They go to the same house called Gryffindor instead of Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and the house where a lot of dark wizards went, Slytherin.

One important thing in the book was when Harry was two years old and the darkest wizard known as Voldemort (which means flight of death in French) came to Harry’s house and killed his parents. Somehow, he couldn’t kill Harry and instead of killing Harry, Voldemort lost a lot of power. Another very important part was when Harry heard Snape, the head of Slytherin, talk about a sorcerer’s stone. This made Harry feel like Snape was going to steal whatever the sorcerer’s stone was.

Harry is a very brave child, for example later in the book Harry fights someone who was being controlled by Voldemort and instead of running away Harry fights the guy under the control of Voldemort and puts up a good fight. Another thing is that he is very sneaky, for example his father had an invisibility cloak that Harry always used to sneak around the school to look for any sign of a dark wizard. The third thing is that Harry is very unselfish, he is very unselfish because he is always doing things for others and not himself. For example Harry wasn’t friends at first with Hermione but he still saved her life from a troll in the girls bathroom which began their friendship.

This is the greatest book of all time!!! It is funny, creative, emotional, and it feels as though you are in the book. I definitely recommend this book because it puts you in a good mood when you read it and when you read it, you don’t want to stop reading it. I do not compare any book or television show to this book because you could guess what happens in other books or shows and a lot of books and shows have the same plot, but in this book you have no idea what will happen. On a rating from one to five I would give it a one hundred.

Dec
12
2014

The End by Lemony Snicket

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This book is part of a series called The Series of Unfortunate Events. The main characters are Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. This book is mainly about the siblings life on an island they washed up upon. The setting is a “safe and protected” island where eventually everything washes up on. The island has no fresh water and lots of wild sheep.

 

One part of the book that was really interesting was when the siblings found the secret location of Ishmael. This was interesting because it was amazing to find that Ishmael has secrets. Another thing that was important was when Kit had her baby! This was important because her baby added another chapter to the Baudelaires lives.  If I had to choose one of Violet, Klaus, and Sunny to write three adjectives about, I would choose Violet. Three adjectives to describe her would be inventive, creative, and persistent. Violet is inventive because there was the example when she once when invented the sling for Kit’s baby. Creative because she stretched her mind to build a raft out of books! Persistent because when she kept trying to help the islanders when they got sick even when they refused.

 

I enjoyed this book because it is a mystery book; like when you are trying to figure out if Count Olaf the villain if he is actually good or bad. I also enjoyed it because the author leaves you with so many questions roaming around in your head that you can figure out yourself like the question, “Are the parents still alive?” And so many more questions that you are itching to find out. I would recommend this book. I would because it is an interesting and descriptive book. And I think many readers like adventure and descriptive books. And I personally think it is easier to understand when books are descriptive. I think this book is like a series called An Accidental Adventure by C Alexander London because they are descriptive and they both have big adventures that take up many books. Also they are both written by awesome authors! I love this book so much…. I would give this book FIVE STARS!!!

Dec
12
2014

Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder by Jo Nesbo

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doctor proctor's fart powderMy book is Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder book 1 by Jo Nesbo. The three main characters are Nilly, Doctor Proctor, and Lisa. The book is about Lisa living in her neighborhood with no friends because her best friend Anna just moved very far away. A boy named Nilly moves into Anna’s old house and Nilly and Lisa become friends. Then they meet Doctor Proctor, who shows them all of the crazy inventions he made. Then he shows them Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder and Nilly and Lisa want to try it so he lets them do some tests and then they sell it. The settings in the book are Cannon Avenue, The School, The Dungeon Of The Dead, The Sewer, and The Professors Cellar.

One part of the book that I thought  was interesting was when Nilly gives Truls and Trym some Fartronaut powder and they go flying up to the top of the big oak tree. An important part of the book is when Truls and Trym steal the fart powder. Another part of the book that I thought was interesting was when Nilly and Doctor Proctor get arrested. An interesting part of the book is when Nilly goes into the sewer and he gets eaten. I think Doctor Proctor is very smart because he made fart powder. I think Lisa is really afraid of Truls and Trym because when she walks to school she tries very hard to avoid them. I think Nilly is very short because in the book it said Nilly could almost reach the top of the 3 ½ foot fence.

I really enjoyed this book because it is about farts and it has very interesting characters.I would recommend this book to others because it is funny and it has an interesting plot. I think this book kind of relates to Spongebob because it is very random and silly. I give this book 4 stars because it wasn’t the best book I have ever read, but it was a very good book.

 

Dec
12
2014

Spirits Key by Edith Cohn

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 Spirits Key by Edith Cohn is about a girl named Spirit Holden. She is twelve years old and she lives on an island called Bald Island. Spirit and her family (not including her mom because her mom died) have a gift, when they hold someone’s house key, they can see that person’s future. The story is mainly about Sky, Spirit’s dog. Sky is one of the wild baldie dogs the islanders believe possess devil spirits. Sky mysteriously dies and Spirit has to find out why.

I like the way the author makes every day objects into something magical. Two of my favorite parts were first, when spirit touches Sky’s dog tag for the first time and Sky’s ghost appears. Second, when spirit gets a letter from “holden spirits” that is delivered to her by an eagle. The letter was pinned to a box that had a dog toy in it. I enjoyed this part because the letter just falls out of the sky. The book is suspenseful because surprises seem to fall out of nowhere throughout the story.

I like that Spirit has such strong character. Spirit is brave, fearless and adventurous and she is never scared to take on a challenge or travel even if it is extremely dangerous;  For example, she goes straight into a baldie cave and almost gets her arm bitten off. I think this book is kind of like Harry Potter because both of the main characters can see the future but it’s never perfect or exactly the future. I enjoyed Sprits key and would recommend this book because of it’s strong characters and because it’s a fun-to-figure-out-mystery.

I would give this book three stars.

Dec
11
2014

The Son Of Neptune by Rick Riordan

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The main characters are Percy, Frank, and Hazel. The story is about when the the main characters go to Alaska to find the prison of Thanos the God of Death to rescue him from the giants. In my book there are a lot of different settings,for example – Camp Jupiter is in San Francisco which is where the story begins.

The three main characters are all demigods. A demigod is a son or daughter of a god.  They go on a quest because Frank’s dad, the War god, asked them to go on a quest. On their quest they go to Portland, Oregon to find a blind man who  can tell them where Thanos’s prison is. The person who told them to see the blind man in Portland was Iris the Rainbow goddess. Iris owned a shop called R.O.F.L. Co-op which was an employee-run cooperative that promoted a healthy lifestyle. Percy has amnesia. Frank and Hazel have a curse. Hazel’s curse is that she could find gold and riches under the earth. This is a bad thing because the gold made Alcyoneus reform. Alcyoneus is a giant. Frank’s curse is that his life depends on a driftwood stick. If it burns, he will die.

I think this book is interesting because there is a lot of action in it. There are different sections to the story and they all come together like a puzzle. I like the main characters because they fight evil basilisks (fire breathing snakes). I would recommend this book to anyone who likes action because my book has a lot of action in it.

I would give this book five stars.  *****

Dec
11
2014

Dork Diaries Not So Happy Heart Breaker by Rachel Renne Russell

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I  read Dork Diaries Not So Happy Heart Breaker it is the sixth book in the series, it’s by Rachel Renee Russell. The main character’s name is Nicky.

In my book Nicky wants to go to the Valentines Day Dance at her school  but has no one to go with, she wants to ask her friend Brandon but she is too shy.One day Nicky was with her sister Brianna and her sister was pretending she worked at a hair salon. She said that she wanted to do Nicky’s hair and so she cut her hair.  Nicky was so mad at her sister because her hair was sooo short!!

Nicky heard that Brandon  was going to ask someone else to the dance. Nicky is not sure if she wants to go to the dance now that Brandon might be going with someone else.Nicky is a very strange, artistic, funny, weird girl. Nicky has a lot of adventures and one strange thing about her is that she can’t swim. Nickys enemy is a girl name Mackenzie. Makenzie is the opposite of Nicky.

Nicky went to the store to look for a dress for the dance but there were no more dresses!!!!  Read the book to find out what happens next (and I’m NOT telling you).  I really enjoyed this book because it is so funny and it has pictures in it and its not so hard to read. I recommend this book  to people who like funny and easy to read books. I give this book ten stars even though you can only do five. **********

 

by Ava

 

Dec
11
2014

Out Of My Mind by Sharon Draper

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My book is called Out Of My Mind by Sharon Draper. The problem is that the main character , Melody Brooks is disabled. Melody can’t walk or talk, which (obviously)  is hard for her! And in this book, Melody is dying to tell her thoughts, but no matter how hard she tries, she can’t. Melody’s parents and Ms.V, know how smart she is but they have no way to prove it to anyone. after 11 hole years that all changes. When one day Rose brings in her new computer and shows it off. I bet you’re wondering how that could change everything, you’ll understand when you read the book ( you really should read the book.).  Anyways, Melody’s is so excited, when her new “voice” is being shipped in.When Melody can “talk” she is the smartest in her school, but at first no one knew. But finally, when Melody has a voice, people understand… but no one is read it to hear it. No one under stands her -evan when she can “talk” This book takes place in the following the underlined means that’s mostly where she is:  School, Home,  and Ms. V ‘s house,

These are all the characters: Penny, Mom, Dad, Rose, Claire, Mr.D, Ms.V, Conner, Molly, Butterscotch and Catherine.

 Since Melody is so smart, she made the school quiz team team which is when your school competes and you win a trip to washington D.C where they’ll maybe be on T.V good morning AMERICA!!  she changes a lot throughout the story where she’s able to talk it changes her completely, when she’s going to D.C something happens that keeps her back! Then something really bad happens to her sister Penny, who is about about 2 years old  I love this book so much! I rate it: ********** 10 stars!!!( even though you can only do five!!) I really loved this book. And I hope after you leave, you’ll want to read the book. And once you read it,I hope it will be your favorite book too!!  recommend it to all the people who read Wonder, The Sisters Grimm ,The City Of Ember and Frindle  ( also if you haven’t read these books READ THEM!!) really I recommend it to any body!!

 

 

Dec
11
2014

A Star Discovered by JoAnn S. Dawson

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I read A Star Discovered  by JoAnn S Dawson. It’s about a yearling foal. His name is Star.  Also two girls named Jody and Mary. The problem is that Star’s father is top quarter horse (which means he won lots of 1st place and is good at competing and people voted for the horse) and the owner (man in black) lets people breed their mares. If they pay the breeding fee. But Jody does not understand because it was a surprise to Jody she didn’t know that the Quarter horse even bred with Lady. The owner wants to take him because he wants the money but Jody doesn’t have money. No one has money that they want to share. It is summer and the whole summer they tried to figure out the Star incident. Jody was really worried when she heard that the man in black wanted Star.

 

A change is that Jody was supposed to watch Star grow up but a man in black said that he wanted Star because Willie needs to pay the breeding fee. To the man in black or lose Star because the man wants money.Jody wants to avoid seeing Star.So that she doesn’t burst into tears in front of Star.I bet Star got lonely without the girls. He always stuck his head out when Jody came.

 

I really enjoyed this book because it was really descriptive and I couldn’t put this book  down. I would recommend this book to people who like animals(who like horses),  I would give it 4 stars because not everyone likes horses if they do then I would give it 5 stars.

 

Dec
11
2014

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

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The title of the book I am reading is The Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. The main character in the book is Greg Heffly. There are other important characters in the book such as Greg’s older brother, Rodrick, his younger brother, Manny, his mother and father, and his best friend, Rowley. The main problem in the book is that Greg wants to be the most popular kid in his school, but he is actually one of the most unpopular kids in his school. The settings in the book include Greg’s house, his school and his best friend Rowley’s house.

The plot is that Greg is trying to be popular, but every time he gets close to being popular something goes wrong. An important event in this book is when he chooses his best friend, Rowley, over being popular. Another important event in this story is when Greg is forced to make a big decision when he has to decide whether to help his best friend who is having a hard time or lose the popularity he gains. Greg decided his best friend was more important than popularity. Greg also has a lot of problems with his family. For example, his little brother is always breaking his stuff.

I liked this book because it was about Gregory’s friendship with Rowley and because it was about things that could actually happen; also he’s about my age.  I would recommend this book because it is an easy read and a good story. I would give this book four stars because it is a great book but they aren’t very descriptive about the characters.