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Feb
26
2015

Invasion of the Overworld by Mark Cheverton

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The book I read is called Invasion of the Overworld, and it’s by Mark Cheverton. It’s about a kid who loves Minecraft, but he doesn’t really have any friends on Minecraft because he likes to prank people (it’s called trolling). We don’t know his real name, but his user name is Gamenight999. His dad’s invention teleports him into the game! Gamenight999 has to now use his skills to survive Minecraft. He doesn’t know what happens when he dies in Minecraft. Will he respawn? Will he go back to the normal world? Or, will he really die? This action of Gamenight999 trying to survive all happens in the world of Minecraft.

Gamenight999 is super ANNOYING. Well, at first he is. In the start of the book Gamenight999 is always trolling others and ruining minecraft for them. He is a noble person because in the end he learns that not everything is about him. He saves lots of other users, but by saving them his Minecraft character gets killed. He is also pretty clever because the way he trolls is that he hacks the game. You can imagine that hacking is not a piece of cake. I thought it was interesting that in the book there are lots of servers. There is one on top that is called the source. The source is the server that powers all the other servers. Gamenight999 learns that the mobs (monsters in minecraft) have one goal: to get to the source. They want to do this because if the source is destroyed, it makes a portal to the overworld, AKA the human world, then they can destroy that too.

I liked this book, it wasn’t the best book but because sometimes it got pretty slow but it was still good. I liked it because, well, I really like the game minecraft too. Also, I liked the character Gamenight999, he made me want to keep reading. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to game, especially if you like minecraft. If you hate minecraft, you shouldn’t read this book. It is also a good book to read because there’s lots of action and adventure and it is fun to read. This book is not like other books. I have read the minecraft guides but it is still different.

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Feb
25
2015

Kiki Strike, Inside the Shadow City, by Kirsten Miller

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I chose to review a book that I really liked and read a lot , as much as I could every night, and it was really interesting. I actually couldn’t stop reading it. This book is called Kiki Strike, Inside the Shadow City by Kirsten Miller. It is part of a series of three books called Kiki Strike. This book is about 6 delinquent girls who find an underground city beneath New York City. All of the girls have abilities that they use to help them explore the underground city, also which they call “The Shadow City.” The main characters are the delinquent girls: Ananka (the storyteller), Betty, Deedee, Oona, Luz, and Kiki Strike. The setting is NYC, I don’t know exactly which time period though. It does seem like modern day though.

 

The main message of this book is that things don’t appear as they seem. Kiki is mysterious, brave, confusing, and clever. Kiki knows multiple languages and Martial Arts In the book, until the end, nobody knows where Kiki lives and who her mom and dad are.   “ It took three men to take her down, but since they were all burly men, eventually they took her down because she was short.” ( Kiki is 4 feet tall, well, a little more to be honest). “ The poster said she was in Hong Kong, but it also seemed the job Betty’s parents got described Kiki (that meant she was in NYC)”. The book itself was really interesting, but one of the most interesting and important parts of the book was when they first discovered “The Shadow City” because without that there would be no story. The story is based on “The Shadow City” and how the delinquent girls discovered it and protected it from villains and other people. They wanted to keep it secret. The second most interesting part was when they all got kidnapped.  I really wanted to hang on and see what happened next in those parts. The third interesting and shocking part is when you find out Kiki’s true background. I really enjoyed that part because it was so interesting to see, what happens next.

I really enjoyed this book because of the urge that I had to keep reading, not many books have that, and it was really hard to stop reading. I also really enjoyed this book because of the constant focus on adventure and not on a lot of other parts of it. Like Ananka and the main characters life. I would recommend this book to people who like adventure because this series is about constant adventure. Another reason I recommend this book is because it is rare to find this type of author who writes books of this kind, the type that focuses on adventure more than telling a story of casual life. In addition, this book is about girls who are heroes, and not many other authors choose girls to be the main heroes of an adventure book. I think this book relates to no other book that I know of. I would rate this book 5 stars but I wouldn’t want to read it again because I know what happens.

Feb
25
2015

Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones

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Sophie is a regular 17 or 18 year old girl when all of a sudden the Witch of the Waste turns her into a 90 year old woman. I read Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. The main characters are Sophie and Howl. Sophie is a normal girl, and Howl is a wizard. The book is about a 17 or 18 year old girl who gets turned into an 90 woman by the Witch of the Waste, so she runs away. She finds Howl’s Moving Castle and she starts living there. The setting is in a lot of places, but it mostly takes place inside the castle.

 

Sophie is very nosy, curious and brave. She is nosy because she is going around the castle and looking out of windows cleaning things and looking at other people’s stuff. She is curious because the front door has different colors that they can spin this knob and go to different places. She was looking at all the colors on the doors and was really curious what the black went to. She is brave because she had the courage to run away from her home without saying goodbye or telling her family what had happened. One thing that I thought was really interesting was the front door. You can use the door to go to 4 places that I can remember: Ingary, Kingsbury, Wales and the Moving castle. Another thing about this book is Calcifer. Calcifer is a fire demon. He keeps the castle moving and makes the hot water. Calcifer is under a curse too. Like Sophie, he is not allowed to go out of the fireplace. Only enough to see which way to move the castle. Sophie and Calcifer make a deal that if she breaks the curse on him, he will break the curse on her.

 

I really, really enjoyed this book. I think it is my favorite book now! It’s really interesting how there is magic. Diana Wynne Jones really described the magic, so you can really imagine what’s happening. I would recommend this book because it keeps you reading non stop. You have to keep reading until you get to a stopping point. It gets you really exited about what is going to happen next and the chapters end in cliff hangers. I think I want to read it again. I think people who really like magic should read this book! I think Harry Potter is like this book because there is also a lot of magic in Harry Potter. I rate this book FIVE STARS out of one to five.

 

 

Feb
25
2015

Aaron’s Gift by Myron Levoy

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My story is called Aaron’s Gift, from the book The Witch of 4th Street, by Myron Levoy.  This story is about Aaron Kandel and an injured pigeon he found in Tompkins Square Park.  He found the pigeon when he went to the park to go skating.  Aaron noticed that the pigeon could not fly. He decided to take the pigeon home and ask his mother if he could keep it there. His mother said yes because the pigeon was injured.  He tried to fix the pigeon.  His grandmother lived with his family and loved animals. She would feed the birds that came to their fire escape and would also talk to them. The main setting of the story is Aaron’s house in the Lower East Side.

 

Aaron is thoughtful because he wanted to save the pigeon. He is gullible because later in the story he falls for a trick the older boys play on him. Aaron was smart because he taught the pigeon how to take things back and forth using popcorn. One important part of the story is when the older boys tried to kill the pigeon by putting Pidge in a fire. Luckily, the pigeon flew away before they put him in the fire. He was planning to the give the pigeon to this grandmother for her birthday. Aaron was sad because he could not give Pidge to her because it flew on top of a tenement. But his grandmother thanked him because the pigeon was free which made her happy.

 

I enjoyed the story because it was happy in the beginning when he found the pigeon. It was scary and sad in the middle when the older boys tried to kill his pigeon and beat him up. And then it was happy again in the end when he got home safely and his grandmother was happy that the pigeon was free. I would recommend this story because it has a lot of drama and unexpected scenes. I would also recommend this if you enjoyed the other stories in this book. I would rate this story four stars.

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Jan
29
2015

Lawless by Jeffrey Salane

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The book I read was called Lawless by Jeffrey Salane. The main character is called M Freeman (just M, not a nickname). The book is mainly about this ordinary girl called M. But is she really ordinary? When M was young her father mysteriously died from a plane accident. In the beginning M thinks her mother and father are just art historians but soon she realizes they are master criminals. All her life she’s been home schooled and that all leads up to her being a master criminal herself. She gets into the hidden school Lawless and goes through challenges such as making friends, finding more about herself and parents, and battling through tests and obstacles. On the way to becoming a Master she soon steals a pair famous paintings by Rembrandt, which soon goes wrong. This book takes place in present time, and is in many countries but the one I like the most is in Germany.

 

One of the most interesting parts was when Cal ,one of M’s friends,was on ice and falls into the water. Without thinking M dives after Cal and faints because she didn’t have enough air. I thought it was interesting because it showed friendship between M and Cal and it showed heroic bravery. Another time I found amusing was when M went into the Box (a room that simulates a challenging scenario). Jules (another one of M’s friends) saves her from her fear of heights since she was on a plane in the Box. I thought it was interesting because it displayed that Jules monstrous cared about M, and that she didn’t want M to get hurt. Ms. Watts is cold blooded, mean, and clever. A fascinating character, Ms. Watts is cold blooded because she let her son (Cal) die in cold water and only cared about the painting that fell with him. Ms. Watts is first-class mean because she trapped M and her friends in the dark, tied to a breaking chair. Also Ms.Watts is wickedly clever because she fooled M in leading her to chaos.

 

I enjoyed this book because it was suspenseful and was very mysterious. I also liked it because of the moral fiber in each character. I would recommend this book to fourth graders because it is very adventurous and I know fourth graders like dauntless writing. Also  is very enjoyable, and if you like suspenseful books, you’d like this one.  I think this book may be like the Harry Potter series because those books are very suspenseful. I would give this book 5 stars*****.

 

Jan
14
2015

Percy Jackson And The Olympians The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

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Percy lives a normal life, in normal New York City with his normal mom in a normal apartment. The only thing that is NOT normal is that his dad, is a Greek god. I read Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief  by Rick Riordan, in the series Percy Jackson And The Olympians. The main character is a boy named Percy Jackson. His dad is a Greek god named Poseidon god of the sea so he is a half-blood (a half human half god child). The main problem is that somebody has stolen Zeus’s master bolt, and Zeus is blaming it on Percy who really does not have it. The story is set in a lot of different places but the one that is the most mentioned is a place called Camp Half Blood. The only place safe for half bloods and Percy’s only summer camp.

 

Percy is brave because he always fights for what’s right, like when Percy fights a guy named Luke who used to be friend because Luke is trying to rise a Titan (the things that ruled the world before the gods took over) that will kill everybody, and, well everything too. He is generous because he is always willing to give things to other people to help them, like when his friend Grover (Grover is a half-man-half- goat also known as a satyr) was trying to get something to make him an official satyr, so Percy helps him get it by going on a quest. He also always puts himself before other people because whenever he fights, he shields all the other people fighting. On his quest when he is trying to find the lightning bolt he meets Ares, god of war and Ares makes Percy do him a favor, including going into an amusement park and saving a shield (that doesn’t work out too well). He also went to pay a visit to Hades, the god of the dead, and tries to get the bolt, but Hades doesn’t have the bolt either so Hades gets mad at him and almost tortures Percy. Percy has to make a lot of decisions so that the quest will work out as smoothly as possible.

 

I really enjoyed the book because there is a lot of mythical things such as gods and satyrs and a ton of other really cool, things. It is a very good story about things that are mythical and makes you want to read more. I recommend this book to people who enjoy books about magic and adventures. The genre of this book is fantasy. This book is kind of like Harry Potter because there is a lot of battles and a lot of magic that goes on. I would give this book a five star rating.

 

Jan
14
2015

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrith By Rick Riordan

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There fighting monsters gods demigods and hydras it’s Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. It is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson series. The main character is Percy Jackson. The main problem in the story is that Luke (an evil demigod) is trying to navigate the labyrinth with the help of Daedalus. Percy and his friends are trying to find Daedalus before Luke. The setting is the labyrinth. Time moves faster in the labyrinth so you never know what time it is.

 

Stubborn, brave, strong, are all adjectives I would  use to describe Percy. He is stubborn because he doesn’t listen to anyone. He is brave because he is not afraid of anything. He is strong because he is a great at fighting monsters. Another part of the plot is every time they go on a quest for Camp Half-Blood (a camp for demigods)  they get mixed up in another person’s quest. Since they keep getting more quests the the direction of the story keeps changing. So, it takes them forever to finish their most important quest.

 

I enjoyed this book a lot. Because there is a lot of fighting Also the author is so descriptive about the characters feelings. I would recommend this book to someone who has read the rest of the series. The reader should be interested in Greek mythology. Another book I would connect to from this book would be the Heroes of Olympus because they were written by the same author and both are very descriptive about the feelings of the characters. I would give this book FIVE STARS

 

 

Jan
14
2015

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordian

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The name of my book is The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. This book is from the series  The Heroes Of Olympus. There are seven main characters in my book. They are all demigods. Their nimgresames are Piper, Jason, Leo, Hazel, Frank, Percy and Annabeth. The problem is the seven main characters have to go to several different places to find clues that will lead them to the prison where Hazel’s brother Nico is being held.  There are a lot of different settings in the book. Some examples are Camp Jupiter in California, Atlanta, Georgia and Charleston, South Carolina.

One of the main characters, Annabeth, is smart, caring, and in a relationship. She is smart because when Frank didn’t know how to figure out the Chinese handcuffs, instead of taking the handcuffs and showing him, Annabeth figured out how to calculate the escape from her diagrams on her computer. She was caring because when Percy (her boyfriend) was lost, she spent a lot of time looking for him. Annabeth and Percy are boyfriend and girlfriend.  When Percy, Frank and Coach Hedge were in Atlanta, they went to an Aquarium. In the Aquarium, they found Phorcys, a sea god. He tricked them into being captured in a glass fish tank designed for demigods.  Another part of the story that stands out to me is Echo and Narcissus.  Echo is a creature who can only repeat what other people have already said. She can’t talk normally because she was cursed. So far in my book, there has not been any big decisions made by a main character.

I have enjoyed the book so far. I like that there are a lot of different characters to learn about. I like how there is a lot action. I would recommend this book because each character is very different from each other and each have their own story. Each character has something they are going through. This book is fiction. This book connects to others in the same series. It is the third book. If you have not read this series yet you should read the first book first.  I would give this book 5 stars (even though I am still reading it).

Jan
14
2015

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K Roling

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Harry Potter with his magical ways goes through the action packed book of Harry Potter Goblet Of Fire by Jimgres-1.K. Rowling, it is the 4th book in the Harry Potter series. It’s about a boy named Harry Potter and he is a wizard. The main problem is that there is a contest called the triwizard tournament. It is a really dangerous contest and Harry was put in, but he wasn’t the one who entered, someone else did even though he has to be 17 and he is only 14. This tournament took place at Hogwarts the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Harry is a pretty curious person, when he doesn’t know something he will try to figure it out, like in the 2nd book (The Chamber Of Secrets) he puts on his cloak of invisibility  (a cloak that makes him invisible) to find out who was stunning everyone when he wasn’t allowed. Harry is also a really nice person and is only mean to the people who are mean to him like all the Slytherins (one of the 4 houses at Hogwarts, there is also Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor). They are always teasing him so he is mean back to them but he is really kind to all the people who are kind to back to him. Harry is a really brave boy like in the end he duels the strongest wizard in the world when most would run away. In the contest there are three courses: the 1st is to steal a golden egg from a fully grown dragon, the 2nd is that they have 1 hour to rescue their friends from under the lake, in the 3rd they have to walk through a maze with dangerous obstacles and the first to get to the Triwizard Cup wins. Harry and Cedric, who was also in the competition got to the cup first, they agreed to touch it at the same time. Instead of being teleported to Hogwarts they went to a graveyard where he-who-must-not-be-named (Voldemort) was revived. When Voldemort came back to life it was the start of his reign and terror…again.

I really liked this book because I am a fiction kind of person and this is a fiction book. I also really liked this book because it’s has some fantasy in it, it’s not like happily ever after kind of fantasy, it is sort of the opposite but is still in the fantasy genre. I recommend this book to anyone who likes fiction books. If you are more of a nonfiction person then you may not like as much but you should still read it because it is still a really great book. This book is also like The Heroes Of Olympus series because in both they are battling evil and in both they have some kind of magical powers. (Note: if you haven’t read The Heroes Of Olympus then read that series too)

I rate this book:

****,  It wasn’t the best book I have ever read, but it was still really really really really really really good!

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Jan
14
2015

Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson

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I read Moominland Midwinter by Tove Jansson. This is the fifth book of the Moomin series. The main characters are Moomintroll and Too-Ticky. The main problem is that Moomintroll wakes up in his hibernation and can’t fall asleep so he has to survive winter. This book takes place in a House a Bathing House and mostly in the Woods.

 

Moomintroll is curious, kind, and brave. He is curious because he saw someone under the sink and he tried calling out “ it’s ok” and he tried leaving out food he tried really hard to find out who was under the sink. Moomintroll is kind because he was kind enough to let a lot of people stay in his house. Moomintroll is brave because he was brave enough to go and save Little My on the breaking ice. Moomintroll and Too-Ticky have to take care of a lot of people that come over so they have a warm place to stay. Something called a Hemulen comes over and the Hemulen is really annoying to everybody. But Salome, the little creep, likes him. Too-Ticky knows about the lady of the cold so she warned everyone to stay inside. If the Lady of the cold looks you in the eye then you freeze. But when the lady of the cold comes, a squirrel forgets to stay inside, so he gets frozen. Moomintroll makes a big decision to not go back to sleep but to see what winter is like.


I enjoyed this book because it shows you how Moomintroll reacted to his first winter. I also like how Tove Jansson is really descriptive about the snow. I would recommend this book because it’s a really good book for people who like books with animals, adventure, friendship, survival and nature. This book connects to my life  because I bet I didn’t like my first winter either because it’s cold and you have to wear too many layers! I rate this book five stars out of five.