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Category Archives: Mystery
The Name Of This Book Is Secret
The Candy Shop War Book 2 Arcade Catastrophe by Brandon Mull
Clover Twig and the Magical Cottage by Kaye Umansky
This Book Is not Good for You by Pseudonymous Bosch
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
The Mark Of Athena by Rick Riordan
This book is action packed, mysterious, and even a little scary. In The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan, the characters are always out numbered and constantly solving tons of problems. The book is the third in a series called The Heroes of Olympus. This book is about seven characters named Frank, Hazel, Leo, Piper, Jason, Annabeth, and Percy. They are all demigods. The main story is about the characters travelling to Rome to follow the Mark of Athena. The Mark Of Athena is a Quest only Annabeth can do, alone. They travel on a flying ship, but they main setting is Rome, Italy.
One of the main characters, Percy, is brave, a natural leader and able to survive on his own. Percy is brave because he fought Crysor (a gold pirate) all by himself. He is a natural leader because he takes charge and wants to protect everyone as much as he wants to protect himself. He is able to survive on his own because when all of his other teammates were knocked out, and Crysor’s henchmen threatened to kill them with a dagger, he found a way to beat Crysor. When they get to Rome, Annabeth finds where the Mark of Athena starts. Then she goes into a dark cave and is outnumbered by monsters but uses her knowledge to get out of it. Then she had to face her greatest fear, spiders! She also had to defeat her mother’s (Athena) arch nemesis, the Arachne. Arachne was turned into a spider because she bragged too much. The way Annabeth defeated Arachne was she tricked her into weaving a Chinese finger trap for her to get stuck in. After the defeat, Annabeth reclaimed the Athena Parthenos. Meanwhile, Percy, Piper and Jason also had their own mini quest. This involved defeating the twin giants Otis and Ephialtes. They had to get a god’s help to destroy them. After they won, they reclaimed their prize, which was Nico, another demigod who was captured by the giants.
I think this book was amazing because there are a lot of different things that are happening on every page. I love the author’s writing style I think it is good because he uses a lot of big words. It is a long book but is fast paced. There are a lot of challenges that the characters face, which keeps the book interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes action, adventure, and mythology. If you have read the previous two books to this, you should definitely keep reading the series. A book that is similar to this series is Percy Jackson also by Rick Riordan. I give this book 5 stars.
The Mistaken Masterpiece
Estelle
The Mistaken Masterpiece
The red blazer girls
Michael D. Bell
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I really enjoyed The Red Blazer Girls because I like mysteries a LOT. It’s fast-paced and the story is told by a kid and we really kind of see eye-to-eye. We picture the world in the same way. The author is Michael D. Bell.
This book takes place in our current time.
This book is about 4 girls who have an agency called The Red Blazer Girls. The mystery that they are trying to solve is the main problem is if a certain painting was painted Before 1961 because that’s when the painter died. And if they find out if it was painted before 1961 then the owner of the painting. But what obstacles will stand in their way?
… Elevators…Livvy Clack…psycho old lady…Broken nose…
My main character is Sophia, Sophia Is very, very, very nice to everybody, She also is very curious. The reason the reason Sophia is really nice is because there is this really mean girl named Livvy Clack, and Sophia is even nice to her! Sophia is curious because every time she sees something off she goes to find the explanation. last but not least Sophia is courageous, Sophia is courageous because She fixes every problem even if it means the worst.
The parts i found most interesting are Sophia gets a dog well it’s not hers a movie star, Nate asked her to babysit the dog, Tillie. but Tillie is a solution to a part of the mystery! and the other part i found interesting was that nate the movie star asked Sophie to babysit Tillie.It as inturesting because he’s a movie star and he’s asking a 12 year old to babysit his dog!And the last part I found ABSOLUTELY crazy is that Sophia breaks her nose! But you’ll have to read to find out how, and trust me, It’s crazy!
I really enjoyed this book because I like mysteries a LOT. It’s fast-paced and the story is told by a kid and we really kind of see eye-to-eye, We picture the world in the same way. I REALLY recommend this book if you are the kind of person who likes something fast pace and from a persons perspective like yours ( a kid).
I really truly believe that this book is one-of-a-kind.
I rate this book 5 stars, I LOVED it so much. I’ll read it again, and again.
Gabriel Finley and the Ravens Riddle by George Hagen
The book I read was Gabriel Finley and the Raven’s Riddle by George Hagen. The the book takes place in Brooklyn. The main characters are Gabriel
Finley, Somes Grindle, Abby, and Pamela. A wicked torc, a stubborn writing desk, and a group of valravens (evil flesh eating ravens), are obstacles in young Gabriel’s path to his father. Soon Gabriel befriends a young raven named Paladin, and learns the greatest secrets the world has ever held. He, Paladin and a group of friends travel down to the underground city, Aviopolis, where he finds his father. Soon his friends and his father get captured by valravens . To save them he challenges Corax (his uncle and the lord of the valravens) to a duel of riddles. Does he win? You will have to read to find out.
Abby is unique, thoughtful, and smart. Abby is unique because she is confident in wearing one color boot and a different color on the other. Also she does not care what other people think about her. Abby is thoughtful when she snuck caramel candies to Gabriel so he won’t have to eat the terrible food. Abby is smart because she cracked really hard riddles like “The mighty lion runs from me when my legs rise up in fury, yet quietly I serve beneath a judge and all his jury.”
One part that I found interesting was when Gabriel and Paladin formed into one, meaning that Gabriel went into Paladin’s body like a ghost. I thought that was interesting because I never knew what it was like in a raven’s body. How neat would it be to fly? A part that I found important was when Gabriel met his dad. That is important because parents take their children under their wing, and teach them important skills .
I enjoyed this book because it has a lot of adventures. Also I like friendship and family stories and this is one of them. I would recommend this book to readers who like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson. I say this because Harry Potter and Percy Jackson are very similar because they are both special types of humans and go on special missions. I would rate this book five stars *****.
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
The book that I am writing about is called Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. The book is about a girl named Winnie Foster that discovers a secret from the Tucks family and is deciding to keep their secret or tell it to someone. Also the Tucks family goes on never ending journeys and Winnie Foster is thinking to join them or to stay where she is. The setting of the book is in several places, on journeys with the Tucks family and at home. The setting of the country but it changes a lot throughout the book which sometimes gets confusing because you have to read very closely.
The three adjectives I would call Winnie Foster would be stubborn, because Winnie wouldn’t listen to her friends when they were trying to tell her something important which was she needed to go and she wouldn’t listen at all and did what she wanted to do. Another adjectives I would describe Winnie Foster is positive because there is one part where Mae, someone that Winnie knows, was in jail and they were getting her out secretly without telling the cops. And a friend of Winne’s comes up with a solution to bail Mae out, the boy that made the idea up doubts himself and Winnie says, ”The plan is going to work come on lets get Mae out.” The other adjective is caring, because there was a toad and he was drying out because he didn’t have any water so Winnie gets a cup of water and sprinkles it on the toad so it can get water in his system.
An interesting part in the book was when Mae had a shotgun and shot a man in a yellow suit right through the back of his skull and he dropped like a tree. I thought that was interesting because why would Mae do that to a man that didn’t do anything to her? Another interesting part in the book would be when they were bailing Mae out of the jail secretly because the cop was watching her in the cell. And the jail guard was keeping an eye on Mae and she escaped with no problem with the guard there.
I enjoyed the book a lot because Natalie Babbitt writes very descriptive manner and I can make a picture in my head and imagine that I am in the book. Also I think Natalie Babbitt is a fantastic writer, I love her books! Another reason I loved the book is because the Tucks family goes on never ending journeys and I think journeys can end up good or bad. So I like that she included some adventurous features in the book. I would definitely recommend this book because if you like adventurous, and descriptive writing then you are going to love the book absolutely! Tuck Everlasting reminds me of this television show called Once Upon a Time a little bit because in Once Upon a Time they have adventures and sometimes the show can have sad parts in it. I would give this book five ***** (stars) because I love the way Natalie Babbitt writes her books the style of the descriptive writing. Natalie Babbitt has several different books and I think you should check them out!