Sorry I keep forgetting about my blog. So, I've finished four different books though.
1. Capture the Flag by Kate Messner is about Anna Revere-Hobbs, who gets stuck at the airport, due to a violent blizzard. She meets Henry and Jose, who she realizes she's seen before.... These three kids are stuck at an airport, along with the people who stole the Star Spangled Banner. They end up chasing the thieves... but will Anna, Henry and Jose find them? This book is full of dashing baggage, stalling, and spying.
2. Keeper of the Lost Cities, by Shannon Messenger is about Sophie, who, when she she was five, bonked her head... really hard. Ever since then, Sophie had heard the thoughts of the people around her. She suspects that she's been adopted, but her parents deny it. But one day, while in a museum, Sophie finds a boy named Fitz... who says she's the one he's been looking for. His thoughts are silent, but why? Fitz tells her that she's not human, but an elf. Sophie's life becomes an adventure, learning things she never thought possible. She learns to levitate things, read people's minds, and she makes new friends, who care. Sophie's like no other elf... she can read anybody's mind. The elves have a way to block others from reading their thoughts, but it doesn't work on Sophie. Nobody can read Sophie's mind... her mind is too strong.
3. Leven Thumps book one, The Gateway to Foo, by Obert Skye, is about fourteen-year-old Leven, who lives with his mother's half sister. But Leven's aunt doesn't want to be called his aunt. Leven's aunt and uncle want nothing to do with him. But one night, Leven meets Clover, a sycophant who claims Leven is the only one that can save the world, but he won't say anything else, except that Leven is Clover's burn. Winter has chosen to come from Foo to help save the world with Leven, but she enters earth as a baby, and soon forgets all about Foo. Winter lives with a mother that doesn't want anything to do with her either. She and Leven meet, and that's when the adventure begins. Leven learns that he can see a little into the future, and sometimes slightly change it. Winter can freeze anything with her ice, and distant memories are hidden in her mind, waiting to be remembered. Leven and Winter are supposed to destroy the gateway to Foo, but Leven is plagued by shadows that try to get Leven to change his mind. How are they going to get to the gateway? Can they conquer the shadows? Can they destroy the gateway?
4. Heroes of the Dustbin, the fifth and final book in the Janitors series by Tyler Whitesides, ended with a surprise. Spencer and Daisy have accidentally freed three evil witches, that want to kill education. The BEM (in case you didn't know, BEM stands for Bureau of Educational Maintenance. Those are the bad guys) is getting stronger, and is becoming more violent, destroying Spencer's house and taking all the Rebels (the good guys) they can find, not to mention Spencer and Daisy's families. The Aurans try to help Spencer and Daisy defeat the witches, and Marv helps them with a plan to break the Rebels out of their prison. When the time comes, the hero of the day is someone who no one would ever expect. Spencer and Daisy have to take risks with the last of the Rebels, and a couple of times, they're tricked.
So, yes. I have been busy. Just so you know, I will be getting the second Leven Thumps book, and I'm reading a book called Magyk by Angie Sage. So far, I like it.
I really like the idea of reading almost everything in the Juvenile section, although I know for sure that I never will read all of those books. I probably won't even read half of it. But sometimes it's fun to imagine things.
I'll probably go to the library tonight, so I bet you that I'll have something to report soon.
Bye for now!
- Maria
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Saturday, February 13, 2016
Thursday, February 4, 2016
Two books to talk about
Sorry I haven't posted anything for a while; I've been so busy with school, I've hardly had time to even think about my blog!
While I was gone though, I finished two awesome books. One (the first one that I finished), was My Diary from the Edge of the World, by Jodi Lynn Anderson. It's about a girl with a fiery spirit... one whose mother got her a diary to write in. The whole book is her diary, but it still sounds like a normal book. Her name is Gracie, and she lives in a world where there are Sasquatches, dragons, mermaids, Dark Clouds, and more. She had a little brother named Sam, and an older sister named Millie. Gracie is around twelve years old. She's living a normal life (well, it's normal in her world)... until a Dark Cloud is found drifting their neighborhood. Dark Clouds are odd; they don't act like normal clouds. They take certain people away, almost like they're taking the spirit of a dead person. It's like dying in our world. The result of a cloud not being there when someone dies, is a ghost. Gracie's family is worried; is The Cloud coming for someone in their family?
The other book that I finished, was Pillage, by Obert Skye. It's about a teenage boy (named Beck), whose mother dies. He goes to live with his Uncle in a humongous mansion in Kingsplot, but is only greeted by the small staff, which consists of only four people. Strange things began happening, and Beck doesn't know what to do. As he investigates, he uncovers more and more, learning more about his genealogy. His uncle is a secret himself; he confined himself to a small portion of the mansion, closest to the roof as he can get. Beck's uncle has been living up in the highest floor of the mansion for a long time, never leaving. What secrets will Beck uncover? Is there a basement? If so, where is it? What's in the backyard behind the bushes?
I read this book in one day (if you can't tell, I thought it was a really good book; it was exciting, mysterious, and... I don't have the right word right now), and was sad when it ended.
Pillage is part of a trilogy, called Pillagy. The next book is called Choke. I can't wait to get it from the library!
Luckily for you, I have five different books that I have waiting for me to read. I'm reading Capture the Flag right now, and I have The Keeper of the Lost Cities, Heroes of the Dustbin (Janitors book 5), and Shadow of the Dragon. I'm still trying to get through Slathbog's Gold. I wonder if it will get better soon. Anyways, I have lots to read.
I hope to be able to write soon! Happy reading (to you and me)!
- Maria
While I was gone though, I finished two awesome books. One (the first one that I finished), was My Diary from the Edge of the World, by Jodi Lynn Anderson. It's about a girl with a fiery spirit... one whose mother got her a diary to write in. The whole book is her diary, but it still sounds like a normal book. Her name is Gracie, and she lives in a world where there are Sasquatches, dragons, mermaids, Dark Clouds, and more. She had a little brother named Sam, and an older sister named Millie. Gracie is around twelve years old. She's living a normal life (well, it's normal in her world)... until a Dark Cloud is found drifting their neighborhood. Dark Clouds are odd; they don't act like normal clouds. They take certain people away, almost like they're taking the spirit of a dead person. It's like dying in our world. The result of a cloud not being there when someone dies, is a ghost. Gracie's family is worried; is The Cloud coming for someone in their family?
The other book that I finished, was Pillage, by Obert Skye. It's about a teenage boy (named Beck), whose mother dies. He goes to live with his Uncle in a humongous mansion in Kingsplot, but is only greeted by the small staff, which consists of only four people. Strange things began happening, and Beck doesn't know what to do. As he investigates, he uncovers more and more, learning more about his genealogy. His uncle is a secret himself; he confined himself to a small portion of the mansion, closest to the roof as he can get. Beck's uncle has been living up in the highest floor of the mansion for a long time, never leaving. What secrets will Beck uncover? Is there a basement? If so, where is it? What's in the backyard behind the bushes?
I read this book in one day (if you can't tell, I thought it was a really good book; it was exciting, mysterious, and... I don't have the right word right now), and was sad when it ended.
Pillage is part of a trilogy, called Pillagy. The next book is called Choke. I can't wait to get it from the library!
Luckily for you, I have five different books that I have waiting for me to read. I'm reading Capture the Flag right now, and I have The Keeper of the Lost Cities, Heroes of the Dustbin (Janitors book 5), and Shadow of the Dragon. I'm still trying to get through Slathbog's Gold. I wonder if it will get better soon. Anyways, I have lots to read.
I hope to be able to write soon! Happy reading (to you and me)!
- Maria
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