By Jenny Moss
In the farway kingdom of Deor, a fifteen-year-old girl lives as a shadow of Queen Audrey who is also fifteen. It was prophesied that the queen would die before her sixteenth birthday. That girl had no name, though everyone called her Shadow. She believed that Sir Kenway, a great knight from another kingdom was pledged to Queen Audrey as her betrothed. Queen Audrey was cruel to Shadow slapped her often. One night when the girls were sleeping, Shadow woke up to Queen Audrey thrashing about in her bed. Shadow thought nothing of it but when she awoke the next morning, Queen Audrey was dead. Her death started riots and uproars of whom will lead their kingdom. The only other heir was a man named Fryen. Though Eldred, the queen's advisor, thought differently.
While spying on Fryen and Eldred, Shadow and Sir Kenway see Eldred be murdered by the man that was soon to rule the kingdom. Sir Kenway takes Shadow out of the kingdom up to a village and to an old witch, named Kendra. There Shadow finds her true identity and about the mother she never knew.
This book gets a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
It was so amazing I could barely put it down to eat.
May 3, 2010
Code Orange
By Caroline B. Cooney
Mitty was an average high schooler in New York City. As usual he hated school. His science teacher assigns a project on infectious diseases and Mitty chooses small pox. He looks through his mother's library and finds books about small pox epedemics. In one of the books was an envelope containing small poxs scabs. After picking them up and examining them closly, he puts them back. After doing more research he learns he might have just infected himself with small pox. Read about the dangers of Mitty's adventure with what started out as a science project.
I am in love with Caroline B. Cooney's work. She is amazing.
I give this book a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
Mitty was an average high schooler in New York City. As usual he hated school. His science teacher assigns a project on infectious diseases and Mitty chooses small pox. He looks through his mother's library and finds books about small pox epedemics. In one of the books was an envelope containing small poxs scabs. After picking them up and examining them closly, he puts them back. After doing more research he learns he might have just infected himself with small pox. Read about the dangers of Mitty's adventure with what started out as a science project.
I am in love with Caroline B. Cooney's work. She is amazing.
I give this book a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
Diamonds in the Shadow
By Caroline B. Cooney
When the Jared's parents volenteer to house a family of African refugees, crazy things start happening. They find out that the father has no hands and the daughter does not speak. They don't act like a family at all. The weirdest thing is the boxs full of dust that is said to be their grandfather's ashes. Now Jared wonders if this kind and thoughful refugee idea could put his family in danger.
I give this book a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
I LOVED it!
When the Jared's parents volenteer to house a family of African refugees, crazy things start happening. They find out that the father has no hands and the daughter does not speak. They don't act like a family at all. The weirdest thing is the boxs full of dust that is said to be their grandfather's ashes. Now Jared wonders if this kind and thoughful refugee idea could put his family in danger.
I give this book a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
I LOVED it!
Ten Things I Hate About Me
By Randa Abdel-Fattah
Jamilah lives in Austrailia where everything is diverse but many people are racist. Jamilah lives a normal life in a Lebanese-Muslim family with brunette hair and brown eyes. At high school she is known as Jamie, a normal pure Austrailian with blonde hair and blue eyes, with the assistance of hair dye and contact lenses. She attends a religous school on the weekends and is in their band. When her band gets a chance to play at her tenth grade formal, she has to decide between revealing her secret or disappointing her friends.
This book gets a 3 out of 5 * * *
It was good but the drama was, well drama. Nothing majorly exciting or heartbreaking.
Jamilah lives in Austrailia where everything is diverse but many people are racist. Jamilah lives a normal life in a Lebanese-Muslim family with brunette hair and brown eyes. At high school she is known as Jamie, a normal pure Austrailian with blonde hair and blue eyes, with the assistance of hair dye and contact lenses. She attends a religous school on the weekends and is in their band. When her band gets a chance to play at her tenth grade formal, she has to decide between revealing her secret or disappointing her friends.
This book gets a 3 out of 5 * * *
It was good but the drama was, well drama. Nothing majorly exciting or heartbreaking.
April 19, 2010
I am David
Originally titled North to Freedom
By Anne Holm
All David knew was life in a concentration camp. When one of the guards helped him escape it starts his new life as a traveler. He meets many people along the way from Greece to Denmark. A kind sailor, a mean farmer, many truck drivers, and a young girl.
I am a killer for a book about the Holocaust. I was in love with it.
I give it a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
By Anne Holm
All David knew was life in a concentration camp. When one of the guards helped him escape it starts his new life as a traveler. He meets many people along the way from Greece to Denmark. A kind sailor, a mean farmer, many truck drivers, and a young girl.
I am a killer for a book about the Holocaust. I was in love with it.
I give it a 5 out of 5 * * * * *
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