Review:Miranda is in sixth grade when she begins to receive mysterious letters from an anonymous person. It says, "I am coming to safe your friend's life, and my own. I must ask two favors. First, you must write me a letter." Then the key for their apartment is stolen as well as a pair of shoes and Miranda keeps getting the notes. The person seems to be able to tell the future, listing clues in his note and then having them happen days later. She's beginning to believe that someone's life is in danger. Warning! Spoilers may exist beyond this point!
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Review: Rapunzel has SCIDs (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency) and so, unable to go out into the world, for fear of germs that would make her sick and possibly kill her, she stays in a tower with only her mother to visit her. Her mother has forbade Rapunzel to use her computer for anything other than schoolwork, but one day, while searching for 'face' for a biology project, she comes across Facebook and makes an account. She "meets" a boy named Fane on her account and becomes friends with him by chatting with him online. When her mother goes out of town for a few days, she invites him over and they begin to find out that everything isn't as it seems in Rapunzel's home. Warning! There might be spoilers beyond this point. This book is about a ten-year-old girl who is trying to discover whether God is real after the death of her dad, a man loved by everyone, a man who she calls Prince Tennyson, because of his chivalry and the fact that he was a handsome soldier and that he looked like a prince in his uniform. Her mom had a mental breakdown after he died and so they moved to live with her grandma. Chelsea wants to know if God's real, because if he isn't, when her dad died, he wouldn't have gone to heaven and she would never be able to see him again. I probably would have cried if I hadn't been in the living room with my dad and my sisters, as well as one of my cousins. Such a good book. I walked over to the little dresser. It had a shelf above it, and on that shelf there were a bunch of pretty ballerina figurines. One of them was broken. She was wearing a purple tutu and both of her arms were off and lying next to her. Warning: There might be spoilers beyond this point. Continue at your own risk. But remember, I warned you.
This is a retelling of Arabian Nights. Review: Shahrayar has been betrayed by his wife, who he loved. Hurt and bitterly angry, he vows never to be deceived again. As his wife dies, she tells him that he will not find peace until he has found a woman who could read his heart and one whose he could read. His way of avoiding betrayal endangers every one of the maidens in his kingdom. One night of every month, by the light of the full moon, he will marry a maiden and the next morning she will die. But if a woman should step forward and volunteer to be his bride, he will kill her only and spare the lives of the rest of women. Shahrazad, the daughter of a great storyteller, steps forward to be his bride. She believes that it is her destiny to accept the risk and sacrifice herself, but she has a plan, in which she hopes to be able to see the king's heart. So, to buy time, on her wedding night, Shahrazad begins a story. The king, finding a need to know the end of it, lets her live, night after night. Just when Shahrazad dares to believe that she's found a way to keep her life, and an unexpected love, a treacherous plot disrupts her plan. Now she can only hope that love is enough to save her. Warning: There may be spoilers beyond this point.
Review: This is a fun mix of Jack and the Beanstalk and Robin Hood. Gen is a sensible, logical girl, while her brother Jack is the impulsive dreamer. Gen and Jack have grown up to their mother's stories about the World Above, a world in the clouds where she used to live. While Gen took them to just be bedtime stories, Jack took the literally and believed with his whole heart in the World Above. When the crops are failing, they are forced to sell Agapanthus, their cow. Jack goes to sell her and doesn't even get into town. Along the way he meets an old lady who sells him magic beans in trade for the cow. When he gets home, his mother rejoices, because she recognizes the beans and can finally go to her old home in the World Above where she used to be a duchess, before an evil man usurped the throne. Jack goes first to explore the world above, and he doesn't come back, so Gen goes after him and figures out that he's been captured. Warning! Spoilers may exist beyond this line.
Reapers: Review: Phoenix is a reaper, which means that, when a person dies, he takes their soul and transports them to their final resting place at the Gateway. He meets two other Reapers named Singapore and Shanghai and they start to suspect that the Gateway isn't all it's supposed to be. They're not sure if they are actually bringing the souls to a safe resting place, like they always tell the grieving family members. When a friend of Phoenix is accused of medicine smuggling and is taken to a labor camp, he decides to try and save them and find out what is really beyond the Gateway with his two friends. But can he trust them? Sing seems to be keeping secrets. Warning: There may be spoilers beyond this point. This is a set of three retold fairy tales. Before Midnight: Review: This is a retelling of Cinderella. There is a baby born in the D'este home, but when this little girl is born, her mother, Constanze dies and her father blames the girl. The fires in the house suddenly go out, but when the little girl cries, the fires are re-lit and she earns her name, Cendrillon, the child of cinders. When her father remarries, her step-mother doesn't know that he has a daughter, and mistakes Cendrillon as a servant. This is a set of three retold fairy tales. Golden: Review: This book also begins at the birth of the protagonist. A woman is pregnant, but she is wasting away, because of her unquenchable craving for rapunzel, a type of parsley that grows in the sorceress's garden next door. Finally the husband cannot stand it any more and steals some rapunzel from the garden. When he is caught, the sorceress allows him to have as much rapunzel as he wants on one condition, that they will love the baby with everything in them. If they can't, then she will have the baby and love her as her own. The problem with this bargain is that the mother is incredibly vain and wishes for her daughter to have golden hair like she possesses. When the baby is born bald, her mother cannot stand her and declares that she could not possibly love this baby. The sorceress takes the baby and vows to love her as if she was her own daughter. The little girl earns her name, Rapunzel, after the herb that caused all this trouble. Rapunzel grows up without hair in a cottage outside town. The sorceress loves her dearly. When Rapunzel is thirteen a man comes by their house, a tinker and he has an adopted son named Harry. And as much as Harry and Rapunzel tease each other, they start to like each other, as friends. Finally the sorceress tells Rapunzel that her biological daughter is cursed by a wizard to stay in a tower and the only way that her curse can be broken is by love. And Rapunzel is destined to break that curse. Wild Orchid: Review: All Mulan wishes is that she was born a boy. She wants to be free and hates the idea of staying in the house to learn skills that most Chinese women possess. She has no other desire than to learn how to read, write, shoot arrows, ride horses, etc with her best friend Li Po. Her father is the emperor's greatest general and she has never met him. He was fighting a war when her mother died and he never returned home. Mulan has the idea that he hates her. When he comes home, she finds a way to love him and he a way to love her. When the emperor commands a man to come from every household to fight the attack of the Huns on China, Mulan decides to go in her father's place. He is old and still not quite healed from an old wound and she knows he will never survive. Warning: There may be spoilers below this line. Review: Kelsey Hayes gets a two week summer job at the circus. While he was preforming, the white tiger seems to look straight at her. She can't shake the feeling that the tiger had some sort of intelligence. When she visits it after-hours, she begins to form a bond with the tiger, Ren. Something about him intrigues her. When she talks to her he seems to understand. When the tiger is bought from the circus, Kelsey is asked to escort the tiger and take care of it on it's way to India. When she finally gets to India, she figures out that this was more then she'd ever bargained for.
There may be spoilers beyond this point!!! Review: The Name of this Book is Secret is meant for younger readers, but that doesn't mean it's not a fun read for teens. The author says it better in the inner flap of the book, so I'll just quote him: You see, not only is the name of this book secret, the story is, too. For it contains a secret--a big secret-- that has been tormenting people like you for over...oh no! Did I just mention the secret? Then it's too late.. ------------------------------------------------Cassandra and Max-Ernest are average eleven-year-old kids who go to the same school, but never really cared to talk to each other. That is until Cass finds a box called the Symphony of Smells that was supposedly found in a magician's house who died in a fire in the kitchen of that very house. Cass doesn't believe that the magician's really dead though, and goes with Max-Ernest to investigate his house. When she finds a secret room with the magician's diary, it launches her and Max-Ernest on an adventure, neither of them would have never dreamed of. Read the first part here: Warnings: There may be spoilers beyond this point.
This is going to be a very short review since I only got about one chapter in. The story idea is great. America is pressured to enter the Selection, the program where the prince will select thirty girls at random and narrow them down, until he falls in love with one of them. The problem is, America doesn't want to enter, but when she does by pressure from her love and her family, she is picked, much to her dismay. But she's already in love with another boy named Aspen. His family is a much lower rank then hers, and in the caste system that America lives in, she's not allowed to marry someone of a lower caste. Then she meets the prince, Maxon, and he starts to fall in love with her, and she is slowly starting to fall for him, against her better judgement. |
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