Archive for June, 2012
The Dragon Princess
This book looked good in the library. But when I got home and read it, I was tremendously disappointed. It has a very good concept– a princess turns into a dragon when she gets angry. But she’s not a cute little pink dragon, but a enormous, green-scaled, fire breathing one. She scares away just about […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on The Dragon Princess )Lawrence Yep Books
One of my least favorite authors ever is Lawrence Yep. I have not read any books by him for boys, but I have read several girls’ books by him. One thing I think is a little odd is that he writes stories in first person about girls, but he, obviously, is not a girl. First […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Lawrence Yep Books )Iris, Messenger
Eleven-year-old Iris is always daydreaming. She spends most of her time with her head up in the clouds, even during school. She’s always landing in detention, thanks to strangely sadistic teachers, and she’s the least popular kid in Erebus Middle School. But on her twelfth birthday, she receives a book about Greek Mythology from an […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Escape to West Berlin
Escape to West Berlin is one of my all-time favorite books. It’s set in East Berlin in the year 1961. It is what it sounds like– the family is trying to escape to West Berlin. The main character’s, Heidi’s, father is a “border crosser” — someone who works in the west but lives in the […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on Escape to West Berlin )The Last Musketeer
While on vacation in France, the main character, 14-year-old Greg, follows an evil villain back in time to 17th century France. Thankfully, he speaks fluent French. In an attempt to save his parents from execution, he finds three of the four musketeers mentioned in The Three Musketeers. However, all are younger than in the book, about […]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( Comments Off on The Last Musketeer )Hello, World!
My mission in this website is to help people find really good books that they might not notice otherwise. To me, it’s saddening to see the cheesy series books in the library worn to pieces while amazing stories by no-name authors sit on the shelf, untouched. This website is not about classic literature, either. People […]
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