Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! It's about a sixteen year old girl who lives in future North America called "Panem" and she lives in District 12. It's a really incredible Sci-Fi Series and I really suggest it!!!
I would suggest Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb. It provides an excellent introduction to Shakespeare's plays. It spares you the histories, though the great tragedies, comedies, and dramas are included. Also there extracted are the *cough cough* boring *cough cough* parts. And the bloody, gory, violent parts also are colored out. My dad was given it to read as a child and he also thinks it is the best introduction to the brilliantn playwrite. Please consider this book.
Where The Red Fren Grows- One of the best books I've read! It's about a boy and how he comes to love and bond with 2 dogs he buys.It is very heartfelt and sad at the same time. If you are a lover of dogs (ahem, you listening Greta?)then I stongly recommend it!
The Companions Quartet, by Julia Goldings- I just started reading the fouth! I love this series. It is about a girl who can 'bond' with all animals and how she joins a society where the other people involved also have a special relationship with animals and how they fight to save the environment- just the right amount of mystery, fantasy, and suspense!
The Rangers Apprentice series, by John Flanagan- One of my all-time favorites! I could-and am still- reading these books over and over again. These books are about a young ranger names Will Treaty who must face all odds and defeat all dangers to his kingdom, but of course with the help of his friend Horace, his friend Alyss, his mentor and fatherly companion Halt, and many others! If you are into acton and love a good mystery, I HIGHLY recommend this!!!!!
The Bartimaeus Trilogy, by Jonathan Stroud- These books are great!They are about a boy named Nathaniel who is publicaly humiliated by a magician named Simon Lovelace- who is not at all lovely- and decides to get his revenge on him by summoning a slighly pessimistic djinni who is called Bartimaeus, but then things get out of hand... This series is action packed with murder, rebellion, and magic!
The Children of Willesden Lane, by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen- This book is great for people who are more into historical realistic fiction. (I usually don't like these kinds of books, but this was a really good one!) It is about a girl named Lisa who is a musical prodigy and hopes to someday perform in a concert as a pianist, but these hopes are shattered when Hitler's armies advance on Vienna, where she lives. Lisa's parents are able to only get a passage for one of their three children and they decide to send the gifted Lisa. These memoir is about 'music, love, and survival' as Lisa puts hope into the hearts of those at Willesden Lane as she fights to once again have the power to become her dream... a concert pianist.
Magyk (first book in the series) by Angie Sage- This book is great for people like me who love reading fantasy with wizards and big fights etc. It's about this family of wizards, the Heaps, who live in a country that's having serious issues because the queen has been assassinated and the princess is in hiding. A necromancer named DomDaniel is trying to take over both the country and the wizards and regain the title of ExtraOrdinary Wizard. The Heaps have to escape because it is believed that their adopted daughter is the princess.
Artemis Fowl (the first one in a series) by Eoin Colfer- This is pretty much the same kind of book as Magyk. It has magic, battles etc. This book is about this child genius called Artemis Fowl whose father is lost in Russia and his mother has gone insane over it. The Fowl family has a history of illegal enterprises and each male member of the family has a bodyguard. Artemis believes correctly that there are fairies (elves, dwarves, demons etc.) living underground. He succeeds to capture a fairy named Holly Short, who is also a captain in an elite squad, LEPrecon, which tries to capture fairies that illegally go above the surface. The fairies have incredibly advanced technology and start going to war against him...
The Penderwicks (also first in a series) by Jeanne Birdsall- This is NOT like the other two because it is realistic fiction. It is a book about four sisters, Batty, the four-year-old, Jane the ten-year-old, Skye the eleven-year-old, and Rosalind, the twelve-year-old. The sisters go with their father and dog to a vacation cottage. The owner of the cottage and the mansion beside it is a snooty woman named Mrs. Tifton. However, she has a nice son, and together, the five children do everything that could be imagined, including kicking a soccer ball into Mrs. Tifton's prized gardens on the day of a lawn competition.
Ok,so it did not let me write my name so here it is Hello, my name is Ingo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die oh, and I liked frogs.
I read a realy good book this summer called the Evilution of Calpurnia Tate. It is a charming book and is very entertaining. If you like historical fiction this book is great! It is about a young girl, 11 or 12, growing up in the 800. In this time many new things were being invented, like the telephone, she even tries soda for the first time! This is a great book, it even won a prize!
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins! It's about a sixteen year old girl who lives in future North America called "Panem" and she lives in District 12. It's a really incredible Sci-Fi Series and I really suggest it!!!
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ReplyDeleteI would suggest Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare, by Charles and Mary Lamb. It provides an excellent introduction to Shakespeare's plays. It spares you the histories, though the great tragedies, comedies, and dramas are included. Also there extracted are the *cough cough* boring *cough cough* parts. And the bloody, gory, violent parts also are colored out. My dad was given it to read as a child and he also thinks it is the best introduction to the brilliantn playwrite. Please consider this book.
ReplyDeleteWhere The Red Fren Grows- One of the best books I've read! It's about a boy and how he comes to love and bond with 2 dogs he buys.It is very heartfelt and sad at the same time. If you are a lover of dogs (ahem, you listening Greta?)then I stongly recommend it!
ReplyDeleteThe Companions Quartet, by Julia Goldings- I just started reading the fouth! I love this series. It is about a girl who can 'bond' with all animals and how she joins a society where the other people involved also have a special relationship with animals and how they fight to save the environment- just the right amount of mystery, fantasy, and suspense!
The Rangers Apprentice series, by John Flanagan- One of my all-time favorites! I could-and am still- reading these books over and over again. These books are about a young ranger names Will Treaty who must face all odds and defeat all dangers to his kingdom, but of course with the help of his friend Horace, his friend Alyss, his mentor and fatherly companion Halt, and many others! If you are into acton and love a good mystery, I HIGHLY recommend this!!!!!
The Bartimaeus Trilogy, by Jonathan Stroud- These books are great!They are about a boy named Nathaniel who is publicaly humiliated by a magician named Simon Lovelace- who is not at all lovely- and decides to get his revenge on him by summoning a slighly pessimistic djinni who is called Bartimaeus, but then things get out of hand... This series is action packed with murder, rebellion, and magic!
The Children of Willesden Lane, by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen- This book is great for people who are more into historical realistic fiction. (I usually don't like these kinds of books, but this was a really good one!) It is about a girl named Lisa who is a musical prodigy and hopes to someday perform in a concert as a pianist, but these hopes are shattered when Hitler's armies advance on Vienna, where she lives. Lisa's parents are able to only get a passage for one of their three children and they decide to send the gifted Lisa. These memoir is about 'music, love, and survival' as Lisa puts hope into the hearts of those at Willesden Lane as she fights to once again have the power to become her dream... a concert pianist.
Magyk (first book in the series) by Angie Sage- This book is great for people like me who love reading fantasy with wizards and big fights etc. It's about this family of wizards, the Heaps, who live in a country that's having serious issues because the queen has been assassinated and the princess is in hiding. A necromancer named DomDaniel is trying to take over both the country and the wizards and regain the title of ExtraOrdinary Wizard. The Heaps have to escape because it is believed that their adopted daughter is the princess.
ReplyDeleteArtemis Fowl (the first one in a series) by Eoin Colfer- This is pretty much the same kind of book as Magyk. It has magic, battles etc. This book is about this child genius called Artemis Fowl whose father is lost in Russia and his mother has gone insane over it. The Fowl family has a history of illegal enterprises and each male member of the family has a bodyguard. Artemis believes correctly that there are fairies (elves, dwarves, demons etc.) living underground. He succeeds to capture a fairy named Holly Short, who is also a captain in an elite squad, LEPrecon, which tries to capture fairies that illegally go above the surface. The fairies have incredibly advanced technology and start going to war against him...
The Penderwicks (also first in a series) by Jeanne Birdsall- This is NOT like the other two because it is realistic fiction. It is a book about four sisters, Batty, the four-year-old, Jane the ten-year-old, Skye the eleven-year-old, and Rosalind, the twelve-year-old. The sisters go with their father and dog to a vacation cottage. The owner of the cottage and the mansion beside it is a snooty woman named Mrs. Tifton. However, she has a nice son, and together, the five children do everything that could be imagined, including kicking a soccer ball into Mrs. Tifton's prized gardens on the day of a lawn competition.
Ok,so it did not let me write my name so here it is
ReplyDeleteHello, my name is Ingo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die
oh, and I liked frogs.
I read a realy good book this summer called the Evilution of Calpurnia Tate. It is a charming book and is very entertaining. If you like historical fiction this book is great! It is about a young girl, 11 or 12, growing up in the 800. In this time many new things were being invented, like the telephone, she even tries soda for the first time!
This is a great book, it even won a prize!