Monday, August 27, 2012

The Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt: Elizabeth Cody Kimmel




The Reinvention of Moxie Roosevelt is the story about a girl named Moxie who starts going to a fancy boarding school.
Moxie sees this as an opportunity to reinvent herself, to become someone worthy of the name Moxie.
There's a number of options on what to be, but what? Moxie decides to try them all out, recording everything she does with her different personalities in a notebook called her Personality Log.
But when an enemy gets its hands on her Personality Log, things go awry.
This book is cute and funny, and even thought it doesn't have any awards it's still a great book.
So if you at least take a moment to sit down and read this, you won't regret it. Byyyyyeee!

Sunday, August 19, 2012

Eragon: Christopher Paolini




Eragon
This book is about a young boy named Eragon.
He lives in the hidden village Carvahall, hidden by a long range of mountains known as the Spine, hidden from the eye of the land's evil ruler Galbatorix.
Eragon is out hunting in the Spine, when he comes across a mysterious blue stone. But later that night, the egg hatches to become a beautiful blue dragon named Saphira.
As the story goes along, two creatures named the Ra'zac come to Carvahall, in search of the egg. Then, while Eragon was gone in the woods where he was hiding Saphira, the Ra'zac come to the farm where he lives, and burns it down, killing his uncle Garrow.
As the story goes along, Eragon comes to be a feared person known as a Dragon Rider.
I won't spoil it anymore.
I LOVE this series and I'm currently reading book three Brisingr.
READ IT!!

Moon Over Manifest: Clare Vanderpool

Moon Over Manifest

Moon Over Manifest is about a girl named Abilene Tucker and how her father gets a job working on the railroad, sending her to the town where he grew up, Manifest, Kansas.
After hearing her father's stories of Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find Manifest a dusty, beaten-up town.
But soon her excitement sparks up when she finds a hidden cigar box full of memos, trinkets and letters.
Some of the letters talk about a mysterious spy called the Rattler. (Cue evil music.) These letters send Abilene and her friends on a spy hunt.
But when Abilene ignores the warning and goes down the Path to Perdition, she breaks one of a diviner's pots and has to repay a debt to the Hungarian Diviner, Miss Sadie.
Miss Sadie tells stories each time Abilene visits, and soon Abilene feels closer to the town her father grew up in, and finds out who he was.
Moon Over Manifest is a great book, and a Newbery Honor Book, and it's really good. I say that about every book I review!

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Turtle in Paradise: Jennifer L. Holm


Turtle in Paradise is about a young girl named Turtle, who has an unknown father, and a mother who is always out of a job thanks to kids.
Her mother, Sadiebelle is a housekeeper, and her clients' kids are always getting Turtle into trouble, which leads to her mother being fired.
Then Turtle's mom gets a job working for a lady who hates kids. So Turtle leaves to Key West, Florida to live with an aunt she never met, along with rotten boy cousins.
Everyone there seems to know Turtle, saying she is the spitting image of her mother (she really isn't). There's Mercury hot weather, a Weeping Ghost, and even Black Caesar's mysterious buried treasure!
Turtle in Paradise is a Newbery Honor, and it is a favorite of mine.
I'm a very big fan of Newbery Honor books.
Turtle in Paradise is a great book, I love it, and YOU should too.
So read it!! ;)

Saturday, August 11, 2012

One Crazy Summer: Rita Williams-Garcia

One Crazy Summer  is about three African-American girls named, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, and how they take a plane from their home to Oakland, California, to meet their long-lost mother who left when Fern was barely born. 
Their mother Cecile is a poet, who lives in a green stucco house. 
As the story goes on, the girls go to a summer camp, created by a group of African-American people called The Black Panthers, who protest about African-American's unfair rights. 
Soon, their mother is arrested for no reason. 
One Crazy Summer is a fun story about sisterhood, motherhood, and sticking together.
I personally think it's a great book, and that you should definitely read it. 
It has at least fifteen awards, and I'll only list a few. 
The Scott O'Dell Award, Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Award, and National Book Award Finalist.  
It's a great book! 
So sit down for at least an hour and read this! Bye!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

The Grimm Legacy



The Grimm Legacy, by Polly Shulman.
If you guys out there LOVE fantasy, adventure and all of those sorts of books, then you'll definitely love this.
This story is about a girl named Elizabeth, and how she gets a part-time job at a library, where instead of checking out books, you can check out objects and all sorts of doohickeys.
There she is a page (a  page is hard to explain but it's a person who works there and is like a slave for whoever comes into the library... they get them what they want) with other people who later on become her friends.
And then, there is this one collection called the Grimm Collection, a HUGE collection of magical items from the Grimm fairy tales!
Soon, the objects go missing, and Elizabeth along with her friends, Marc, Anjali, and Aaron are sent on an adventure to find the thief.
It may sound a bit boring because I'm making it sound that way, but it's really awesome! I didn't explain too much because I didn't want to spoil the ending.
In fact, this book is personal favorite of mine.

On a scale of 1-10, I give it a 9.5