In the book, And Then There Were None written by Agatha Christie, ten people are invited to stay a weekend on an island by a stranger. The guests are connected to the host for different reasons. Eventually, the guests are accused of a murder and are trapped on the island. Haunted by a nursery rhyme, each person must fend for himself or hersel [...]
Monthly archives for September, 2012
And Then There Were None by Agatha Ch...
In the book, And Then There Were None written by Agatha Christie, ten people are invited to stay a weekend on an island by a stranger. The guests are connected to the host for different reasons. Eventually, the guests are accused of a murder and are trapped on the island. Haunted by a nursery rhyme, each person must fend for himself or hersel [...]
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
Samuel is a 13 year-old boy living on a farm in Pennsylvania in 1776. He loves to be outdoors, especially to hunt. One day, he was heading back to his cottage after a good day of hunting and his parents were missing, taken by the British and the Iroqois Indians. He was determined to find them.
Samuel understands that he is right in the middle [...]
Storm Runners by Roland Smith
Storm Runners is about a boy named Chase who after his mother and little sister died in a car crash lived alone with his father. One day during a thunder storm Chase’s father was struck by lightning and fell into a coma. When he woke up he was a different man, he soon became oddly interested in storms. Over the course of the next year Chase a [...]
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
I found this book to be very exciting in a way only fantasy can be. Young Winnie Foster is bored with her life of not being able to go anywhere. She wants to go places and do great things. She had contemplated running away forever, but kept deciding against it because she always thought that she would get hurt, kidnapped, or maybe even die. S [...]
Helen Keller: A photographic story of...
When I first saw the book Helen Keller; A Photographic Story of a Life by Leslie Garrett, I thought it would be a boring read. I never had really read many books in the biography genre, but when I first opened the book and started reading I really was intrigued.
Helen Keller became deaf and blind at a young age. Because she became deaf before [...]
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. ...
Have you ever had to embark on a dangerous journey to destroy one of the most powerful objects in the world? Probably not, but that is exactly what Frodo Baggins has to do in the Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R Tolkien. A long time ago an extremely powerful ring was forged by the Dark Lord Sauron. The Ring was taken from him. For centuries t [...]
Bullyville by Fancine Prose
This short, but powerful fictional book is about a boy who is experiencing an extremely tough time in his life. Bart is in seventh grade when his father is killed in 9/11 and he starts going to Baileywell Preparatory Academy. Everyone knows Baileywell Preparatory Academy as Bullyville since everyone there is either bullied or a bully. At B [...]
Woods Runner by Gary Paulson
“Samuel smelled it before he saw anything. Not just the smoke from the fires. But the thick, heavy smell. Blood. Death.” (27)
It’s 1776. There has been talk that the British colonies have started to rebel against the redcoats and Samuel, a thirteen year old boy, is caught in the middle of this. When his parents are taken by the redcoats and i [...]
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games has an incredible storyline. There are 12 districts in all. In district twelve there is a young girl named Katniss. There is also a big competition in all of the districts here. This competition is called The Hunger Games. The Hunger Games goes like this, two kids, one boy and one girl are selected from each district. The two [...]
Dragon Rider by Cornelia Funke
In the Dragon Rider, a lonely boy named Ben and a brave dragon named Firedrake embark on an adventurous quest to find a mystical place where dragons can live in peace without humans ever knowing of their existence. With them comes along, a tiny little man, named Twigleg, who at first is spying on them for an evil darkness, but soon realizes t [...]
And Then There Were None by Agatha Ch...
Ten strangers are lured onto an island in the middle of the ocean, they all think that they are there for work but things might change. “”Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; one choked his little self, and then there were nine.” At dinner a recorded message accuses each one of a crime of some sort. This freaks them all out an [...]
Best Shorts For Sharing Compiled by A...
Best Shorts For Sharing is a collection short stories writen by various authors that were selected by Avi. These tales range in length and genre. You never stop liking each one.
From sci-fi, science fiction, fiction and just plain old goofy stories, you will always find something intriguing. This book is for kids from ages eight to thirteen y [...]