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The City of Ember (Ember #1) by Jeanne DuPrau
Rating:Characters: 18/20Plot: 20/20Originality: 19/20Writing: 18/20Recommendation: 20/20Overall: 95/100 or ASource: Borrowed from Mom Summary: Lina Mayfleet desperately wants to be a messenger. Instead, she draws the dreaded job of Pipeworks laborer, which means she’ll be working in damp tunnels deep underground.Doon Harrow draws messenger–and asks Lina to trade! Doon wants to be underground. That’s where the […]
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The Alchemyst: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott
Rating:Characters: 17/20Plot: 18/20Originality: 18/20Writing: 18/20Recomendaton: 19/20Overall: 90/100 or A-Source: LibrarySummary- The truth: Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28, 1330. Nearly seven hundred years later, he is acknowledged as the greatest Alchemyst of his day. It is said that he discovered the secret of eternal life.The records show that he died in 1418.But […]
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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn by Alison Goodman
Rating:Characters: 20/20Plot: 20/20Originality: 19/20Writing: 19/20Recomendation: 20/20Overall: 98/100 or A+Source: LibrarySummary- Twelve-year old Eon has been in training for years. His intensive study of Dragon Magic, based on East Asian astrology, involves two kinds of skills: sword-work and magical aptitude. He and his master hope that he will be chosen as a Dragoneye–an apprentice to one […]
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Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Sometimes the task of reviewing a book can be quite daunting. This could be great for the book, or it could express the readers ill-favor. Sometimes though, the reader may just be at a loss of words as to how to begin. This is an obviously tough predicament for the reviewer but if books were […]
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Beyonders: A World Without Heroes by Brandon Mull
Rating:Characters: 17/20Plot: 19/20Originality: 18/20Writing: 19/20Recomendation: 20/20Overall: 93/100 or A-Source: Library Summary: Jason Walker has often wished his life could be a bit less predictable–until a routine day at the zoo ends with Jason transporting from the hippo tank into a strange, imperiled world.Lyrian is full of dangers and challenges unlike any place Jason has ever […]
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Call of the Sea
One of those good men of the seaI know that I will never be. The sea that whispers in my earThe sea that I can never hear. Not even one made from my boneA ship that I will never own. I am asleep, awake I mustBut I cannot for I am dust. That yesteryear I…
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Fallen Dreams
My dreams are lined up, upon a wallOne by one they begin to fallThey land with a crashon my head with a bashAnd I begin to feel not so tall But then I remember not to despairFor life ahead of me is many a stairI collect my dreamsStitched back at the seamsAnd venture out again…
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Abarat by Clive Barker
Rating:Characters: 20/20Plot: 19/20Originality: 20/20Writing: 20/20Recommendation: 20/20Overall: 99/100 or A+Source: Library Summary: Once upon a world, where time is place, a journey beyond imagination is about to unfold. . . . It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what […]
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Fablehaven: Keys to the Demon Prison by Brandon Mull
Rating: Characters: 19/19 Plot: 20/20 Originality: 19/19 Writing: 18/20 Recommendation: 20/20 Overall: 96/100 or A Source: Library Summary: After many centuries of plotting, the Sphinx–leader of the Society of the Evening Star– is after the final artifacts needed to open the great demon prison, Zzyxx. Kendra, Seth, and the Knights of the Dawn are in a […]
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Fablehaven: Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary by Brandon Mull
Rating: Characters: 20/20 Plot: 19/20 Originality: 19/20 Writing: 19/20 Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 96/100 or A Source: Library Summary: Brace yourself for a shocking secret. Two hidden artifacts have been found. Three more remain unrecovered. More preserves face destruction as the Society of the Evening Star relentlessly pursues new talismans. Reading in Patton’s Journal of Secrets, […]
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Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague by Brandon Mull
Rating: Characters: 18/20 Plot: 19/20 Originality: 20/20 Writing: 19/20 Recommendation: 19/20 Overall: 95/100 or A Source: Library Summary: Picking up where the last novel left off, Kendra and Seth are still at Fablehaven with their grandparents. Suspicions have been cast on the Sphinx and his loyalties. Kendra has been recruited as a Knight, and the family […]
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True Life
A muse has bestowed upon me the gift of an insight and after much pondering I am ready to write about it. 😉 I haven’t posted anything philosophical or spiritual for a while as most of my recent musings have been more of the internal, reflective type. That still really isn’t much of an…
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