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Monday, June 24, 2013

Princess of the Silver Woods

I would recommend this book for ages twelve and up.


This book is about a girl named Petunia.  She is sixteen yours old, and is the youngest of the twelve princesses of her country.  She was out in the woods one day, when a band of thieves came and kidnapped her, not knowing that she was one of the princesses.  Once they find out who she really is, the lead bandit Oliver decides to lead her back to her other home, not the palace.  Once he leaves her there, he realizes that Petunia is in danger, and he immediately begins a plan to rescue her.  Eventually the other eleven princesses (and some of their husbands: four are married, two are engaged)  go to where Petunia is so that they can take her back to the palace.  That is when all of the princesses get kidnapped, (the husbands manage to get away.) and are taken to a separate building.  Oliver then unites with the princesses husbands, in order to get the girls back.  They come up with a very delicate plan to get the girls out, but what they don't know is that the girls are planning their own escape that might interfere with their husbands.


I absolutly loved this book!  It was so good and I would recommend it for sure.




My favorite character is probably Gantsy (The oldest sisters husband).  He is funny and kind.


This book has mild to no language, and minor romance. The violence is minor to medium depending on your standards. All the books have the same content.


































author: Jessica Day George
Hardcover: 336 pages
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Thursday, June 13, 2013

My top ten books

1. Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
2. I am number four by pitacus lore
3. Gallagher girl by ally carter
4. Harry potter by J.K. Rowling
5. Hunger games by Suzanne Collins
6. Matched by ally condie 
7. The book thief by Marcus zusak
8. Shadow of the dragon by Kate o' Hearn 
9.Maximum ride by James patterson
10. Divergent by veronica Roth 


These books are all amazing and should all be read.




Shadow of the dragon

I would recommend this book for ages 12 and up.


This book follows a girl named Kira and her little sister Elspeth.  One day while Kira and her sister Elspeth are out walking, their family is taken hostage.  Their mom, dad, and brother are taken to war, and their other sister is taken to a slave camp.  Now on the run, from the prince, Kira and Elspeth, are in constant danger. They will do anything to get away from the prince and his men and find their family, but when there brother is put on the front line of a dragon war, they aren't sure how to get him back.


I LOVED this book and whipped right through it.


My favorite character  is Kira, because she is strong willed and brave.


This book had no bad language, no romance, and minor-medium violence.  All in all this book was surprisingly clean, and the entire series stays that way.

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Author: Kate o' Hearn 
Pages: 307



Paladin prophecy

I would recommend this book to kids no younger than thirteen.  Most of the content is clean but there are a couple things that could scare kids.


This book follows a teenage boy named Will.  Will is an average boy, until he scores a 112 on a world wide test. Will is taken to a school for special teens, and is put in a dorm with Ajay, Nick, Elise, and Brooke.  That is when they begin to realize that something is not right at this school.  One of the schools leaders (lyle) has the power of mind control, and is out to kill Will.  Will try's not to worry about it, but when Lyle kidnaps Brooke, he realizes he can not ignore this any longer, but is he willing to risk all of his other friends lives in order to get Brooke back?


I absolutely loved this book, and flew right through it. 


My favorite character is Ajay, because he has a great sense of humor. 


This book has minor language, and the romance is not too bad. Ajay makes a comment that all the girls in the school are beautiful, and Will is caught in the middle of an interesting love triangle. There is nothing that a tween could not handle. The violence was not too bad, there was a gruesome scene, where one of the characters gets stabbed in his stomach (he does survive.) a small non descriptive scene where a character gets electrocuted. 

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Author: mark frost
Pages: 560

The maze runner

This book should not be read by kids younger then fourteen.


This book is about a boy named Thomas.  Thomas is shipped off to this place called the Maze, Thomas has lost has memory and has no idea what is going on.  The maze is full of other teenage boys who have also lost their memories.  Their only goal is to escape, before the monsters in the maze kill them. The boys search for clues, and even venture further into the maze desperate to get out.  Then for the first time ever a girl is sent to the maze, and she brought a clue of how to get out along with her.  



I disliked this book for multiple reasons; I felt that the main character was very whiny and over all unlikeable. I think that the main reason that I disliked this book was because of the over use of James Dashner's made up language. It seemed that at least ten times a page the boys would say things like klunk and shuck, and it became quite repetitive.


The romance is extremely mild, and the bad language was fairly mild.  The author used words like shuck and klunk to replace swearing.  The violence was extremely bad.   The boys would go insane and begin, to try to eat each other. Then as punishment the other boys would throw the outcast into a pit and watch him be eaten by monsters.  This violence was very bad. In my opinion it was not for teens.


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Author: James dashner
Pages: 400