The book Thief

I would recommend this book the kids no younger than thirteen.  This book is very good, but can be difficult to understand and confusing at times.

This book takes place during World War two. Liesel and her mom and brother, are running away from their home town which has been over run by Nazis.  Liesel's mom found a family on Himmel Street that is willing to take in the two kids. On the way to the home, Liesel's brother gets sick and dies.  Finally, they make it to Himmel Street, and her mom leaves her with Rosa and Hans Huberman.  Liesel immediately fits in, and makes a new best friend named Rudy.  Rudy and Liesel do all sorts of things together, and eventually pluck up the courage to begin stealing food and books.  Now Liesel con not stop stealing books, and will get them from anywhere possible, even Nazi book burnings.  When Liesel turns eleven, a Jew named Max knocks on their door. Twenty years before, Hans had made a promise to Max's mom saying that he would take care of him in the future id he ever needed it. Max says that he needs help and wants to know if he can live in their basement. Max lives in their basement unnoticed for a year, then the bombing begins.  After the bombings the Nazis come and search all the houses; they do not find Max, who is hidden under the stair case in the Huberman's basement.  Then the Nazis begin to take Jews and kill a few publicly, and when Hans saves a jew's life he is immediately punished.  He is sent off to war. Max also decides to leave, he thinks that he is causing to many problems, and is afraid he will get them into trouble.  Hans breaks his leg and is sent back home three years later. One night, Liesel decides to go down into the basement for a while, and ends up following asleep. She wakes up to nothing; there are medics all around her, and she doesn't know what is going on. That night there was a bombing, everyone was killed except her; she was in the basement.  Everyone is gone, Rosa, Hans, even Rudy.  Liesel is sent off to another foster home where she grows up.  When Liesel was an adult, she starts a store front. One day in the store a man walks in asking to see someone named Liesel. It is Max, he also survived the war.  Liesel died of old age, with three kids and three grandkids.


This book is absolutly amazing, and I would recommend it to anyone.


This book has mild romance, and medium to heavy bad language.  This book does include some swearing, although they do not use the worst of words it is quite repetitive. The violence is a medium, and for a book on World War two, it defiantly was not near as bad as it could have been.


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Author: Markus Zusak
pages: 576
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Dragons in our midst: Raising Dragons

This series would be fine for ages 11 and up, but they do get more intense as the series goes on. The third book does deal with some possession, but it is not over the top, because this is a tween Christian series.

This book is about a boy named Billy.  Billy has mysteriously hot breath.  He can't even kiss his mom without burning her cheek.  Then a strange girl named Bonnie shows up in his class.  Bonnie constantly has her backpack on her, and refuses to take it off.  Bonnie and Billy become friends, and begin to learn more and more about each other.  Then, when Bonnie mysteriously disappears, Billy  follows her.  He follows her to an alley way, where she has been kidnapped by their principal. Billy eventually gets kidnapped, while trying to help Bonnie escape. Right as Bonnie gets away, her back pack comes off, and huge dragon wings come out of her back.  After they escape Bonnie tells Billy that they are both half dragon, (Bonnie's mom and Billy's dad.) They each get a single dragon ability, (Bonnie flight and Billy fire.)  Bonnie tells Billy now that the dragon slayer knows for sure that they are the dragon he has been hunting, they have to run away.  Bonnie and Billy run away with Billy's fully human friend Walter.  Now they are on the run, and even though they are trying to get away from the dragon slayer, Billy doesn't think it would e such a horrible idea to try to find their dragon parents.

I absolutly LOVE this series, and I am currently re-reading them.

This book has no bad language, (a couple rude comments, and the term demon witch, which is what the dragon slayer calls female dragons.)  Extremely mild to no romance. The violence is probably mild or medium for this particular book. In the first 50 or so pages there is a very mild bully, and then after that there is the dragon slayer, but neither one are that terrible in this book. 

My favorite character is Bonnie because she is quiet, but is a lot stronger and smarter then she leads on to be, which catches a lot of people by surprise. 

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Author: Bryan Davis

Paperback: 384 pages

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Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment

I think this book would be fine for ages 11 or 12 and up.


This book is about 6 kids:  Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman (Gazzy), and Angel.  They were all experiments (half bird, half human) and they escape.  Now they are on the run and they have chosen Max as their leader.  They think they have found somewhere safe to live until the creatures called the erasers kidnap Angel.  Since Gazzy is only eight, they leave him behind.  They also leave Iggy because he is blind.  Max, Fang, and Nudge go to find Angel.  On the way there Max sees a girl being bullied by some guys.  She stops to help, while Nudge and Fang continue on.  Max manages to save the girl, but gets shot in the shoulder (and wing) and can't continue on.  She goes to the house of the girl she saved.  Her name is Ella, and Max tells them everything,  even about her wings.  They take her to the doctor for an X-ray.  That is when she realizes she has a tracking device in her arm.  She runs away and eventually finds Nudge, Fang and soon Iggy and Gazzy who also ran away.  After finding Angel, they run to New York. That is when Max finds out she has a voice in her head, but she doesn't know if it is there to help or hurt her.  Then they find out that there is an underground experiment lab.  They immediately go down there to see if they can find any research on their real parents.  When they get down there, they find something that they never expected to find,  something that could change their lives forever.


I loved this book.  It was so good, and I think anyone between the ages of 11-15 would love it.


My favorite character would either be Fang or Iggy.  Fang is very serious and to the point, while Iggy is funny and jokes around a lot.


This book has mild romance (one kiss),  mild to medium bad language, and medium violence.

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Author: James Patterson

Paperback: 464 pages

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