Happy New Year everyone!! I just finished 100 book reviews and celebrated the one-year anniversary of my blog on the 21st of December! My favorite this month was the Iliad and I may even go as far as to say it was my favorite this year! I also loved Every Word by Ellie Marney so I think that it might be a tie. I completed my 2014 Goodreads book challenge of a 150 books! Here’s the actual recap: Continue reading December Recap: Welcome 2015!
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Historical Fiction Age Recommended: 13 and up This book was given to me on my birthday but I completely forgot to review it. 😦 Anyway, it is an incredible book and I hope you get a chance to read it!! ———————————————————— Gretchen lives in Munich and in that town danger is everywhere. Munich is where secrets are buried deep within the city and treacherous people wait outside for a girl to walk home alone. But Gretchen has been shielded from that side of the society and lives with her Uncle Dolf, who is none other than Adolf Hitler. And … Continue reading Book Review: Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Non-Fiction Age Recommended: 13 and up This book is quite long, dense, and a compilation of 24 books. This book was gifted to me by a close family friend. The book is really interesting, but since it is an old translation, there are some arcane terms. I read it with a dictionary by my side! ——————————————————– Nine years after the start of the Trojan War, the Greek (Achaean) army attacks Chryse, a town allied with Troy. During the battle, the Achaeans capture a pair of beautiful maidens, Chryseis and Briseis. Agamemnon, the leader of the … Continue reading Book review: The Iliad by Homer
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Realistic Fiction Age Recommended: 11 and up This book was a Virginia Reader’s Choice the year I was in sixth grade- my teacher had our class do a project on all ten of the books in the middle school category and they were all amazing. ——————————————————- Two years after being rescued from Vietnam, Matt Pin is haunted: by bombs that fell like dead crows, by his family that died when it should have been him with them, and the terrible secret that he left behind. Now, inside a caring adoptive home in the United States, … Continue reading Book Review: All the Broken Pieces by Anne E. Burg
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Fantasy or Fiction Age Recommended: 11 and up This book is a Newberry award winner. This weekend I was racking my brain for books that I hadn’t reviewed that were extraordinary and I came upon this one… I also got the Iliad and the Odyssey as a gift this week and I can’t wait to read and review! —————————————————— Jess Aarons’ one wish is to be the fastest runner in his grade. He’s been practicing all summer and can’t wait to see his classmates’ faces when he beats them all. He can feel the … Continue reading Book Review: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
November was a little slow… I think it was because of all of my school preparations I was doing. But I should still have time to write a few reviews… Got to get the blog up to speed… 🙂 My favorite book in November was the Red Magician, mainly because of the suspense and fantasy. I hope all of you get a chance to read it because it is truly an incredible book. Continue reading November Recap
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Age Recommended: 14 and up Genre: Fiction (Mystery) I can’t believe it!!! Mrs. Ellie Marley just sent me an advance copy of her newest book, Every Word… it’s the sequel to Every breath… Along with a handwritten note and a pack of Tim tams! For those of you who don’t know what those are, they are amazing Canadian chocolate biscuits with chocolate cream filling and the whole thing is coated in chocolate! I received a package in mail on Friday – it was addressed to me! As you can imagine, as an 8th grader, … Continue reading Book Review: Every Word by Ellie Marney
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Genre: Fiction Age Recommended: 13 and up Daughters Rule Number Six: Never talk to the press about your parents. If you haven’t read my review of the first book in this series, here’s the link: http://wp.me/p4bGHr-hR Carina is sick and tired of her father; he always restricts her activities with her friends and is very nosy about her personal business. Carina is already very upset and when her dad blames her for something she didn’t do, she just loses it. Carina seeks revenge by leaking a story about her father to the press, and in … Continue reading Book Review: The Daughters Break the Rules by Joanna Philbin (book two in the Daughters series)
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Genre: Fiction Age Recommended: 13 and up This was a very funny and witty book about the life of a supermodel’s daughter. Lizzie Summers is the only daughter of supermodel Katia Summers. Everywhere she goes, she is known as Katia’s daughter and she is sick of that. Lizzie is the exact opposite of her mom- her mother is beautiful, Lizzie is not, her mother loves the spotlight, Lizzie does not. Whatever her mothers likes, Lizzie doesn’t. Lizzie’s best friends are Carina Jurgensen and Hudson Jones. Carina’s father is a multi-millionaire and Hudson’s mother is … Continue reading Book Review: The Daughters by Joanna Philbin (Book one of the Daughters series)
Hi!!!!!! I think my fave this month was definitely The Blood Of Olympus. Anyway, here’s all of the books I read and reviewed in October (actually I read many more books, but I just can’t write reviews for every book I read or I’d have no time for school work): Continue reading October Recap
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