PRINCESS ACADEMY by Shannon Hale

Princess Academy
By: Shannon Hale
Princess Academy is about a sixteen year-old girl named Miri who lives on Mount Eskel in Danland. The prince’s bride is to be chosen from Mount Eskel and all the girls are sent to an academy. At the academy, the competition is tough and only one of the girls will be chosen. The girl who has the best grades shall be academy princess. Many harsh accidents take place and Miri is desperate to be the academy princess. The girls are also attacked by bandits who have not set foot on mount Eskel for twenty years. When time comes for the final exam, Miri is the one who saves everyone with quarry talk, the talk which is spoken with memories. To find out who gets chosen to be the prince’s bride read Princess Academy by Shannon Hale.
Shikha

INKHEART By: Cornelia Funke

Inkheart is an adventure filled book. Meggie is a regular 12-year-old girl. Her father on the other hand isn’t. Mo (Meggie’s father) has a kind of reading power where he can read characters out of stories. One dark rainy night when Meggie was three Mo was reading aloud to Meggie’s mother and suddenly three characters came out of the book. Dustfinger, Capricorn, and Basta. Mo looked all around but Meggie’s mother was not in sight. Neither were the two cats that were sitting on her lap. Mo scared the charters away and told Meggie that her mother ad gone on a trip around the world. Now Mo had to deal with the two evil characters and one to be evil characters on the loose. Meggie’s life is changed forever with moving from house to house and then getting stuck in Capricorn’s village that he made out of an old town. Will Meggie and her father ever defeat Capricorn? Will Meggie ever get her mother back from the book?

Claire

NATALIE'S SECRET By: Melissa J. Morgan

This book is Natalie’s Secret in the Camp confidential series. It is about an 11 year old girl whose mom makes her go away for 8 weeks to Camp Lakeview (Camp Lake-puke as Natalie calls it). Natalie’s has never been away from home for a long time like this. She tries to make a new adventure out of her camp experience. She starts to like camp better when she meets this boy, Simon. Natalie wants to fit in with all the girls from her bunk. But will Natalie be able to hide her secret that changes her life or will it slip and her friends will treat her differently. Read Camp Confidential Natalie’s Secret, Book #1 to find out what happens between Simon and Natalie, and to find out about Natalie’s secret.

Kelly

THE GOLDEN COMPASS by Philip Pullman

The Golden Compass is an exciting book about a girl who knows more than almost anybody in the world. She has an Alitheometer (a truth teller) which tells her if people are friends or enemies. It also helps her make the right decisions. There are people who are after her called The Goblers who cut away demons (which are life long pets who before puberty can change but after they take the form of one creature). I very much enjoyed this book and I think you will too.

Isaac

TRAVEL TEAM By: Mike Lupica

Travel Team By: Mike Lupica

This book is about a kid named Dan Walker and he is the smallest kid in his town. He plays on a basketball team for his town; he is on the B team. Tryouts are a week away and Danny is getting ready to tryout for the A team. Can he survive the tryouts and make the A team to play with his friend?
Christian

THE SEA OF TROLLS:Nancy Farmer

The Sea of Trolls by: Nancy Farmer is a dramatic story about a farmer’s boy who turns into a slave when he gets captured by rampaging Vikings. The future doesn’t look bright for the young hero but when he shows his magical skills they all treat him like a king, but his sister will be a slave for a half troll- half woman evil queen. The queen is a on a mission to kill Jack and Lucy (the boy and his sister), but her main victim is Jack’s teacher who taught him magic. He must save himself and his sister or he will be beheaded and his body thrown overboard. Come and witness this survival story.
Vladyslav

A CHILD CALLED IT by Dave Peltzer

This autobiography by Dave Peltzer is based on the terrible life he lived with his druggy mother who believed that he was worth nothing. I can still remember her hardened words that had not come from the booze and liquor but had escaped from her hateful heart. This story is written from Dave’s heart and this was probably only half of the abusing situation. I’m quite sure you will cry your eyes out just like I did because it was so sad and on top of that it was true. I would suggest that you read this novel and learn how he survived.
Kayla

A CINDERELLA STORY by Robin Wasserman

The book A Cinderella Story by Robin Wasserman, takes place in good old L.A. where Samantha Montgomery thinks it’s her fairy castle. Samantha is only eight and has no mom and she doesn’t like to dress up or have tea parties. Sam’s the type of girl who likes to climb trees, ride her bike and of course play softball. She and her dad love to play. Sam’s dad owns a restaurant called Hal’s Diner. Sam refers to it as (the coziest, tastiest restaurant in the valley.) Sam’s dad has a quote hanging up in the diner that reads “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” When it becomes Sam’s birthday and its time to make a wish what you think might happen to Sam’s perfect life all washes down the drain……… Read to find out more.

Madeline

THE BAD BEGINNING by Lemony Snicket

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
This book is about three kids named Violet, Klaus, and Sunny. They were very lucky but one day they heard bad news. They were at the beach looking at their enormous house when their parents’ friend, Mr. Po, told them that their parents had died in fire at their house. That is when their bad luck began. Mr. Poe was trying to find a house for them and he did. You might think that this was lucky but trust me it is not. I would wish to tell that to the Baudelaire kids but we cannot. Mr. Poe had told them the news and has they went to this strangers house they had ants in their stomachs I n another words they were really nervous. When they were at their new guardian’s house, Count Olaf they found that he was nothing but rude and violent. After time they found that he was after their parent’s fortune. How could Mr. Poe have trusted a man with a tattoo on his ankle?
Who knows? Count Olaf had arranged a “pretend wedding to marry Violet, a fourteen year old”. To everyone’s surprise they were legally getting married, so Count Olaf could get their fortune. You might have also thought that Violet wanted to get married with this horrible man. But of course she did not, she had to do this or Count Olaf’s assistants would throw Sunny off a tall tower. Find out if Sunny will survive and if Violet will get married to this horrible man.
Engi

P.S. LONGER LETTER LATER by Paula Danziger

P.S. Longer Letter Later
Paula Danziger

If you like a book that has to do with friendship and drama then you’ll love this book. This book is about two girls that become the best of friends but then one of them has to move away. They still communicate by writing letters to each other. In these letters they tell each other how everything is at school and what plans they have for the weekend they also tell each other secrets. During the time that the two girls are apart one of the families starts to get money problems and they can only call each other if there is an emergency. Find out if they get out of there debt and they stay friends by reading P.S. Longer Letter Later.

Kelly

THE LION BOY by Zizou Corder

The Lion Boy by Zizou Corder is a great book. It’s about a boy named Charlie who has special powers and can talk to cats. He got this power because a leopard scratched him when he was a baby and the leopard’s blood got inside him. One day Charlie came home and his parents were gone. The local bully was at his house waiting for him and told Charlie to come to his house. Charlie knew something was up. Read this book to see what happens. Oh, this book doesn’t have an ending so you’ll have to read the next book. The Lion Boy is really a very good book. It keeps you in suspense the whole time.

By Steven