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