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Puff the Magic Dragon

Puff the Magic Dragon

By Lenny Yarrow Peter; Lipton

🎶Puff the magic dragon live by the sea🎶 this brings back sweet memories from childhood... :-) :')

Swordbird

Swordbird

By Nancy Yi Fan

To be honest, although this book was sweet and original, I would not call myself a great fan. It is inspiring that a twelve year old or eleven year old girl would be able to write at the level that she does, and publish a book. However, I noticed many flaws in the writing. I myself am a writer, and am currently editing a book- not that I expect that to ever be very successful, as there I should never any guarantee of that- and am noticing flaws in my own writing as well as hers. The story is rather simple- which is just fine. However, the characters never seemed to differ from each other. Aska’s supposedly courageous character was sort of ruined for me because of her occasional “damsel in distress” episodes. They all speak with the same voice- using broad vocabulary, preaching peace. Their characters are just so similar, but perhaps that wouldn’t be the case if the author was writing in the point of view of so many different characters. Of course, this applies to all but Turnatt’s, because he is the malicious and evil hawk villain. As for Miltin’s death, it was sweet and somber, but I guess I didn’t understand how he died. I picked up on the detail that he broke his wing, but one of the reason she stated in the story was that “after all of his years as a slave, he couldn’t live any longer” or something along those lines. That didn’t make a lot of sense to me. It would had the character been elderly, but Miltin was a young robin, by my understanding. I was sitting there thinking for a moment, “Okay, so, he died because he was beat up before?” It would have made more sense if the injury had been more fatal...or perhaps the broken wing had been fatal enough, regardless of his past beatings. Another thing that I noticed was that the author dragged out details to the point where it just wasn’t necessary. She could turn a single piece of dialogue into a small paragraph. Overall, this book was nice. I liked it, but I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite. However, it is also helping me learn how to edit my story, and inspires me to keep on writing. Huge props to you, Nancy Yi Fan.

The Menagerie #3: Krakens and Lies

The Menagerie #3: Krakens and Lies

By Tui T. Sutherland, Kari H. Sutherland

This was the best book ever! I'm in 6 grade and I believe in mermaids, dragons, and other mythical creatures!!! :) :) ;) ;) #Believe in Mythical creatures

Deserter (Wings of Fire: Winglets #3)

Deserter (Wings of Fire: Winglets #3)

By Tui T. Sutherland

This was my fav of all the winglets and it makes me HATE Burn even more

Bully (Bluford High)

Bully (Bluford High)

By Paul Langan

I chose to read this book because it looked very interesting to me. It's about a boy having to move away from Philidelphia with his mom . Once he arrives at a new town he has to go to a new school called " Bluford High".When he gets there a boy bullies him because he's smaller and the new kid. But later on he's gonna fight back.

The Nocturnals: The Mysterious Abductions

The Nocturnals: The Mysterious Abductions

By Tracey Hecht

I just read something about this new series - looks cool. I love animal adventure books!

Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories

Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories

By Joyce Lankester Brisley

I absolutely loved this book! It has some awesoe vocab and it it alltogether thrilling! It just leaves you hanging and makes you want to carry on and read more!

Scorpia Rising (Alex Rider)

Scorpia Rising (Alex Rider)

By Anthony Horowitz

This was the final book (not counting the prequel) of the Alex Rider series. And I thought it was really, unmeasurably awesome. I liked how the author wrote a beginning of 112 pages without 1 word in Alex's perspective and it had such an amazing plan but for such a minor thing. The main antagonist Razim was even smarter than the Winston Yu man from Snakehead and he was going to set him up. Scorpia was able to record everything that Alex did and then kill him, showing that Great Britain was using a teenage spy and how he got killed in action. This would disgrace the British government so much that nobody would want to work with them. I think that this was an amazing final and I loved how he got totally set up by Scorpia and that they were way ahead of him. It was an unpredictable book and also my favorite of all of the Alex Rider series because of it's intensity.

Swagger

Swagger

By Carl Deuker

The book I read is called"Swagger" by Carl Deuker and it is really good! The settings in this book are at the basketball court, at Jonas's house and at school. Jonas was the main character in the story and he loves to play basketball. His position is point guard, he gets requested to go to college because of his basketball skills. He doesn't know that his coach is weird and makes one of his students do some weird things. The turning point in the book is when he knows that his dad is getting better from a work injury, because he really cares for his dad. The antagonist in the book is Hartwell because he is the bad guy in the book who does bad things to Jonas's best friend Levi. The protagonist is Jonas because he is the main character of the book and he has to deal with a lot of things in his life like his dad getting hurt and his friend Levi that he has to deal with. I recommend this book to 7th grade and up because it has some harder words to read. I hope you liked this review and read this book.

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