Review By: Shelby
The Bluest Eye was a really good book. A lot of kids in my class didn't like it but it was frickin' awesome.
It's about Pecola Breedlove, who has a dreadfully unfortunate life. It's also about her insufferable family who kinda makes it that way.
I don't feel like writing any more. It's really good though... Touches on some very... sensitive subjects... It's a good book for those who are mature and stuff. I sound retarded, bye.
Review By: Sasha
This book is about some guy, Rob, and his girlfriend has just left him. The book goes through his love of music and follows him as he tries to get his girlfriend back.
This is an okay book. We had to read it for school and it was one of the better books. There were some very funny parts in this book.
Review By: Sasha
This book is about a time when people do not get pregnant. They do not have natural births. If you want a child, you apply for one and if you are good enough and fit to be a parent, you'll get a baby. But they're lab babies that are free of diseases and such. So in the book a woman gets pegnant in a town with a perfect record of zeo pregnancies. SO this is a big deal.
But the woman, Natalie, gets pregnant and wants to keep her child. So she takes prenatial vitamins to keep her baby healthy and such. But when a girl finds her vitamins she is in jepordy of getting caught. A series of murdurs and such happens and stuff goes down blah blah blah.
In the book they're a girl, stocker robinson. She's crazy. She's unpopular and like a sex freak always watching porn and mastutbating. uhg and she wonders why she's umpopular, but anyway, you'' come to hate her.
This is a good book and i reccomend it to...people i high school. Not really a kid book. If you likes Brave new world and the movie gattaca (Gattaka?) then you should like this book. Its very different form other book ive read. It caught me off guard quite a bit. But it was a quick read even though it looks a little long.
Review By: Sasha
This book is about a boy who is of two different nationalities. The problem is that both of those countries are at war, That means that no matter which country his family goes too, they get kicked out. So his dad took him to englad and left him there. And stuff happens.
Its an okay book.lots of people cry. some people die. blah blah. read it or dont. Its not like a must read or anything.
Review By: Shelby
I bought Jahanara at a library sale and I've been reading it since then. I think the sale was before this summer. anyway, it's been an on and off book and I finished it yesterday.
Jahanara: Princess of Princesses Is one of The Royal Diaries books, i.e., it's about a real princess... this is historical fiction in the form of a diary. Jahanara, Begum Sahib, was the daughter of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal (Shah Jahan had the Taj Mahal built for this favorite wife of his).
I kinda forget the whole book, but her diary is about life in the Harem, and being a princess that has to be constantly protected, and she kinda feels like a prisoner. I don't know why she feels this way, really. Ok, so people aren't allowed to touch her, and she doesn't have much um... well. I don't know, there's this one entry about her bathroom, which has all these jewels in the walls, and another about julabmost (...the rose kind kinda sounds gross). Because she is the Begum Sahib, she can never get married and have kids, so she feels very different from everyone else. About this time in India, though, the British were getting involved. She had a necklace of Queen Elizabeth I, whom she admired, and she keeps thinking about this english dude with blue eyes.
I wish I could give a better review (I don't remember everthing), but it's a pretty good book. It has a really sad ending though. Like... really sad. And it's a true story. Ish. I guess. I like these kind of books: The Royal Diaries, and the Dear America books, because they have all these historical stuffs in the back.
Review By: Shelby
The Crucible is a play set in the 16th (or it may be the 17th, who knows.... spark it) about the Salem Witch Hunts. There's this girl called Abby, who basically wants to get revenge on John Proctor's wife, because Goody Proctor fired her because she found out they were having an affair. (I so did not give it away).
Abby's cousin is sick, and they think it's because all the girls were out in the forest practicing witchcraft. They accuse Abby at first, but then she starts naming names and so begins the witch hunt.
Abby and these other girls go around testifying with "Spectral evidence", i.e., going into fits before the "witches". Meanwhile, John Proctor and others are trying to bring real justice into the system.
We read this in class, and apparently, it's called The Crucible because each character is put through a test (like in chemistry, a crucible is a container in which you heat things to purify them. or something.). This play was written during the Red Scare, which was like the witch hunt of the 20th century. The playwright, Arthur Miller, was accused of being a communist. So this play really says a lot about America in the time it was written.
Review By: Sasha
An abhorsen novella!!!!! I love the abhorsen trillogy and was sad when i had finished reading it. Then, online, i found that there was another addition called the creature in the case. I had to have it but it had onlu been realeased in England. Then at the library many months later i saw a garth nix book called Across the wall, as soon as i saw it i knew it was about Abhorsen. So I got it. The book was a collection of Garth Nix short stories plus The Creature In the Case. So....You might want to look for across the wall if you want to read it. I only read Creature In the Case because the other stories were......not about abhorsen.
I loved it! it was a great novella and i didnt want it to end! It was a quick read and i enjoyed every second of it. But of course, it is Garth Nix we're talking about.
Review By: Sasha
It's about a girl who dies and wakes up on a ship to Elsewhere. I found this book the be very well thought out and a captivating novel. At first i was content to just reading it before school started but one evening i began to read and couldnt stop untill i was done. The autor does well to show the emotional roller coasters that being dead can cause. :) And the authors view of afterlife, Elsewhere, is very nice and im suprised no one has ever thought of it before.
I reccomend this book. Its nice, funny, and because it's so good, its a fast read. And i read it so fast, i am now out of books. Well..I have one left to read but...pfft.
Review By: Sasha
This book really takes you on an adventure (especially for me because i thought it was a true story untill my curiosity got the better of me and i looked on the little info page and saw the "All the characters are from the authors imagination..." blah blah blah...) But this book is about a secret guld that had been a secret for centuries and a woman wills her stuff to her nephew and he finds her diary and all the gui;ds information and ....gives it to the world. So it is a story within a story. Its about two kids who dont know where their parents are and they have just gone to stay with their uncle on his ship where they find out about the guild.
It was a good book. Not the best book ever but i ddi enjoy reading it. And the cover is cool. ^_^ which is why i got it in the first place.
Review By Sasha
This book is one of the better books that ive read. I began reading it thinking that oh, this is just some book about bad kids and in the end she wont get sent to whereever it is that she's afraid of being sent to. But no, this book is in fact more than just some book about some bad kids. Its got humor, mystery and romance and was very well written. I even liked the end!
The book is about a girl named Lucy whose been in foster care for a long time, so she knows how the whole system works. The book begins with her eneting a new foster home. At the beginning i though it seemed pretty dorky, the autors attemps at humor seemed un authentic but my thoughts soon changed. So Lucy goes to the new home and she meets and anyalizes her new housemates and knows that she has to bee good or she'll get sent to the prison like place where the really bad homeless kids go.
I highly reccommend this book, there are some clues left open (just one really) and it doesnt matter anyway but the solution to the mystery was pleasntly suprising.
Shelby
I found out about this book by going to the Amazon site in a half-attempt to try to figure out how to put the links on here (and failing). So, I knew nothing about the book.
I'm SO glad i got it.
It's a novel, and it's in my favorite type of format, like it's Diary and emails. The odd thing is that the diary (i think it's a diary) is in poetry format or something. Really cool.
Anyway, the main character, a girl named Ruby, has suffered a tragedy when her mom dies. So she has to move all the way from New England (because I can't spell Massachusets) to L.A., with her famous father, Whip Logan.
And she hates everything. Including her father, who feels the same way she does about things and she hates it when he does this.
But her father's assistant is nice, so she thinks she can deal from being away from her best friend and boyfriend and aunt (all of them turn out to be almost completely useless wastes of carbon).
But it's a really good, fast paced, funny book. You'll like it. read it.
Review by Sasha
This book is extreamly clever. I did feel kind of bad reading about all of these vain pretty people and the one pretty person who didnt want to be pretty to please her mother, the queen. The book is basically about this Queen to has to be the most beautuful and her daughter know that she has to be ugly for her mother to like. her. Then all the pretty girls in the realm get sent to a school (don don don).
This book is an extreamly quick read. Whick was good because its not a book that i would want to read for a long time. Meaning that its was an okay book, but you also have to factor in that i was bored and had nothing else to do and i usually give books good reviews. So....read it if you're pretty.
Review by Sasha
This is the third book in the series (I reviewed the other two a while ago). Compared to the other's its just as good as they are. The series is about a boy who gets caught up in all sorts of randomness in the House and the secondary realms. He has to free the Will to save the kingdom and from preventing his own world from messing up.
So...It's a good book and if you liked the first two, read it. ^.^
Shelby
Woo! I finally read this book! After a FREAKING MONTH! Gosh homework really takes away from leisure reading.
Anyway, of course you know that Miyazaki-sama made an anime called Howl's Moving Castle (i'm pretty sure that castle in the sky was by Jones as well). Well. Although that anime was frickin' awesome... my favorite Miyazaki-sama film...
THE BOOK IS SOOO MUCH BETTER!
Well, the movie is VERY loosely based on the novel. some differences: Michael is a teenager, Howl is even more dramatic, Sophie is feistier, Calcifer is... actually he's pretty much the same XD. The dog is actually good, the black doorknob goes to Wales of all places, there are no airplanes, no secret garden, and the witch does not end up being anyone's friend.
I really like the book. Jones' writing style is so cool! I absolutely LOVE Howl in this book. LOVE HIM LOVE HIM LOVE HIM. You really have to read the book to read how great he is, even without his you know what! He's so dramatic, but he really is serious sometimes and is not as dumb as people (Sophie) think he is. Still a bit cowardly though ^_^. but he is absolutely... gosh love him. And Michael is adorable. Sophie is nothing short of hilarious. She acts like an old lady! She gets all mad at Howl courting all those ladies and cuts up all his suits! lololololol.
I don't really have much to say about this book, but it is cute, funny, suspenseful, intriguing... just fantastic! A very refreshing Fantasy novel. I only wish there was more foreshadowing about Sophie and Howl's relationship... But I guess Howl would look particularly pervy taking small glances at Sophie so maybe it's better it was kept all secret-like.
READ.
THIS.
BOOK.
Shelby
Wrong About Japan is a sort of docu-book about this dude, Peter Carey, and his son, Charlie (or something).
The father is from Australia, and now they all live in New York. Charlie becomes interested in anime and manga. That's it, just ANIME and MANGA. (He also rents Kikujiro a few billion times, but it's a kick ass movie, so you can't blame him) So what does the father do? Like any good, white father he tries to see what his son is inerested in. (if you noticed that white there, i'm too chicken to take it out) So because the guy is an Australian, maybe, he's like, "Wanna go to Japan?" (THAT QUICK?!) and the kid is like "Yeah, whatever".
Rich people. Anyway.
They go to Japan, and even though he's been there before, the dad totally ruins the trip for his kid. The kid, ironically, begs his dad not to see "Real Japan", that is, Kabuki shows and torii shrines and probably well-endowed tanuki sculptures but that last one isn't mentioned. Charlie would rather go to play video games and make Gundam models and stuff. But noooooo. After telling the reader that Japan is a closed society and that gaijin will never understand, he is determined to be the "gaijin who got it." worst of all, he wants to "get it" through anime and manga.
So he gets to go to all these interviews with famous anime and manga artists. He also goes to see a swordsmith and a cross-dressing "visualist otaku". They all insist to him that manga was just developed trying to sell candy, and anime is to sell toys, or from manga. And he's still like, "but to the Japanese, aren't there parts of the anime, to which other societies are oblivious?"
"um... no. Just to sell robot toy."
"but why the obsession with robots? When the kids are in the robot, is it like they're in a robot 'womb' so they feel safe from all the 'other' kids" (in other words, do the nihonjin want a big robot mommy so they can be protected from the ignorant, evil, gaijin?
"Um... it's a toy."
So by the time they get to Kazu or Kayu or whatever the hell his name was, I'm convinced that there is actually an "it" that the nihonjin are conditioned to keep secret from all gaijin. Perhaps it is a small stillborn child floating in some sort of bluish green liquid that was frozen in the snowy snowiness of Hokkaido. Maybe not. But Carey is certain that something like this exists, so he has to go around doing interviews and keeping his poor kid from his penpal Takashi. He is annoying. Annoying to the intervewees, annoying to Charley, annoying to his connections, annoying to Takashi, and annoying to ME.
But then, Carey does something so wonderful and completely unexpected. He is really funny. REALLY funny. There were some moments that made me chuckle before but wow. When they are trying to visit Takashi (with whom I am in love) one last time, they go to the Mister Donut where he works. But the store is closed, and you read this:
But Mister Donut was closed. Impossible. We both got out of the car and stood with our noses pressed against the glass doors. It had been open before, so how could it be closed now? I took the parcel from my son and laid it on the step.
Charley retrieved his gift and then, from deep in a pocket of his baggy jeans, pulled out the map Takashi had drawn when he invited us to his grandmother's apartment.
"Oh no," I thought, "no, please, no."
But what was I to do? My only choice was to hand the driver our map. "We go," I said in perfect English.
Shelby
The Grapes of Wrath is a great American novel that depicts the story of a family that migrates to the west in search... of... *falls over snoring zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
No really. This book is about the Joad family. Their farm is messed up by the Dust Bowl and the bank takes it away. Or something. Anyway, they have to leave, they go to California in search of work. PROBLEM! everyone else had the same idea. So they're a-goin' to California and on the way they see how people are: good and bad. What they find out is that they're being treated like outsiders... like how immigrants to the United States were discriminated against... they're also facing discrimination. THe Joads are helped by fellow travelers along the way, and learn that some people can't be trusted.
It was a good book, but it had an odd ending because it wasn't a happy one. The conflict of the novel was not really resolved. It just ended when they were in a cabin to escape the rain, and Rose of Sharon "helped" this guy that was going to die. So they didn't find a house, or get work, but their story definitely doesn't end there. I think the novel was meant to be kind of like a peek into their lives as migrant workers in the 1930s. or whatever decade it was in.
I liked this book a lot better than Invisible Man It was a lot less... abstract. yes, I'm gonna go with that.
Review By Sasha
I actually liked the book. It is a series of short stories and some of them are boring but if you stick it out and read the whole book, it's really good. Reading the book makes you not like the movie so much. The movie is nothing like the book. They kept a few characters names but other than that, no resemblance.
The biggest thing is, in the book, it never talks of a time where robots and humans live together in harmony. From the very start of the book, when susan is a teenager, people are trying to get rid of robots on earth. And since it is Susan telling the stories, she's like...70 in the book.
Dr. Calvin is so much like me. Especially in the story Liar. First of all, Susan is a robot psychologist. Also, she is so...profesional. She likes robots more than humans. And does stupid things to impress the guy she likes. Totally like me.
I reccomend this book. It is really good, And it's really funny. Great humor throughout. The whole book is like a mystery. In each chapter, something has gone wrong with a robot and needs to be fixed. Even if you didnt like the movie, you should like the book. But i do warn you, some of the chapters are dull.
Shelby
AHH! Invisible Man even in the summer, school haunts me. facking dictates everything I read.
Invisible Man is the story of a guy who realizes he doesn't really exist. He's like, i'm invisible. I still don't get it.
He lives in the 1930s. He is a college student and he's driving around one of the white trustees of the college. But he takes him too far into the boondocks and shows him things he's not supposed to show him. So the dean of the college, Bledsoe, punishes him and sends him up north to "work for some money so you can come back in the fall." The protagonist thinks he's got all these letters of reccomendation for jobs up in New York. But, alas, they are letters of "sorry you had this guy in your office and just fill him up with hope and ignore him or something" so one of the offices tells him what's really up. So he tries to find work on his own. He gets in a paint factory accident and when he wakes up he can't even remember his name. Then someone reads it off his application or something and he's like "oh yeah, sure that's it."
So then he starts living as a tenant with this lady who's too nice to let him stay there. Then he's walking along, eating some yams, and he sees these old folks getting evicted. and he stirs up the crowd around them with a speech and they start a riot or something. then he gets recruited into the Brotherhood, which is a glorified cult, in my opinion. just ready to corrupt the corrupted community. an there's this jamaican guy on a horse wearing a lion skin.
it's just crazy.
I don't know WHO he is, or WHY he's invisible. But the book's mostly about him developing himself and race relations.
it's weird. and long. but really good, i thought.
Review By Sasha
This is a really good book if you want to read about a tribe that fattens up thir women, circumsize them, then marry them off to old people, then one girl decides she doesnt want to to do that, and runs away. :)
I'll add the amazon link later. *I'm off to canda*
Review By Sasha
This is the book about the Sultan who dicided to marry a woman and then kill her the next day. The woman he married knew him as a child and wants to change him. She wants to prove that he is not a madman. To keep him from killing her, she tells him stories that she makes up.
I think this is a good book. If you dont feel like reading it than watch the movie. It was a televsion "event" on ABC but came out as a Hallmark Movie. I should get it from the library..Good book though.
Review By Sasha
This well written book is about a teenage boy who runs away from an abusive family. His rich stepfather constantly beats the boys mother. Now his mother is on trial for killing her husband. Micheal (the boy) finds himself back in his hometown and has to decide if he sould come out of hiding to save his mother or to keep running.
I liked this book. It is a bit predictable but it's easy to read and is fairly enjoyable.
Review By Sasha
This book is about a girl who lives near a city that gets practically destroyed. Her family Just happens to be there when it happens. In this book, Green has to learn to live without them and to find herself.
This book is easy to reas. It is very short. I has able to finish it in 1 or two hours one night before i went to sleep. I reccomend this book to those who like quick reads.
Review By Sasha
This is most likely not the first book I have on here written by Rinaldi. This book is one in the Great Episodes series which is a collection of books written by different authors about things that happened in the past. This isnt my favorite book because once I feel sympaty for a character, i hate it when bad thing (or words) happen to them. It's an okay book. More for people who are into Stuff from the past. The book is the story of Patrick Henry's family. The guy that said "Give me liberty, or give me death." I finished the book, but only because I had nothing better to do. Literally i was sitting in class with this book and we had free periods.
Another thing is that i began reading this book before. I remember the first few pages and i stopped reading it. Ha.
Review By Sasha
This well written book is about a future ere people sleep during the day and work during the night becuse the environment has become so harsh. This book follows an orphan girl Blay as she works in a camp and gets a chance to change her life and discover her past.
This book actually concluded it's self so while you want more at the end of it, you knows that thats all there is and arent upset about it. This is a cant put down book. A must read. If you like future you'll LOVE this.
Buy it!
By Garth Nix
Review by Sasha
This is the rivitting sequal to Sabriel. I wonder what the exact definition for riviting is and if i spelled it right. Anyway, its about this old kingdom with magic and the people who bring the dead back to life, or but the dead back into death. This book is about Sameth, sabriel's son, and about Lirael, the Daughter of the Clayr. Thsi book is the second book of the abhorsen trilogy. Read it read it read it. I give it 5 stars and as many thumbs up as i have (thats 2). I garantee that if you are into fantasy then you will find to trilogy better than this.
by garth nix
review by sasha
This is an awsome fantasy book about a girl who must tavel to the old kingdom to save her father.
Read this book. It is a great book. I will soom post my equally short reviews about the sequals to Sabriel
by clamp
review by Sasha
wow it looks like i spelled chobits wrong...*fixes* Well, this is a review for the rest of the series. It is a very good series that unlocks the mysteries surrounding chi. with a mimi series inside of it. Because there is this book that chi reads. good good series. read it
Adam Rapp
by Sasha
This is a really good book. It is about a boy who is at some sort of bad kids camp or something of that sort. His mom is dead and his brother killed himslef and all these people pee everywhere. But its a good book. The life of a kid with one parent, a dead brother and people who do drugs. They also mention the origional sims game, which makes it an even better book. I liked it and i hope you will too.
By Clamp
Review by Sasha
This is volume 2 of 8 in the series of chobbits (volume 1 reviewed below). In this volume, we find out a little about Chi's mysterious past. This volume makes you HAVE to know all the details of her past. The first volume was in introduction and this volume is like...all the questuons that you'll want answered by volume 8.
By Terry Trueman
Review by Sasha
This is a beautifully written book about a "retared" boy. Either I'm a really fast reader or it's just that good of a book that i read it in less than two hours! (it's actually a short book...but that's not the point) This is a very rare book. It leaves you guessing at the end but you still feel that it is completed. I'm always a fan of sequels but if this book never had a sequal, I'll be okay with that. But..there will be no sequel...because since the book ended I know that...well...IT happened and ...lets just say...It is a very very very sad ending. I love this book so much everyone should read it.
by L.A. Meyer
review by Sasha
This is the sequel to Bloody Jack (see below review...Quite a few below...) This tells the tale of Mary when she is sent to a boarding school, where she is to be taught how to be a fine lady. She does everything wrong and even gets landed in jail!
Can Jacky get back ownership of her money being a woman and underage? Anyway, It's a great book. As I neared the end, I KNEW it wouldn't end the way I wanted it to. Still waiting for L.A Meyer to write another one. I don't think he will though.
By CLAMP
(Volumes one and two)
by Shelby
Suki means like or something in Japanese. Suki is about this girl called Hinata Asahi or something. For some reason (it's not really clear why yet... something about being kidnapped all the freakin time) Hinata has decided to live alone. She's booksmart, but really naive and has these teddy bears and reads books about them. So weird. Anyway, one day she gets a new neighbor Shiro Asou (or something) and he turns out to be her substitute chemistry (or something) teacher. (He's not really her teacher, someone designated to watch her... or something *ominosity*). Anyway, Hina-chan finds that she has feelings for Asou-sensei. She cooks food for him and he eats at her house, and he's really nice sometimes. First he was all serious and kinda scary, but sometimes he has his moments where he's bewildered at everything going around him.
It's a cute story. I think that very soon it won't be cute anymore...
By clamp
I read volume 1 of 8 and it's really funny. Is about this guy who found a computer in the trash so he took it. But its in a world where computers look like alive things. His looks like a prittuy girl and so far it seems to be stupid. It's really really good. read it.
Guest review by Shelby
This book is about Theresa Talley (Terry or Tee to her friends) whose parents want her to go to boarding school? So, she decides to take matters into her own hands. She goes on a trip of "self discovery" (i.e. she runs away). Terry stows away on local millionaire Maitland Crane's boat. But someone else had the same plan. She wakes up to a naked boy with split personalities (don't worry they're both really nice): the millionaire's son.
Then there's like a hurricaine or something, and Terry is suddenly alone on the Cormorant(the boat). But lucky her, Short Bill Gold and his wee mates Cherry and Buddy are there to rescue her. Yeah okay, rescue her.
I thought this was a good book (although I found a couple grammatical mistakes in it). Terry is a cool girl, neither teenagery nor self-conscious (definitelynot self conscious). In the end she has grown up, but I thought she was quite mature anyway. The pirates were funny, but lousy pirates. Anyway I reccomend reading this book. It's quick and humorous... very fun. yay.
This is a very good book. It is about a Girl who, as a child, had both of her parents and her baby sister die. She grew up on the street with a gang of kids but after an accident, she left and went to the sea. On the ship, she pretends so be a boy. As she gets older, this pooves to be more and more difficult.
This is a very good book. It's very easy go get into the character and want to know what going to happen next. This is the first in the series. The end is very open but that is because it will pick up in the next book. I garentee that you will love it.
