If you're looking for a story about a bright, spirited orphan girl who finds love and adventure, then look no further. Anne will capture your heart and never let go. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert wanted a boy from the orphanage to help with the farmwork. When Matthew goes to the train station to pick him up, he only finds Anne Shirley, a talkative, redheaded girl with a bright imagination and a big heart. A search for answers tells the Cuthberts that someone told Mrs. Spencer the Cuthberts wanted a girl. Marilla thinks of sending Anne back to the orphanage, but Matthew persuades Marilla to open up her heart to the girl. Marilla eventually decides to keep Anne, and so Anne's adventures full of humor and heart begin. From making a friend, Diana Barry, to making enemies, Gilbert Blythe and Josie Pye, to naming everyday things you'd see like a lake, or a flower tree, Anne will find something to dream about. Read this book, please!

If you're looking for a story about a bright, spirited orphan girl who finds love and adventure, then look no further. Anne will capture your heart and never let go. Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert wanted a boy from the orphanage to help with the farmwork. When Matthew goes to the train station to pick him up, he only finds Anne Shirley, a talkative, redheaded girl with a bright imagination and a big heart. A search for answers tells the Cuthberts that someone told Mrs. Spencer the Cuthberts wanted a girl. Marilla thinks of sending Anne back to the orphanage, but Matthew persuades Marilla to open up her heart to the girl. Marilla eventually decides to keep Anne, and so Anne's adventures full of humor and heart begin. From making a friend, Diana Barry, to making enemies, Gilbert Blythe and Josie Pye, to naming everyday things you'd see like a lake, or a flower tree, Anne will find something to dream about. Read this book, please!

In this chose-your-own-adventure story, you're a girl who lives in Williamsburg, VA in modern days. Your dad works, your grandmother owns an antique shop downstairs, and your mom...died of cancer. You miss her tremendously. You go downstairs to the shop and find a tiny portrait of a colonial woman. When you look into her eyes, you find yourself in Colonial Williamsburg and meet a girl named Felicity Merriman. It isn't long before you learn that you've been whisked back in time to 1775! What adventure will you choose? I used a lot of bookmarks so that I could go back to the choice after I read the other adventure. From buying goods from Native Americans to helping a sad girl to meeting Governor Dunmore's wife and children, you and Felicity will have many adventures. You'll become great friends--and she'll win a special place in your heart. If you liked this book, then you'll like the 2005 movie FELICITY: AN AMERICAN GIRL ADVENTURE. Shailene Woodley from THE SECRET LIFE OF THE AMERICAN TEENAGER plays Felicity, and Katie Henney plays Felicity's best friend, Elizabeth Cole. In the movie, Felicity longs for more than living a proper life. Things just get more fancy when Mother and Father sign her up for tea lessons at Miss Manderly's house. However, gentlewoman lessons are not as bad as she thinks, although the has to pay a price for the joy of seeing her friend Elizabeth, a Loyalist, at lessons: spending time with Elizabeth's mean older sister Annabelle. But Felicity has other things to worry about: Mean old Jiggy Nye is abusing Penny, a horse that Felicity has come to love. Felicity sneaks out every night to see Penny, but when she shows her family, they forbid her to see Penny ever again. When Father tells her that doing a good echoes in the world and that she did all she could, Felicity realizes that there is one more thing she can do--set Penny free. Eventually Felicity gets Penny back (when she goes to visit Grandfather on his plantation), just like Father said. But, tragedy follows. Right after she stops Father's apprentice, Ben, from running away to join General Washington's army, Grandfather dies. When she returns to Williamsburg, she learns that Elizabeth's father has been arrested just for being a Loyalist. When Felicity and Father go to visit him in prison, she sees cruel Jiggy Nye in the cell with him. Suddenly Felicity feels sympathetic for him and decides she must help him get out of jail. She does so by bringing him medicine and a blanket. Soon after, Felicity gets an invitation from Lady Templeton's manor, inviting her to the Christmas Ball! Mother will make her a fancy dress, and will sign her up for extra dancing lessons at Miss Manderly's. Felicity's life seems to be coming back together...until Mother has a baby and becomes sick and unconscious. And when Father is away and Grandfather is dead, who will help Penny have a foal? Felicity might have to make a decision that will help her trust someone she never thought could be trusted.

How would you feel if you were betrayed by your mother, sent to live with a foster family, and made enemies more than you made friends? Well, that's what happens to Carley Connors in this book. Her stepdad beat her up and she was sent to live with the Murphys once she was out of the hospital. The Murphys have three kids: Michael Eric, Adam, and Daniel. She comes to love Michael Eric, Adam, and Mrs. Murphy, but how will she bond with Daniel and Mr. Murphy? There are also issues at school, because once she went to a restaurant and teased the young waiter, Rainer, who ended up being her classmate. And there's the bully, Toni. Will she make friends or enemies? Will she grow a friendship with Daniel? But most importantly, does she belong with her mother or Julie Murphy, who showed her love? It was a good book, but it does say the Lord's name in vain, like, one million times. Other than that, it's really good.

This book is so good! It's 1969, and Mamie and her classmates are all given assignments to write letters to astronauts. Only Mamie writes to Michael Collins, the astronaut who will never walk on the moon, because he must stay with the ship, and after this trip NASA will never use him again, because there are so many other astronauts who want to go to space. She tells him about her family--her mom, her dad, her older sister Eleanor, her other sister Bess, her best friend Buster, and her cat. One night, her mom and dad have a fight, and her mom leaves, and soon after her dad tries to go after her. Eleanor, who moved out some years ago, doesn't stay long, and Bess leaves to stay with her boyfriend, and even Campbell the cat runs away. She had tried to throw a "Moonwalk Party", something her mom had wanted to do but her dad had objected, and then Mom left. But with no one there except Buster, is her party a lost cause? Will her parents get a divorce? And will the astronauts get to and from the moon safely?

I liked this book, but I recommend it to 3rd grade and up because there are some tragic deaths in the book. WARNING: This review contains mild spoilers. Twelve-year-old Cécile Revel (Cécile is pronounced say-seel) is a peasant living in the village of Rileaux, France with her father. When she finds an injured lady in the woods, her father helps her, and Madame begs them to let her reward them in any way. Papa asks Madame if Cécile can serve at court instead of being a peasant. Madame says yes, and Cécile has to leave everything and start a new place that holds a brighter future for her. She becomes Madame's servant, and tends to her dogs. After a troublesome incident with one of the dogs, Stabdille, she meets Princess Marie-Adélaïde and her son, Bretagne (pronounced bre-tahn-yeh). After that, Bretagne requests for Cécile and Stabdille to visit him. But, there are rules no one ever warned Cécile about...and then measles take Marie-Adélaïde life, and then the prince dies and...just like that, Bretagne is gone too. Can Cécile save Bretagne's brother, Anjou (pronounced an-zhoo)? Will she lose her position at court? What will she do, when both of her parents are dead? You can see Cécile's loyalty to the people she loves as you read this book. It's good, so read it!

I ❤️ Nancy Drew

This is an AMAZING book. It is highly recommended by me. Anyway, it is about a twelve-year-old girl named Sophie Foster. She can read minds, and in the human world, she can hear everyone's thoughts--as if they were real human voices. It's horrible. It all started when she was only five years old, when she fell and hit her head. She wishes she weren't so different from everyone else--until she meets Fitz, a boy who can also read minds. He tells her that she is an elf and that they have been looking for her for twelve years, and takes her to the Lost Cities--the world where elves live. His father, Alden, tells Sophie that she has to leave her human family and leave the Forbidden Cities (the human world) forever. She moves in with a couple named Grady and Edaline who lost their daughter, Jolie, years ago. She makes new friends and passes her exams at school, but she's different in many ways: 1) Her eyes aren't blue like all the other elves--they're brown, 2) She's from the Forbidden Cities, 3) No one--not even the most highly skilled Telepaths can read her mind, and many other ways I can't even say. Will Sophie ever belong? Maybe she'll have to be kidnapped, put her best friend Dex in danger, get lost in Paris, and even stand on the verge of death to find her place in this strange yet exciting world. Read. This. Book. NOW!

This is an AMAZING book. It is highly recommended by me. Anyway, it is about a twelve-year-old girl named Sophie Foster. She can read minds, and in the human world, she can hear everyone's thoughts--as if they were real human voices. It's horrible. It all started when she was only five years old, when she fell and hit her head. She wishes she weren't so different from everyone else--until she meets Fitz, a boy who can also read minds. He tells her that she is an elf and that they have been looking for her for twelve years, and takes her to the Lost Cities--the world where elves live. His father, Alden, tells Sophie that she has to leave her human family and leave the Forbidden Cities (the human world) forever. She moves in with a couple named Grady and Edaline who lost their daughter, Jolie, years ago. She makes new friends and passes her exams at school, but she's different in many ways: 1) Her eyes aren't blue like all the other elves--they're brown, 2) She's from the Forbidden Cities, 3) No one--not even the most highly skilled Telepaths can read her mind, and many other ways I can't even say. Will Sophie ever belong? Maybe she'll have to be kidnapped, put her best friend Dex in danger, get lost in Paris, and even stand on the verge of death to find her place in this strange yet exciting world. Read. This. Book. NOW!

I haven't read this book in a while, but it's really good. It's about a girl named Winnie, and when she discovers a magical spring in the woods that gives eternal life she has to choose between living forever and a normal life. Her new friend begs her to drink the water when she is eighteen like him and they will run away and get married, but she does not. She decides that she is destined to die someday and gives the last of her magical water to a toad.