Kids Books - Family

Alice Alexis Queensmeadow is born with no color — hair, and skin as white as milk, only a touch of honey in her eyes. This might not be so significant had she not been born into a world where color is everything. In Tahereh Mafi’s “Furthermore,” the land of Fernwood is drenched in color, which its colorful citizens use like currency, right along with magic. Poor, colorless Alice is looked down upon and underestimated because of her pallor. Her father, the one person who believes in her, has mysteriously disappeared, having taken with him only a ruler, and leaving Alice with a grief-stricken mother who does not care for her or seems to love her. Alice determines to win the “Surrender,” a test in which the 12-year-old children of Fernwood perform special bits of magic. All who pass are given tasks to complete, matched to their magical abilities. But not only has she not declared the winner, but Alice also fails the test entirely. Despairing, and with few other options, she embarks on a journey to find her father. Luckily — for her, and for this book’s readers — she discovers Furthermore, a place so full of enchanting beauty and topsy-turvy adventure, it even calls to mind Wonderland and Oz. As she sets out on her quest, Alice teams up with Oliver Newbanks, a boy she despises for his rudeness and deceitful nature. But he claims he knows where her father is — and as it turns out, Oliver has been assigned the task of finding him, but needs Alice’s help in order to succeed. It’s Oliver who leads her to Furthermore, where the rules change at every turn and some citizens eat outsiders (yes, as in cannibalism) in order to absorb their magic. Together they travel through various lands of Furthermore — Slumber, Still and the land of Left (which hasn’t had a visitor for 56 years, the land of Right being the more often preferred). Alice struggles to survive, without much thanks to Oliver, who holds his knowledge of Furthermore over Alice’s head, doling it out in bits and pieces only when backed into a corner. There are adventure and danger at every turn, upside-down rules, and twisted logic, but Alice perseveres for the love of her father. In the end, her inner journeys — of self-acceptance and of her developing friendship with Oliver — prove every bit as complex and difficult as the trip through Furthermore.

Yet another marvelous book by author James Dashner! This story takes place after The Kill Order. It tells of Thomas’s life before the Maze, and about his friends. You learn their backgrounds, and there are some very surprising twists in here! The end makes me upset, because someone betrays Thomas, or maybe 2 people betray him, I’m not exactly sure. But in The Death Cure, the very same person/people save Thomas! Anyways, this was an amazing book that is sure to satisfy your Maze Runner questions! Enjoy!

My friend got me this book for my birthday last year. The main characters, Skyler and Emma try to complete a bucket list of daring ideas before high school. I read this book in one day and am looking forward to the sequel, Postcards From Venice in May 2018.

This book captures the sweet rounded feel of summer, along with the sibling rivalry that is hidden beneath all sibling relationships. It captures the harrowing feeling of loss, and the echoes left behind from Molly. It speaks of how much a life can be changed by a simple move, a loss, in a short amount of time. Meg learns what it means to be beautiful. I certainly recommend.

If you are a girl and you have been in middle school or if you are in middle school this book is for you.The book is called my pink and green summer it is by Lisa Greenwald. The book took at the old Mills pharmacy and the pink and green spa. The protagonist is Lucy, she is in 7th grade she is nice,smart and good at makeup. The antagonist is Bevin, she keeps Lucy away from the spa so that she can hang out with Lucy. The first conflict In the book her sister brings her boyfriend home for the summer. Lucy was looking forward to hanging out with her sister but now she can't because she has to hangout with her boyfriend instead. The second conflict is when Lucy friend got a boyfriend to! The whole summer she was hanging out with him so Lucy was left out and had to hang out with Bevin. But thing started to get better for her when she started to give all he attention to Bevin and not her friends and family. I recommend this book to any girls that have been in middle school or are in middle school.

"My Friend Flicka" is the book for all horse lovers! It is heart felt and an amazing story. Highly recomend it for any Horse lover. Not for younger kids, but todally for kids 10+. I also recomend the rest of Mary O'Hara's books. Read them today!

Absolutely magnificent. Lena's spellbinding adventure continues in the second book of the Delirium Trilogy. Without food, without water, and most importantly with her love Alex, Lena staggers through the Wilds, indiscriminately choosing trees and shelter to sleep. For days, she has ventured through the tangled woods. She would give up if her final promise hadn't been to Alex that she would run. So when Lena is found and taken care of by an Invalid named Raven, she can't tell if she is thankful, cautious, or angry. The rest of the story alternates between Lena's gradual recovery in the Wilds and her mission years later back in Portland, with a fake identity. And when Lena meets Julian Fineman, the face of the Deliria-Free America association, when they're captured by Scavengers, her life will be forever changed. In all truth, the first book was okay, but this one was positively magnificent by all standards. Compelling, intriguing, suspenseful, and ending with a cliffhanger, "Pandemonium" kept me up all night just thinking about what would happen in the final installment.

Sealed with a Secret is a book about a girl named Phoebe, who’s sister is leaving for university soon. They don’t get along at all, until Phoebe finds a letter written 70 years ago hidden inside a old but expensive compact at a antique store. The letter contains a spell that can be used to bring two people together. Phoebe decides to try it out with her sister and goes on a scavenger hunt around London, where she lives, to figure out the clues and do them. But in reality, that’s not what she really needed to get her friendship back with her sister, Alice. I like this book, and I would recommend it! :)

This book is about a wizard named Septimus Heap. He is the seventh son of the seventh son and that is supposed to mean he has special magical powers. How the people in his word spell magic is like this "m-a-g-y-k". Septimus is really interested in "physik" and wants to learn how to do it but the only obstacle is that the only person who knew how to do it died hundreds of years ago. Septimus' sister is being haunted by a ghost that is her great great great great great great great great great grandmother (that kills her own daughters ). The ghost wants to get rid of Septimus first so e can't stop her so she puts a curse on him that he will drown that midnight unless he looks into a weird mirror. he looks into the mirror and gets sucked in. The mirror turns out to be a portal between two different times. Septimus gets to learn physik and meet the person who created physik. Then Jenna (Sep's sister) gets sucked into it also and everybody thinks she is the lost princess. Will they get out and survive or will they die in they're past. read what happened before in "Magyk" and "Flyte" then read this book to find out what happens to them. Good luck!

Pictures Of Hollis Woods: written by Patricia Reilly Giff My opinion on this book would be an okay book it wasn't the worst but it wasn't the best. I'm gonna say that multiple people could relate to this, mostly children and young adults can relate. The book is about a little girl named Hollis Woods, she was a little bit on the different side of things, I would say she's more creative. Hollis has been to so many foster homes she can't even remember them all, she had one family that took her in and treated her right they were the best. But her habit got in the way; she ran away she was to blind to see she had a great home, this all means she needs to be picked up by social services. Hollis called the woman mustard lady, the one who brought her to her new home with Josie the former artist with a cat named Henry. Hollis just wanted to go back to her old ways and up and leave or at least try to run away, as much as she didn't want to admit it she loved it there. Through out the book Hollis misses Steven her old foster brother he was the best to her and she couldn't see that behind all the stubbornness. Hollis is kind of a quiet girl but she speaks through her drawings, the drawings and everything is the way that her and Josie get along seeing as Josie was an artist. Josie is very creative as well as Hollis so they got along fine, Josie is more of a go with the flow and nicer laid back foster parent. Hollis is very unique because how many kids these days bringing around a sketch pad all day drawing every little detail that stands out to her. The book is a good one and it's not like your regular basic relation between the author and the reader it's more of a inside and special one because kids that don't have homes or even adopted kids could feel this way so I think it's great. I recommend this book to 6th grade and up, for a person that can relate but also people that don't it's a kinda slow at first but it gets better.