Kids Books - Magic
The Storm in the Barn (Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction)
By Matt Phelan
It's a graphic novel, like a comic book. The story is about a boy named Jack Clark who's family lives in a town where he encounters bullies, dust bowls, no helping his father, and no rain at all. One day Jack wanders into the abandoned Talbot farm and finds a man that's face looked like rain. Soon he figures out that was the rain in a different form and Jack wanted to bring the rain back. So he faced the rain, then took the tote bag that brought rain but he got caught by the rain and soon they both started to tug it. But then the bag ripped and then the sky started to crackle and boom! The rain fell from the sky again and his father lets Jack help bring back the crops.
Breadcrumbs
By Anne Ursu
Warning! This review contains spoilers! Hazel and Jack are best friends. But Jack starts acting weird, and ditches Hazel. Hazel is absolutely devastated. Then Jack goes missing, and Hazel sets out to find him. What I thought of it: I didn't get it. Hazel was just annoying. She was always complaining. She completely overreacted when Jack started being "mean" to her. She was really dependent on Jack, and I found that slightly creepy. I couldn't bring myself to really like her even a little bit. Hazel's mom was annoying too. She tried to shove Hazel into a friendship with some girl, and Hazel just went along with it. She didn't really seem concerned at all when Hazel was complaining about Jack's weird behavior. She basically just saw it as a chance for Hazel to just forget about him and make friends that are girls. The writing style was awful. It was very descriptive, and that got really old really fast. The author used a lot of metaphors that didn't really make sense. It was extremely annoying. The only 2 characters that I actually liked were Jack and that girls uncle. Jack seemed like a really cool guy. Hazel really didn't deserve him. The uncle was really awesome. I didn't understand how Jack's parents thought that he was visiting his aunt. Were they under a spell? It was extremely boring. The first part seemed like Realistic fiction, but the second part seemed like Fantasy. That really annoyed me. Hazel's trip through the woods was boring, and it seems like it would never end. She meets a lot of people, and none of them turn out to be how she thought they'd be. The moral of the story seemed to be that you can't REALLY be friends with someone of the opposite gender without complications, and that it's better to stick with friends that are the same gender because if you have a friend of the opposite gender it's inevitable that you'll drift apart. I thought that was down right stupid. I could barely finish reading this, and I thought about stopping and never finishing it because I didn't really care how it ended. I had high hopes for this book. I read a lot of reviews praising it for how wonderful it was. I honestly don't know why everyone loves this book, and thinks it's so beautiful. Overall I hated it. This one of the worst books I've read in a while. Which is why I had to review. I need to save people. There was one girl who I told how much I hated it and she said she wouldn't read it. Everyone who didn't like this book, review. We could be the superheroes of literature.
Alienated
By Andrew Auseon
That seems sort of creepy... But I really want to read it. I'm first! Whoo!
Ghost Town (Saranormal)
By Phoebe Rivers
I really liked this book. I think it is interesting what happens to her. I would like to read this whole series to so I definitely suggest this book.
The Always War
By Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Always War is about a place where there has been a war forever or always? The main character is Tessa and Gideon. But to be honest I didn't think the ending of the book was amazing it was ok?
Wolven: Book 1
By Di Toft
This book is amazing! I never heard of wolvens before but they seem like really cool creatures. Reading books like Fantasy kinda sometimes change my perspective on things. For this ones, it's wolves. I really like how the author reversed werewolves and made it into his/her own species. I want to read the other books, but until then Wolven is by far my favorite.
Impostor: A Variants Novel
By Susanne Winnacker
I can really tell you that this was the best book in the entire world. I mean how the pages kept you wanting to read more I mean it was suspenseful. I really recommend this book for everybody who thinks they can handle it. This was the best book so far so I really suggest you get this book and read it. I love this book!!!!!!!!
Always October
By Bruce Coville
Warning! This review contains spoilers! Jake's dad left one day, and never came back. Lily's parents abandon her, so she lives with her grandfather. Lily and Jake are best friends. One day Jake find's a baby on his door step, and his mother decides to keep it until they can find its parents. It turns out that the baby turns into a monster on the full moon. What I thought of it: Normally I hate books where kid's dads leave (it turns out his dad really didn't leave), but this one was surprisingly good. Jake and Lily were both great characters. The plot was good and interesting, and the end was unexpected. But I wish they hadn't kept the baby. Overall (despite the fact I normally don't read these kinds of books) it was really good.
Growing Wings
By Laurel Winter
Nikki2014
When I started reading this book I immediately got sucked in. If you ever believe in flying you will definitely like this book.









