Happy birthday, Kendra!!! <33

Title of the book: The Night Tourist Author: Katherine Marsh Series: Jack Perdu Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Myth Short summary of the story: Jack is a lover of the classics and of Latin and when he one day suffers from what should have been a fatal accident, he realizes that the way he begins t...

Title of the book: A Monster Calls Author: Patrick Ness Genres: Young Adult Short summary of the story: Conor wakes up discovering a monster outside his house in the shape of the Yew tree out back. This monster wants to tell him stories. Conor has another monster from his nightmare that terrifies hi...

From A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness:

Cloud Cuckoo Land

I finished a book this afternoon called The Girl Who Fell from Earth by Sofia Al-Maria. It's about a girl who is half American and half Bedouin. She struggles with figuring out who she is in the world between her two families, the one in the US and the one in Qatar. The cultures are very different a...

I also love list making! I make priority lists of what needs to be done and what can stay more optional. I balance HOL and RL this way. RL stuff always comes first of course, but a lot of my HOL duties are very important to me. Point opportunities, RQT and anything in house (Go Bronze Nest!) keep up...

Happy birthday, Asta!!

I just saw. The game releases on April 25th this year! That's in less than two weeks? Are you all ready to play it? I know I am! The footage of it that I saw looks so cool and apparently they have the actors from the movie voicing their respective roles in the game as well! How exciting is this? I'm...

Title of the book: Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) Authors: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Genres: Children's Fiction Short summary of the story: The narrator of the story meets a little prince who has fallen to Earth from another planet and he recounts to the pilot his adventures and the lessons he h...

*Which team will score the last goal? Slytherin
*The first question will be from which book? Order of the Phoenix
*How many Bludgers will the Seekers hit? 2

I finished another book with a collection of short stories based around African American history and oral storytelling. It's called The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural by Patricia C. McKissack. The stories are meant to be told at the time where it's neither night or day. Somewhere ar...

I definitely agree with your assumptions on the length of the books/book in the case of Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. I think I would really like to see the story told from Professor Snape's point of view. He became one of my favorite characters in Deathly Hallows, but I had always been interest...

Madeline, The days here are longer than the ones we had back home. My parents are gone working in the camps, and I'm left here holding onto Benny, the only thing I have left of you from before we left. I wonder what you are studying now at school? Have they moved on to algebra yet? You always loved ...

Our story begins on a dark stormy night as our travelers depart for a land far away, a land made up of stories from nightmares. The carriage picked up speed as the horses stumbled down the path. The luggage they once carried falling out of the back, our two heroes caring less for the bags as they di...

It was the end of the last day before the warlords took over our land. I stood in silent wait wondering how and what I would say to my people who hoped, prayed desperately for some sort of answer than the one I was about to give them. But what could I tell them except the truth? We had no way to def...

Title of the book: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane Author: Kate DiCamillo Genres: Children's Fiction Short summary of the story: Edward Tulane is a china rabbit given as a gift to a girl by her grandmother, but Edward does not know how to love even though the little girl greatly loves him. D...

I decided to go ahead and read Coraline next so I could understand the similarities others were seeing with it and Alice in Wonderland . Truthfully, I only saw mild similarities in comparison with when I read The Spindlers . While Coraline does involve this "other" world where we see a tal...

Title of the book: The Forests of Silence Authors: Emily Rodda Series: Deltora Quest Genres: Children's Fantasy Short summary of the story: The kingdom has always been defended from the Shadow Lord by the Belt of Deltora but as the ruler begins to unknowingly fall into the Shadow Lord's trap, the Sh...

There are different kinds of mystery novels out there for us to read such as the kind that are based on conspiracy such as Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code and detective novels such as the Nancy Drew series by Carolyn Keene to name a couple. I was curious as to which sort of mystery would fall under you...