Friday, December 23, 2011

The Chronicals of Narnia By C.S.Lewis

The Chronicals of Narnia
The Magicians Nephew: Digory and Polly meet and become quite good friends. Their lives take an interesting twist as Digory's uncle who thinks he is a magician sends them to..... somewhere else. They find their way to Narnia,born by the words of a lion and meet the evil sorceress, Jadis before they find their way home.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: When Peter, Lucy, Susan, and Edmond open a wardrobe door, they find a land called Narnia and the adventure begins. When they find out that they are part of an important prophecy, and must fight the evil sorceress and defeat her to win Narnia's freedom, they have trouble deciding.. which path will they take?
The Horse and His Boy: During the Golden Age of Narnia, when Peter is High King, a young boy, Shasta, finds out that he is not the son of a local Calormene fisherman and embarks on a quest to find out who his real father is.
Prince Caspian: Peter,Susan,Lucy,and Edmond are back at boarding school,when form the local train station are summoned to Narnia to help Prince Caspian battle Miraz to claim his throne.
Voyage of the Dawn Treader: The Dawn Treader is the first ship Nrnia has seen in years.King Caspian built it for a voyage to find the Seven Lords, good men who his evil uncle banished years ago. This journey takes Edmond, Lucy, their cousin Eustace, and Caspian to the Eastern Islands, beyond the Silver Sea, and toward Aslan's Country at the End of the World.
The Silver Chair: Eustace and Jill are summoned by Aslan to fight the wicked sorceress, Jadis, It is the only way to save Prince Rilian.
The Last Battle: When a false Aslan roams the land, Eustace and Jill must find the real Aslan and restore peace to the land. Who is the false Aslan? And who is the real one?



More Single Books


Powerless
As Daniel and his family drive to their new house, they spot a sign that says, "Welcome to Noble's Green-The Safest Town on Earth." Couldn't have sounded lamer. But Daniels new friends, who tend to disappear mysteriously, are far from lame. In fact, Daniel learns that eack of them has a power, a SUPERpower!! One can fly, one can turn invisable, and one can even control electricity! These superkids watch over Noble's Green, whiile the residents enjoy their "Safest town on Earth." But when each of the superkids turns 13, their powers mysteriously disappear! Why? Can David figure it out?

Matched
In Cassia's world, the officials decide who you love, where you work, and where you die. Before now, she has always trusted their decisions, until her Matching Banquet when her best friends face appears on the screen, but when another face appears... Cassia is faced with two impossible choices, between Xander and Ky. Between to paths no one has ever dared to follow. The path between perfection and passion.

The Phantom Tolbooth By Norton Juster
For Milo, everything is boring. when a tolbooth appears in his room, he drives through and learns from a watchdog named Tock that life is more than dull. In fact it's beyond you're wildest dreams.

Fairest
Ava's singing is the fairest in the land. She can throw it so it can seem to come from anywhere! But singing is only one of the two qualities prized in the kingdom of Ayortha. Ava doesn't posses the other, beauty. Not even close. She has been hiding in her parents inn, but when she becomes the queens lady in waiting, she must step into the light, especially when the queen demands a dangerous favor.  A magic mirrior, a charming prince, a jealous queen, palace intrigue, and an injured king twine into a maze that Ava must find her way through to save herself and her kingdom.

Middleworld
14 year old Max Murphy is furious when his parents cancel the family vacation to go on an arceoly dig in South America, but when Max is summoned to join them, he finds that they have vanished!! With the help of a fast thinking, quick thinking Mayan girl, he embarks on a quest to find out what is going on. Can he survive?????

Materpiece
Marvin lives with his family under the Pompaday's kitchen sink. He is very much a beetle. James lives with his mom, stepdad, and baby brother in New York City. He is very much an 11 year old boy. When James gets a pen and ink set for his birthday, and Marvin creates an elaborate drawing for James. Jame's parents are in awe and when Jame's gets all the credit for the drawing. Before they know it, these two friends get caught up in an art heist! Can they find the thief??

The Secret of Platform 13
Under Platform 13 in one of Londons busiesttrain stations is an old doorway covered with peeling posters. Behind is the entrance to a magical kingdom, an island where humans live happily with mermaids, ogres, and mysterious creatures called mist makers. When a woman captures the island's young prince, it's up to a  strange band of rescuers. Can they do it?

The Witches
Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of living creatures on Earth. There is nothing they hate more than childeren and they work lots of terrible spells to get rid of them. Her grandson listens carefully, but nothing can  prepare him for the day when he must come face to face with The Grand High Witch herself!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Books That Aren't in a Series

Pepermints in the Parlor
What has happened to Uncle Twice and why is Aunt Twice a servant in her own home?? How did Emily who arrives as the heir to Sugar Hill Hall get to be a kitchen slave? Why is the mansion now a spooky old peoples home under the harsh direction of Mrs.Meecing? Can Emily find out?
Three Against the Tide
When Susanna's father is called away to be a doctor in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, she must take care of  her two little brothers, Neddie and Samuel, and the Plantation. But when Yankie soldiers invade the island, the must go to their house in Charleston. But when that house catches fire and burns to the ground, Susanna decides she must turn against the tide and find their father.
Holes
Stanley Yelnat is under a curse. A curse that started with his no-good-dirty-rotten great grandfather that has haunted the following generations of the Yelnats. Now he has been sent to  a boys detention camp  called Camp Green Lake where all they do is dig holes exactly 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep. It doesn't take Stanley very long to relize that the boys aren't just digging hole to improve character, they are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be burried in aa dried up lake? When Stanley tries to find out......

Flipped
Bryce: My mom didn't understand why it was so awful that "that cute little girl" had held my hand. She thought I should be friends with her! "You like soccer. Why don't you go kick the ball around?"  Because I don't want to be kicked around, that's why! And although I couldn't say it like that at the time, I still had enough sense at seven and a half to know that Julianna Baker was dangerous.
Julianna(Julie): What did a kiss feel like anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like that one Mom and Dad gave me at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, like a wolf and a whippet.  Only science would put them under the same tree. Looking back, I like to think that it was partly scientific curiosity that made me chase after that kiss from Bryce Loski, but it was probably mostly those blue eyes.
Millicent Min: Girl Genius
When she gets moved up to high-school at age 11. her fellow 11 year olds hate her for going to high-school and her fellow high-school students hate her for being different. Then when her mom signes her up for volleyball things go from bad to worse. Next, she has to tutor Stanford Wong, jerk, jock. Worse to HORRIBLE!!!!  When she meets Emily, things lighten up and she might make her first friend!!  But she has to hide all evidence that she is in high-school at age 11. What it going to take?  Sheer Genius!

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Percy Jasckson and the Olympians

The Lightning Thief
Percy is the son of a god. When he is attacked by his his math teacher(acctually a monster) and the minotaur, he is rushed to a special camp for the children of the Greek Gods. At camp, he learns to fight with a real sword and shoot a bow and arrow. When Zeus's lightning bolt gets stolen, he has to find the thief with two friends, Grover and Annabeth, by the Summer Solstice!!

The Sea of Monsters
When Percy gets another quest, this time to find the Golden Fleece because the tree that proects the camp from monster and mortal is dying and that is the only thing that can save it.
Percy Jackson has to go on a dangerous quest to rescue his friend Annabeth Case and the Greek goddess Artemis, who have both been kidnapped.

The Battle of the Labyrinth
When Percy has to stop Luke and his army from invading Camp Half-Blood through Daedalus's labyrinth by trying to find Daedalus and convince him not to give Luke Adriane's String, which would help Luke through the Labyrinth.


 The Last Olympian
Percy Jackson leads his friends in a last stand to protect Mount Olympus against the Titans. This is also the book where Percy and Annabeth start dating !!!(for all of you who have been waiting for this!!!)

The Heros of Olympus Series By Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero
Jason has a problem. He can't remember anything. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper and a best friend named Leo.
Piper has a secret. Her father a famous actor has been missing for three days and she doen't understand why her boyfriend wakes up from a nap and doesn't remember her.
Leo has a way with tools. Apparently, he is related to Hepheastus, the god of metal and forges. Does this have to do with Jason's amneisa or the fact that he keeps seeing ghosts?

The Son of Neptune
Percy is Confused. When he woke up, he didn't know anything accept his name. The only thing he can recall from his past is another name: Annabeth.
Hazel is supposed to be dead. When she lived before, she didn't do a very good job. She almost unleashed the most powerful giant. Now, the future of the world is at risk, because of her. She wishes she could ride away on  the stallion that appears in her dreams.
Frank is a klutz. His grandmother says he can be anything he wants to be, but he doesn't see it. He feels so bulky, especially in front of Hazel, his closest friend, maybe even close enough to tell her secret.

Harry Potter Series By J.K. Rowling


The Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter has never even dreamed of being the star of a Quidditch team, riding a broomstick 50 ft. of the ground, learning to cast spells to make things float, hatching a dragon, or getting an invisibility cloak for Christmas!  But when he is accepted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry, he does all of those things!!!  There he finds friends and magic in everyday things, such as eating and going to school!! He also finds a great destiny, if he can survive the encounter!! 

The Chamber of Secrets
When Harry's 2nd year begins, everything goes smoothly until he hears hissing in the walls and is framed for killing the caretakers cat and writing in blood on the wall.  Can he survive killing the monster and still have the stregth to rescue his best friends sister??

The Prisoner of Azkaban
An evil wizard has just broken out of unbreakable wizard prison, Azkaban, and when he is supposed to be hiding in Hogwarts, everyone goes into a riot. This year, can Harry survive a werewolf attack and the joy and shock that he has a godfather?? 

The Goblet of Fire
While Harry is 14, he nearly gets killed by Death Eaters and a angry dragon. While all this is happening, he is having problems with an annoying reporter and trying to survive the Triwizard Tournament as the illegal fourth competiter. Can he do it??


The Order of the Pheonix
When Dumbledore is replaced as headmaster by a sassy pink freak, things get out of  hand.  When this new headmaster, who also teaches Defence Against the Dark Arts, doesn't teach tham anything, he formes a club, Dumbledores Army, and teaches students in a secret place what he knows about defending themselves.  But when Cho- Chang, his secret crush kisses him they are found out and.....

The Half- Blood Prince
When Harry gets a beat up potions book that has "This book belongs to the Half- Blood Prince" written in it, and corrections written in it, he becomes top student. He also finds a spell in the book says to only use on enemies, he uses it on Draco and almost kills him. Who is the Half- Blood Prince??  Then He- who- must- not- be-named attacks Hogwarts, Dumbledore dies and leaves Harry a mission. Can he fufill the task?

The Deathly Hallows
Harry does not go to school, instead he trys to destroy Voldemort and almost dies in the process!  In this epic story full of drama, romance and danger, it is the best one yet!!!!