The Graveyard Book

Bod came, as a baby, to an old graveyard after his parents were murdered. He is placed under protection by the ghosts that live there. In the graveyard, he has many adventures. But he isn't allowed to leave. Otherwise he might be killed by Jack- the man who murdered his family.

All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook

Perry lives in prison. Not in a cell or anything, in a room next to a lounge in the jail where his mother lives with other nonviolent offenders. That is, until Thomas VanLeer, a district attorney informed about the situation and decides to grt him out. But Perry likes it in the jail, staying with the prisoners who treat him like their own son. At the VanLeer house, everything is upside down. The ceiling has swirls in the paint instead of being made of square tiles. The VanLeers live differently than he has. And worst of all, Mr. VanLeer won't let him spend uch tie at the visitation days back at prison. His only hope is for his mom to get parole so he can be with her again.

Seekers book 1

Kallik, Toklo, and Lusa have semi-normal lives. Kallik and her brother Taqqiq frolic in the ice, listening to their mother tell the legends of the polar bears. Toklo's mother doesn't have time to tell him stories, spending every day caring for Toklo's sick brother Tobi. Lusa has no siblings, but her best friend, Yogi, of the Bear Bowl (zoo) is like  brother. But all of a sudden, their lives change. Kallik's mother is killed and her brother disappears. Tobi dies and his mother leaves Toklo to fend for himself. And a new bear comes to the Bear Bowl, with stories to tell Lusa... Stories of a sickened, dead cub, of a son abandoned, an apology unsaid. And Lusa sets out to deliver the message.

Warriors: Bluestar's Prophecy

Bluestar wasn't always the wise, collected, and brave leader shown in The Prophecies Begin arc. Once she was an overcurious kit, a rambunctious apprentice, a warrior serving the Clan... a deputy with a terrible secret. A cat trying to protect the Clan from a danger inside their walls- a cat willing to kill for a hair over the border. A cat willing to wage war over a tiny mouse found dead likely not even killed by a cat. A cat willing to do anything to defend the pride of ThunderClan-no matter how many bodies lie in his wake.

Warriors: Into the Wild

      Rusty is a normal housecat. He lives in a nice house, with nice people, and a nice future. But he's always wished for something more. He dreams of living in the forest, catching his own prey. His friend advises him that there's nothing but cannibalistic wildcats in the woods. Rusty thinks differently, and decides to enter. There he meets friends like Graypaw and Ravenpaw, wise mentors like Bluestar and Lionheart, rivals like Sandpaw and Dustpaw, and one mysterious enemy...

March SOL 1

      At least when Sarah sings it it sounds good.

I wish that IS kids understood logic better. Or at least three of them, the ones singing "Part of Your World" at the top of their lungs. If you didn't witness the incident, I won't name any names. It already goes through my head that much. They just make it worse. I had to sing it what feels like a hundred times today. Or at least a few lines. I would like to kill whoever wrote them. They are badly written and we have to sound happy. Now they can walk, Now they can run, Now they can stay all day in the sun. Really? At least those weren't the lines that the little IS kids were singing.

The Original Sin

  Sally Sin, a.k.a. Lucy Parks Hamilton, is an ex-spy for the United States Agency for Weapons of Mass Destruction, or USAWMD. She fell in love and realized that she was mentally tired and just wanted a normal life. Now, several years later, she is happily married with a three year old son. What her husband Will and son Theo don't know is her past. They don't know that she always sits in a coffee shop across from Theo's preschool to make sure that no suspicious figures try to kidnap or kill him. They don't know that she carries a gun with her wherever she goes. They don't know that her deadly arch-nemesis Ian Blackford has just been confirmed alive and looking for her.

Contains violence, mature topics and swearing.

Stars Above

Before the Lunar Chronicles, much backstory remind barely touched by the books.  Stars Above goes into much more detail on those things. What happened to Cinder before she lost her memory? What did Kai think in the meeting in Book 1, Chapter 1? What were Scarlet's, Wolf's, Cress's, Thorne's, and Winter's childhoods like? And what happened once the series was over? Find out in Stars Above. Warning: many spoilers.

Fairest

           Queen Levana is the villain of the Lunar Chronicles. But even antagonists should have a chance to share their own stories.
          Levana was born into the Lunar royal family with two parents and an older sister who thought torturing her- or rather, forcing her to torture herself- was fun. When her parents died, she thought that she might finally get a bit of freedom. But her sister Channary was just as terrible a ruler as their parents were. She then met Evret Hayle, and fell in love with him at first sight. But he was already married, and Levana knew she could never compete with his wife and win. This is the story of an antagonistic villain, and is as sad as so. I also give it a far more mature rating.

" Mirror, mirror, on the wall.

Who is the Fairest of them all?

Come close and I shall tell you a tale-

My Queen's dark secrets I've longed to unveil.

Her greed may have led her to steal and kill,

While her wickedness drove her to break a man's will.

But the greatest tragedy I've yet to expose

Is that she did it all for love...

                                                           so our story goes.

Should my portrayal of the Queen you ever wish to deny,

Know that I'm naught but a mirror. I cannot lie."

Winter

Cinder, Scarlet, and Cress are rebels. Winter is slowly going mad from not using her bioelectric powers. Her stepmother, Queen Levana,  is the queen of Luna (the moon) and is threatening to take control of the earth after that. Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter are the only ones standing in her way.

Cress

Cress is a shell- a Lunar born with no bioelectrical manipulation, or, in simpler words, no Lunar ability to change her appearance and  manipulate others' minds and bodies. She has been allowed to survive because she is an excellent hacker and programmer. She lives on a satellite going around the Earth and moon. When she is given a task by the Moon's Queen Levana to find the sixteen year old rebel Linh Cinder, her accomplice Carswell Thorne, and their friend Scarlet Benoit, she hides them instead. When she receives a comm from them,she finally gets hope of getting out.

Violence but no swearing or mature themes.

Awkward Poems

Prompted poems can be difficult,
Even if they don't come across as an insult.
It may appear that you were raised in barbarism.
So you should practice writing without plagiarism.
Many times you may need to consult an adult.
I need a sentence with catapult.

What If and Escaping Peril

Two for one! Normally I would just do one blog, but Escaping Peril is so awesome it deserves 10000 blogs, and everyone knows I read it 2 weeks ago.

     What If is an amazing, funny book that demonstrates what would happen when someone with extreme scientific knowledge becomes an Internet cartoonist and answers silly hypothetical questions submitted to him. Questions include:

• How much Force power does Yoda have?
• What would happen if you made a Periodic Table of the Elements out of cube bricks of each element?
• What would happen if a pitcher threw a baseball at 90% the speed of light?

     Escaping Peril is book eight of the Wings of Fire series. Peril has lived her whole life killing other dragons. It didn't bother her until she met Clay. Then her whole life went upside down. She was banished from her home, the person she served went missing, and she is expected to be careful of injuring other dragons with her deadly firescales, instead of them watching out for her. Then she meets Turtle on a mission to impress Clay, get redeemed in the eyes of everyone, and have her banishment revoked. The annoying SeaWing is the only one to like her besides Clay (and Sunny, though she finds the SandWing to annoying to consider a friend), and is determined to follow her on the mission. Peril learns to wonder what makes her herself, and what makes a dragon a hero.

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Big Game

Teddy Fitzroy is investigating another crime at FunJungle Zoo. A shot has been fired through the enclosure of a pregnant rhino, and rhino horns are in high demand in the black market. His nemesis, Large Marge, wants to convict him in a candy store robbery, and he has finally been granted permission to investigate, with a threat to his parents' jobs if he doesn't. And Teddy cannot decide between the head cheerleader at school and his friend Summer, daughter of the billionaire who owns it. Which might not be on the same level of importance as catching the attempted murderer before the rhino dies, but it still feels important to him.

Maximum Ride: Schools out-Forever

Maximum Ride is on a mission- to find the families of herself and her friends. Or at least, she was until her friend Fang was injured, they were taken in by an FBI executive, and things generally began spiraling downhill. Now everything is uneasily peaceful. But the Flock is more tense than usual. They have no leads for their parents. And more Erasers- lupine-human hybrids created to destroy avian-human hybrids like the Flock- keep showing up. A Voice inside her head has told her- time and time again- that she is meant to save the world. But how can she start if she doesn't know what she will save it from?

Daydream- SOL 1

  I'm distracted. I can't do work because I can't concentrate. Inside my head, my mind paints a picture. Dragons fight. Not just a duel- a battle, a war, hundreds in my mind. Silver-white and black scales clash in midair. Fire and ice flash in the sky. Both sides are vicious, fighting for nothing but revenge, the cause actually somewhat like one of my mom's Game Of Thrones theories about how a war started. To prevent any spoilers, both in Wings of Fire if the reader reads it (or has read it but has not read Winter Turning yet), and if my mother's theory actually is correct, I won't say why the war started. White IceWings are afraid of what the black NightWings can do, but they keep fighting. NightWings know that they can go extinct in one battle, but they keep fighting. Fighting for loved ones killed and lost. Fighting with such anger they will hate each other for thousands of years to come. They hate, and teach their children to hate, say it was the other's fault. But who's was it really? After a moment, Max taps me on the shoulder, and tells me to get back to work. The daydream is over-at least for now.              

Credit to Joy Ang for the pictures.                                                                            

Carry On

Warning- contains LGBT topics. If you are a homophobe, please accept my advice and go jump in a lake.

     Simon Snow is starting his final year at the Watford School of Magicks, and is generally unhappy with the way the world is currently going.His magic won't work, his girlfriend has broken up with him and seems interested in his enemy, who hasn't even shown up this year. The veil that keeps the living and dead apart is thinning, his enemy the Insidious Humdrum continues to attack the school, and the Old Families demand more money and power.

Fantasy or dystopian book group. They are awesome genres.

Poem

Strangers I don't know,
Saying hello.
I know we must look weird,
Bags full with trash we have cleared.
Their lives are unknown to me,
Living by a forest or  a city without a tree,
Living in the mountains or a house beside the shore.
Were their lives complete, or did they wish for more?
I will never know these strangers' stories.
This poem is for all of them, in their different categories.

The Martian

When Mark Watney is stranded on Mars, he thinks that he will be the first person to die there. Everyone thinks he's dead, and he needs to show the world otherwise. He needs to get off Mars before they are correct. He also needs to get water, find a reliable food source, establish communication with the earth before he starves or dehydrates anyway. But these are all steps in getting off of Mars. This is an epic, humorous story of one man's attempts to survive on the barrn landscape of Mars.

Read my TBR for genres.

Ruby Redfort: Take Your Last Breath

Ruby Redfort is at camp. All her friends believe that it's a family trip. Her parents think that it is a school trip. She didn't tell anyone that, she just gave away enough details for everyone to get those suspicions. In reality, she is going to a scuba camp for Spectrum, the secret agency she belongs to. Spectrum has picked up a case based entirely on suspicion. Teenagers and children hearing mysterious whispers, very, very strange animal behavior, unusual sounds on the radio instead of music, and some waves that are entirely still, and a strange boat that looks like a stereotypical old-fashioned pirate ship, not much is known to be real.