In “The Land of Stories, The Enchantress Returns” by Chris Colfer, the Bailey twins are back with a new adventure. The twins are now turning thirteen and life gets more crazy. First, their mother goes missing and they are locked in their house by their grandmother, the Fairy Godmother. Finding out that their mother may be in the fairytale world, Alex and Conner Bailey escape to find another way back into the fairy tale world. Their grandmother is keeping watch of the treasured fairytale book so the Bailey twins stay in the mortal world. In order to save their mother from the clutches of the Evil Enchantress who once put Sleeping Beauty to sleep for one hundred years. They take this treacherous journey with Froggy, Jack, Goldilocks, and Red Riding Hood. In the end they defeat the Evil Enchantress, save their mother, Cinderella's daughter and think that this is their last adventure.
“The Land of Stories, The Enchantress Returns” by Chris Colfer is a part of an extraordinary and exciting series. The Bailey twins try to live “normal” lives but magic is in their blood and still finds a way to mix up their life even when they think they don’t want it. Alex Bailey has always dreamed of living and meeting her fairy tale heroes. She was the straight A student and teacher per. At the end of the story her grandmother asks if she would want to be the next Fairy Godmother and Alex says yes. However her twin brother Connor has other plans. He has always been the prankster show more and class clown. While his sister is now going to grow up in the fairytale world, Connor tries to live a “normal” life, we’ll see how long that lasts. show less
“The Land of Stories, The Enchantress Returns” by Chris Colfer is a part of an extraordinary and exciting series. The Bailey twins try to live “normal” lives but magic is in their blood and still finds a way to mix up their life even when they think they don’t want it. Alex Bailey has always dreamed of living and meeting her fairy tale heroes. She was the straight A student and teacher per. At the end of the story her grandmother asks if she would want to be the next Fairy Godmother and Alex says yes. However her twin brother Connor has other plans. He has always been the prankster show more and class clown. While his sister is now going to grow up in the fairytale world, Connor tries to live a “normal” life, we’ll see how long that lasts. show less
“The Land of Stories, Wishing Spell” by Chris Colfer tells about an extraordinary fairytale adventure of twins who thought they were “normal”. Alex and Conner Bailey think they’re any other sixth graders. However on their twelfth birthday, a year after their dad dies, they receive a treasured fairytale book from their grandmother. When the twins least expect it they plunge into the book and into a world you thought you could only dream about where fairy tales are real. In order to be able to return home they must find the ingredients of the Wishing Spell. Through the rush to get home the Bailey twins don’t realize that they have a fierce competitor for the Wishing Spell, the Evil Queen. Along the way they meet Froggy, fairies, Red Riding Hood, goblins, trolls and many more.
“The Land of Stories, Wishing Spell” by Chris Colfer is a book that every child dreams of, to meet they’re fairytale heros. I loved this book because it tells of the Bailey twins who think that they have lost everything. They lost their dad, house and bookstore. So when their thrust into the fairytale world they find out that they are lucky to have the things they do have now and later. At the end they didn’t get the wishing spell and the Evil Queen is trapped in a mirror they meet the Fairy Godmother. They realize that the Fairy Godmother is their grandmother, which lightens their future for them.
“The Land of Stories, Wishing Spell” by Chris Colfer is a book that every child dreams of, to meet they’re fairytale heros. I loved this book because it tells of the Bailey twins who think that they have lost everything. They lost their dad, house and bookstore. So when their thrust into the fairytale world they find out that they are lucky to have the things they do have now and later. At the end they didn’t get the wishing spell and the Evil Queen is trapped in a mirror they meet the Fairy Godmother. They realize that the Fairy Godmother is their grandmother, which lightens their future for them.
“Brown Girl Dream” is an autobiography by Jacqueline Woodson. This book tell us how Jacqueline grew up in the north and south in the 1960s and 1970s. She grew up in a time when white people still didn’t see that black people are equal to them. During this time was also when the civil rights movement started. When reading Jacqueline’s poems about her journey going from north to south and back again she begins to be aware of the civil rights movement. She tells us through her writing that she was able to keep looking forward when she wrote as a child. Even when Jacqueline lost those she loved, she was able to turn to something.
“Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson is a book that makes you really think about the world around you. She tells her story on how it was like to still be treated lower than white people and that they didn’t trust black people. As I was reading I thought about how people still haven’t changed a lot, they still don’t trust every black person. I read on the news that two black people were arrested at Starbucks because they weren’t buying anything. When I heard this I realized that people don’t always change as much as we think. I loved this book because it told a story of a girl growing up when the world was a bit harsher than it is today. When you read this book it opens your eyes to something Maya Angelou said, “We are more alike my friends than we are unalike.”
“Brown Girl Dreaming” by Jacqueline Woodson is a book that makes you really think about the world around you. She tells her story on how it was like to still be treated lower than white people and that they didn’t trust black people. As I was reading I thought about how people still haven’t changed a lot, they still don’t trust every black person. I read on the news that two black people were arrested at Starbucks because they weren’t buying anything. When I heard this I realized that people don’t always change as much as we think. I loved this book because it told a story of a girl growing up when the world was a bit harsher than it is today. When you read this book it opens your eyes to something Maya Angelou said, “We are more alike my friends than we are unalike.”
“A Wrinkle In Time” by Madeleine L’Engle is about Meg Murry and how she found out that there are bigger things than her in the universe and they could destroy her easily along with the rest of the people on Earth. Meg Murry’s father disappeared four years ago without a trace. Many people around her think that her father deserted his family or is dead. So when her brother, Charles Wallace introduces her to the Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, Mrs. Which and Cal, she gets into the adventure of a lifetime where she saves her father. There is a dangerous thing that the Mrs. call IT, IT has taken almost every planet in the universe, even Earth. The tesser which means which means that their taking a shortcut through space at the speed of light. Meg does everything in her path to save the people she loves. So in the end Meg saves her father, Cal and Charles Wallace from being controlled form IT.
“A Wrinkle In Time” by Madeleine L’Engle is a book that makes you think about science, math, Einstein and the impossible. Madeleine L’Engle makes us believe that the impossible is not really impossible at all. During her speech in August 1963 she says, “A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” She made us believe along with many others that anybody can do what we thought impossible. “A Wrinkle In Time” also tells us that people may be worlds show more apart but their bond is stronger than anything else in this world. This book can inspire and create geniuses, writers, poets and many others too. I loved this book because it wasn’t just an amazing adventure but an adventure to tell us that nothing, nothing is impossible, if you believe. show less
“A Wrinkle In Time” by Madeleine L’Engle is a book that makes you think about science, math, Einstein and the impossible. Madeleine L’Engle makes us believe that the impossible is not really impossible at all. During her speech in August 1963 she says, “A book, too, can be a star, explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.” She made us believe along with many others that anybody can do what we thought impossible. “A Wrinkle In Time” also tells us that people may be worlds show more apart but their bond is stronger than anything else in this world. This book can inspire and create geniuses, writers, poets and many others too. I loved this book because it wasn’t just an amazing adventure but an adventure to tell us that nothing, nothing is impossible, if you believe. show less
“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” by J.K. Rowling is the sequel to “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”. It’s Harry’s second year at Hogwarts and there is something unusual about this particular year. Before the next school year Harry meets a house elf named Dobby, who warns Harry that he is in grave danger and shouldn’t return to Hogwarts. Harry doesn't listen to Dobby because he says that Hogwarts is his new home since his Aunt, Uncle and cousin treated him like nothing for 11 years of his life. However, on the first day of Hogwarts, Harry and his best friend Ron try to go to platform 9 ¾ but they can’t get through the barrier. When they get to Hogwarts by using Ron’s Dad’s flying car they learn that the Chamber of Secrets is real and opened. Harry learns he can speaks to snakes. So when Hermione, Ron and Harry find out that the monster in the Chamber of Secrets is a gigantic snake, they use Harry’s abilities and defeat the monster along with Tom Riddle or Lord Voldemort who placed his soul in a notebook where he was released.
“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” by J.K. Rowling is a book where all your imagination about witches, wizards and magic come true. The Harry Potter series makes you believe that even if magic is not real it comes to life in J.K. Rowling's books. Sometimes reality is hard because it's full of famine, war, pollution and global warming. However, when you read a good book you feel like you leave reality show more into your imagination, magic, adventure and excitement when you can’t have in reality. Reality definitely isn’t perfect but it something that can brighten in the darkest of times. It can become bright in darkness when you have faith and imagination. I put off reading Harry Potter because I didn’t know how I would like it. When I did eventually read it, I thought to myself, that the best books sometime are the ones you put aside and forget. show less
“Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” by J.K. Rowling is a book where all your imagination about witches, wizards and magic come true. The Harry Potter series makes you believe that even if magic is not real it comes to life in J.K. Rowling's books. Sometimes reality is hard because it's full of famine, war, pollution and global warming. However, when you read a good book you feel like you leave reality show more into your imagination, magic, adventure and excitement when you can’t have in reality. Reality definitely isn’t perfect but it something that can brighten in the darkest of times. It can become bright in darkness when you have faith and imagination. I put off reading Harry Potter because I didn’t know how I would like it. When I did eventually read it, I thought to myself, that the best books sometime are the ones you put aside and forget. show less
“Enchanted Air” by Margarita Engle is about a girl born in one country but belongs in another. Margarita Engle wrote a memoir about how she grew up in two worlds, Los Angeles and Cuba. However, at this time a revolution breaks out and Margarita wonders if she will ever see her mother's beautiful country ,Cuba, ever again. From 1951 to 1965 Margarita leads us through an adventure telling us how she lived in both worlds but was not allowed to go to Cuba.The world where there once was blue sky, magical plants and animals. Cuba was like this before the revolution and restriction of going came. At the end of the book Margarita tells us that even if she wasn’t allowed to go she hoped, wished and somehow know that the future will be bright and she will someday return to her childhood island.
“Enchanted Air” by Margarita Engle is a book that makes you think twice about the people around you. Everybody is different and there is no “normal”. Everybody has a different definition of normal, so there is none, everybody is unique in their own way. I liked this book because Margarita Engle didn’t give up hope on that she may or never will return to her beautiful island, Cuba. She knew there was a chance she may never go back but did she give up, no. Margarita is a person who lived in two different worlds but that didn’t stop her from being both girls, the one who lived an adventurous life in Cuba and the smart girl in Los Angeles, USA. So, look more carefully at the show more people you meet because you may surprise yourself on what you learn about that specific person. show less
“Enchanted Air” by Margarita Engle is a book that makes you think twice about the people around you. Everybody is different and there is no “normal”. Everybody has a different definition of normal, so there is none, everybody is unique in their own way. I liked this book because Margarita Engle didn’t give up hope on that she may or never will return to her beautiful island, Cuba. She knew there was a chance she may never go back but did she give up, no. Margarita is a person who lived in two different worlds but that didn’t stop her from being both girls, the one who lived an adventurous life in Cuba and the smart girl in Los Angeles, USA. So, look more carefully at the show more people you meet because you may surprise yourself on what you learn about that specific person. show less
“Pay it Forward” by Catherine Ryan Hyde is about a twelve year old boy named Trevor who literally changed the world. Trevor was given a extra credit assignment on how to change the world from his Social Studies teacher, Mr. St. Clair. Trevor decided with an idea called, Pay it Forward. His idea was that you do good deeds for three people. Then those three people each do good deeds for another three people. Which caused a ripple effect around the world. So Trevor exceeded his assignment because his idea made the national crime rate drop.
“Pay it Forward” by Catherine Ryan Hyde is a book that makes you think about our world a little more. After reading this book, I really did learn something about kindness and the world. I learned that even just one act of kindness can change the world. “Pay it Forward” teaches us that we can change the world with one simple good act. No matter how old, young, short or tall we are, we are capable of anything. We don’t just change the world with our actions we change ourselves. So when you do read “Pay it Forward” remember that nobody is holding you back on your idea to change the world for the better. It even inspired me.
“Pay it Forward” by Catherine Ryan Hyde is a book that makes you think about our world a little more. After reading this book, I really did learn something about kindness and the world. I learned that even just one act of kindness can change the world. “Pay it Forward” teaches us that we can change the world with one simple good act. No matter how old, young, short or tall we are, we are capable of anything. We don’t just change the world with our actions we change ourselves. So when you do read “Pay it Forward” remember that nobody is holding you back on your idea to change the world for the better. It even inspired me.
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, by J.K Rowling is about a not so ordinary 11 year old boy named Harry Potter. He just thinks he’s an ordinary boy living with his cruel Aunt, Uncle and Cousin. Harry doesn't know and doesn't realize that he’s a famous wizard who stopped “He-who-must-not-be-named”, or also known as Lord Voldemort. On Harry’s eleventh birthday he gets a strange letter from a owl messenger, saying that he is a young wizard that is now eligible to attend Hogwarts, a wizarding school. He is shocked and along the way he meets new friend and foes. Towards the end of the school year Harry faces Lord Voldemort, who possesses his Defense against Arts teacher, but with the help of his friends he defeats Lord Voldemort once again. After all that Harry can not wait for his second year at Hogwarts.
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, by J.K Rowling was a book that made you feel that soon you would get a letter from Hogwarts saying that you can go. I think it also makes you feel that you can do anything even playing quidditch. Many people have told me to read “Harry Potter” because they also enjoyed how they felt that they were right there living Harry's adventures as their own. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone” is book that I really liked because sometimes you want to escape this world into a world full of magic and excitement. I think that “Harry Potter” teaches us that even in the most devastating situation, never give show more up. So I encourage those who have not read “Harry Potter” because I don’t think you will ever regret reading it. I regret not reading some books sooner, like “Harry Potter” because sometimes the best books are ones that you put aside on not reading. show less
“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone”, by J.K Rowling was a book that made you feel that soon you would get a letter from Hogwarts saying that you can go. I think it also makes you feel that you can do anything even playing quidditch. Many people have told me to read “Harry Potter” because they also enjoyed how they felt that they were right there living Harry's adventures as their own. “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone” is book that I really liked because sometimes you want to escape this world into a world full of magic and excitement. I think that “Harry Potter” teaches us that even in the most devastating situation, never give show more up. So I encourage those who have not read “Harry Potter” because I don’t think you will ever regret reading it. I regret not reading some books sooner, like “Harry Potter” because sometimes the best books are ones that you put aside on not reading. show less
“Etched in Clay”, by Andrea Cheng is about a enslaved potter named Dave. Dave was a excellent potter but was a slave sometime before 1818 that could read and write. He wasn't afraid to write on the side of his great jars, rebelling against slavery silently yet making his voice heard around the world. “Etched in Clay” also tells the story of Dave’s life with his master's, family and friends. During Dave’s life he lost a leg, had two wives and had five masters. With his first master at the age of 17 he learned how to make great big jars and found to love pottery. Even after the Civil war he had nothing to do and know where to go, he still went to the turning house to figure out what kind of jar he was going to make that day until he died.
“Etched in Clay”, is a story that tells about a time where people owned people and where we were once divided. This book may be full historic fact poems but it tells us so much about our past and how we have grown in this modern day world. When I think back to this particular time with slavery I even imagine what my life would be like if the Union didn’t win the war. I think this book can connect us to Dave and the past because Dave was fighting against slavery silently and strong. Taking a risk so boldly knowing that you get could die because of it, that is what made Dave stand out, that is inspiration telling us, “Don’t sit around and watch, take action in what you believe is right.” After thinking hard about I show more know that if I were Dave I wouldn’t know what to do but I think I would do just the same. So “Etched in Clay” is inspiring and telling us a lesson without realizing it, we, can change the world. show less
“Etched in Clay”, is a story that tells about a time where people owned people and where we were once divided. This book may be full historic fact poems but it tells us so much about our past and how we have grown in this modern day world. When I think back to this particular time with slavery I even imagine what my life would be like if the Union didn’t win the war. I think this book can connect us to Dave and the past because Dave was fighting against slavery silently and strong. Taking a risk so boldly knowing that you get could die because of it, that is what made Dave stand out, that is inspiration telling us, “Don’t sit around and watch, take action in what you believe is right.” After thinking hard about I show more know that if I were Dave I wouldn’t know what to do but I think I would do just the same. So “Etched in Clay” is inspiring and telling us a lesson without realizing it, we, can change the world. show less
“A Snicker of Magic”, by Natalie Lloyd is about Felicity Juniper Pickle. Felicity had been over six states across the country. She has just moved to Midnight Gulch, Tennessee with her mother, her sister and her dog, Biscuit. Felicity has been moving her entire life and she is hoping this move, to Midnight Gulch, will be last move for a while. When they reached Midnight Gulch, Felicity went to live with her Aunt Cleo, she made friends with The Beetle, AKA Jonah Pickett and learned about The Brothers Threadbare. Felicity also met her Uncle Boone for the first time, figured out a mystery that she was related to The Brothers Threadbare and what Isabella Thistle took from the Brothers Threadbare. At the very end Felicity joined the Stoneberry Dual and found out that she is staying in Midnight Gulch.
“A Snicker Of Magic”, was a story that I could definitely relate on. I have moved seven times in my life. I really liked this book because it makes you think twice of all the people that you know have moved a lot or is in the military. I also like this book because it tells a story about a girl with her sister and mom, and how she has to grow up moving everywhere, all the time. “A Snicker of Magic” also tells us that even when Felicity’s father left five years before they moved to Midnight Gulch, she is staying strong and hoping with all her heart that Midnight Gulch is her last move. I love that in the end Felicity is finally home, sweet home. So the magic in show more Midnight Gulch, Tennessee never left, it just needed someone to stir and dig up the magic again. show less
“A Snicker Of Magic”, was a story that I could definitely relate on. I have moved seven times in my life. I really liked this book because it makes you think twice of all the people that you know have moved a lot or is in the military. I also like this book because it tells a story about a girl with her sister and mom, and how she has to grow up moving everywhere, all the time. “A Snicker of Magic” also tells us that even when Felicity’s father left five years before they moved to Midnight Gulch, she is staying strong and hoping with all her heart that Midnight Gulch is her last move. I love that in the end Felicity is finally home, sweet home. So the magic in show more Midnight Gulch, Tennessee never left, it just needed someone to stir and dig up the magic again. show less
“The Alchemyst”, by Michael Scott, is about Sophie and Josh Newman. One day Sophie and Josh were working at a bookstore and coffee shop when they experienced magic, golems, Dr.Dee, The Codex, Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel. When Sophie and Josh are mixed up in the battle between Nicholas Flamel and Dr.Dee, for the powerful Codex, they find out that they are part of a very powerful legend that says they can defeat the Dark Elders. Sophie and Josh have very special auras, pure Gold and Silver auras. Along Sophie and Josh’s journey with Nicholas Flamel, Dr.Dee steals the Codex along with Perenelle Flamel, they meet Scathach, Hekate, the Witch of Endor and Sophie unlocks her silver aura form Hekate. However, Josh does not unlock his gold aura. So, after Dr.Dee talks to Jake, he becomes jealous of his sister and doesn't trust Nicholas or Scathach. Time will tell what happens next in, “The Magician”.
“The Alchemyst”, I think is a book that involves mystery and myths. I also think that in this book the myths and stories we grew up hearing, that we thought couldn’t possibly real. However in this book they are very, very true. I liked this book a lot because it made you think and the truth is that Dr.John Dee, Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel are real. Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28,1330, he was an alchemyst and the records show that he died in 1418. However to this day his tomb is empty. So I wonder where are the Flamels really?
“The Alchemyst”, I think is a book that involves mystery and myths. I also think that in this book the myths and stories we grew up hearing, that we thought couldn’t possibly real. However in this book they are very, very true. I liked this book a lot because it made you think and the truth is that Dr.John Dee, Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel are real. Nicholas Flamel was born in Paris on September 28,1330, he was an alchemyst and the records show that he died in 1418. However to this day his tomb is empty. So I wonder where are the Flamels really?
The Distance Between Us is about Reyna Grande. Reyna grew up in Iguala de la Independencia in southern Guerrero without knowing her father and her mother left Mago, Carlos, her siblings, and her when she was just four years old. She lived with their father’s mother for two years until their mother came back and took them to live with their mother’s mother. Reyna’s mother came back because Reyna’s father loved another woman. It was hard because then Reyna’s mother left to be in love with another man for six long months leaving their new little sister, Betty, with Mago, Carlos, Reyna and their mother’s mother. After their mother came back and left again, eight years have passed since Reyna’s father left. Then one day their father showed up at their other Abuela house. Reyna was about nine years old. After that their father whisked them away to California where they lived until Reyna graduated high school. Their mother didn’t live to far away after a couple years that Reyna lived with her father and Reyna learned English very quickly. So, by the time she entered high school she could take english classes. After Reyna grew she would visit Iguala de la Independencia in southern Guerrero where she used to live.
The Distance Between Us was a book that I thought was about Reyna Grande and her struggles that she grew up with. I really liked the book because it showed a perspective of how where many families risked everything to live in the United States. I think show more they did this because they lived in a poor country and they wanted better lives for them and their children. While reading The Distance Between Us I thought to myself that I could never live and go through what Reyna Grande did. I still wonder what happens when children cross the border themselves, what happens to them? I am glad that when Reyna crossed that border, she made it and she lived and is living a wonderful life. I love the quote that Reyna gives when she watches her father die is something that says, dreams really can come true. Her quote is, “Every single dream that my father had for me has come true.” show less
The Distance Between Us was a book that I thought was about Reyna Grande and her struggles that she grew up with. I really liked the book because it showed a perspective of how where many families risked everything to live in the United States. I think show more they did this because they lived in a poor country and they wanted better lives for them and their children. While reading The Distance Between Us I thought to myself that I could never live and go through what Reyna Grande did. I still wonder what happens when children cross the border themselves, what happens to them? I am glad that when Reyna crossed that border, she made it and she lived and is living a wonderful life. I love the quote that Reyna gives when she watches her father die is something that says, dreams really can come true. Her quote is, “Every single dream that my father had for me has come true.” show less