Amy, Dan, and Nelly must travel to Vienna in order to find the next clue on their hunt, and they are looking for something related to Mozart. Nelly speaks German, but other than having a young adult au pair, Amy and Dan are completely on their own. After shaking the other members of the family…
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The Red Pyramid Review
Carter and Sadie Kane, ages 14 and 12 respectively, do not know each other much at all although they are brother and sister. When they were 8 and 6, their mother got into some sort of accident with their father and she died. Her parents wanted to take both children in, as they blamed Julius…
Percy Jackson: The Sea of Monsters Review
Percy has been away from Camp Halfblood all year, and he actually is okay in his new school. He gets to see his mom more, he doesn’t have to deal with his horrible stepdad, and he can go to the camp every summer. If he hadn’t befriended the homeless boy, Tyson, put into the school,…
The Lightning Thief
Percy Jackson is a problem child. He has been expelled from almost every school he’s been in. He has ADHD and dyslexia which means that all his grades are close to failing or actually failing. However, he wants to change this. He wants to stay in the school he is in, with his awesome Latin…
The Stonekeeper’s Curse Review
After the events of the previous book, Emily and Navin have their mother with the rest of their great-grandfather’s robots in the big robot house. She and her brother must go to the city of Kanalis to wake up their mother from her coma, as the antidote for the poison that is affecting her can…
Inkheart Review
Mo and Meggie are a father-daughter bookworm team. Mo runs a business where he binds collector’s books, and Meggie goes with him on his jobs throughout the world as she reads her way through her own mini collection of books. Everything seems to be normal until one night a strange visitor named Dustfinger arrives. He…
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo Review
This book opens with an old man being chased and leaving his servant/monster/Dobby to find Leven and take care of him. Old man dies. Two babies are born, one a girl and one a boy. The boy’s mother dies so he has to be taken in by his horrible Aunt. Clover, the servant/monster/Dobby, sneaks into…
Five Kingdoms: Sky Raiders
Cole is going trick or treating with his friends Jenna and Dalton, but since they are in 6th grade they don’t want to go anywhere lame. So, they decided to brave the super-scary neighborhood haunted house. The first part of the house was not that scary, but when the owner decided to invite them to…
Amulet Book 1: The Stonekeeper
When I picked up this book, I did not really know what to expect. I felt like I had heard of it before, but I didn’t remember where. I never remembered even seeing it before. Then I actually picked it up and read it, and I fell in love with it instantly. Emily and her…
Glass Sword Review (Spoilers for Red Queen!)
This book took me a few weeks to complete. I always have issues with pacing in the Red Queen series, because althought he beginnings may have action it takes me until the last 100-200 out of 300-400 pages to get truly drawn into the story. But then when the climax of the story hits and…