The Yellow Hoods by Adam Dreece

TITLE: The Yellow Hoods: 1 Along Came A Wolf, 2 Breadcrumb Trail, A Companions Tale Snappy and Dashing, 3 All The King’s-Men, 4 Beauties Of The Beast.  

AUTHOR: Adam Dreece

BOOK #: 1,2, Companions Tale, 3,4.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Join Tee and her fellow Yellow Hoods in their journey to protect the steam engine plans by Tee’s long forgotten grandfather but soon enough it turns into a battle to stop the red hoods (young adult evil people who wear red hoods who are trying to kidnap other kids for the ginger lady) and the ginger lady (a lady who used to kidnap kids and drug them with her special ginger and SHE’S back!).

MY REVIEW: I loved these books. There is going to be a 5th book soon and I can’t wait to read it. I give them five stars. I have read all of them twice. It’s a steampunk, adventure and action series. My favourite scene is when Richy finds out about his childhood and my favourite character is Franklin because he’s so unpredictable.

MUSE: A CAT’S STORY

TITLE: MUSE: A CAT’S STORY

AUTHOR: Joanna Franklin Bell 

ABOUT THE BOOK: Muse has dreams about the country side. Oh yeah Muse is not a typical cat she speaks with her mind so muse and her friends: Contempt and Watch, take off to a journey to chase Muses *dreams*.

MY REVIEW: The author was kind enough to send me a review copy of Muse: A Cat’s Story. A perfect book of action, friendship, independence too. My favorite thing about Muse is her mind speaking. Oh and there is loss in the book but Muse learns a lot. If you love touching stories about animals Muse will steal your heart.

 

MEREDITH AND THE MAGIC LIBRARY

TITLE: MEREDITH AND THE MAGIC LIBRARY

AUTHOR: Becket

ILLUSTRATOR: Raven Quinn

ABOUT THE BOOK: Meredith and her three friends: Sir Copperpot the robot , Uncle Glitch the robot and Peter Butterpig the Butterpig (a butterfly pig), are homeless orphans living in a box on the street searching for magic dust for Meredith. There’s a magic library nearby but it’s been closed for years and nobody knows why. Then one day two girls fix the memory banks of the two robots and they remember all that they forgot and the library has a sign on it that points out that the library is in need of librarians and will open soon. All they have to do is find one of four magic books, read it and become a librarian. Will the four orphans find them? Read to find out!

MY REVIEW: My favorite character was Peter Butterpig because,  hey, who wouldn’t want to meet a Butterpig! Right??!! It sounds so fun! I liked that the fighting love books make title waves! Title! Ha-ha! And the book man was also really cool!

 

GOOD THE GOBLIN QUEEN

TITLE: GOOD THE GOBLIN QUEEN

AUTHOR: Becket

Illustrator: Raven Quinn

ABOUT THE BOOK: Good is a normal girl, well, except for the fact that her parents are orangutans and her father is President of the USA, oh and we can’t forget that she’s a queen… a goblin queen! When the goblins find her she has to be their leader and stop them from getting hurt or starting a war. Will she be able to do it all? Read to find out!  

MY REVIEW: I loved that Good’s parents were orangutans and that the hobgoblin pretended to be waiting for them and not at all in trouble! HA-HA!! The hobgoblin was my favorite because he wanted to be the brave hero!! If you like fantasy you will love this book just like I did!! 

WHY I LIKE TO READ FANTASY BOOKS

I like fantasy because it is a not real world were you can do every thing you want by that I mean  I some times feel as if I’m in it myself and I will stop reading and sort of explore the place I’m in and then when I see the movie and it is way different then I imagined it but my mind just changes it to the way it is supposed to look or just forgets it was wrong and keeps it the way it was.

I like fantasy because it is often a long series of books to read and always end with a happy ending. my favorite fantasy series is the Percy Jackson series because it is such a long series that i can read for days and days and days.

1-5 PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS

TITLES: PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF, THE SEA OF MONSTERS, THE TITANS CURSE, THE BATTLE OF THE LABYRINTH, AND THE LAST OLYMPIAN.

AUTHOR: RICK RIORDAN

  SERIES: PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS

BOOK#: 1,2,3,4,5

 

ABOUT THE BOOK: Journey with Percy Jackson, Grover Underwood and Annabeth Chase as they fight battles, journey throughout the world, and meet the enemy and battle it. In the first book Percy has to find Zeus’s lightning bolt to free his mother from Hades. In the second book Percy meets his brother Tyson the cyclops and travels to the sea of monsters. In the third book thalia joins Artemis’s hunters so the trio has one less person to help and Grover finds two demigods named Nico and Bianca De Angelo. In the fourth book Percy has to go to the labyrinth to seek the help of the legendary Daedalus. In the fifth book Cronos awakens and the trio has to stop him from awakening Gia mother earth. will they do it all?

MY REVIEW: I read all of this series the including a new series called heroes of Olympus it was just as good as this series which is AWESOME  people who love Greek Gods and battles will love this series.

 

 

MY VACATION

You may have noticed I haven’t been online lately, that’s because I was on vacation 

first we went on a plane to Minnesota I sat next to my mom and played on my Nintendo d.s. the game was bejeweled eventually I stopped playing because my ears hurt like crazy. Then I realized we were in Minneapolis just starting to lower so I shut off my game and pushed in my ear plugs.

When we got there we almost got lost because we had to take a tram to pick up luggage and we had almost missed the sign we got to the tram stop just as it came to a stop. We rode the tram to baggage pick up. We got off and went to baggage before we got there we saw grandpa Dennis and uncle Jesse pick up a flag and start waving it. It was the Canada flag! We yelled at them it was upside down as we ran to give them hugs. Then we grabbed our luggage and walked to there car and went to grandpa Dennis’s house.

While we were there we went to Lake Elmo to fish. Uncle Jesse taught me algebra we played games and had fun. Then we went to Grandma Vikki’s house. We went swimming in the pool, watched TV and saw Grandma Vikki’s apartment. It was cool. Then we went back to Grandpa Dennis’s house for the last two days and then went to another airplane to go home. When we got home it was nine o’clock but it was still light out. We got home at about twelve o’clock and went straight to bed. That was how my vacation went. 

 

2015 Young Authors Conference

I went to the 2015 Foothills Young Authors conference it was so fun!!

First I went to the keynote presentation by Marty Chan where he spoke about books, young authors and told us a bit about himself he took a spiral and I thought, “oh no hes going to hypnotize us” and guess what he sort of did!!! that was my favorite part of the keynote presentation!!!! marty chan talked about his life and how he began to like books.

Then, I attended James Grasdal’s “Cartooning As A Writing Strategy.” He taught me how to make a good comic. First, you must know a lot about your main character. We practiced this by having a volunteer become the main character. Mr. Grasdal picked a volunteer, and we raised hands to learn all about him to know what to put in a comic about him. Last, we drew a comic all about the volunteer, our main character!!!!!

Lunch was next I had a very big delicious hamburger. I didn’t finish it all. There was cookies too but I was to full!!!!!!

My next event was Lorna Bennett’s “Let’s Create Characters.” We learned how to create characters so they look very realistic, such as a dog named “Duge” (no, I did not name him). We also learned how to draw a baby pig vs. an adult pig!

Last, but not at all least, my favorite presentation was by an author my mom has actually met once before: Jacqueline Guest! She taught us “How To Dress Up A Skeleton” which means how to add detail and description to the Five W’s (Who, What, When, Where, and Why). It was fun to do story writing using these techniques. Finaly, we had an awesomely, amazingly fun game where we read out our stories on teams for points. My team tied with the other team.

At the end of the day, I went to the bookstore and bought five books with money I earned doing lots of chores. I even got them autographed by the authors! The books I am most excited about are The Ehrich Weisz Chronicles by Marty Chan. I’m also excited about The Fragile Bones by Lorna Schultz Nicholson because it’s about a kid with Aspergers/Autism, and I have ADHD with traits of Aspergers! How cool is that!

OK I’m being serious: words CANNOT describe how awesome the day was. If you don’t believe me go to the next Young Author’s conference and find out! I learned so much today my brain must be bigger!

PERCY JACKSON’S GREEK GODS

TITLE: PERCY JACKSON’S GREEK GODS

AUTHOR: RICK RIORDAN

ABOUT THE BOOK: warning: not for the squeamish. This book contains all you need to know about the Greek Gods! Includes the 12 Olympians and extras!!

MY REVIEW: I like that with each god you learn about their weapons, how they got their weapons, and how life began with them, and how Earth came to be. Like the young authors conference it was so fun to read it I have no way to describe it. You have to read it yourself.

POWERPUFF GIRLS: SUPER SMASH UP

TITLE: POWERPUFF GIRLS SUPER SMASH UP

AUTHOR: IDW Comics

ABOUT THE BOOK : When Dee-Dee dances in Dexter’s lab something always goes wrong but this time she knocks over a vial of chemical x. It turns her into a big monster and it’s up to the Powerpuff girls to catch her and turn her back into a girl again. But what will stand in their way?

 

MY REVIEW: Read in between stories to find out a bit about the next new character(s). The book was really cool with all the transporting around the world… no, sorry. The universe. No, universes. I liked the way each universe was not like Earth and each universe was different from the other universes. If you like teleporting books you’ll like this book!