Charlotte Sycamore is a sixteen-year old girl who has grown up in castle. Not as a princess though. No, she is the daughter of Her Majesty’s royal surgeon, and she is tired of being cooped up inside. After so many years of trying to be the perfect lady her father and everyone else wants her to be, Charlotte decides she can try to be both. So, she begins sneaking out at night to fence with her friends and begins stealing from the infirmary to give medicine to the poor.
If you read the first book, then you know that you never had the pleasure of reading about Tuck's adventure in Lah Lia's point of veiw. In this book, the second one, you learn just how Tuck saved her from sacrifice and all about the society of the Lah Sept. Lah Lia then goes off on an adventure of her own back inside the society of the Lah Sept. Tucker also goes off on an adventure of his own, going to past, present, and future, just like Lah Lia's adventure. This book is an excellent time-traveling adventure just like the first one!
<p>Maggie has a secret; a secret even her best friend has no idea about. Her secret is that she can get other people to tell her their secrets that they would never want anyone to know about. She can’t even help it so she scares everyone away. The only thing that has kept her going is being on the swimming team. When she starts high school again after the summer she starts needing more so she starts throwing herself at any boy including Matthew the boy of her dreams.</p>
Tucker’s life was pretty average. His father was a preacher that owned a church and his mother played the organ at the church. He had no other family except an uncle that he didn’t know that well. His best friends expect a normal summer of just hanging out. That is until one day, when fixing the roof, his dad falls through a portal and returns with a strange girl. Tuck then is pushed onto a time traveling adventure that sends him to the future and back.
<p>The Garden Princess begins with a princess who doesn’t like being a princess- she’d rather be a gardener. Her best friend is a gardener, and gardening is the princess’ hobby, but she wants it to be her profession. The book then really unfolds when the princess attends a garden party and discovers a secret about the garden. After she finds out the secret, she has to hide from the owner of the garden’s servants, who are out to get her. It gets really exciting when she finds out that it’s a magical garden.</p>
The book that I am reviewing is Winger by Andrew Smith. This book is about a boy named Ryan Dean West who goes to Pine Mountain Academy. A lot of interesting things happen at PMA. Read Winger to find out what. This book is about a group of people that are friends and do things together.
The earth has been invaded by slave trading aliens, who can kill humans with a simple thought. Jesse is one of the few people who can ‘hear’ the aliens. He has telepathic abilities that make it possible for him and his friends to protect themselves from them. When they discover that the aliens are going to kill them all, Jesse and his friends escape in search of a rebellion. It takes flying a ship, losing people he loves, and trusting the enemy for Jesse to finally realize who he really is.
When Maggie Paris was young, her older sister Leah drowned in a community pool. Since that summer day, her family has been broken. Now Maggie Paris is a high school student, and must struggle with boys, swim team, and dark family secrets on her own.
Maggie also has a strange ability- friends and strangers alike share their deepest secrets with her. Maggie views this power as a curse, because once someone tells her their secrets, they avoid her as much as possible.
A lonely obese boy everyone calls "Butter" is about to make history. He is going to eat himself to death-live on the Internet-and everyone is invited to watch. When he first makes the announcement online to his classmates, Butter expects pity, insults, and possibly sheer indifference. What he gets are morbid cheerleaders rallying around his deadly plan. Yet as their dark encouragement grows, it begins to feel a lot like popularity. And that feels good.
