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It’s the day of the purge, Alex Stowe knows he is unwanted. He has been caught drawing a house in the dirt with a stick, being creative in any way in the Land of Quill is illegal and a death sentence. On the contrary, his twin brother Aaron, is going to be a wanted and go to Wanted University. The
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The entirety of England is infested with ghosts of all kinds and only young people can see them. Agencies open in order to fight off the country’s new unwelcome visitors. Children of all ages now work full time jobs on private and government ghost cases and competition between ghost fighting agencies is fierce. The Screaming Staircase, the first book
Read moreFrom true love and princes, to peasants and feuds, Happily Ever After is one of the many stunning and brilliant novels by Kiera Cass. This book goes behind the scenes and retells the most exciting and juicy scenes of Cass’s previous books in the Selection Series; The Selection, The Elite, and The One. In Happily Ever After there are about
Read moreKatherine Gardner The Chrysalids John Wyndham Review Set millennia after a nuclear holocaust, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham is a fascinating novel about a highly religious communities’ attempt to prevent mutation and evolution from occurring while struggling against a type of mutation they cannot detect. Their beliefs are based off of the Old Testament and a novel called Nicholases Repentances.
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Imagine a land full of monsters and humans both surviving in the only place they can call home, this place is called the Moor. Three siblings set off on an adventure of exponential lengths to save this place from being filled with water by Giants. As the reader follows the story of Gair, Ceri, and Anya, they learn that each
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Sometimes the pen really is mightier than the sword. In Cornelia Funke’s Inkheart this statement comes true as the book takes you on a magical journey into the world of fantasy. Mortimer (a bookbinder) uses his amazing power of speech to magically read two villains and a street performer into the real world. The villains names were Capricorn and Basta
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In House of Hades, by Rick Riordan, all of the mythological stories you have heard, come to life. In this adventurous story, demigods join forces to stop the wickedly evil Gaea, the earth god, from taking over the Earth. The youthful kids go through fear, passion, hope, friendship, and horrible tragedy along their twisting rollercoaster of a journey. Humorous at
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“Wind howled through the night, carrying a scent that would change the world.” Inheritance, by Christopher Paolini, is a book unlike any other with its twists and turns that no one could have seen coming. Inheritance is written in a first person perspective that switches between two of the main characters and their two separate but intertwined lives. Eragon,
Read moreHis name is Nobody, Nobody Owens, the boy from the graveyard on the hill. In The Graveyard Book, by Neil Gaiman, the graveyard child Nobody Owens’ parents and sister were killed by the elusive “The Man Jack”. Nobody, Bod for short, had lived in the tomb of Mrs. and Mr. Owens, Nobody’s adopted ghost parents. As Bod grows older, he
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There are many strange happenings in the wizarding world, whether it’s the horrific visions Harry views whenever he sleeps, the strange disappearance of Hagrid, or the arrival of a new Dark Arts teacher, Mrs.Umbridge. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is starring Harry, now in his 5th year at Hogwarts, along with his friends Ron and Hermione, now
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