the Goose Girl

To me, this one is a winner, with a slow start. It starts out sounding like a fairy tale. Ani, princess of Kildonry, learns about the the gifts of speech from her aunt: people speech, animal speech, and (possibly legend of) nature speech. Then her aunt teaches her how to speak birds' languages. The fairy tale part ends when the queen disinherits her after her father's death, and is sent of to Bayern to marry the prince of Bayern. Then, on the way, her guards turn against her, led by Celia, her lady in waiting, who decided to try to pretend to be her and marry the prince instead, and have her guards kill Ani. What will Ani's fate be? (dun dun dun duuuuun)

 I liked how it mixed a fairy tale with an adventure. It makes it really interesting. The author did a good job writing it so I could picture it. Since I sort of think in pictures this is good for me. I do want to read more of Shannon Hale's book. The next book is about a different character from this story, Enna. Ani will probably show up in it because they were friends.

My Rotten Life

Science is dangerous...Very,very dangerous...

This is why scientists use rats instead of people to test weird experimental medicines, because nobody deserves to die for a lab test, and mice don’t count. However, this doesn't apply in the case of Nathan Abercombie, who was soaked with an experimental test mixture called ‘HURT-B-GONE’, and the next thing he knows he’s been turned into a half-zombie who doesn't digest his food and is always at risk of having his limbs fall off. There are pros and cons to being a zombie, he soon discovers. The Pros include the fact that he doesn't need to sleep, meaning he can stay up all night doing whatever he wants, and he doesn't need to eat. The cons include how horribly gross it is, the fact that he might lose his limbs, and what the Doctor might say. Even with those pros, Nathan doesn't want to be a zombie. How will he find a cure?

The plot is good--it’s really interesting. The situations he got into were weird, funny and exciting. For example, when he gets soaked with the mixture it is exciting because you are wondering what would happen next--he thinks Hurt-be-gone will help his hurt feelings and injuries; it works on his injuries because that part of him is dead, but he can still have his feeling hurt. 

 What was interesting about the main character was how he was a lot like me. He seems to make the same choices I might make. He doesn’t seem like he has very many friends; he has a couple of really good friends--that’s like me. One think I really liked was how he found the cure--it involved lots of science and science is really interesting to me. He has to do lots crazy stuff to get the ingredients for the formula like diving into an aquarium and grabbing some fish scales. The cure is a piece of goo that he sticks on a band aid and puts on his foot.

His school is the most important setting because it is where most of everything happens. His school sounds actually a lot like mine, in the way it is run.

★★★★☆
“Very Good”
Not the best book I’ve ever read, but still, It’s a very good book.
I would recommend this book to someone who likes science, humor and doesn’t get grossed out!  There are a lot of gross-out parts in here, for example when he discovers he isn’t digesting his food and he has to be hung upside down from gymnastics equipment while his waffles from breakfast fall out of his mouth. It was kind of fun but if you’re really sensitive to gross stuff then it’s not the book for you.

'Blockhead': the Life of Leonardo Fibonacci

Leonardo Fibonacci was Number-Smart from the start.  In fact one day, his math teacher gave him some math problems that he had to solve within ten minutes--he solved them in 2 seconds! (I don't really know if this means he figured it out, or he figured it out and wrote it down, in 2 seconds, but whatever.)

But unfortunately, that very same day, during that very same 10 minutes, he started to get bored with just sitting down so he looked outside and counted the birds on a tree and wondered how many bird legs and bird wings were on the tree and if each bird sung for a certain amount of time and each bird sang one after another, how long would it take for them to finish their concert?  But when his math teacher caught him daydreaming, she angrily shouted at him and called him a "blockhead".  That's where it all started.

Later, when he was thinking about the same sort of stuff near a construction site, someone else called him a blockhead then too! That evening Fibonacci's dad was angry; he had heard about the whole blockhead thing and was furious that people thought his son was an idiot. He said that he would leave on a trip with Fibonacci to Africa and hope that the whole idea of "blockhead Fibonacci" would be gone by the time they returned home to Pisa.

While on his trip to Africa he learns even more stuff about math; he learns different number systems and also has a chance to practice some of his measurement skills in Turkey and Syria. He learned geometry when he went to Greece and when he went to Sicily his subtraction and division skills got a workout.

He decided to write a book about Hindu/Arabic numerals, which are the numbers most people use today. Back then they used Roman numerals more.  He decided to throw some riddles into this book and one of the riddles led to his discovery the Fibonacci sequence.  The Fibonacci sequence is a pattern; it can be described in a picture or a sequence of numbers. The sequence of numbers is 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13 and so on. The way it is created is by starting with 1 and adding the number before it (so 0) onto that 1 and doing the same for the other numbers: add the number before it to the present number to make the next one in the pattern.

The significant thing about this pattern is that it appears all the time in nature. For example, the pattern of the seeds of a sunflower or a pine cone happens to be the Fibonacci sequence. Even after he discovered this though, he was still called a blockhead when he got home. He only seemed to become famous after his death, but he got used to the whole blockhead thing as he got older.

I think that this book was pretty fun and I learned a whole lot from it. The only problem it seems to have is that some parts of it are kind of hard to understand--it doesn't seem as organized and there seems to be a lot of junk in it too, like the parts near the end of it didn't seem to be too important and I think they should have had more about the actual Fibonacci sequence in the book.

The example in another book I've read called "Penrose the Mathematical Cat" (I'll do a review of that when I finish it) is much clearer and a lot more detailed. It is easier to understand even though it doesn't tell about Fibonacci's life.

"Blockhead" shows the actual pattern unclearly to me--I think that it's pretty important to talk about the sequence if you want to understand his life.

The Incredible Voyage of Odysseus

You can call him Ulysses, as the book does, but I prefer Odysseus. Anyway, this book is a picture-book version of Homer's Odyssey.

I wanted to read it because of how many books about ancient Greek mythology I've read (such as the Mytholpedia books and Percy Jackson).

It told the story of Odysseus--the story is about him going home from the Trojan War and how lost he became and how he finally got home. It tells the story through cartoon-like panels, filled with really great art. 

It explains how was the King of Ithaca and was very brave. At the start of the journey, he is pretty sure where he is going until Zeus causes a thunderstorm and they lose their sense of direction. The journey is incredibly long and terrifying for anybody normal, however Odysseys is not exactly normal. He encounters many islands with dangerous beasts and monsters on them, including the sirens, Polyphemeus, Circe, and even some Gods make trouble such as Zeus who stuck Odysseus and his crew in a thunderstorm twice and Poseidon who made trouble by answering a prayer from Polyphemeus (who happens to be one of Poseidon's children). But Athena helped him, near the end of his journey by helping him get to Ithaca safely and giving him a disguise because otherwise people would kill him because they probably were angry that their king had been gone for something like 20 years.

This book explains a lot of what happened in the 2nd Percy Jackson book, like both Percy and Odysseus encountered Scylla, Polyphemeus, the Sirens and Circe.  Odysseus was forced to see his men get turned into pigs by Circe, but Percy got turned into a Guinea Pig! 

I'd recommend it to anyone who has liked the Percy Jackson books, like I have, at least if you aren't already old enough to real the Odyssey in its original long poem form.

How to do Everything: Mac (both editions)

Yup.  Everything.  Read one of these and you'll literally know how to use everything on your

Mac OS X Leopard or Snow Leopard computer, from the bare basics such as the ins n' outs of finder and the dock to the stuff that no one except a NERD ("nerd" in huge, bold, all-caps writing with an underline) would know how to do without the book's help. I learned all about Boot Camp, the application that let's you run Windows on your mac as if it was part of it (as long as you have a Windows-running PC with new enough hardware and software to do the job, and you yourself have experience with Windows). I'm going to try this out once dad's PC is up and running again.


I learned just about everything I know about Snow Leopard in edition 2, and some of what I know about Leopard in edition 1 (you've gotta have learned something about it after having two Leopard computers in your home for ages which is the case for my family), and I've learned that they both are beasts. If you have snow leopard, stick with it. If you're running leopard, you may want snow leopard software. anything earlier, upgrade soon.

The first edition knows
everything about
Leopard.

The second edition is the
ultimate guide to
Snow Leopard.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2: the Sea of Monsters

Percy Jackson, the half-blood son of Poseidon, hasn't been so much of a 'monster-magnet' as he was in previous years, certainly lucky, but confusing just as much. In fact, not a single beast has gone anywhere near Percy. But suddenly, this all changes when a simple dodgeball fight turns into a death-fight with a gang of fireball-flinging, gym-exploding, Demigod-dining, and of course ugly giants which make things even uglier then themselves. Now that's more like a normal half-blood's life.

Suddenly, when he brings his friend Tyson to camp half-blood and discovers that Tyson is a baby cyclops, he later feels weird when Tyson is claimed by Poseidon, like him (which means they are half-brothers!) . But when the barriers of the camp break down, they have to go on another quest to get the golden fleece (which can fix just about anything).

My favorite (new) character was Tyson, because he saves Percy a lot, and he also is funny (he shouts "PONIES!" whenever he sees a horse or anything like one, such as a centaur or some hippocompi.)

My favorite line was when the giant cyclops Polyphemus smashed Tyson with an olive tree. Percy said, "The olive tree hit Tyson so hard it would've turned me into a Percy-pizza with extra olives."

I thought that this book was just as fun as the first book, and I'm working on book three already.

Percy Jackson & the Olympians #1: The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson is a half-blood kid with ADHD (like me!) A half-blood kid is a kid who is half human half...god. Sounds crazy, right? Well, crazy is a half-blood's life. He goes to half-blood hill...and loses his mother when he gets there...sort of... Anyway, half-blood hill is where most half-bloods go for at least part of their life. There they train to become heroes if needed. The interesting thing is it's run like a summer camp! Suddenly, Percy is offered a quest. Will he save two items that belong to the gods? Will he survive it? Is his mother really gone? Find out in this amazing, funny, ***** (five star) book!

Percy Jackson is so much like me that I feel like I am him while reading it. It makes me feel like I'm talking to a clone because of the first-person writing. One line that makes me feel this way is:
"I guess that the rumors of ADHD saving you in battle are true. I could predict every move of his sword. At the same time, I could see what my friends were doing 4 yards to the left."
I feel that this helps me at the piano, because I can notice every key.

I will read the rest of this series for sure!

If you don't know about greek mythology, I recommend the Mythlopedia series.

Mythlopedia books

There's a lot of pictures here...

Mythlopedia consists of 4 books, each containing Info on the most important greek characters in 4 different categories, one for each book, cool fast facts, like "reality check", and some humor (including funny content on the first few pages), to add a laugh to the sometimes dull greek myths. 

Oh my Gods! (get the joke?)

Find out about the Greek gods, like Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, and more in this cool Mythlopedia book! (Now do you get the joke?) I learned facts like Eros (or Cupid) can shoot golden arrows that make people love someone and lead arrows that make people really hate someone. The mischievous little guy used this trick on Apollo and Daphne. Apollo got the golden arrow and Daphne got the lead one. Apollo said “I want to go out on a date” and Daphne said “No Way!”

She's all that!

Gods, gods, gods... What happened to the goddesses? Find out about the ladies that sometimes put the "dess" after "god", like Hera, Athena, Persephone, and more in another cool Mythlopedia book! I learned facts like that Athena was the goddess of wisdom or at least was said to be since she sprung out of her dad, Zeus', head fully grown. Get it? Out of his head? She was pretty smart because she gave Odysseus the idea about the Trojan Horse.

(I haven't a clue why they didn't just stick the goddesses in

Oh my Gods!.)

All in the Family!

Don't forget about the others! This book has information about the characters who aren't Gods but who are important, like Achilles, Heracles, Pandora, and more in yet another cool Mythlopedia book! I learned stuff like how Midas lost his golden touch by washing his hands in some kind of magical river and later gained a pair of donkey ears instead; and I learned how Achilles was dipped in another magic river which made his body invincible except for the spot where his mom held him—that spot now is called the Achilles tendon!

What a Beast!

Quite a lot of dangerous and whacky beasts lived in in Greek myths. Learn about the crazy creatures of greek mythology, like medusa, pegasus, the minotaur, and more in the last, but not least book in Mythlopedia! I learned stuff like when Medusa was killed by Perseus her hideous dead face that turned anyone to stone came in handy—he turned one of his enemies into a statue with it and saved Andromeda who was about to be killed by some big sea monster, just before the moment it caught her, it turned into a big oddly shaped rock!

The reason I got all these books was that when mom got What a beast! out, I really liked it, so mom got the others, and the books may be useful if I read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. (I want to read them).

Recommended for anyone who wants to learn about greek Mythology.

The beginning of Warriors, the New Prophecy

Here's something that will make you think... Why does the author of Warriors make the books in separate "series" of books?? That's something that will probably confuse everyone from the more intelligent, who would try and figure out a logical reason, to the 5-year-olds, who's wildly creative minds would search through tons of ideas that the intelligent might not even think about... unless you've started it by coming from the original series. I'll explain why in parts of my summary.

Brambleclaw was Firestar's apprentice until I dunno when (it probably happened in a period of time in between the two series). He was the son of Tigerstar, and looked almost exactly the same as him, but wasn't going to become a bloodthirsty devil like his father. Sure, he was ambitious, like his father, but his ambition was to be a great warrior. Firestar was assigned to mentor him. (Sometimes Brambleclaw gave Firestar the creeps because of how he resembled Tigerstar.)

Leafpaw is our ol' medicine cat Cinderpelt (say hi, Cinderpelt!)'s apprentice, who I believe was assigned and apprenticed recently. (I wouldn't know any of these following facts if it weren't for my cats of the clans book.) Leafpaw had the dream and destiny to become a medicine cat since birth, the opposite of her sister, Squirrelpaw, who's dream and destiny was to become a great warrior, like Brambleclaw. Both of them are heading in the right direction to make their dreams come true.

TIME OUT: Why aren't we following Firestar? This may be one of the reasons that there are separate series. Change. But why are we following 2 different characters at different times? IDK yet...

I'll answer my questions in my full post.

Artemis Fowl

>>BEGIN TRANSMISSION

>>Artemis Fowl the second is a Genius criminal and genius techie...and a child. He spends so much time in front of the screens of 3 iMacs that his skin is white from their glare. But his family is in trouble, and his mother is losing her mind. But he has a plan to save his family. But his plan involves fairy gold. But fairies do exist...

>>Holly is an L.E.P. Recon officer, in other words fairy police, who is tormented by commander Root for being one of the only female officers. Who goes though a lot,... Like a troll attack, and capture by a human named Artemis fowl, and Much, much more...

>>One of the parts of this book I liked most were how humor was all over the place, especially with how Foaley, a techie centaur, teases Root all the time. Oh, I found another laugh in the corner of page 75...HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>Recommended for everyone alive who likes an addicting story and a good laugh.

>>This is the first book in a series, and I think that I will like the other ones too. The characters that I expect to reappear are Artemis Fowl II, Holly, Root, Foaley, Artemis Fowl's mother, Butler (Artemis Fowl's, well, butler), and one of the characters that may appear is Artemis Fowl I (Artemis Fowl II's father).
>>END TRANSMISSION<<

Warriors: The Original Series, an Overview

The Warrior path has taken Firestar far--finally through a whole series of six fantastic books! The clan cats took the right path by taking the curious kittypet (then named Rusty) out of twolegplace and transforming him first into Firepaw, a noble apprentice tormented by Sandpaw (later Sandstorm), Then into Fireheart, the noble warrior who was suspicious of Tigerclaw (later Tigerstar), then Fireheart, the deputy that was treated a little odd, and finally Firestar, the Leader that saved the clan--and all others. 

Firestar was a normal kittypet--until he left twolegplace to live in the forest (despite the fact that most kittypets had this stupid rumor going that there were cats that ate bones there. Stupid kittypets...). Minutes later, Firestar is one of them. He now hunts for food, fights for peace, and hates Shadowclan. 

Firestar now is a warrior full-time, and has some saving to do--Windclan is in trouble with Riverclan and Shadowclan! Can Thunderclan save them?

This series of books made me want to read lots more fiction. Before this I rarely would pick fiction books to read on my own. I liked fiction when Mom read it aloud to me and Fiona but I didn't really go for it for free reading. Cats are one of my favorite kinds of pets and also, it was awesome! There was a lot of action; it doesn't have much humor, but I still like it a lot (the first one had Graystripe fooling around when he was in apprentice training.) This series made me want to read more than I used to, though I've always been a pretty good reader, though now I'm using my reading skills more.

For any kids who likes cats and/or action, I think this series is AWESOME!

If you want to go back, here are all my posts about the individual books in the series:

Warriors 1

Warriors 2

Warriors 3

Warriors 4

Warriors 5

Warriors 6

and the Warriors Comic Books

Warriors #6: The Darkest Hour

Firestar doesn't have any clue what evil force awaits him... until it's nine lives time. After Firestar got the nine extra chances to survive in battle, Bluestar, former leader of ThunderClan, gave him this prophecy: 

"Four will become Two, Lion and Tiger will meet in battle, and Blood will rule the forest..."

(If I was Firestar then, I'd drop dead with panic.)

Yet the real bad part is when it reveals it self... RiverClan and ShadowClan join to make the united clans of TigerClan, and ThunderClan + WindClan = the united clans of LionClan. But will blood rule the forest? Read it or else You'll never know...

My favorite part was the final battle, it had lots of action. 

Charlie and the great glass elevator

We rejoin Mr. Wonka, Charlie and his family and-oops!-Mr Wonka takes the large party too far in the Wonka Chocolate Factory's unique 'Great Glass Elevator' (made of thick but crystal clear glass, I'll call it 'GGE' for short)-all the way to the recently launched SPACE HOTEL USA ('SHUSA')! SUSHA is a giant sausage-shaped spaceship housing many hotel rooms usually housing 1 or 2 people. What will happen when a disaster strikes SUSHA with the GGE nearby? And will the gang get back to the factory on time? Find out in the intergalactic sequel to Charlie & the Chocolate Factory!

My favorite part was when freaky and bloodthirsty blob aliens invaded SHUSA. It was really REALLY freaky. I didn't find it as interesting as Charlie & the Chocolate Factory because it was shorter and had less stuff. Maybe that's why people have made 2 Charlie & the Chocolate Factory movies but none of this.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

An awesome book by Roald Dahl that may sound familiar, this book is the one to read ABOVE ALL OTHERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!☺☻☺☻
Poor Charlie Bucket and his family are beginning to starve since they are so poor and at the wrong time too, because Willie Wonka is giving out 5 golden tickets, placed randomly in some of his chocolate bars. Because they are poor, they are going to have to waste significant money (at least for them) on a chocolate bar.

Charlie only got one chocolate bar for his birthday and not one golden ticket was in there. I felt sad because I didn't want him to not have one. But he finds a dollar in the street and buys two more candy bars at some candy shop and in the second one he finds a golden ticket, by complete coincidence!

The other 4 kids to find one were not poor kids and were generally pretty well spoiled. First was Augustus Gloop; (these are pretty good names!) he just bought a whole lot of chocolate. Second there is Veruca Salt who was a really spoiled brat! Real real bad! Her father got a zillion boxes of Wonka chocolates and he said to the peanut shelling girls at his peanut shelling factory, "Instead of shelling peanuts you can shell the wrappers of these Wonka candy bars!" Next there was Violet Beauregard who just chewed gum too much and, as I say, "She's a gum-chewing-bum!" Fourth was Mike Teevee who didn't explain much of the story to the news people because he watched too much TV--get it? TeeVee?

Charlie got his ticket just in time--Wonka would have brought the other four in without a fifth child if the last ticket wasn't found. They all go on the tour. My favorite parts of the tour were each of the parts where the four kids (excluding Charlie) get tricked into probably their fate. They each have a big flaw in them that gets them stuck down in Wonka's big machine's guts! For example, the gum-chewing-bum Violet Beauregard chews some experimental gum that hasn't been completed yet and turns into a giant blueberry! Poor thing. By the end of the tour, only Charlie was left (as you may have expected or knew). The result is that he gets to live in the factory along with the rest of his family for his whole remaining life! Charlie is going to take over for Wonka completely when he is old enough to do so.

I don't have a favorite part of this book, but in a good way! It was totally awesome! Some of the things I liked were the Oompa Loompa's (Wonka's secret workers who make sure no spies from other chocolate factories come in) songs, and some of Wonka's delicious inventions. I liked Willy Wonka himself--he would be the guy it would be really fun to hang out with.

There is a sequel to this book called "Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator" and I think I will really, really like it.

109 Forgotten American Heroes (and 9 or so villains...)

There are plenty of heroes that have gone down through history. (Abe Lincoln as an obvious example.) BUT... DON'T SAY THAT THEY ALL ARE WELL KNOWN TO THE HISTORY BOOKS!!! This book is a history of the important people who should've gotten the good one, including Allan Pinkerton, who was the one who watched over Abe Lincoln, Frank Epperson, who made the popsicle, and, if you want half-famous, the part of Tom Jefferson that made him introduce Mac 'n Cheese to the U.S.  This book also has 9 or so villains, like Lester Wunderman, who is the moron who invented junk mail and email SPAM, David Wallerstien, who made fast food, and Robert Propst, who made the office cubicle since the office was a very stressful place, but accidentally helped what he was fighting against (his name is circled, saying, "Totally Accidental Villain").

This book also shows that history isn't boring, because this is a history book and it sure isn't boring. Keeps you going with...HUMOR! and...AWESOME GRAPHICS!
Book Rating:★★★★★!!!! TOTALLY AWSOME!!!!! 

All About Drums

Here it is, a guide to my favorite type of instrument that just HAS to go on my blog! This awesome, awesome, and more awesome book has all anyone needs to know about playing the standard five-piece drum kit, and has tons of songs to grab your sticks and crash, bang, and wallop into the ears of your audience with your drumset! If you're drum-crazy, this is your book!

The parts I liked the most about this book were the two parts at the end, first, the "who's who" part, which names important "kit-drummers"(not orchestral drummers). My favorite guy was named Neil Peart, and his drum kit is HUGE, and it's components stretch my imagination. In fact, the picture doesn't even help, since I hardly can see some parts, and there are probably lots I can't see at all! (What a bad angle, stupid camera dude.) The other part I liked was the appendix, which might come in handy when I learn to play drums with written music.

George's Marvelous Medicine

This book by Roald Dahl is short, but still totally hilarious. I think anyone who wants humor in a small package better get their hands on this.

One day, little George's parents go on vacation, and George has to stay with his horrid Grandma--who's such a grouchy old hag that she definitely doesn't deserve to be called Grandma because of the "Grand" part of the word. Her usual medicine doesn't do a thing to cure her grouchiness, which meant George was stuck with mean old "Granny Grunt". Suddenly he was struck with an idea-a great one. He would make grandma a new medicine that would either make her explode or something like that, or make her a much better person. and so it started. George ran all around the property with a big pot, putting all sorts of stuff into it. Later he boiled it and stirred it and whadaya know, it's ready! When George gave it to grandma, the results were bizarre. Grandma ended up with her head sticking through the roof--and her feet still standing on the living room floor! To find out what happened afterwards, read the book.

My favorite part was when grandma got her new meds. First she caught fire from inside her, then she did a perfect backflip, then she inflated and deflated with air, then she got taller and got stuck stretched with her head breaking through the roof and her feet still standing on the living room floor. I think I forgot somthing, but whatever. You've GOT to read it.

Warriors #5: A Dangerous Path (1)

I'm sorry about this 1/2 post, but I had to do it because I haven't been reading as much. I'm somewhere about 3/8ths of the way through this book.

Fireheart, who was taking the ill Bluestar's place at the gathering, was surprised (in the bad way) to see his greatest enemy, Tigerclaw, as leader of ShadowClan. (I should say Tigerstar instead of Tigerclaw now, but I'm just tellin' ya who this guy is.) Just when the the young deputy with the fire-colored fur was about to warn the three other clans about Tigerstar's former presence as a rogue cat. But he seemed rather peaceful.  Perhaps, now that he has satisfied his hunger for power, his only goal is probably to make his sickness-flooded clan powerful again. In fact, the ShadowClan medicine cat got an e-mail from StarClan that a new great leader would rise. (Just kidding about the e-mail part.)

Later, back in the ThunderClan camp, cats were detecting dog-scent nearby, and kept seeing dead rabbits. When Bluestar was informed, she said that WindClan killed the poor bunnies (WindClan hunts them more often then the other clans) and ignored the dog part. Later, a blind kit named Snowkit was taken by a hawk. Bluestar said it was a sign that StarClan was at war with ThunderClan, and that was probably the last major event since I left off.

So far my favorite part was where Fireheart discovered that Tigerstar was the leader of Shadowclan. I like how the author explained this. She used a lot of words and sentences that make it easy to picture and understand.

Warriors #4: Rising Storm

Finally, it's here! Fireheart and the rest of Thunderclan are back into action as we see them live in peace-but soon Bluestar starts to think that Starclan is abandoning her! Fireheart does his best to comfort her, but this fails. Then something terrible strikes. Here's a clue to what it is: Spottedleaf's last message to her clan as a living medicine cat said it would save the clan (poor Spottedleaf-the rest of Starclan must be angry because of how she said the message) and it's HOT.

My favorite part was when they were planning about what would happen at a gathering that was near the end. It was very cool.  Since Bluestar was ill, they had to decide whether it was worth it to go to the gathering without a leader, just the deputy, or if it wasn't worth it. They decided that Fireheart had to take her place because there were many things that they had to warn the other clans about. This doesn't mean that Bluestar died, but she was just too sick to go; she's still the leader of the clan. Fireheart did do a good job in her place at that gathering though. Boy, now I can't even imagine him being the kittypet he used to be!

This series is definitely not going to run away from the house of interest yet! In fact I don't think it ever will!  I already started the next book in the series, so stay tuned for my review of that!

The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Poor Dr. John Dolittle is getting very low on money! He is a doctor who likes animals more than people. This is why he becomes an animal doctor. Soon his talking parrot, Polynesia, teaches him that animals have a language, and even how to speak it. This allowed him to understand the sick animals that get taken there, so he could give them the right stuff, like when a blind horse came in, he said he needed glasses, so that's what he got! The Dr. became famous for that. But chi-chi, the monkey, gets a message from monkeys in africa that they are sick and need the doc badly! So he and his buddies from other species sets out on a journey to africa, with only adventure awaiting them!

My favorite parts of it are the most exiting parts (boys always like excitement)  like when pirates tried to attack them. I also liked the part about dr. doolittle learning animal languages and it would be fun if I had a dream about that. There were a bunch of funny parts, like for example in the learning animal language part, Polynesia says "If I say 'Polly wants a cracker' you understand me, right?" That's quite funny to me. And when Jip the dog was sniffing for a lost person and he kept smelling funny things from a long long way away from them.

I'd recommend this book for anyone who likes animals and perhaps humor too.