Posted April 3, 2013 Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: eighty quadrillion (896 in the paperback version) Book Title: Les Misérables (Hapgood Translation) Author: Victor Hugo Summary: Jean Valjean is an ex-convict who is released on parole and subsequently becomes a successful business owner, the mayor of a town, the adoptive father of an orphan, a fugitive on the run again, and a benevolent benefactor, in that order. The novel spans eighteen years, beginning in the year of the battle of Waterloo and climaxing in the June Rebellion. Book Number: 10 Number Of Pages: 328 Book Title: The Gingerbread House (The Hammerby Series #1) Author: Carin Gerhardsen Summary: A Swedish murder mystery with a twist ending. After several grisly murders in Stockholm, police investigators begin drawing tenuous threads between the forty-four year old victims and the old woman in whose house the first victim was found. The results surprise them. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 3, 2013 Book Number: 228 Number Of Pages: 323 Book Title: A Gift of Grace Author: Amy Clipson Summary: Christian fiction. Rebecca’s sister Grace left their Old Order Amish world years before to embrace modern life, while Rebecca herself remained to wed her sweetheart Daniel Kauffman. Rebecca’s one sorrow is her inability to give Daniel children. Then she receives word that her sister died in a car accident, leaving her custody of her two teenage daughters. Now Rebecca and Daniel face the challenge of raising teenagers who have no knowledge of the world in which they suddenly find themselves living. Book Number: 229 Number Of Pages: 294 Book Title: A Promise of Hope Author: Amy Clipson Summary: Christian fiction. Sarah Kauffman Troyer lost her husband Peter in a tragic fire. Pregnant with twins… her first children… she moves back in with her parents for the support and help she’ll need. Then a Luke Troyer comes from Ohio, revealing secrets that Peter kept from Sarah and the rest of her family. With her faith in her late husband shattered, Sarah tries to look to the future, but is torn between doing the sensible thing and following her heart. Book Number: 230 Number Of Pages: 323 Book Title: A Place of Peace Author: Amy Clipson Summary: Christian fiction. Miriam left the Amish community four years ago, partly due to her wish to undergo nurse’s training, and partly due to the ending of her engagement to Timothy Kauffman. But when she returns first for her mother’s funeral, and then to help out when her father has a stroke, she learns that someone else’s jealousy engineered her breakup with Timothy. Knowing the truth, will she and Timothy be able to reconcile, or are they really through forever? Book Number: 231 Number Of Pages: 322 Book Title: A Life of Joy Author: Amy Clipson Summary: Christian fiction. Lindsay, Rebecca Kauffman’s younger niece, settled well into Amish life. But her older sister Jessica, unable to adjust, had won permission to live with friends of her late parents instead. Now, four years later, Jessica is in college and pressuring Lindsay to give up her Amish ways. When Jessica’s guardian is injured in an accident, Lindsay volunteers to go stay with her for as long as she is needed. While there, she becomes re-acquainted with some of her old friends from school and church. Jessica fondly hopes that this will induce her sister to return to the modern world, but instead it just reaffirms Lindsay’s desire to embrace the Amish faith and be baptized into the Amish church. Book Number: 232 Number Of Pages: 298 Book Title: A Season of Love Author: Amy Clipson Summary: Christian fiction. Lindsay is baptized along with her cousin Katie Kauffman and friend Lizzie Ann King. Soon after, Lindsay and Lizzie Ann both start courting, which inadvertently leaves Katie feeling like a fifth wheel. Then she meets Jake Miller, the Mennonite grandson of her grandfather’s business partner. Their friendship soon blossoms into attraction… something forbidden by her church. Dare they hope of a future together? Book Number: 233 Number Of Pages: 343 Book Title: Changing the World Author: Mercedes Lackey, editor Summary: This is a collection of short stories set in the world of Valdemar, written by fantasy authors including Tanya Huff, Elisabeth Waters, and Mickey Zucker Reichart. Tales include a story of the coming of the Companions to the newly-formed kingdom of Valdemar, another of a man who didn’t want to be Chosen as a Herald-trainee, and one of the growing relationship between a young man and a Changechild (or “hobgoblin”); a former human who’d been turned into something animalistic due to magic gone awry. Book Number: 234 Number Of Pages: 375 Book Title: Sacred Ground Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary:Jennifer Talldeer is Osage and Cherokee, granddaughter of a shaman and herself a powerful Medicine Woman who is also learning warrior magic. A freelance private investigator, she also tracks down magical Native American artifacts to send back to the tribes from which they originated. Then she gets offered a job by an insurance company: workers at a local construction site unearthed human bones and feared they’d desecrated an ancient burial ground, and then the equipment was sabotaged, with a group of Native American activists being implicated by the bigoted contactor. But Jennie’s investigations lead to signs of ancient and evil magic, and the spirit she has to confront has the potential to destroy the world. Book Number: 235 Number Of Pages: 442 Book Title: Joust Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: Vetch was an Altan serf, forced to labor for the man of Tia who now owned what had been his family’s farm after the tides of war turned against Alta. Starved and abused, his hate sustained him until the day a Jouster of Tia… a dragon rider… paused at his master’s holding for a drink and witnessed the man beating him. Jouster Ari carried Vetch off to train him as a dragon-boy, charged with the care of his dragon Kashet. Vetch quickly realized that Kashet was different from the other dragons, the only one who didn’t need to be drugged into tameness. As he learned the reasons why, he became determined to tame a dragon of his own… and with luck, escape back to his own people with his tamed dragon. Book Number: 236 Number Of Pages: 402 Book Title: Alta Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: Vetch, now using his true name Kiron, had not only tamed a dragon, he did escape back to Alta with her. But while the leader of Alta’s few Jousters welcomed him and his dragon and showed a willingness to listen to his untraditional ideas for improving the Jousters as a whole, not everyone was as welcoming. Kiron and the young men he was teaching to be tamers of dragons discovered some of the secrets of the Magi… a group of magic-users who supposedly wielded their powers for the good of Alta, but who were instead maneuvering themselves into being the true rulers from the shadows while using the monarchs as puppets… and quickly found themselves in danger of losing their lives to something more sinister than an enemy’s lance. Book Number: 237 Number Of Pages: Book Title: Sanctuary Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: Having fled Alta and the Magi with several nobles and a handful of Jousters with tamed dragons, Kiron now faces the problems that come with establishing a new settlement. Once known as the Lost City of the Desert, Sanctuary is swiftly becoming the destination of people from both Alta and Tia, fleeing the horrors perpetrated by the Magi, who have moved into Tia as well. Book Number: 238 Number Of Pages: Book Title: Aerie Author: Mercedes Lackey Summary: With the expansion of Sanctuary, daily life is becoming difficult in the overcrowded city. Then Kiron finds another city, this one thought to be a mere legend, the city of the ancient cliff-dwellers. As they ease the problem of overpopulation, though, they all must still deal with the difficulties of combining two peoples into one, especially when those two peoples had been at war for most of the last three hundred years. Book Number: 239 Number Of Pages: 359 (? Kindle edition) Book Title: Highland Surrender Author: Tracy Brogan Summary: For mature readers only. Fiona Sinclair’s brothers barter her in marriage with the heir of their clan’s longtime enemy in order to seal a fragile truce. Fiona accedes to the marriage only because her brothers threaten to force her much younger sister to wed Myles Campbell if she refuses, but vows never to surrender her heart. Yet Myles is far from the monster she’d expected… and when she learns the hidden truths behind the Campbell/Sinclair feud, it changes her entire world. Book Number: 240 Number Of Pages: 409 (? Kindle edition) Book Title: Sense and Sensibility Author: Jane Austen Summary: Marianne Dashwood is ruled by her emotions, and when she falls in love with the dashing rake John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love and its threatened loss the sisters learn that sense must mix with sensibility if they are to find personal happiness in a society where status and money govern the rules of love. Book Number: 241 Number Of Pages: 378 Book Title: The Centurion’s Wife Author: David Bunn and Janette Oke Summary: Christian fiction. After her family’s wealth and power are lost, Leah is sent to serve in the home of her distant relative Pontius Pilate, in hopes that the prelate will arrange an advantageous marriage for her. He betroths her to Alban, a centurion eager to prove himself and win advancement. But before the marriage can take place, Pilate wants answers regarding the death and missing body of a crucified man… not only where he is, but why his little cult of followers seems to be growing rather than fading with his death. Pilate’s wife, plagued with headaches and nightmares since the event, sends Leah to ask questions as well. And what the two learn changes… everything. Book Number: 242 Number Of Pages: 394 Book Title: The Hidden Flame Author: David Bunn and Janette Oke Summary: Christian fiction. Abigail thinks she’s found a home and safety with other followers of the Way. But as Jerusalem’s religious leaders and Roman rulers conspire to crush this new cult with its heretical idea that the Messiah had come, she finds herself caught between the opposing forces. Her life is complicated further as two men seek her hand: the Hebrew merchant Ezra with powerful connections among the Sanhedrin, and the Roman soldier Linux who could easily protect her from persecution. Book Number: 243 Number Of Pages: 372 Book Title: A Reluctant Queen Author: Joan Wolf Summary: Christian fiction. The Old Testament story of Esther, the Jewish beauty wed to the Persian ruler Ahasuerus, who saved her people from persecution, transformed into a love story. Book Number: 244 Number Of Pages: 299 Book Title:The Scarlet Cord Author: Joan Wolf Summary: Christian fiction. This novelization of the story of Rahab and the fall of Jericho explores how and why a Canaanite woman would know and worship the God of Israel. As a child Rahab was captured by slavers and saved by a Hebrew boy, who often spoke to her of his religion during the time she spent with his family waiting for her own family to retrieve her. Years later, they meet again by chance in Jericho, where he and his father await the men sent by Joshua to spy on the city. When Rahab is chosen to participate in Baal’s fertility rites with the elderly king, she prays desperately to the God of her friend to spare her from the fate. When her prayer is answered, she offers to help her friend hide Joshua’s men in exchange for safety for her entire family when the Israelites conquer the city. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 4, 2013 Book Number: 64 Number Of Pages: 314 Book Title: Mira, Mirror Author: Mette Ivie Harrison Summary: Mira is training to be a witch when her older sister transforms her into a mirror with the power to change appearances. The sister promises that Mira will be free after becoming the most beautiful person in the kingdom, but Mira is trapped for one hundred years until a peasant girl desperate for an escape wanders in. Rating: 5/5 Share this post Link to post
Posted April 6, 2013 Book Number: 73 Number Of Pages: 703 Book Title: Gardens of the Moon Author: Steven Erikson Summary: The first book in the series "The Malazan Book of the Fallen". Following different groups within the Malazan empire in the siege of Pale, and plotting to capture Darujhistan. The empress, leaders in the army, and various gods, all have different plans. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 7, 2013 Book Number: 11 Number Of Pages: 247 Book Title: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making Author: Catherynne M. Valente Summary: Twelve-year-old September lives an ordinary life in Omaha while her father goes to war and her mother goes to work. Then one night, she is visited by a Green Wind who invites her on an adventure (implying her help is needed). September then embarks on a dizzying journey through Fairyland, where she meets witches, spriggans, golems, talking furniture, and more, and befriends a book-loving Wyvern and a boy named Saturday. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) Book Number: 245 Number Of Pages: 303 Book Title: The Choice Author: Suzanne Woods Fisher Summary: Christian fiction. Carrie Weaver had planned to leave her Amish community behind when her boyfriend decided to accept a contract with a minor league baseball team. But when her father died suddenly, she felt an obligation to remain and care for her chronically ill younger brother. Upset that her boyfriend refused to even consider staying with her, she accepted the marriage proposal of the man her father had hoped she’d wed, not knowing that he was hiding a tragedy in his own past. Widowed less than a year later, Carrie struggled to keep the farm solvent, while torn between her old boyfriend claiming to still care for her, and her late husband’s cousin who’d come to visit and remained to help out. Book Number: 246 Number Of Pages: 305 Book Title: The Waiting Author: Suzanne Woods Fisher Summary: Christian fiction. Amish teacher Jorie King was waiting. Her boyfriend Ben had registered as a conscientious objector willing to do non-military service in combat zones, and had gone to Vietnam as part of a medical evacuation team. She hoped that once he was home, he’d join the church and they’d get married. But then came the terrible news that Ben had been killed overseas. Jorie found unexpected comfort in Ben’s brother Caleb, who was already mourning the death of his wife from cancer, and before long, their friendship deepened into love. They made plans for a new beginning together, only to have their world turned upside-down yet again. Book Number: 247 Number Of Pages: 309 Book Title: The Keeper Author: Suzanne Woods Fisher Summary: Christian fiction. Despite the hardships her family had suffered since the onset of her father’s heart problems, Julia Lapp still hoped for a happy future. But then her fiancé Paul told her he wanted to postpone their wedding… for the second time. Julia blamed the Bee Man. A most unusual Amishman, Roman Troyer didn’t farm, but instead wandered from farm to farm with his wagon full of beehives, his bees pollinating the crops for the farmers while he collected and sold the honey. And Roman often extolled the virtues of an unencumbered lifestyle, which had led more than one young man to call off his wedding after a night of listening to his tales. Julia wanted nothing more than for Roman to move on so she could win Paul back and secure her future… but with the accidental death of her brother giving her father a second chance at life, she learned the true worth of the two men. Book Number: 248 Number Of Pages: 307 Book Title: The Haven Author: Suzanne Woods Fisher Summary: Christian fiction. After Julia’s marriage, Sadie Lapp spent several months visiting her sister and brother-in-law in order to learn herbal healing from a wisewoman in Julia’s new community. But she returns with a surprise: a baby, abandoned beside her at the Lancaster bus station. She quickly becomes the target of unkind gossip as many in the community, including her boyfriend Gid who believes she must have cheated on him, assume the real reason for her visit to Julia was to hide a pregnancy, and that the baby is hers. The baby proves to be her nephew, though, fathered by her brother shortly before his death, with the girlfriend no one realized had been more than just a friend. Sadie’s staunch supporter throughout the ordeal is Will, an apprentice game warden sent to the Lapp farm to observe and protect a nesting pair of endangered birds there, and he and Gid soon find themselves butting heads over Sadie. Book Number: 249 Number Of Pages: 399 Book Title: The Perfect Royal Mistress Author: Diane Haeger Summary: A fictional account of the life of Nell Gwynne, actress and mistress to Charles II of England. It follows her life from her early years as an orange girl at the theatre and her start as an actress, to finding success on the stage and capturing first the eye and then the heart of the king, ending with his passing eighteen years after they first became involved. Book Number: 250 Number Of Pages: 423 Book Title: My Sister’s Keeper Author: Jodi Picoult Summary: Thirteen year old Anna has known all her life that she was conceived as a “designer baby” in order to be a perfect match to donate blood and bone marrow to her older sister Kate, who has an acute form of leukemia. But no one’s ever asked her if she is actually willing to go through all these invasive medical procedures in order to prolong her sister’s life. And now she's being asked to donate a kidney as well, a procedure which could lead to medical problems for herself in the future. So for this and other reasons, she finds herself a lawyer in an attempt to declare medical emancipation for herself. Challenge complete! Edited April 9, 2013 by catstaff Share this post Link to post
Posted April 16, 2013 (edited) I'll join this, especially since you can claim fanfiction, and I read voraciously. Challenge accepted. Edit ~ Question, do uncompleted fanfictions count if they are over the word limit? Edited April 16, 2013 by nynaevesilverwind Share this post Link to post
Posted April 17, 2013 Book Number: 12 Number Of Pages: 274 Book Title: Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness #1) Author: Tamora Pierce Summary: Alanna wants to be a knight; her brother, Thom, a sorcerer. But as custom dictates, boys go to become knights, and girls ladies. So Alanna dresses herself as a boy and convinces her friend and servant, Coram, to take her to be trained as a knight instead, while her brother goes to the convent to learn magic. There at the castle, she meets friends, makes enemies, and discovers magical forces that she never imagined all warring for her attention. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 18, 2013 I'll join this, especially since you can claim fanfiction, and I read voraciously. Challenge accepted. Edit ~ Question, do uncompleted fanfictions count if they are over the word limit? Is fanfiction being allowed again? Share this post Link to post
Posted April 20, 2013 (edited) Updated to here Fanfiction is not allowed at the moment. I'll add that to the first post to avoid confusion. Congrats catstaff for reaching 250! Edited April 20, 2013 by BookChallenge Share this post Link to post
Posted April 24, 2013 Book Number: 2 Number Of Pages: 342 Book Title: 342 Author: Michelle Zink Summary: In the second book in the Prophecy of the Sisters trilogy, Amalia must undergo a dangerous journey to a mysterious island to track down the missing keys. Rating: 4/5 Review: -- Book Number: 3 Number Of Pages: 359 Book Title: Circle of Fire Author: Michelle Zink Summary: In this third book of the Prophecy of the Sisters trilogy, Amalia Milthorpe, the long-awaited "Gate," must secure the cooperation of her estranged twin sister and stop the world from descending into chaos before it is too late. Rating: 4/5 Review: -- Book Number: 4 Number Of Pages: 287 Book Title: The Secret Rites of Social Butterflies Author: Michelle Zindel Summary: Soon after moving to New York City, Maggie Wishnick is invited to join a secret society of girls devoted to recording the "truth" about others. Rating: 3/5 Review: -- Book Number: 5 Number Of Pages: 184 Book Title: The Gadget Author: Paul Zindel Summary: In the mid-20th century, Stephen is sent to live with his father in Los Alamos, who is, unknown to him, working on building the first atomic bomb. Rating: 2/5 Review: -- Book Number: 6 Number Of Pages: 129 Book Title: Night of the Bat Author: Paul Zindel Summary: Jake Lefkovitz joins his father in the Amazon to study bats and soon discovers a giant mutant bat that seems determined to menace the project. Rating: 1/5 Review: -- Book Number: 7 Number Of Pages: 149 Book Title: The Scream Museum Author: Paul Zindel Summary: Detective-to-be P.C. Hawke and his friend Mackenzie try to solve the mystery of the murder of one of P.C.'s father's coworkers. Rating: 1/5 Review: -- Book Number: 8 Number Of Pages: 149 Book Title: The Surfing Corpse Author: Paul Zindel Summary: When P.C. Hawke's classmates falls over the edge of a huge waterfall, everyone thinks he's dead. But there are clues that show otherwise, and it's up to P.C. and his friend Mackenzie to figure out what's going on. Rating: 1/5 Review: -- Book Number: 9 Number Of Pages: 204 Book Title: Rats Author: Paul Zindel Summary: When mutant rats attempt to take over Staten Island, it's up to Sara and her little brother Michael to figure out a way to drive them out. Rating: 0/5 Review: -- Book Number: 10 Number Of Pages: 170 Book Title: Raptor Author: Paul Zindel Summary: Zack and his friend Uta are astonished to discover a herd of living utahraptors hidden deep within a mountain. Rating: 1/5 Review: -- Book Number: 11 Number Of Pages: 173 Book Title: The Doom Stone Author: Paul Zindel Summary: When fifteen-year-old Jackson visits his aunt in England, he becomes caught up in a chase to capture an unknown creature who is stalking and killing people on the plains surrounding ancient Stonehenge. Rating: 1/5 Review: -- Book Number: 12 Number Of Pages: 230 Book Title: Pardon Me, You're Stepping On My Eyeball Author: Paul Zindel Summary: Two teenagers, "Marsh" Mellow and Edna Shinglebox, learn to cope with their personal problems by being honest with each other. Rating: 2/5 Review: -- Book Number: 13 Number Of Pages: 182 Book Title: The Pigman Author: Paul Zindel Summary: A teenage boy and girl, high school sophomores from unhappy homes, tell of their bizarre relationship with an old man. Rating: 3/5 Review: -- Book Number: 14 Number Of Pages: 183 Book Title: The Pigman's Legacy Author: Paul Zindel Summary: Haunted by the memory of a dead friend, two teenagers join an old man in a series of misadventures. Rating: 3/5 Review: -- Book Number: 15 Number Of Pages: 135 Book Title: I Never Loved Your Mind Author: Paul Zindel Summary: This book records the odd relationship of Dewey and Yvette, two high school dropouts working in a hospital. Rating: 2/5 Review: -- Book Number: 16 Number Of Pages: 353 Book Title: His Majesty's Dragon Author: Naomi Novik Summary: William Laurence, captain of the Reliant, unexpectedly tames the dragon Temeraire and must leave his ship to go into battle training with him. Rating: 5/5 Review: -- Book Number: 17 Number Of Pages: 119 Book Title: Night Author: Elie Wiesel Summary: This book is a memoir of the author's experience in concentration camps in Germany in World War 2. Rating: 4/5 Review: -- Share this post Link to post
Posted April 24, 2013 Book Number: 38 Number Of Pages: 276 Book Title: Doctor Who - La Nuit des Humains (French edition) Author: David Llewellyn Summary: The Doctor and Amy arrive on the Gyre, a place made of space junk. There is a war going there on between the Sittuun, an alien race, and the humans. At first the Doctor and Amy are arrested by the Sittuun, but then the humans kidnap the Doctor. Amy has to find a way of saving him and herself before a comet hits the Gyre. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 25, 2013 (edited) Book Number: 13 Number Of Pages: 403 Book Title: Tiger's Curse Author: Colleen Houck Summary: Eighteen-year-old Kelsey Hayes needs a summer job, but the only one available is working in a circus. Fortunately, thanks to her main-character-powers, she has the ability to stick her arm right into the cage of a white tiger and not be promptly bitten. This prompts the tiger's caretaker to go "Holy crap! You should come with us to India!" And thus begins an adventure where - surprise! - the tiger is actually a 300-year-old Indian prince who is cursed for some reason or another and Kelsey is the only one who can break the curse for some reason. Then they develop the most contrived romance ever which is only complicated by the fact that his sparkling abs deserve better than her boring white self, so she breaks up with him in a fit of sanity, rushes back to America after completing only one of the tasks required to break the curse, and promptly regrets her actions in letting go of Perfect McPerfectson. Obviously I did not like this book much. Edited April 25, 2013 by klinneah Share this post Link to post
Posted April 28, 2013 Book number 81 Number of Pages:180 book titleWar Horse Book author Michael Morpurgo Summary: A farm Horse Joey ends up going through the perils of war and battle. Book Number82 Number of Pages328 Book title The Monster of Florence Book author Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi Summary: The details of a multiple murderer, in Florence who has never been caught. Though innocent people have been blamed and more. book number 83 Number of pages293 book title They Cage the Animals at Night Book Author Jennings Michael Burch Summary: A child who goes through a series of foster homes and care homes when his mom is not able to care for him. Book Number 84 Number of Pages351 Book title The Golden Compass Book author Phillip Pullman Summary: Lyra a young girl is pulled into an adventure looking for lost children. she has many to assist her and, many to oppose her. Book number 85 Number of Pages 464 book title The Shining Book author Stephen King Summary: Jack Torrence is hired on to look after an old hotel that is full of spirits and ghosts, who slowly take over Jack in hopes of getting to his son who has a powerful telepathic power. Book number 86 RE READ Number of Pages249 Book title On a Pale Horse- book 1 of Incarnations of Immortality. Book author Piers Anthony Summary: When a young man feels he has nothing left he sets out to commit suicide. Only, he kills death and then becomes Death and he as Death, must prevent Satan from getting what he wants. Book Number 87 REREAD Number of Pages372 book titleBearing an Hourglass- book 2 Incarnations of Immortality Book author Piers Anthony Summary: Norton is encouraged to become Chronos, the God of Time. Throughout the book Satan tries to sway Chronos to do a simple favour for him. Book number 88 REREAD Number of Pages 130 Book title Dealing With Dragons - enchanted forest chronicles Book AuthorPatricia Wrede Summary: Cimmorene a Princess bored of being a Princess, runs off to become a Dragon's Princess. Book number 89 REREAD Number of Pages152 book title Searching for Dragons Book author Patricia Wrede Summary: Kazul the dragon has gone missing. Cimmorene joins forces with the King of the Enchanted Forest to find the missing dragon. Book number 90 REREAD Number of Pages162 book title Calling on Dragons. Book AuthorPatricia Wrede Summary: The Witch Morwen, joins with Telemain the Wizard and a rabbit named Killer to find out what the Wizards are up to this time in the Enchanted Forest. Share this post Link to post
Posted April 29, 2013 Add me please *goes off to library to get books and explain why I need them.* Share this post Link to post
Posted April 30, 2013 (edited) Book Number: 1 Number Of Pages: 168 Book Title: Kitty at St Clares Author: Enid Blyton Summary: A new head girl called Maragaret causes lots of trouble for the thrid form. Has she met her deal with Feisty Kitty and her pet goat? Rating:-- Review:-- Edited May 1, 2013 by freezerpup Share this post Link to post
Posted May 1, 2013 (edited) Book Number: 65 Number Of Pages: 345 Book Title: Goddess of the Rose Author: P. C. Cast Summary: Mikki Empousai rejuvenates roses with her blood, which is fitting since her full name, Mikado, is actually a type of rose. She accidentally frees the Guardian appointed and then cursed by Hecate and is taken to the Realm of the Rose. Rating: 5/5 Book Number: 66 Number Of Pages: 211 Book Title: Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand Author: Louise Hawes Summary: This is a collection of rewritten fairytales from different points of view and with alternate, unhappier endings. Rating: 5/5 Review: These are more mature versions of the classic stories and are haunting in both beauty and creepiness. Edited May 2, 2013 by clara954 Share this post Link to post
Posted May 2, 2013 (edited) Book Number:2 Number Of Pages:258 Book Title:buttercup mash Author:Joanna Nadin Summary:Buttercup Jones is a fourteen year old girl and has issues. She signs up for glee club and Buttercup jones is excited Rating:-- Review:-- Book Number:3 Number Of Pages:281 Book Title:Shadow Author:Michael Morpurgo Summary:Aman never has needed a friend more when a Springer Spaniel dog shows up and the mouth of his cave in Afanastan. Rating: -- Review: -- Book Number:4 Number Of Pages:351 Book Title:Geekhood Author:Andy Robb Summary:Archie is a fourteen year old geek and a level 5 Mage, capable of sommoning the Undead Rating: -- Review: -- Edited May 2, 2013 by freezerpup Share this post Link to post
Posted May 3, 2013 Book Number: 67 Number Of Pages: 212 Book Title: Princess of the Wild Swans Author: Diane Zahler Summary: Princess Meriel dislikes her new “black swan” of a stepmother but doesn’t hate her until she wakes to fins that her five brothers have been transformed into swans. She has the help of half-witches as she struggles to make five nettle-shirts to undo the spell, but her failure with mean the evil fae returning to the world. Rating: 5/5 Share this post Link to post
Posted May 5, 2013 Book Number: 39 Number Of Pages: 287 Book Title: Shadowland (The Mediator #1) Author: Meg Cabot Summary: Suze is a mediator, which means that she helps ghosts to finish the tasks that keep them from moving on. She has recently moved from New York to a small town in California, where she finds a ghost, Jesse, who has been staying in her bedroom for the last 150 years. He doesn't seem to have a reason to stay in this world, but the ghost of a girl at her new school does and she doesn't like Suze. Book Number: 40 Number Of Pages: 304 Book Title: Ninth Key (The Mediator #2) Author: Meg Cabot Summary: There is a new ghost in town: a woman who looks as if she died in unusual circumstances. Also, a boy has asked Suze on a date, but his family is not exactly normal and both the boy's family and the ghost seem to be connected. Book Number: 41 Number Of Pages: 304 Book Title: Reunion (The Mediator #3) Author: Meg Cabot Summary: The ghosts of four teenagers who died in a car crash are haunting the town and looking for revenge on the other driver, a boy in Suze's class. Book Number: 42 Number Of Pages: 316 Book Title: Darkest Hour (The Mediator #4) Author: Meg Cabot Summary: The ghost of Jesse's girlfriend suddenly appears in Suze's bedroom one night. She threatens her and orders her to destroy evidence that might point to Jesse's killer. Book Number: 43 Number Of Pages: 263 Book Title: Haunted (The Mediator #5) Author: Meg Cabot Summary: Paul, a boy she met during the summer is the new student at Suze's school and also a mediator who knows how to make Jesse disappear forever. Also, a new friend of Suze's stepbrother is being followed by a ghost who blames him for his death. Book Number: 44 Number Of Pages: 336 Book Title: Twilight (The Mediator #6) Author: Meg Cabot Summary: Paul has found a way to travel back in time to prevent Jesse's death, which would mean that he would never become a ghost and would never meet Suze. Book Number: 45 Number Of Pages: 336 Book Title: Sgàile Author: Carolina Lozano Summary: Liadan and her friends have to solve a new mystery because she has seen a living boy who she had previously seen as a ghost. That's not supposed to be possible though. Share this post Link to post
Posted May 7, 2013 Book Number: 74 Number Of Pages: 223 Book Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (re-read) Author: J. K. Rowling Summary: Harry Potter is told that he is a wizard, and begins his first year at Hogwarts. With the help of his new friends, he prevents the return of the evil wizard Lord Voldemort. Book Number: 75 Number Of Pages: 251 Book Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (re-read) Author: J. K. Rowling Summary: In Harry's second year at Hogwarts, the Chamber of Secrets is opened, as it was many years ago, and releases the monster of Slytherin in the school. Harry is the one who finally discovers where the chamber is hidden, and once again thwarts Lord Voldemort. Book Number: 76 Number Of Pages: 317 Book Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (re-read) Author: J. K. Rowling Summary: Sirius Black, believed to be a dangerous mass-murderer, has escaped from the wizard prison Azkaban. Now it is believed that he is coming to kill Harry, but everything is not quite as it seems after all. Book Number: 77 Number Of Pages: 636 Book Title: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (re-read) Author: J. K. Rowling Summary: The Triwizard Tournament is to be held at Hogwarts. Harry is too young to enter, but his name comes out of the goblet as the fourth contestant, and he is obliged to see it through. A death eater is at Hogwarts, and makes sure that Harry has to face a resurrected Lord Voldemort. Book Number: 78 Number Of Pages: 766 Book Title: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (re-read) Author: J. K. Rowling Summary: The minister refuses to believe that Lord Voldemort has returned, and does his best to squash any rumours of this. He even makes sure that one of his assistants, Dolores Umbridge, gets a position at Hogwarts. It is apparent that Harry has a connection with Lord Voldemort, and can at times see Voldemort's thoughts, and eventually Voldemort lures Harry to the ministry. Book Number: 79 Number Of Pages: 607 Book Title: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (re-read) Author: J. K. Rowling Summary: Harry becomes the owner of an old potions book, previously owned by the "Half-Blood Prince". This book is full of scribbled, helpful notes, and homemade spells. As Harry suddenly excels as potions, Dumbledore is giving him private lessons, where he learns about Voldemort's past. This is supposed to help Harry survive, and beat Voldemort in the end. Book Number: 80 Number Of Pages: 607 Book Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (re-read) Author: J. K. Rowling Summary: Harry, Ron, and Hermione does not go back to Hogwarts for their final year. Instead, they set out to destroy Voldemort's horcruxes, aiming to finish him off. It all ends in a final battle at Hogwarts. Share this post Link to post
Posted May 8, 2013 Book Number: 68 Number Of Pages: 257 Book Title: The Swan Kingdom Author: Zoë Marriott Summary: Princess Alexandra follows her mother’s footsteps in magic despite her father being against it. She comes back from a test to find her mother dying. Later, her father comes home with a bride-to-be who is also the beast that killed the late queen. Rating: 5/5 Review: This is one of my new favorite books. I love the unexpected plot twists. Share this post Link to post
Posted May 8, 2013 Book Number: 46 Number Of Pages: 322 Book Title: Storm Front Author: Jim Butcher Summary: Harry Dresden is a wizard who works as a consultant for the police. In this book, the first of the series, he is called to help with a double murder and he finds that black magic was involved. Share this post Link to post
Posted May 13, 2013 Book Number: 14 Number Of Pages:398 Book Title: Vector Prime (The New Jedi Order #1) Author: R. A. Salvatore Summary: Twenty years after the end of Imperial rule, the New Republic is struggling to hold on to order. Their attention is mostly focused at the Core, for Nom Anor, a "charismatic firebrand" whose chief aim is to stir up trouble until the new government is so paralyzed by civil disputes that they will be helpless against a new, extragalactic threat that brings weapons and tactics unlike anything the New Republic has seen before. Share this post Link to post
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