Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Harry Potter series by: J.K. Rowling

The Harry Potter series is a great one full of mystery, excitement, fighting, and adventure. That is, if you like mysteries. all though for me, I love them. The full series is called:

#1 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone
#2 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
#3 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
#4 Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire
#5 Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix
#6 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
#7 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

If you don't like long chapters or romance, I doubt you would like the series at all. But if you don't mind a little romance, I think you would like it. Because teenagers flirt, fight and fall on love, and in the 7th book, there's a lot of romance. But personally, I myself love the series. I'm reading the 6th book right now, and my friend, Annie, all ready read the whole series. So that's how I know about the 7th. The Harry Potter series is about a boy they call "the boy who lived" because there's a dark lord called Voldemort and people fear to speak his name. And Harry Potter is the only human being on earth that got attacked by Voldemort and actually survived.

Harry Potter is an amazing book full of adventure and bravery that has taken over part of my life.

Monday, December 29, 2008

Rules by Cynthia Lord


Rules is a book about a 12-year-old girl named Catherine who has a brother with autism named David. It's titled Rules because David wasn't born knowing rules like you and I were. Catherine had to tell him yourself that the rule is "no toys in the fish tank" and "you take your pants off at the doctor sometimes if the doctor asks you to, but never at the dentist."

Catherine has a hard life with David, and sometimes she thinks "why did god have to pick me to have David? A kid with OCD would be easier." But she can only thank him for one thing: letting her go to OT with him where she met Josh. OT stands for Occupational Therapy. And Josh is a boy she meets at OT who is in a wheelchair and has to use a communication book to talk to other people. But his hearing is just fine (which he doesn't think his therapist knows, because she yells at him every morning "HI JOSH! HOW ARE YOU TODAY?!").

Having a brother with autism is hard sometimes, Catherine knows, but it could be harder in so many ways. This book was really good and I think you should all read it.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo


Today in the morning at 10 a.m., I saw the movie "the tale of Despereaux". I must say, It was pretty good. There's nothing really wrong about the movie, but if I were to rate it between 0 and 100, I'd say 80.

What the book is really about is a mouse who isn't like the other mice, but when he got sent to the dungeon for talking to the princess of the castle(which is so strictly against the rules in Mouseworld), he meets a rat who does not eat mice like other rats, does not eat garbage, and even likes light. and he tells him about how he killed the queen by falling in her soup and her dieing by shock and ow he's really innocent since he did not do it on purpose. and when Despereaux finds out that the princess has gotten tricked by the rat, along with the servant that gives her tea every day. the rat tricked the servant into taking the princess to the dungeon and putting them both in jail. the rats find the princess and decide to eat her, so it is up to Despereaux Tilling to save her.

Anyway, i don't want to spoil it for you.

One thing that they didn't have in the book that they had in the movie is this one guy made of vegetables that helps Despereaux get back to the dungeon since he escaped. At first, I thought he was pretty funny. until my mom pointed out that he had no purpose to be in the movie when he wasn't in the book.

"The tale of Despereaux" is an amazing story with complete mystery, bravery, and awesome adventure.