Awesome job so far guys!!! :)

Hey Guys!! Wow!!! We should really be proud of ourselves!!! 623 viewers in less than 2 months!!! I think that this is a real achievement, and we should be really proud!!!!!!!!! Keep it up guys!!!

p.s. this is not really a review....but I really thought that this was an accomplishment so I just wanted to point it out.

-Mary!!!

Review: The Amaranth Enchantment

Hey Guys!
So I just finished reading The Amaranth Enchantment by Julie Berry...and i've got to say - it was very good! This isn't a book we're reading in library club, were half way through City of Bones. It is a book I picked up in the paper store this weekend because it looked interesting :) So I won't give away any spoilers (don't worry wendy!) but I will give you a sense of what it's about...So it starts with a girl about our age who lives with her wicked step aunt and her uncle who has no power when the aunt is around...but Lucinda (the main character) hasn't always lived with them. She remembers watching her mother get ready for a ball more than ten years ago..She remembers her father and mother stepping into a carriage...and not coming back...After that all she remembers is living with her uncle and aunt at their jewelery shop and playing "cinderella." UNTIL one day...odd sorts of people start appearing at the shop..princes....beggar boys.....and Amaranth, a mystifying women who is rumored to be a witch. Amaranth will ask Lucinda to complete a quest that has you glued to the pages. I won't say anything more, but if you all have time between homework and everything else going on - be sure to pick up this book :)
Thanks!
- Sara Crewe

After William...Check out our Friend's Work!

Hey!
This is just a quick- but important! -post about our friend (Jo - who never got a chance to post). She submitted her story "After William" to Teen Ink, a web site that lets teens submit their writing to get it published online, and if it gets enough votes, it'll be printed in their magazine! Our friend got hers published, but it's not in the magazine yet! So if she gets enough votes, It'll be read more (which is what we really want for her!) The story is really well-written, and takes place during Shakespere's era. We would love you to check it out here: http://www.teenink.com/novels/historical_fiction/book/59869/After-William/
Read and rate it! It would mean a lot to us :) Thanks!
-Alice

May the Odds be Ever in your Favor

Hey Readers!

          So, as you know, we all read/are reading the Hunger Games. I just thought I'd give kind of a wrap-up post about it, since I kind of left you hanging after my almost-done-with-mockingjay post :). I'll try not to give away any spoilers, because Mary hasn't finished Mockinjay yet, and I know she'll love it! All in all, I think i'm going to stick to my opinion that the Hunger Games should have been one book on it's own, and left us wanting more. It feels almost like if a character was referenced a lot on a TV show but you never saw them, and finally you meet them, but they don't live up to the standards they were held to in your imagination. I feel like people could still be arguing about what will happen, and this would be a more powerful book all in all if it was without Catching Fire and Mockingjay. I really enjoy those two books and I love the subplots and the new characters introduced, but again, they didn't quite live up to the standards of the original Hunger Games. I have another strong opinion, but it sort of gives away the ending, so all i'm going to say is that the ending is too weak, and it seems that the author took the easy way out. There were ways to make the ending much more powerful. I'm sort of contradicting myself, because i LOVE this book, but this is also a point i feel strong about. Keep on reading!
-Alice :)
P.S. New bestseller list is up :) the usual suspects, again.
P.P.S. Gale, Peeta, and Katniss were casted in the Hunger Games movie, out 2012! Check them out here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/ (look forward to a post about my opinions on THAT looming in the near future!)

New book and New Club

Hi guys!!!!! I am Mary Lennox, and we just started a new term of library club!!!! So far it is really fun and we have a very good group of people! Jo sadly is not joining us for this term because she wanted to experiment with another club, but Dorothy, who is taking Jo's place, is now with us! Sorry, that is very confusing!!  But that is ok that Jo is gone because she is still a part of the library club to us in many ways! She will hopefully come during recesses to help us sort the books and check in and out different books.  Any way, Sara has suggested a book that looks very interesting called, The City of Bones. It looks very interesting and I am excited to start reading it!! I still have to finish Mockingjay (I know, I am a VERY slow reader.) Here is a picture of the cover of The City of Bones:

I think we should really read it! That dream has come true!!!!! We just received the books at 1:06 pm on Thursday April 14, 2011. Well I better go now!! See yah later people of the world!!!! :P

            -Mary Lennox (obviously because I just said that earlier in the post. J hehe.)

            

A Message to Our Dear Readers

We now have over 400 views on our blog (YAY!!) (even though most of the views come from us :).  Anyways, posting on the blog is really fun!  But you know what could make it just a little bit funner (even though “funner” isn’t a word :) )?

            PLEASE COMMENT ON OUR POSTS!  I know it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but It would fill each of us with the following emotions. It would make us feel:

            -happy

            -excited

            -giddy

            -talkative

            -excited

            -cheerful

            -joyful

            -lighthearted

            -anxious

            -thrilled

            -much, much, more…

So please.. COMMENT!!!
~Wendy

The Great Gatsby

Hi, Everyone! Sorry I haven't posted!

About a month ago, I spent a gift card at the book store on some classic novels, including The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I was worried that it would be hard to follow, but really, it was not a huge undertaking. It was less than 200 pages, and for the most part, was written in a way that was very clear and understandable; it was full of complex imagery and symbolism as well. The straightforward plot was balanced by incredible detail in both setting and characterization. The story is set on Long Island in the 1920's, and Nick Carraway, the narrator, is a new neighbor of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby, an incredibly wealthy man who throws giant parties in his mansion, is the main focus of the story because his character is so mysterious. No one, including the reader, really knows why he is so important, or whether he is good or bad. I believe that this is the kind of book that does not have one meaning to convey or one message to send. It is up to you, the reader, to interpret every detail.

   I think that reading this book will probably be a school assignment for me at some point because it is so well-known. But it is definitely worth reading again!         ~ Dorothy :)

Nancy Drew

Hey Everyone!!
So...
I have recently been reading the "Nancy Drew" series.
They are really good and exciting books- a quick read that keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way through!!
Nancy Drew, an 18 year old detective, finds herself wrapped up in mystery after mystery- going on dangerous missions and always solving the case in the end. Some of these stories include "The Secret of the Old Clock" and "Mystery at Lilac Inn," etc.
You can always find an AWESOME book that is easy to read! It doesn't always have to be 500 pages!! :) ~ Anne Shirley

The Agency

Hey Everyone!
So, sorry I haven't posted in so long...
I've been VERY busy!! 

Anyway, I finished the first two books of "The Agency" series, by Y.S. Lee. They are called "A Spy in the House" and "The Body at the Tower." These books are SOOOOO good!!! They are mystery novels about a girl named Mary Quinn, who escaped from being hanged and was brought to a girls boarding school. Though she had had a very hard childhood in the streets of London, she soon becomes a part of the Agency, a detective agency made up of all women who solve cases based solely on the stereotypes of women. Mary goes on an assignment for both books, the first posing as a governess in a merchant's home and then as a boy in a construction site in London. Both stories are SO GOOD, and they also have a theme of romance as well, for through her travels Mary keeps bumping into the tall and handsome James Easton. 
The third book, "The Traitor in the Tunnel," is supposed to come out in Spring 2012 from Candlewick Press.
I would HIGHLY recommend this series!!
It's the type of book you can never put down...

~Anne Shirley 

April Showers Bring May Flowers!

this is a cool image i found when searching "April"

:)

Hey Everyone! I just wanted to give say "happy april!" Its exciting to have completed our first month as a blog . Keep your finger's crossed for more posts and warm weather in april

....and of course, keep reading!

-Sara C.