Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Scholastic Press (October 1, 2010)
Author's Website: http://matthewjkirby.com/kirbside/
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Three ordinary children are brought together by extraordinary events. . .
Giuseppe is an orphaned street musician from Italy, who was sold by his uncle to work as a slave for an evil padrone in the U.S. But when a mysterious green violin enters his life he begins to imagine a life of freedom.
Hannah is a soft-hearted, strong-willed girl from the tenements, who supports her family as a hotel maid when tragedy strikes and her father can no longer work.
She learns about a hidden treasure, which she knows will save her family -- if she can find it.
And Frederick, the talented and intense clockmaker's apprentice, seeks to learn the truth about his mother while trying to forget the nightmares of the orphanage where she left him. He is determined to build an automaton and enter the clockmakers guild -- if only he can create a working head.
Together, the three discover they have phenomenal power when they team up as friends, and that they can overcome even the darkest of fears.
This is one of the BEST book trailers I've ever seen!
This book was sitting on our shelves for months and months. Our copy is an uncorrected advanced reader copy and the cover only shows the clockwork man, without the kids, and it just didn't look that interesting. It was eventually this interview that made us decide to read the book.
We ended up requesting that our library order the audio cd so that we could listen to it together. Luckily our library is AWESOME, and they bought it.
Bransen's Thoughts:I really loved this book. I thought it had a LOT of adventure and activity. My favorite character was Giuseppe. I liked how the author sort of got this book off of real history. I liked how Giuseppe ran away from his padrone, Stephano, and that he didn't care how badly he got punished, he just kept going. I liked how he had good friends that would help him.
I loved how Frederick was so determined to build a clockwork. Even though he made some bad decisions. It was hard for him to trust Master Branch because he was bro
Paperback: 348 pages
Publisher: MAD Design, Inc. (January 24, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0982686439
ISBN-13: 978-0982686430Buy the book: Amazon
Visit the site: Mother Earth SeriesThings are rarely what they seem ...
Especially when you're a shapeshifter.
Jenni Kershaw just wanted a chance at a normal life. Well, maybe something a little better than normal. But perfect physical features weren't translating into happiness for Jenni as a freshman in high school. Something was still missing.
Jenni never would have guessed that something might be her old nemesis from junior high, Alisha, who shows up out of the blue, bearing a flag of truce.
*Check HERE for the GIVEAWAY and INTERVIEW of The Mother Earth Series author Alan Tucker! My Review
Okay, so I went into this book with high hopes and expectations. Which is completely natural because of the impression that the first book of this series,
A Measure of Disorder
, gives you. And, I must say that this book, which I have waited for and highly anticipated is just about everything I hoped it would be, and more. This epic story continues in a way that I didn't expect and had me hanging on to every word. I flew through the pages, faster and faster until I suddenly realized that there were only about ten pages left in the book. And, as strange as it may seem, I paused in reading it. Not because I wanted to, but because I had realized that the book was about to be over. A thought that greatly saddened me. The reason for this being that I didn't want this book to end because it was just
so good. Though, this pause only lasted for a few minutes because I couldn't stand not reading it.
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Reading level: Ages 9-12
Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books; First Harper Trophy Edition edition (March 14, 2006)
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Ten years ago, Septimus Heap died in infancy. And on the same day, his father Silas Heap found a baby girl, and was instructed by the new ExtraOrdinary Wizard Marcia to raise her as his own. Ten years later, Marcia reveals that the girl Jenna is actually the future queen of that land. But she's in danger, and now a spy has found out where the girl lives.
Marcia tries to spirit Jenna to safety, but now nowhere is safe -- an Assassin, a Hunter, and the apprentice to an evil wizard are sent after them. Now Marcia, Silas, Jenna, the ghost of the wizard Alther, and a mysterious young boy are on the run. But not everyone is as they seem, and a boy claiming to be Septimus Heap may not be him at all...
In this book Silas Heap and his wife Sara Heap have 6 boys. When the7th son of the7th son is born he is claimed dead my a midwife. That same night when Silas is coming back to the castle with some herbs for Sara he finds a bundle on the ground that turns out to be a baby girl with violet eyes. He rushes back to find the midwife running out yelling "He's dead!" He saw that she was holding Septimus. They decided to name the baby girl Jenna. Ten years later Jenna's tenth birth day is there and Marcia Overstrand the ExtraOrdinary wizard turns up and tells them that Jenna is a princess! She takes Jenna and tries to hide but they can't stay safe for very long.
I LOVED THIS BOOK! I loved it 'cause the characters where AMAZING, the places they went were AMAZING, the creatures were AMAZING. My favorite character is: Marcia Overstrand. She is really good with magyk and she is cool! My favorite creature is: It is the ___.........Wait can't tell you that never mind :)! Well my 2nd favorite creature is: The bogart! Well my grandmother is reading this book and she also enjoyed it! I would think EVERYONE should read this book cause it is AMAZING!
I loved the reader! There are SO many good readers i forgot how many i like! So i don't know what place this reader is in. Listen to this book too, it has a good reader! Alther's name sounds like Alphaa so remember it is Alther!
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Reading level: Ages 9-12
Hardcover: 272 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR); 1st edition (September 2, 2008)
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"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case of mistaken identity, the Yelnats family has become accustomed to a long history of bad luck, thanks to their "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!" Despite his innocence, Stanley is quickly enmeshed in the Camp Green Lake routine: rising before dawn to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter; learning how to get along with the Lord of the Flies-styled pack of boys in Group D; and fearing the warden, who paints her fingernails with rattlesnake venom. But when Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to build character--that in fact the warden is seeking something specific--the plot gets as thick as the irony.
In this book Stanley goes to camp Green Lake for committing a crime he did not do! He went to camp Green Lake to become good :) and to dig holes :(. At Camp Green Lake, there is no lake....no water at all! Stanley becomes "the cave man" and he becomes part of group D's little group that they all have nick-names for each other, like Barf Bag and Squid. Then one day Stanley finds a gold nail polish lid in the dirt and he sees that is says: K. B. and he think it belonged to Kissing-Kate-Barlow, a famous out-law! He has to find out, and he wants to know if that spot was the spot where his great grandfather was robbed by Kissing-Kate-Barlow.
I listened to this on audio and I liked the reader a lot! He's probably my 5th favorite haha! The reader is Kerry Beyer (IT'S A BOY!) He did a lot of voices and they were really good!
I liked this book and thought is was a little weird because they had to dig holes and that Stanley was so big but he did not defend himself at all even when kids smaller then him beat him up. I liked the book and the way it would go back in time to kissing-Kate-Barlow was still a school teacher and good and nice. I also liked how Stanley found everything while the other boys got dirt. I think Zero is my 1st favorite character. Zero does not tal
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The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers.
Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan's peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory.
Alek and Deryn will need great skill, new allies, and brave hearts to face what's ahead.
In this book Deryn is trying to keep her identity secret. Alek is also trying to keep his history a secret. Deryn is a girl and she wants to be in the air force. so she's pretending to be a boy. Alek is a BARKING PRINCE as Deryn would put it, and his parents are dead murdered by Germans and fellow Austrians. They teem up to stop the German empire and the other countries. They also meet other people who want to rebel.
I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!! On Howrse I have a bunch of pictures of this book and other stuff on my page! I think I will LOVE this book forever! It really
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A brand new adventure starring The Grey Griffins!
Max---the leader
Natalia---the brains
Ernie---the changeling
Harley---the muscle
A year ago, the Grey Griffins were just regular kids from Avalon, Minnesota. That was before they learned about the existence of evil fairies, werewolves, and other things that go bump in the night. Now they are monster-hunters, celebrated heroes, and allies to the legendary Templar knights---but even heroes have to go to school.
When the Griffins enroll at Iron Bridge Academy, a school to train young recruits in the fight against the forces of evil, they find themselves at the center of a whole new adventure. The Clockwork King, a Templar foe from days past, has returned to finish the plan he set in motion decades ago. A plot to steal the souls of changelings---humans infused with fairy blood and s
- Reading level: Ages 9-12
- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: Hyperion Book CH; 1st edition (October 12, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 142311339X
- ISBN-13: 978-1423113393
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Okay, so this book is about a kid named Jason, appearing suddenly on a bus going on a field trip. When the teacher gets taken by Venti, or storm spirits, Annabeth and a friend come and take Jason and his new friends, Piper and Leo, (Oh, another thing, Jason has amnesia and cannot remember where he came from or who he is) to Camp Half-Blood. When Jason gets a vision o Juno, or Hera, telling him to free her, the three kids must go on a quest. They must free Hera and face many, many monsters. Jason gets lots of surprises along the way, including what his last name is. If you read the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, you will know what that means. Okay, I will give you a hint, he has a well known sister.
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- Reading level: Ages 9-12
- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: Hyperion Book CH; 1st edition (October 12, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 142311339X
- ISBN-13: 978-1423113393
After saving Olympus from the evil Titan lord, Kronos, Percy and friends have rebuilt their beloved Camp Half-Blood, where the next generation of demigods must now prepare for a chilling prophecy of their own:
Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,
To storm or fire the world must fall.
An oath to keep with a final breath,
And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death.
I listened to this on audiobook which was amazing! I liked the reader from Percy Jackson and the Olympians (Jesse Bernstein) better, and I wish he had done this one, too. But this reader was pretty good. Sometimes I like listening to the audio better because I can get through it better, and I can listen to it when I'm going to bed. Plus, it helps me to know how to pronounce all the names!
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is the first in the series.
, but it's not necessary to read them to enjoy this series) 
Great job, Bransen!! Even if I don't like the farting....haha!!
Bransen, your review is wonderful! I'm going to buy this book and read it to a little friend of mine. I know he'll like it. You did such a good job on this! I hope you do more reviews!
Great job, Bransen. I look forward to watching more vlogs from you.