Children of the Lamp

Children of the Lamp is 394 pages and is about John and Phillipa Gaunt, twelve year old twins who one day discover to be descended from a long line of djinn. All of a sudden they are able to grant wishes, travel to extraordinary places, and make people and objects disappear. The kids are introduced to their djinn-uncle Nimrod who will teach hem how to harness their newly found power. This is a really good book and would recommend it to anyone with a huge imagination.

Myths and Legends From Ancient Greece and Around the World

Myths and Legends..... is 153 pages long and about all the different legends all around the world. My favorite legend is Aspu and Tiamat the creators because it was a good part of my study of my ancient civ project. These myths are really cool and informative to a point.

HAMLET

My favorite character is hamlet, because he has a lot of good lines. Hamlet is mean to a lot of people, and I imagine it would be really good acting in a real play. I'm really excited because I'm Hamlet in the readers theater.

The Dragons Child Quickie Blog

The Dragons Child by Laurence Yep is 121 pages long. It is a story about a kid that hardly knows his father and suddenly needs to go to work at the Golden Mountains in San Francisco. His two older brothers are already there his family is rich in a poor vilage. He has never been out of his little village. He has to be quized by americans and has to be tested by his father.

Darkness Over Denmark

Darkness Over Denmark by Ellen Levine is 162 pages long. This is a really sad book. It's about some Jewish family's that live during the Holocaust, and some of the challenges they faced rebeling from Hitler and the Nazi's. All of the families mentioned in the book do at least one thing that was brave to survive. They all did something brave. One family risked their own life by hiding Jews overnight in there basement, so they would not get killed. Another family made guns for the Jews to rebel with. That was really brave of them to do that, because they would have been killed for helping the Jews. I would recomend this book to someone of a mature age that can stand with what the Nazi's and Hitler did.

The Lightning Thief

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan is 377 pages long. It's about a boy named Percues Jackson and he is a half-blood. He is sent to camp Half-Blood and he meets a girl named Annabeth. Percy has ADHD and is not the best student so he switches schools yearly! In sixth grade he meets a saytr named Grover and he is a goat boy. Percy and his friends are sent to the underworld to look for Hadys because he is accused of taking Zues's Lightning Bolt.

Hadys is accused of taking the Lightning Bolt. Hadys is Lord of the dead. Percy is the only one who can stop him. It turns out that Percy had the Lightning Bolt the whole time he was on the quest, and it's not that easy to get to the underworld. He had a lot of challenges on the way like the old lady and the colossal poodle, but it turns out that one of the Gods is a traitor. Percy finds out who his father is at the end of the story, it's the God Posieden , the God of the sea. When Posieden dies Percy will take over at Olympus and he will be the God of the sea. I would recommend this book to everyone.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is 193 pages long. He does a magnificent job describing Brian's challenges. A plane crashes in a L shaped lake and the pilot dies at impact. Brian survives the crash and manages to swim to land. Later in the story Brian digs out a tree and makes it his home, he makes furniture and a bed made out of leaves. He learns how to hunt and makes a bow and arrow.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen is 193 pages long. Brian is lost in the wilderness and will be rescued sometime in the next year. It is a magnificent book and would recommend this book to anyone and everyone, children and adults. It's a magnificent classic.