Title: Spells & Sleeping Bags
Author: Sarah Mylnowski
Rate It: 5/5!
Review It: Miri and Rachel go to camp along with Prissy, their stepsister. They get sent to camp because their dad and their stepmother are trying to have a baby. At camp, Rachel and Miri find out they have a cousin. Also, Raf & Rachel have a romance going on.
Title: Found (The Missing, Book 1)
Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix
Rate It: 4/5
Review It: This novel captivates you from the first page. A mystery that haunts you until all the secrets are revealed. Unfortunately, with this not being the end for the young heroes, we will have to await for the next chapter in the story. We will wait to know the fate of the heroes.
Reviewed By: Kimberly Barba
Title: The Witch of Blackbird Pond
Author: Elizabeth George Speare
Rate It: Very nice
Review It: A very good book that uses fear, love, and friendship all together. Good book to read.
Title: Scary Stories
Author: illustrated by Barry Moser; introduction by Peter Glassman
Contents:
Kittens / Dean Koontz -- The Magic Shop / H.G. Wells -- Miriam / Truman Capote -- The tell-tale heart / Edgar Allan Poe -- Genesis and catastrophe (a true story) / Roald Dahl -- The squaw / Bram Stoker -- Here there be tygers / Stephen King -- Man overboard! / Winston Churchill -- The lottery / Shirley Jackson -- The bus-conductor / E.F. Benson -- Thanksgiving / Joyce Carol Oates -- Excerpt from The legend of Sleepy Hollow / Washington Irving -- The terrible old man / H.P. Lovecraft -- John Charrington's wedding / E. Nesbit -- The furnished room / O. Henry -- The man upstairs / Ray Bradbury -- The music on the hill / Saki -- The boarded window / Ambrose Bierce -- Fingers on the back of the neck / Margaret Mahy -- The cremation of Sam McGee / Robert W. Service.
Rate It: 2/5
Review It: It had some good stories but most weren't the least bit scary. Some didn't even make sense.
Title: The Fire Within (The Last Dragon Chronicles, Book 1)
Author: Chris D'Lacey
Rate It: 4/5
Review It: It was about David who moves into a house with Elizabeth and her daughter Lucy. They make special clay dragons and give him his own. Lucy begs David to write a story about squirrels an while he does he learns much more about the dragons.
Title: The Red Pyramid (The Kane Chronicles, Book 1)
Author: Rick Riordan
Rate It: 5/5 stars
Review It: This story is about 2 kids who discover that the Egyptian gods are real and that they (the 2 kids) have special powers. Through many dangerous misadventures, they must find a way to control Set (god of Chaos), save their dad and escape from magicians before Set takes over the world.
