Victoria's Book review

Title: The Spiderwick Chronicles

Author: Tony Diterlizzi and Holly Black

Publisher: Simon&Schuster Books for young readers

Place and Year of Publication: New York

Number of Pages: 323

Where You Found The Book: CHS library

This story is mainly about Jared Grace, his twin brother Simon Grace and his sister Mallory Grace. Because his dad had left his mom, his family had to stay at his great aunt Lucinda’s house.

The house was very old the doors were faded gray, worn with age and it was almost considered as a shack. This book is called

Spiderwick because their great great uncle Arthur spiderwick had wrote the Guide. The guide was the secret to all things. Since the people didn’t know about the creatures, the creatures wanted to destroy it because they didn’t want people to know about it.

        Jared hated the house, the house looked like it was falling apart and he could hear something inside of the wall rustling.

Jared couldn’t sleep so he shook his twin brother awake.

Mallory was in the lead walking a few paces and stopping to listen then she swung the boom handle at the wall. The wall was broken into piece. The three of them could still hear the noise. Simon pointed out, “look!” he bent down to touch a small door.

It was a dumbwaiter. The dumb waiter took Jared to the small library there it was a chest. Inside there was square bundle, wrapped in dirty cloth and it was a field Guide.

        Since Jared found the book everything started to change. Goblins had kidnapped his brother Simon, troll wanting to eat them and ferries who wanted to make them a hostage. Will they keep the book safe?

Theme: fantasy, adventure and mystery

Christian perspective: This book was not written in Christian perspective. It was based on magical book and magical creatures. One thing that Jared should have done in Christian way was when he got scared and woke his brother up he should have prayed. In the book of Psalm 34:4 says, “I sought the lord, and he answered me, he delivered me from all my fears.” When Jared was complaining about his great aunt’s house he should have been thankful and gracious.

My thoughts: I chose this book because this book had fantasy and adventure in it. I really enjoyed reading this book because the creatures had very unique names and some of them made me laugh. One thing that stood out to me the most was when Jared wanted to save his brother Simon and it really showed how he cared for him. Recommend this book to a person who likes reading an adventure and fantasy.