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.

Guts

Title: Guts
Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Dell Laurel Leaf
Place and year of publication: New York 2001
Number of pages: 148
Where I found the book: school library


Theme of this book: wilderness, and determination

(This is just one episode I wrote about.)


Story Review: The title of this book is Guts, it is about real events that inspired Gary Paulsen write the story Hatchet, The River, Brian’s winter and Brian’s Return. When Gary Paulsen was in Brian’s age he was devoted to hunting and fishing.At that time he lived in a small town in northern Minnesota. Every day when school let out he would made for the woods near town. On Fridays he would sometimes set up camp near the river so he could get early start for hunting and fishing.
One afternoon he saw deer trails on the edge of a swamp and heard something big jumped in the air and landed on the swamp. As in two seconds he raised his bow and drew the arrow back. With few shots the deer was dead. But the problem was transporting the dead deer it was hard because he had to drag the deer to the highway then tie him a cross the bicycle and had to push him back to town. It was midnight when he got back. And his life moved on and there were some better hunt and some worse. After that he did not think about this buck again until it was time for him to write Hatchet when the buck became part of Brian’s life as well as his.

My Thoughts: I chose this book because I wanted to read Gary Paulsen’s biography. I actually enjoyed this book because it gave a lot of information about surviving alone in wilderness and some interesting facts about animals. I recommend this book to a person who would like to learn about hunting and surviving alone in wilderness.

Christian Perspective: I don’t think this book was written in Christian perspective because Gray Paulsen did not react in Christ like way, for example, If Gary Paulsen was Christian he could have prayed for his parents being drunk all day. But we, as Christians, need to learn from his determination and courage and sometimes we need to be bold like him so we could be confident.

Convincing Paragraph

Without perseverance you have no hope of surviving alone.even if you have food and water it will eventually run out and you would die.But with perseverance you will have will to find more food and keep your self alive.In the movie Cast away When Chuck was trying to make fire he had a lot of difficulties but he kept on going and ended up with warm place to sleep and food to eat.But if he did not have any guts to fail and retry he would have killed him self or died eventually.

Title: The Capture

Author: Kathryn Lasky

Place and year of publication: June, 2003
557 Broadway, New York.

Number of pages: 226 pages

Where you found the book: CHS Library

Story Review: I think this book is called The Capture because Soren(main character)was captured by St. Aegolius Academy. This book takes place in the forest of Tyto where the barn owls home land is. Before Soren was captured by St.Aegolius Academy patrol his life was perfectly normal. He had a new baby owl sister and his older brother Kludd and of course his mom and his dad. Because of his evil brother. He was taken to the dark frightening canyon called orphanage. He and his friend Gylfie suspects that it’s going to get far worse… To escape, the will need to try something new; fly. Along the way Soren and Gylfie bumps into Digger and Twilight, together they seek the truth and face unthinkable danger.

My thoughts I chose this book because a friend of mine recommended to me. I liked this book because it had a lot of adventures and mysteries in it. And I also enjoyed the part when the four bands of owls work together and seek the truths. In my opinion this book is a great I really enjoy reading how Soren reacts to his problem and solving it. I recommend this book to anyone who enjoys reading about adventures and mysteries

Christian perspective: some of the reasons why I don’t think this book is written from a Christian perspectives are, does not include anything from the bible, it doesn’t include anything about what would Jesus do. And it could have been written with a lot more Godly in it

Title: It only looks easy
Author: Pamela Curtis Swallow
Place and year of publication: 2003,New York
Number of pages: 166pg
Where you find the book: Christian Heritage School library.

Kat Randall is a seventh Grader. Her first day of seventh grade is ruined, because her loving pet Cheddar the dog is run over by a woman with Alzheimer’s disease. Kat reacts erratically. During the school hour she "borrows" the bike to check Cheddar. While she's in the Veterinary hospital she gets her "borrowed “bike stolen...
At school most of kids treat her differently than before. Before she felt kids would depend on her and now things have changed. She tried to pay the money back from babysitting and taking care of the woman with Alzheimer's disease who run over Cheddar....
Kat finds out her “friend" Dennis Boyle tries to put her into his crime and make her into bike stealer....
After everybody finds out the truth everybody went back to its place and happily ever after….

Christian Perspective
This book was not written in a Christian perspective. Because if this story was a Christian perspective Kat would of make things differently by praying. She should have prayed during the school hour instead of worrying about her dog Cheddar and she should have believed that God can do anything with her faith.

My thoughts
I was pleased with the book because it was always “what is going to happen next" and "what is she going to do after?"One part I did not like about the book was when the Ending was so common and as usual than I thought. I was expecting more of sad ending or even a unique ending. I recommend this book to anyone who likes modern books.