Results tagged “Adventure”

BOOK NAME: Escape from the Carnivale: A Never Land Book
AUTHOR: Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson

Hi, it's Reed again. For my next book, I thought this was a really good adventure book. I hope you like my blog.

This book takes place in Never Land - an imaginary place that has mermaids and other mythological creatures. I'm pretty sure that all of you have seen Peter Pan or at least heard of it. This is the same Never Land from Peter Pan.

It all started off when this little girl, named Scallop, went down to play with the mermaids. The mermaids wanted to play "Deep Pearl Diving". While they were playing one of the mermaids got lost. They didn't notice until they got back to the shore. Scallop thought it was all her fault, but the other mermaids and her dad said it was not her fault.

Scallop is a princess of beautiful Mollusk Island. A pirate ship called the Carnivale is going to attack the island because they want the land to make a show with all the beasts that they've captured from Never Land - including mermaids.

The lost Mermaid, Surf, was caught by those pirates who were looking for weird beasts. The Captain of this ship is Captain Hook.

You'll have to read the rest to know more about this fantastic story.

Thank you for reading my blog. Have a nice day! 

BOOK NAME: The Mysterious Benedict Society
AUTHOR: Trenton Lee Stewart

In this book, four kids about 12 years old and one extremely smart 2 -year-old go on an amazing adventure. But what they all don't know is they all came from the same types of family which makes them come together even more. After taking maybe the most life-changing test EVER, they meet the writer of it all, Mr. Benedict.

Mr. Benedict sends Kate Weatherall, Reynie Muldoon, Sticky (George) Washington, and Constance Contraire to his twin brother's school for the gifted where they stop future drama and meet new friends on the way. While their summer isn't going quite how they planned,
Kate and her dad Milligan save their friends Reynie and Sticky from the whisperer while Constance uses her well-known way of rejecting things to try and shut down the whisperer. I was up reading for hours every night hope you enjoy this book as much as I did

BOOK NAME: IceFire    
AUTHOR: Chris D'Lacey

Hi, it's Reed again and I'm reviewing the sequel to The Fire Within. Hope you enjoy.   

David might be going to the Arctic to research polar bears. You have to pay $700 to go to the Arctic, but if you have the best report in your college class, you go for free. David does his report on dragons. A girl named Zanaa, who's in his class, is going to bring David a book on dragons. Lucy thinks he loves her.

David has a meeting with a publisher for Snigger and the Nut Beast (remember that from my review of the first book?), and he got an offer for $1,000. He says yes.

Liz's aunt comes to visit so David has to stay at the neighbors', Mr. Bacon. Liz has a snowball that keeps all of her dragons alive and David wants to know more about it. There is a dragon egg that the Aunt wants Liz to hatch. The Aunt has a dragon named Gretel. David is suspicious of how the Aunt behaves.

Zanaa wins the contest at school! She's going to the Arctic for free! Gadzooks writes the word Loral for David. Loral is a bear and Gadzooks is trying to tell David that Loral is important!  You have to read the book to find out the end. I will see you next time! Bye!

BOOK NAME: Beast Quest
AUTHOR: Adam Blade

Beast Quest is a really good series that I've read. There are 12 books in the series. If you like good adventure with a lot of action, this is the perfect series.

The series follows, Tom, Elenna, Storm and Silver. Tom is a Blacksmith apprentice. His dad was a great Knight, who died, and now Tom lives with his uncle. Elenna has a pet wolf, Silver, and ran away to go on this risky journey with Tom. Storm is Tom's white Stallion who's very useful. And Aduro is the Wizard that gave Tom all of his special items, including his sword, 3D map and shield.

Their journey in the first six books is to free all of the beasts that Malvel, an evil wizard, has captured - Ferno the Fire Dragon, Sepron the Serpent, Cipher the Mountain Giant, Tagus the Night Horse, Tartok the Ice Beast and Epos the Winged Flame. In the next six books, Malvel makes six new beasts. I'm not going to tell you who they are.

I hope you enjoy the 12 books in the series. They're reallllly good. It's just like you're in the movie - you're right there in the movie. It's like Lord of the Rings!

BOOK NAMES: Secret Agent Jack Stalwart: Quest for Aztec Gold (Mexico) and The Deadly Race to Space (Russia) (Books 9 and 10 in the series)

AUTHOR: Elizabeth Singer Hunt


Jack's back!

Remember how much DogEared blogger Parker loved the earlier book, Pursuit of the Ivory Poachers?? Pwilly pew poo? (Phew! Tongue-twister!) Really you do?

For those of you who have been reading along in the series about the 9-year-old secret agent, books 9 and 10 are here. Jack continues to travel the globe in search of his missing older brother Max. He's also still solving international crimes along the way as a secret agent for the Global Protection Force. This time his adventures take him to Russia and Mexico.

In The Deadly Race to Space, Jack must travel to Russia to rescue the chief engineer of the Mars space program--his dad!--um, without letting his dad discover that he is a secret agent.


And in The Quest for Aztec Gold. Jack has to stop the world's most dangerous treasure hunter from stealing Montezuma's gold. He travels to ancient temples to track down the thieves. Still plenty of cool gadgets, including the awesome Flyboard to keep each book action-packed. Plus, cool plot twists to keep you guessing what's gonna happen next!

You don't need to read 'em in order to enjoy. Each one is a story within itself. 

BOOK NAME: Robot Riot!
AUTHOR: Andy Griffiths

Hi, I'm back with a very exciting book. It's called Robot Riot, and it's book 4 of the Schooling Around series. Another book by this author is The Day My Butt Went Psycho!

The main characters are Jenny, Jack, Newton and Henry. They think that the new girl at their school, Roberta, is a robot. They think that because they read her diary. She's a great drawer, nicer than anyone, a good story writer, and really brainy. In her diary, she writes about her being a robot.

The robot on the cover is not actually Roberta, it was made by Grant, a kid in their class. It was made to try and fight Roberta, but its systems didn't work in time, so they dressed Henry up like a robot to try and fight Roberta.

And then...

You'll have to read the book to find out the rest. I'm not giving away the ending this time! If you've read the book, DON'T mention what happens if you leave me a comment.

If you like a good adventure, with some funny parts, the book is great.

Goodbye now, people!

BOOK NAME: Julian's Glorious Summer
AUTHOR: Ann Cameron

This book is about two friends, Julian and Gloria. I think they are both 7 years old. It takes place in the summer, which is a really good time to read about when it's cold outside.

In the book, Gloria gets a new bike and learns how to do tricks. Julian wants to show off and do cool stuff too, but he doesn't have a bike and he doesn't know how to ride one. So he looks for jobs and other things to do during the summer while telling everyone he doesn't like bikes. He is almost mad when his dad finally gets him a bike and Julian then tells his mom that he doesn't like bikes because he's afraid of falling down. But Gloria helped teach him how to ride his bike and to do tricks so they both have fun in the end. Julian just had to try to learn.

I liked this book because it's about riding bikes, which is something I like to do. It can be hard to learn how to ride a bike for the first time without training wheels. This book also is about having fun in the summer, which is also something I like.

BOOK NAME: The Fire Within
AUTHOR: Chris D'Lacey

David is a tenant living with Liz and her daughter Lucy. Liz makes special dragons out of clay. She makes one for David named Gadzooks, who is a writing dragon.

Lucy asks David to tell her a story and David says maybe. Lucy tells David about two squirrels named Conker and Snigger. Conker has an injured eye so they try to trap him and bring him to the vet. It's almost Lucy's birthday so David writes a story called Snigger and the Nut Beast. On Lucy's birthday David isn't finished so he reads the first couple of chapters in the book and Lucy loves it. David starts to figure out that the clay dragons are real! He pictures Gadzooks in his mind and the dragon writes something on his notebook and it helps David on his book.

Lucy and David catch Conker and bring him to Sophie for help. David and Sophie fall in love, but Sophie tells them that Conker is going to die. Lucy and David are very sad. You have to read the rest because I don't want to give away the whole thing! The next book in the series is IceFire. 

BOOK NAME: The Lightning Thief
AUTHOR: Rick Riordan
 
The Lightning Thief is the first in Rick Riordan's series of Percy Jackson & The Olympians, and it was great!

It's about a boy named Percy Jackson who's sent to Camp Half-blood by his Mom. It turns out that the camp is for half humans-half Gods. But something has been stolen from the God of Gods, Zeus - his lightning bolt. (I guess that's where they got the name of the book, huh?)  So Percy is sent on a quest to find out who his dad is, and to find Zeus's lightning bolt.  Percy and his friends, Grover the Centaur and Annabelle the Half-blood, take a treacherous route to find the lightning bolt in the underworld. Will Percy be able to find his way through confusion? Who will he be able to trust?
 
I rate this book a 4 out of 5.  This is a very confusing book at times. It was VERY hard for me to get into the groove of the book, but I understood it later on. This book teaches you about having courage to save ones life. I would have never gone to the underworld or fought mythological creatures and Gods like Percy did.  It does get kind of scary at parts when you are reading at night. No matter what, KEEP READING!

    I suggest this book for readers who are up for a challenge; for readers who like long fantasies and mythologies. If you liked the Harry Potter series, then this is probably a book for you. The Lightning Thief is definitely a book worth reading.

BOOK NAME: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
AUTHOR: Robert C. O'Brien

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH is about a mouse named Mrs. Frisby who lives on a farm. Every year Mrs. Frisby has to move or else the plow will kill her family. She was married to Jonathan who died last summer.

Mrs. Frisby's son Timothy was sick and wasn't strong enough to move, so their friend, a crow named Jeremy, took her to the owl who told her to go to the rats where she met Brutus and Justin. The two rats knew Jonathan because once they lived by a farmer's market and everyday the rats would get food there. One time, they got captured and taken to NIMH - a laboratory with rats and mice, where they got shots which gave them super-long lifespan and super-smarts...they could even read and write!. One day the rats found a way to get out - through the air conditioning - and they took the mice with them. When the strong air conditioning blew, all the mice blew back, except for two, Jonathan and Mr. Ages.

The rats helped the Frisby family move, but Mrs. Frisby got captured by the farmer, and Justin helped her escape. They eventually did move the house and that's the end of part one.

The scientists from NIMH went to find the rats who lived under a rose bush. The scientists mowed down the rosebush and shot a poison gas into the rats' hole. Brutus fell and two brave rats went to help Brutus who breathed in the poison. Mrs. Frisby saw Mr. Ages helping Brutus and went to help. Finally Brutus got better and they all moved to Thorn Valley. Once Timothy was better they moved to their summer home where Mrs. Frisby told all of her kids the story of the Rats and NIMH.

I liked the book because with every twist you don't know what's going to happen. If you liked the other book I reviewed, Despereaux, then you'll definitely like Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH.

BOOK NAME: Dragon Rider
AUTHOR: Cornelia Funke

This is my favorite book of all time so far in my life.  As you might guess from the title, this book follows a dragon named Firedrake, Ben the dragon rider and Sorrel, who is a cat-like creature (called a "brownie") that can talk with both humans and dragons, on a mission to save their kind.

The adventure starts in the Mythical Valley of Dragons.  A rat comes to warn the dragons that humans are coming to flood the valley.  Sorrel and Firedrake must go to New York City to find a map that will safely lead them to their destination.  In New York, they meet Ben who is an orphan boy living in an old warehouse along the river.  They meet Ben by using his warehouse for a rest place for a day.  Ben convinces Sorrel to let him go along on their mission. 

They have all kinds of problems along the way.  They land in Europe and come across Nettlebrand, a dragon hunter.  Then the chase begins.  Ben, Firedrake and Sorrel now not only have to complete their dangerous journey, they have to defeat Nettlebrand as well.  They will need all of the tools and tricks they have plus help from a few others along the way. 

This book is full of adventure, mystery and learning to find out who you are as a creature and what you find valuable.  I think anybody who likes adventure, especially if you have ever wondered what it would be like to ride on the back of dragon in the light of the moon should read this book.

BOOK NAME: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

AUTHOR: Ann Brashares

I recently just finished the book The Second Summer of the Sisterhood  a book that I would call realistic fiction. There are four characters in this book: Tibby, Lena, Brigdet, and Carmen. This book is about the four girls and a special bond that they have together. They found a pair of blue jeans last summer (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Book 1) that mysteriously fit them all, even though all of them are different sizes and have different body shapes.

The four girls have been friends since they were zero, since their moms met in a prenatal yoga class. Over the summer, they pass the pants to each person; the person who has the pants has them for one week. After one girl has the jeans for one week, she gives them to the next girl in line for the "lucky" pants.
 
I think that the most exciting part of this book was when Kostos comes back from Greece. Kostos has not seen Lena in a year and they have broken up, but then he comes back. Want to know what happens next? You'll have to read The Second Summer of the Sisterhood yourself! I would definitely recommend this book, because it's actually like a real girl's life. It's about friendship and trust and it is very interesting. I would give this book a four out of five.