Results tagged “Travel”

BOOK NAME: Ghost Town
AUTHOR: Annie Bryant

I just finished a book called Ghost Town by Annie Bryant. It's the 11th book in the Beacon Street Girls series.

What happens is, the girls meet up with two country stars named Nik and Sam, and it turns out that they are the same age as the Beacon Street Girls. They decide to go to the ski resort that Nik and Sam are going to; Nik and Sam say they can take two of the girls. Of course, all five of the girls want to go, but since they can't, they pull straws. Isabell and Katani are the winners. Too bad for Avery, Charlotte, and Maeve - they are stuck going to the resort in an old Jeep with Charlotte's dad.

While they are traveling the Jeep breaks down, and the only place close by is an old ghost town. The girls have to sleep in a beat-up old hotel that last functioned 50 years ago. When they go to the kitchen to see if there is food, they are surprised to find that there is some and it hasn't expired. Since no one has been there in 50 years, is it possible that there's a ghost living in the hostel. It sure seems like it when Maeve stays up late and sees a mysterious figure...

Meanwhile, Isabel and Katani are wondering where the heck their friends have gone. Have they gotten lost? The two girls are having a good time with Nik and Sam but they want the rest of their group back, too.

Imagine if you were Isabel and Katani and your friends were missing. How would you feel? I'd feel terrible!

I liked this book. It was especially fun that the author gave two points of view. Also, I thought the whole concept of a ghost town was cool. I'd hate to think there was a ghost wandering around in a hotel where I slept. I recommend this to all girls; you'll like it.

BOOK NAME: When Irish Guys are Smiling
AUTHOR: Suzanne Suplee

I just finished the book When Irish Guys are Smiling. This book is about a girl named Delk who goes on a "Students across the Seven Seas" (S.A.S.S.) exchange program. She goes away to Ireland with a group of other kids.

Delk is going on this trip because she wants to get away from her problems back at home. Her mother died two years ago, her dad has already married, and Paige (her stepmom) is going to have a baby. Her friends are also overly obsessed with a debutante pageant. Delk doesn't want to the debutante pageants and she's been invited to more than 10 parties. She wants to forget about all of this, so she decides to join the S.A.S.S. program.

While she is on the S.A.S.S. program she makes really good friends, and also meets a cute guy who lives at the farm next to the castle that they are living in. Did I mention that she lives in a castle? How cool is that? Anyway, she tries to keep it a secret that her mother is dead. It gets harder, though, when her friends start complaining about their own moms and she has nothing to say.  The only person she tell is Pather (her boyfriend there), because his mother also died. They've gone through the same kind of thing, so she feels comfortable telling him this.

My favorite part of this book was when Delk's friend Latreece, goes to a modeling agency for an interview with her aunt, without her parents knowing. Then later in the book her parents find out. Will she leave the S.A.S.S. group in Ireland or will she stay? Either way, I recommend that you read this book to figure it out, and I will be reading other books in this series about girls traveling in different countries.