Shrek-DING DING DING 5 STARS!!

This is about an Ogre named Shrek. People keep coming into his swamp. One day they had a sale of fantasy creatures and there was a donkey that could talk. The donkey runs away from his owners and bumps into Shrek. Donkey likes the ogre. Then all the fantasy creatures start to move into Shrek's swamp. Shrek finds out and decides to ask Lord Farquar to ask him to remove the creatures. Lord Farquar asks him to go on a quest to find princess Fiona if he succeeds then He will move all the creatures out of Shrek's swamp.
So Shrek goes to find Fiona. He does not know there is a dragon that protects her. So when she says there is, they have to hurry out. Once he has Fiona he goes back to Lord Farquar. He hears Fiona talking about herself as an ogre but thinks she is talking about him. Then he finds out that at night time Princess is an Ogre. And they are happy because they love each other. Then they get married and go on a Honeymoon. Which is like a long date.

Magic tree house #37 Dragon of the Red Dawn-4 stars

Is about the two kids, Annie and Jack, but this time they have to go to Edo,Japan. And they have to find a happiness for Merlin because he has all of a sudden become ill. They have a Rhyme they are trying to think of all the happy things that happen for Merlin. They find out that nature was one of the healing factors. So there are 3 more to find. They travel and travel and they have to use the wand of Dianthus one time because all of sudden there was a fire while they are sleeping! They had tried to help put it out but it wasn't working so they run back to Jack's book bag and get the wand to bring the dragon to them. And with the help of a dragon that controls the rain they are able to save Edo. They find they are wisked to a tall mountain. Then they find the book that takes them home.

Dolphins and Sharks- 4 Stars

Dolphins and Sharks is a research guide to go along with Dolphins at Daybreak which I read a while ago. It tells about all different kinds of dolphins and sharks. Like what they do and how big they are and how long they are and How they hunt. And one amazing fact was that there was a farmer that went swimming and found a cave full of bull sharks and they were not moving. They were so calm and he went in and was able to pet them. But it said that dolphins and sharks could become extinct if people keep killing them. It was quite interesting. I like to learn about animals.

Blizzard of the Blue Moon- 4 stars

Annie and Jack are on the last mission before they prove themselves as using magic wisely. They need to rescue a Unicorn named Dianthus before the blue moon. They go to New York trying to find it. The go on the train and meet 2 kids they know in disguise. This guy in a taxi drives them to the zoo and on the way there the taxi gets stuck and so they go into a art gallery and That is where they find Dianthus the unicorn. They find it in a painting. There are other dark servants that are also trying to get Dianthus. They turn the bad people into ducks. They find out the kids on the train were Teddy and Kathleen. At the end they are awarded a wand called the wand of Dianthus.

Magic tree house #33 Carnival at Candlelight-4 stars

This story is another adventure of Jack and Annie. They have to go on a mission and they realize that the two wizards can not help them. The must complete 4 quests to show they can use magic wisely. They go 205 years ago and they have to save the Grand Lady of the Lagoon. To save her they look in the Kings castle to find her and they end up in prison. They use a spell to make the bars wiggly so they can push them and get out. Once they are out the realize Venice is flooding. They look up in a research guide that sometimes floods can be serious. They find a boy in a painters house and he shows them a picture of King Neptune giving gold to a lady. They find out that Venice Italy is the Grand Lady. They climb up a clocktower and see a lion with wings and make him alive so they can fly on him to see King Neptune and ask him to save Venice. He uses his powers and stops the flooding.
They then go back to the magic treehouse and go home.

Dinotopia #1 windchaser-DING DING DING 5 STARS!!

well it's about 2 boys who are on a boat where there are prisoners who kept on trying to take over the ship!!! And this boy named Hugh saves a boy named Raymond. Then they go over board and they swim for their lives! Plus did I mention the sharks?!!!!?? The sharks they see turn out to be something a LOT better,DOLPHINS!!! The boys are rescued and then are stranded on a island. This island is a Land called Dinotopia. At first Hugh felt like he would not fit into the magical world. Windchaser is a skybax and he was a friend with Daniel. Together they flew and sent messages to people and rescued people in emergencies. Daniel dies and so Windchaser is angry and tears up alot of things. The boys find Windchaser tearing up a ship one day but when he comes upon Raymond he doesn't hurt him. So Raymond and Windchaser become friends. Windchaser leaves because he is afraid of Hugh. Then Hugh and Raymond then go on a dangerous quest to find Windchaser.
They work together and at the end they realize that they're more than friends....there BEST FRIENDS!!! Hugh realized there was no way for him to leave and he wasn't sure he wanted to anymore since his best friend was with him.

NEW BOOKS!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at these new books I have got! Mom ordered them for me from Paperbackswap. So many new books just wait til you hear about them! Coming soon......

• The Return of the Indian- (I already read the Indian in the Cupboard)
  
• Dinotopia- Windchaser
• Dinotopia- Riverquest
• Dinotopia- Hatchling
  
• Dinotopia- Lost City
• Dinotopia- Thunder Falls
• Stink the Incredible Shrinking Kid.
  

Wooohoo! I am off to reading land!

Magic School Bus 'Twister Trouble' - 3 1/2 Stars

Tim and the class are having a storm weather show. The students are trying to find out what to do for the show. Ms. Frizzle decides to go on a field trip and all the sudden a tornado comes. Ms. Frizzles cousin Dr. Windy comes and they decide to go through the tornado and learn about tornado's. They learned that tornados can be very dangerous. If a tornado comes near you need to take cover. There are about 1,200 tornados a year in the United States. At the end they go back to the school and write down what they have learned.

the Magic School Bus a science chapter book 'The Search for the Missing Bones-5stars

It's about a girl named D.A. . and Ms. Frizzle orders some skeleton costumes but some bone pieces are missing. They go to the factory to get the bones and all of a sudden they meet green skeleton's. They get very scared. The Skeletons vanish all of the sudden. At the end they find that the skeletons were actually the factory workers trying to test a new design. They find the missing bone pieces in a stockroom F.

The Magic School Bus a science chapter book#9 Dinosaur Detectives- 4 stars

It's about a boy named Ralphie and he and his class mates accidentally go back through time to Triassic period. They try to find out what a tooth (A dinosaur tooth that he found) belongs to and they try to run away from all the carnivores. They see Alasaurus, Diplaticus, Plateosaurus, and a few others. They compared the teeth of each dinosaur to the one Ralphie found until at the end they find out that Ralphie's tooth belongs to an Ankylasauras.

The magic tree house#1 dinosaurs before dark-DING DING DING 5 stars!!!

It's about two kids who find a magic tree house there names are Jack and Annie. They go back through time to dinosaur times. Except when they try to get home they can't because they can't find the book that allows them to go back home. They must search through the clubhouse to find the correct book. While they are looking they meet a Tyrannosaurus Rex. A different dinosaur, Pteranodon, keeps following them. He saves the kids for getting eaten by the T-Rex by flying in the sky and attracting the T-Rex to chase him. Pteranodon is able to get away. At last they find the book, the touch the picture and wish for them to get home and they do!

Benny uncovers a mystery-3 stars

Is about a boy named Benny who starts working at a store. And one night someone brings these strange lockets. Through the entire story he tries solving the mystery of who keeps bringing the lockets into the store. So he stays one night and keeps hearing strange sounds coming from the door. And at the end he finds out that the owner of the store did it. It was the owner of the store twisting the doorknob. He had forgotten that he changed the locks.
I gave 3 stars because it wasn't very interesting. It wasn't an excellent mystery. It was okay.

Animorphs #37 The weakness- 4 stars

It`s about a girl named Rachel. And Jake(one of the Animorphs) is leaving to visit his family. While Jake is away Rachel tries to be the leader. Visser Three( A controller)has a inspector visiting Earth. And so they decide to make it look like the Visser does a horrible job trying to catch the andilite bandit`s (the Animorphs) by trying to destroy many places as animals, like a TV station. But it is not good because Rachel sees People that were not even bad get hurt, like an old man that has a heart attack. And they try everything to kill the inspector cause he keeps trying to protect the Visser and at the end they do rattle snake morph and put their fangs deep into him.
I gave it four stars because it is interesting.

Eagle Feather -2 stars

It`s about a boy named Eagle Feather. His cousin, Crook Nose, wants him to live with with him for a while. But he does not want to go. but one day Morning Bird and Teasing Boy(Eagle feathers brother and sister)and Eagle Feather were looking at Crook Nose`s truck when they want to get in so Eagle Feather opens the door. And teasing boy was messing with the brake. And the truck slides down a hill.and the truck hits a cotton wood tree. Crook Nose wants Eagle Feather to work for him for the summer to pay for the truck to be fixed. Eagle Feather says he`ll work for Crook Nose for the summer. And he works really hard that summer. Then he decides he`s worked enough. Then one night he runs away but he always keeps seeing Crook Nose following his tracks. so he keeps out smarting Crook Nose. The he finally gets home and never stayed with Crook Nose ever again.

Animorphs #22 The Solution-4 stars

So as you see this is what the book looks like. So it's about a girl who met a alien with four friends of hers. The alien gives them magical powers to be able to become whatever animal they touch. All five of them give their powers to a boy named David. But David`s parents became controllers (a evil Grey slug is in their ears that takes over the actions of what that person does.) So David decides to use his powers for evil because he is angry that someone is controlling his parents. He causes all sorts of trouble. But animorphs have a time limit that they can only be in a morph for two hours. The controllers watched David while he was morphed into a rat so he can not change back before 2 hours is up and he is stuck as a rat for the rest of his life.

Just to begin-all 5 stars

I have been reading A LOT lately. So Mom thought I might like to share with others what I am reading. So to get us started I wanted to list some books I have read over the summer.

• Viking It and Liking It- (Time Warp Trio Book) by Jon Scieszka
• The Curse of the Black Pearl (Pirates of the Caribbean 1) Adapted by Elizabeth Rudnick
• Dead Man's Chest (Pirates of the Caribbean 2) Adapted by Irene Trimble
• At World's End (Pirates of the Caribbean 3) Adapted by T.T. Sutherland
  
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone By JK Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by JK Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by JK Rowling (I am not yet old enough to read the others according to mom.) :)
  
• Animorphs #23 The Pretender by K.A. Applegate

So as you can see I like alot of series of books. More to come Soon!