Tuesday, June 1, 2010

The Reptile Room, by Lemony Snicket, is 190 pages and the second book in The Series of Unfortunate events.After Count Olaf escaped the clutches of the authorities, the Baudelaire orphan lived with their uncle Montgomery.This time in order to steal the Baudelaire`s fortune, Olaf murders Montgomery`s assistant and takes his place with a disguise to fool him. The orphans seeing through his ruse, tell Monty but with no results. Soon Monty is murdered and Olaf hatches a plan to take the orphans to Peru and raise violet until she can inherit the fortune and give it to Count Olaf.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

The Last Olympian

The Last olympian is a 381 page book by Rick Riordan and is the last in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. With Kronos reborn and Typhon on the lose with Gods trying to deter him, Percy now has to assemble an army to stop Kromo`s Army from getting to Olympus or all is lost. In between his visits Luke`s insane mother to try to uncover the Mystery of his mysterious past.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

The Battle of the Labyrinth, by Rick Riordan, is the fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. With 361 pages, it Chronicles Percy`s finding of a secret entrance to the labyrinth of Daedalus something that can threaten Camp Half Blood and Help give rise to Kronos, the Lord of Time. To prevent this from Happening Percy and Friends journey through the trap to find it`s inventor and destroy the maze.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

The Titan`s Curse, by Rick Riordan has 312 pages and is the third in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series. In this book Grover sends an urgent message involving two powerful demigods.They then rush over and a monster kidnaps Annabeth, Percy`s friend. Then they go to save the demigods and Annabeth from Mt. Othrys the house of the Titans.

The Sea of Monsters

The The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan is a 279 page book and Second in the series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. In this story Percy Finds out that the Thalia`s Tree, the tree that holds up the magical borders of the camp, is slowly dying meaning the borders are thinning. He then finds out that Tyson, a cyclops,is his half brother.They then go on a quest to the sea of monsters to find the golden fleece and save the camp from being overrun.

Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson and the Lightning thief by Rick Riordan is a 375 page book about a child of Poseidon. He stars off not knowing who he is for his own safety. Then strange thing start to happen to him. He then goes on an adventure to save western civilization as we know it.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Dragon Road book critique

Flash Chin is a con man looking for cash on the streets of San Fransisco until Topper Tom, a Chinese basketball player and Jack Coughlan, an old teammate of the Celtics recruit him and his friend barney to barnstorm America and take down all basketball teams in their way. On the dragon road he learns important lessons. Teamwork is expressed by Laurence Yep.

This book is recommended to all readers in particular basketball players. I see no bad points in this book. A good point is his foreshadowing. For example "Watching Topper preen with my Jersey,I made my pact with the devil right there and then." another good point is that it fits into the Golden mountain Chronicles. Barney is a descendant of Otter in Dragon`s gate and his Grandpa Joe is Joseph in The traitor.I recommend this to young and old readers.