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субота, 14 листопада 2015 р.

"The town was paper, but the memories were not"

Paper Towns

by John Green

Paper Towns
This book was awesome
You would like this book if you like Suspense
Review: Its a really good book with plot twists and turns. I think that the story is really good and really well developed. The most interesting is how the characters took a road trip based on clues. I would really have liked to be in the story with the characters or visit the places where they went. I really like Margo because she is mysterious, likes sneaking off and running away and is well liked by the people at school, although she doesn't necessarily like them or trust them. "Paper towns" is mentioned a few times in the story, under different circumstances. One is when Margo says that everything in their town is made made of paper, isn't real. "Paper houses, paper people. It's a paper town." And when Quentin is looking for Margo he looks in towns that were suppose to be build, but never were, "paper towns". There are also more things in the book that imply that "Paper Towns", is a really good title. There are several different covers, one where there's a thumb tack in a map, like in the book, and one where Margo and Quentin are standing side by side and her hair is blowing in his face. And one where there is a city made of paper just standing there (once again implying that it's a "paper town". I like all of them. Overall the book the is very good and the author is an amazing one, and I very much recommend this book to almost anyone. 
"For some people, those strings just snap." Quentin doesn't want Margo to be one of those people (aha moment). 
"The town was paper but the memories were not." 
(Just a warning, there isn't really a happy ending)

Matchmaker

The Perfect Man

by Jenny Markas
The Perfect Man
I enjoyed it
You would like this book if you like Comedy and Romance
Review: It's very interesting and funny. I felt sorry for the main character, Holly, because her mom kept moving the whole family across the country every time she broke up with a new boyfriend. The most interesting part was how Holly tried to make an illusion of a "perfect man" for her mom so that her mom doesn't move again because she finally has a permanent life. She gives her mom flowers and writes her e-mails. All from her "perfect man". But when it's time for the perfect man to show his face, what will Holly do? In the book, Holly, her mom and her sister travel all around the country and never stop in one place for long. I would not like that. I like the character Holly and I can relate to her because she tires to play matchmaker and she has many unique ideas. You would like this book if you like realistic books and romance. (And even thought I usually don't like romance this book was interesting.) I think the author choose this title because Jean, Holly's mom is forever on the lookout for a perfect man. Also because Holly makes the pretend idea of the perfect man to make her mom happy and then later he actually appears. The cover depicts Jean, Holly, and Holly's sister, Zoë laying in a circle with their hair entangled. It shows how they are alike but different. I like the cover, but a good idea for the cover would have been the picture of Ben that Holly took, and in the background, the ideas that Ben gave her, like roses, happy music, and orchids, and the things that Ben and Jean have in common, like the moon, crossword puzzles and cooking. That would have been a really cool cover. There is also a movie about this book.

вівторок, 30 вересня 2014 р.

The Face on the milk carton

The Face On the Milk Carton
Caroline B Cooney

          I don’t know what you’re thinking after you’ve read the title. Maybe you’ve read ahead and are already deciding whether to read this book or not. Well there are 4 books about Janie, so if you decide you know enough from this story, you can just read the 2nd, 3rd or 4th books.
          This book and this series are focusing on an ordinary 15-year-old named Janie. She has flouncy, wild red hair. Janie has ordinary parents that might be just a little bit overprotective. She has no brothers or sisters. She has two best friend named Adele and Sarah-Charlotte. She also has a crush on the boy-next-door, Reeve Shields. As the book proceeds Janie will date Reeve.
          One ordinary day, Janie is sitting in the school cafeteria. Janie is lactose intolerant, which means she can’t have dairy products. But she sees a MISSING picture of a little 3-year-old girl with red hair and tight pigtails, in a pink and white polka dotted dress. She was stolen at a shopping center in New Jersey. Her name is Jennie Spring. Janie remembers that dress with the pink and white polka dots.
          Later she finds a box in the attic with the name Hannah on it. No one in her family is named Hannah. And in that box is the dress with the pink-and-white polka dots. So who’s Hannah and are her parents that she loved all her life (or maybe not), kidnappers?
          Her parents realize that she’s found something and tell her, Hannah was their daughter, but when she was 16, she left and joined a religious cult. She never came back to her parents, until one day she showed up hand-in-hand with a little girl in a polka-dot-dress. Hannah says that this is her daughter Janie. She says that she won’t be able to raise her well within the cult, so take her, enjoy her.
          But something still doesn’t add up. The milk carton says that she was STOLEN from New Jersey. So are her parents still lying? Janie has very mixed feelings.
Janie doesn’t share this with anybody but Reeve, her new boyfriend. So one day, in Reeve’s jeep, they decide to skip school. They go to New Jersey and find the Springs’ address. They see two tall redheaded boys walk in. Janie remembers baby twins. She doesn’t want to believe her own memories. How could her loving parents be kidnappers?
Later, they put the story together. Hannah was going home to take a break from the cult and stopped a New Jersey shopping center. She saw a 3-year-old girl in a pink-and-white-polka-dot-dress who seemed to be pouting. She gave her ice cream and then took her for a ride… That’s how she ended up taking Janie (A. K. A. Jennie Spring) to her parents, the Johnsons. She said that it was her own daughter, you can be better parents, enjoy her. Enjoy her, oh how they did! Raised her like their own girl, tried so hard not to make a mistake, like they feared they did with Hannah. And now – Janie is calling New Jersey.

          My library doesn’t have the second book, so I started reading the third one, and from it I understood, that Janie went to live with her real family in New Jersey, behaved like a brat, treating them like scum and then went back to the Johnson’s. Now THAT is bad. If your little girl has been missing for twelve years, you’ve been worrying about her for twelve years, and when she is found, when she finally comes back to you, she says that she likes her other family and her other life better. Now, how would you feel? I mean, I understand Janie’s position, but she could at least respect them. She could at least TRY to be a good daughter…

неділя, 31 серпня 2014 р.

About Magic

Rose

Holly Webb

          Those of you who have kids or siblings that are 6-9 years old probably think that it is a book about a puppy or a kitty. But no, this book is about Rose, a ten-year-old orphan. Slowly this book gets more and more interesting. In a quite magical way.
Rose lives at St. Bridget’s Home for Abandoned Girls. She does not daydream about rich parents coming in to claim her and sweep her off her feet. She has reasons to think that her father was a soldier and that her family had something to do with fish.
Rose is very good at storytelling. One day, when she is telling her friend Maisie a made-up story about how Maisie got lost and ended up at the orphanage, her story comes to life. In pictures, that is. The girls can see Rose’s story on the side of an old brass tub. Maisie loves it, but Rose is scared, so she decides not to do it again.
The next day when the girls at St. Bridget’s are doing laundry a guest comes to the orphanage. She’s dressed in a black dress and has a nice hat on. She needs a girl 10-11 years old to be a maid. She asks Eliza, Ruth, Lucy and Rose. Eliza is twelve, Lucy doesn’t want to be a maid and Ruth does nothing but giggle, so Miss Bridges picks Rose. That’s the beginning of her new life…
          Rose thinks that she works for Miss Bridges but Miss Bridges surprises her – they both work for Mr. Fountain – the famous alchemist. Fountain works for the king and he is one of the few who can make gold. Soon Rose learns that none of the servants at the Fountain household like magic. They tolerate it, since it pays their paychecks, but nothing more. Rose wants to get her hands on a magic book, so she can figure out how to get rid of the pictures (the ones that come with her stories) because she doesn’t want to have anything to do with magic. She soon learns that Mr. Fountain lives with his seven-year-old daughter Isabella and his apprentice Freddie. After Rose works at the Fountain house for a week she gets an afternoon off to go visit the orphanage. She wanted to talk to Maisie, but her friend isn’t there. Miss Lockwood tells her that Maisie’s mother came for her. When she gets home, Rose realizes that something is terribly wrong – Miss Lockwood kept saying there were flies, when there weren’t any, Maisie left behind her locket – her most treasures possession, if she was rich now, why would she have a cheap locket in the first place, and when Maisie told the story – the story that Rose had made up – her mom was so happy that she REMEMBERED – but Rose made the story up!! Rose thinks that Maisie was stolen.
          Since Rose made friends with Freddie (Mr. Fountain’s apprentice) she decides to talk to him. Freddie decides that they need to scry. It means look for her in a mirror or something shiny. But when they scry that night, they only see darkness. She might be in a dark place, or it didn’t work. Gustavus, the smart, magical cat tells Rose and Freddie that it would work better if they had something of Maisie’s. So Rose and Freddie go to St. Bridget’s at night, to take Maisie’s locket. On the way there, they encounter a group of street boys, whose sister was also stolen. At first, the boys thought it was Rose and Freddie, but when they promise the boys to find their sister, they believed them. When they try to scry for Maisie with the locket, they still get blackness. Rose is starting to feel frustrated, but Gustavus (the cat, remember) suggests that they need to ask a different question. So Rose thinks, Maisie who stole you, and the face of Miss Sparrow, the lady who Mr. Fountain likes. Freddie is surprised. He says “Well, I didn’t like her, but I didn’t think she was a kidnapper”. Then Isabella, Mr. Fountain’s spoiled daughter finds them. She calms down and they make a plan – Isabella will be bait, Rose and Freddie will follow her and save all the kidnapped children and they win. Yay!
          But the plan does not go as planned. Sparrow spots Rose and Freddie, and brings them with. Now there is no one to save them except, maybe, Gustavus. But then all the children join happy memories and escape. Rose and Freddie stay behind to defeat Miss Sparrow. But will they be able to defeat such powerful magic? By themselves, no. But when they call up a mist monster (a creature that goes for the most powerful magic and fights it), they might have a chance. So, leaving Sparrow alone with the mist monster, they run.

          At the end, Rose will learn magic, too. Mr. Fountain is almost positive that Sparrow will come back, but he’s glad that they haven’t killed her, because it would have taken part of her soul. This is the first book in a series, so if you’re interested you can find the books right here.


вівторок, 29 квітня 2014 р.

Сучасна Русалонька



Русалонька із 7-В, або Прокляття роду Кулаківських
Марина Павленко
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Я багато читала про серію Марини Павленко «Русалонька із 7-В», а тепер нарешті читаю самі книжки. От цікаво, вам подобаються детективи і всілякі заплутані історії? Мені – так. Якщо ж ви любите їх так, як я, то ця серія – для вас.
«Русалонька із 7-В, або Прокляття роду Кулаківських» – перша книжка з серії. Головна героїня – дівчина Софія, яка, так само як і я, не любить алгебри. Їй, так само як і мені, підсовують братика (у мене сестра, але то дрібниці). Книжка ж не про те. Софія закохана в однокласника Вадима Кулаківського. У роду Кулаківських – прокляття. Після того, як Гордій Кулаківський привласнив собі купу чужої землі, його і його рід прокляли – мовляв, матимеш гроші, але не матимеш щастя.
За допомогою фотографій, чарівної шафи, яка може переносити Софійку в часі, та коралів, які роблять дівчину невидимою у минулому, Софійка знімає з Вадима прокляття. Ще вона позбавляє себе нічних жахів, бо квартира знизу також була пов’язана з прокляттям Кулаківських. Ціла сім’я загинула під час грози – і в грозу чи при повні привиди змушені знову і знову переживати цю трагедію. Після того, як Софія у минулому врятувала родину Катрусі, двоюрідної прабабусі Вадима, кошмари в квартирі знизу припинилися.
Тепер Вадим вільний від прокляття. До нього з бабусею поприїжджали родичі, доля яких змінилася після того, як Софійка врятувала Катрусю, а Вадим їй вдячний, бо тато купив йому мотоцикл.
Коли я закінчила читати книжку, був вечір. Раптово почалася гроза. Ну як тут не злякатися? Саме за такої погоди у квартирі знизу з’являлася колись Катруся. Стало якось не по собі, та якось я заснула…
То що скажете? Цікаво? А це ж лише перша книжка. Друга – про привида, третя – про русалку, четверта – про лабіринт і пропажу картин. А про що п’ята – не скажу, бо щойно почала читати.

P.S. Якщо вам сподобалося те, що я написала, коментуйте, будь ласка! І, взагалі, коментуйте. Я хочу знати, що мої читачі думають про мої дописи, мій блог і про мене. Дуже дякую тим, хто коментує. І тим, хто читає також. До зустрічі!

неділя, 13 квітня 2014 р.

Cake Pop Crush

Cake Pop Crush
Suzanne Nelson
        Have you ever had to fight for something that mattered to you? Like maybe not throwing away an old piece of furniture, or keeping an old pet instead of putting it to sleep. Maybe it was something that mattered to the community. Or, if you were fighting for something or someone when a war was going on. If you have, then you’ll know what this is all about. If you haven’t, then I suggest that you read this sweet like a cake pop book.
Ali’s dad owns the little bakery (Say It With Flour) in town. She loves the little shop even though her dad is afraid to try anything new after Ali’s mom died, so he keeps it old-fashioned. When a sleek Perk Up opens right across the street, Ali’s dad worries that they might have to close up. Even without the Perk Up they didn’t have very many customers and now they only have their three loyal customers and that’s it. So Ali talks her dad into letting her sell her cake pops at the shop. Then she advertised (with the help of her friend Gwen). A bunch of new customers come to the shop. Her dad thanks her. They sell good until Perk Up starts selling cake pops too. But then Ali holds a jewelry show, to help her friend Gwen. She sells good there, but Sarah, a girl from school, puts black food coloring in them. The show is ruined! And even worse - Ali’s dad says that she can’t sell cake pops anymore. Ali thinks the person, who put the food coloring in the cake pops is Dane, the boy who’s dad owns Perk Up, Inc. (They are part-time friends, one day they are happily talking, the next day Ali is accusing Dane of something.) But really Dane is innocent, like I said before, it was Sarah who put the food coloring in the pops. Later, Ali will believe Dane, but now she’s just plain mad.
Ali is in a bake-off with Dane. They are fighting for the right to cater Sarah’s birthday party. I probably forgot to mention that besides being the most stuck-up girl in their school, she’s also the richest. Her dad is the mayor of their city. They both bake awesome cake pops. Most of the judges voted for Ali, but Sarah lied and said Dane was the winner because she likes him. Later, when Dane tells Ali, she gets to cater Sarah’s party, Sarah has to help out at Say It With Flour because of the “misunderstanding” and Ali gets to be interviewed at Renata DeLuca, her favorite cook’s show. Mayor Chan, Sarah’s dad asked Ali and her dad to make a thousand cake pops for the new mall opening in town, and Ali’s dad says that with that money and the money from catering Sarah’s party the bakery doesn’t have to close. Happy ending!!

Gwen and Harris are dating, Ali made up with Tansy, her other friend who she had a fight with earlier. And the book ends with Ali and Dane kissing. They finally became real friends (and even more than that!) Definitely happy ending!

пʼятниця, 28 лютого 2014 р.

An Enola Holmes Mystery

The case of the Missing Marques: an Enola Holmes Mystery
Nancy Springer
         Do any of you readers like Sherlock Holmes mysteries? Well, have you people heard that he has an older brother (just a tiny bit older) and a sister who is ten years younger than him? Well, by the way he does. His sister’s name is Enola, which, spelled backwards is alone. Do any of your names spelled backwards mean anything? I f yes then tell me what. If no, don’t worry. I’m Airam J.
        Enola’s mom leaves Ferdinand estate, where she lives with Enola, and their three servants. (Don’t worry about the servants, they are treated practically like family.) When Enola’s brothers find out, they come to the estate. Mycroft is confused because Enola’s mom wanted payment for butlers, maids, stable boys and seamstresses. When he finds none of the above at the estate he is very mad. Sherlock says that she wanted money for her escape. Enola can’t believe that her mother left. Then Sherlock leaves to go back to London and Mycroft wants to put Enola in a boarding school for young ladies. But Enola doesn’t want to wear a corset, bust enhancer and other things that I won’t mention here (you’re welcome gentlemen). She decides to escape. Her baggage—she hides in her ladies undergarments. When the carriage taking her to the boarding school stops at the graveyard, so she can supposedly say good-bye to her father, she takes her bike and escapes. She knows her brother, the legendary Sherlock Holmes, will be able to find her pretty easily, so she goes where her brothers will least expect her to go, to London, right under their noses. She meets up with another runaway – a boy who got really sick of his mom’s baby treatment. Together they escape from Squeaky and Cutter, two cutthroats. They pay a lady to hide them. Then Enola’s new friend (without even knowing it) distracts her brother. Enola escapes once again. Later she once again changes her image. She learns that her mother is with the gypsies. She plans to go find her in the Spring.
         This book is really good. I especially think that girls should read it. In fact, this next paragraph that I’m going to write is JUST for girls, so if you’re male, just skip it.
        Hey, ladies! I really think you should read this book. I mean, how many of you ever read a book, like a Sherlock Holmes mystery and think “Hey, what the heck, where are all the female characters?” I think that all the time. This book is really good and its about a girl!
        Okay, hi everybody. And now… drumroll please… bye everybody!


понеділок, 24 лютого 2014 р.

Черепаха в раю



Черепаха в раю

Дженніфер Л. Холм

 

Turtle in Paradise

Jennifer L. Holm

Якщо ви думаєте, що я писатиму про черепаху, яка якимось чином потрапила в рай, то ви помиляєтеся. Якщо ви хотіли блог про черепаху – то, вибачте, втрапили не туди. Черепаха (англ. Turtle)ім’я дівчинки, яка живе з мамою і не знає свого тата.
«Черепаха в раю» Дженніфер Л. Холм дуже гарна книжка. До того ж, тоненька, так що дуже раджу її тим, хто не любить товсті книжки.
Коли мама Черепахи іде на нову роботу, дівчинці доводиться переїжджати. Мама працює прибиральницею, а нова господиня не любить дітей. Тож мама відсилає Черепаху до тітки в Кі Вест, на Флориду.
Коли Черепаха приїжджає туди, то жахається: ґрунтові дороги, маленькі хатки… Дівчинка не уявляє, як вона тут буде жити. До того ж виявляється, що тітка її не чекала, бо мамин лист прийшов не на ту адресу.
У тітки – троє синів. Найстарший, Бінс, віку Черепахи. Він – член Памперсового клубу. Цей клуб займається малюками селища і отримує за це цукерки. Керміт трохи молодший і завжди ходить хвостиком за старшим братом. Найменший, Баді, ще досить маленький, і часто пісяє в штани.
Спочатку Черепаха сумна, бо скучає за мамою і намагається призвичаїтися до нового міста. Та згодом вона знаходить спільну мову з братами, а тітка, хоч і бурчить, але видно, що любить Черепаху. Тож дівчинці вже не здається, що містечко, де живе тітчина сім’я, аж таке погане. Особливо після того, як вона й її брати знайшли скарб і поділили його. А ще є Слоу Пок (Slow Poke). Черепасі потрібні були гроші, і він запропонував їй, щоб вона допомагала йому збирати на березі губки. Слоу Пок дуже добрий, тому Черепаха з ним подружилася.
Я вам ще не розповіла, що мама Черепахи зустрічається з Арчі. Мама вже зустрічалася з іншими чоловіками, і все закінчувалося однаково: вони її покидали. Та Черепаха з мамою вважають, що Арчі інакший. Він називає дівчинку «принцесою»… На жаль, вони помиляються. Він ще гірший…
Та все ж це книжка з хепі-ендом: у кінці Черепаха дізнається, хто її тато. Ім’я лишу в секреті, скажу лиш, що це справді хороша людина.
«Черепаха у раю» мені дуже сподобалася, бо Черепаха долає усі труднощі і старається з усіма дружити. Книжка торкнулася мого серця, особливо кінець.
Ще хочу сказати таке: рай для кожного свій. Для когось це канікули на березі моря, для когось – поїздка в ресторан, а ще для когось – просто бути вдома, разом із сім’єю. Та у всіх наших «раїв» є спільна риса: де б ми не були, ми хочемо в наш рай. Подумайте, де ваш рай. Па-па!
 Мої відгуки можна також читати у блозі про дитячу літературу «Казкарка», у рубриці «Книжки».

вівторок, 31 грудня 2013 р.

Princess Academy

Princess Academy
Shannon Hale
This book is very good. It made me very happy to be able to read it. Soon I will write about the second book of Princess Academy, but only if you like this one of course. I hope you will at least like it because I really, really loved it. And believe it or not the second book is even better. Okay, let’s get started!
Miri Larendaughter of Mt. Eskel was born small. Her father won’t let her set foot in the linder quarry that the whole village works in. Miri thinks that it’s because she’s so small. She feels like a failure to her father. Later Miri learns that her mother died because of a quarry injury and her dad doesn’t want her in there because of that. So Miri tends the goats instead. She met Pedar when she was little and is in love with him. She just doesn’t know if he loves her back.
Only a fool wouldn’t love her back. I saw her picture on the front cover of the book and she looks really pretty. I think that he loves her, but doesn’t think that she loves him back. A little bit of confusion there, huh. J
The ministers at the royal palace say that the prince’s wife, who will become the princess, comes from Mt. Eskel. At first the girls don’t want to leave their families and their homes, because they need everyone to work to scrub by. But the girls still go to the princess academy.
So, pretty much what the book was named after, an academy to teach rough mountain girls how to become princesses. It should have been called something else.
When they get there, Tutor Olana, a lowlander says that she doesn’t think that they will learn anything. She says that they smell like goats and have goat-sized brains. Miri wants to prove her wrong by becoming academy princess – the one who is the smartest.
       In real life it would be me J because I’m smart, get it? Well, it wasn’t a joke, because I am smart.
       Tutor Olana is very strict. She doesn’t let the girls talk out of turn, or talk loudly, or argue. She would hit them, or put them in the closet, where a rat lived. On Spring holiday, she says that only Miri and Katar have done good enough to go home. The rest of the girls protest and Miri uses quarry-speech, which is like telepathy, but works only around linder, to tell the other girls -- run! They listen and they all end up going to the Spring holiday. It’s really fun, like always. They tell stories by the campfire and Miri dances with Peder, the boy she really likes. Even though they both hold on to a ribbon, instead of holding hands, Miri feels happy because later Peder kisses her.
       I wish something like that would happen to me. I mean something exciting, not my crush kissing me. Even thought that would be nice too. J. Do you like the story so far?
       The girls all go back to the academy and use Diplomacy, something that Olana taught them to compromise with her. They tell her that they won’t run off and that they will all try their hardest, if she stops using physical punishment and lets them all visit their families on the weekends. If she doesn’t agree, then they will leave. Just go home and never come back. That would be very embarrassing for Olana. They give her some time and after thinking it over, their tutor agrees. Life becomes more peaceful at the academy. Everyone is happy. But then it’s time to get ready for the ball. Who will be the academy princess, Miri or Katar? Miri, Katar, Miri’s friend Esa, and two girls named Bena and Liana all get high scores on the test, so tutor Olana lets the rest of girls decide. Of course it’s Miri! As the time goes, I forgot to tell you, Miri makes a new friend. Her name is Britta and she came from the lowlands to live with some supposed relatives in Mt. Eskel because supposedly, her parents died. Miri and Britta become fast friends and soon Miri, Britta and Miri’s other friends Esa and Frid all hang out together. Later Miri learns that Britta’s dad is actually alive and he sent her here to live with some random people when he learned that the princess will come from Mt. Eskel. Britta and prince Stephan know each other because the prince’s summer palace is right by Britta’s old home. Britta didn’t tell that to Miri and the other girls because she thought that they would hate her for it.
       When it’s time for the ball Britta gets sick and so Stephan doesn’t know she’s there. Miri thinks that Stephan acts like a stone column, but later she learns that it was because he expected to see Britta here. He says that he will return in the spring and make his choice. But before that he sits and talks with Miri and says that if he makes a choice it will be her. But when Stephan says he didn’t make his choice, she isn’t really disappointed, because she doesn’t think that she’ll be happy with him. All the other girls are sad, though because they don’t know who Stephan will choose. And it also means that they have to stay at the academy for the winter, because Stephan will only return in the spring.
       I think that this is pretty exciting with a prince and all, but I also understand that Miri wants to be with Peder. He’s the one who she likes, not Stephan. I like that Miri is attached to Peder because she loves him, not to prince because he has money and lives in Asland.
       While the girls are at the academy, they get attacked by bandits and Miri quarry-speaks all the way up the mountain to tell Peder that the girls are all in danger. He tells all the village men and they come down to help the girls. That’s how Miri saves them all from the bandits.
       When the prince comes back in the spring, Britta is at the ball and he chooses her! Then the king names Mt. Eskel a province, instead of a territory, so they need a delegate. Britta wants Miri to do it, but Miri says that Katar should go because Katar wants to live in Asland and be rich and stuff. Britta reluctantly agrees, but only after Miri promises to come visit Britta later. Miri agrees.
       Britta and Katar go with Stephan and his helpers to Asland. Miri and the rest of the girls go home. Miri’s dad and sister are very excited to see her. Tutor Olana gives Miri eight books, the chalk slates and a painting. Miri is happy she wants to start a school in the village, so she and some girls from the academy can teach the others.
       This is a very good book, and a book that like the Hunger Games made me wish for more. Even thought, to think it is almost the opposite of the Hunger Games. True, life for the mountain girls isn’t perfect, but after all nothing can be perfect, right? Plus it’s better than tributes and killing like in the Hunger Games. I think that if everything was perfect, like in a fairytale, then it would be pointless. That’s why I don’t like fairytales, probably. If you know that everything will be perfect and pretty in the end, then why bother reading the book or story? At least that’s what I think.
This blog is longer then all of my blogs, even the Hunger Games. Hey, you know, the more I like a book, the more I write about it! That’s kind of funny when you think about it.
This book is a total Bookworm PromiseJ! If you liked this book, then tell me and I will write about the second one. Bye!
P.S. Just to say, I would like to get more comments from my readers. Just tell me if you like the book and the blog and if you are planning to read the book or not. Just that will make me extremely happy! Thank you very much for listening!
P.P.S. This is my last post in 2013. Have a great year and read lots of great books! Your bookworm,
Marichka Yasinovska

Now bye for real!