Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life

It all starts off with Jeremy receiving a mysterious package containing a box from his dead father; it was delivered by his dad's friend. Engraved on the bottom of the box it says to be opened on Jeremy's 13th Birthday and that it contains the meaning of life. The box is locked, but the keys are not included.

Jeremy and his best friend, Lizzy, go through many obstacles to find four keys to open the box. During their adventures they get into a little trouble and are served community service as punishment. They must help a man by the name of Mr. Oswald transfer pawned items from his possession to the rightful owners. The two meet many interesting people and situations along the way.

This is a book with many twists and turns. In order to not give away all the secrets and fun this book holds, I will leave you with encouragement to read Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life by Wendy Mass.

I give this book 10 Bananas!

A Mango Shaped Space

Mia has always been a little bit different. How may you ask? She sees colors for every letter. Not in her head but every where she goes. If she reads a book, she'll see colors instead of black and white paper. When somebody talks, Mia will have a color for every letter in her head. If she hears something, geometric shapes will appear all around her and absorb her with colors and shapes everywhere.

Mia has always thought since she was a little girl that every one sees colors and shapes like her, until third grade she found out nobody else did. Her parents just found out about Mia and she is now in seventh grade.

Things have gotten worse. She finds out that she has a disease that nobody has heard of, and people start treating her differently at school. They ask her what color their names are and tell her she should be put in a class for special kids. To top it off she has trouble in math and gets horrible grades. All because of this her best friend starts to fade away from her.

Can Mia resolve this color seeing? Will she and her friend come back together? Will Mia start to be treated like a normal human? Find out by reading A Mango Shaped Space by Wendy Mass.

I give this book 8 Bananas!

The Mysterious Benedict Society

This book starts off with an interesting ad in the paper stating that if you are gifted that you should come test for special opportunities. So many kids come and they find out that the test is harder than they had thought. And it is not just one test, it is three tests.

Once the tests were finally over four kids had passed the test. The four kids were introduced to a man named Mr. Benedict. He sent them off to an institute to investigate on a mysterious man named Mr. Curtain. He was taking kids thoughts an programming them all over the world and making people irritated. The kids get all caught up in trying not to be caught as spies, and trying to act like normal kids who come for learning in this gifted program. That was not as easy as they had thought.

They come across many obstacles and close calls. A thrilling book that I dare you to put down. It is full of mystery, suspense, and things that are not normal in the real world.

Do the kids make it out alive from the institute? Can they help out Mr. Benedict? Can Mr. Benedict and the children stop Mr. Curtain? Read The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart to find out.

I give this book 10 Bananas!!

Once Upon a Marigold #1 and #2

Once Upon a Marigold: Christopher is a young prince boy unloved. So on a walk he ran away to then encounter a troll named Ed. He lived with him in his beautiful cave for years. Chris (Ed later finds out) is head over heals for Princess Marigold. He watches her through his telescope all the time. When he grew up Ed let him go out to find a job. He finds his job at the castle to find out the Queen is meaner than he ever expected and that Marigold is in danger and so is the King.
Does Marigold and the king escape the danger? Will Chris and Marigold get together? Read Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris to find out.

Twice Upon a Marigold: Everyone thought that they saw the last of Queen Olympia. They were wrong. She came back even more mad than when she left and King Swithbert is in more danger than he had been. He was accused of something and put in the dungeon to which Marigold and Chris plan something against her and hope with all there heart that it will work and won't get in trouble. Will the plan work? Will Swithbert become safe? Read Twice Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris to find out.

I give this series 10 bananas!!

Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: Danger Over Seas

Nancy Drew: Nancy went to Rome with her two best friends (Bess and George )who happen to be cousins. They all came with Bess and George's Great Aunt. They were expecting a normal vacation without any crimes, but they were wrong. One nice day in Rome Bess got pick pocketed! They caught the theft and got back the wallet but a weird story went with it. The theft had no memory of who she was and how she got to Rome! Can Nancy Drew Figure out this crazy mystery?

The Hardy Boys: Frank and Joe are normal teenage boys but they work for a secret spy agency called ATAC. This time the agency has sent them to Rome as archeologists. The reason why was because there was this young student working at the dig and stole ancient things from the site. And sold them online . He got caught, but the Hardy Boys can't get him to tell if anyone was in on it with him. They suspected his girl friend Caitlin. So they boys are to find out who was in on it and if possible find Caitlin. Can they solve this unsolved mystery?

Read Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys: Danger Over Seas by Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon to find out.

I give this book 9 bananas.
(Mild violence)

Nancy Drew Mystery Triology

Book 1 Secret Identity: Nancy Drew just came back from a recent case in N.Y when a girl was being harassed online on a new virtual game called BetterLife and off line too! On the game kids were writing nasty e-mails to her and doing horrible things to her virtual character. Then when she goes to school people are mean to her. She even stayed home a couple of times. So in order to stop the madness Nancy has to build her own character.

Can Nancy get to the bottom of this and stop it? Who is behind all of this? And why would they want to harass this girl? Read Secret Identity by Carolyne Keene to find out!

Book 2 Identity Theft: Right after the first case was solved Nancy started getting bad e-mails! Someone had hacked into her account and made her character say some really bad things to her friend. People were making characters that looked like people she knew so she would go somewhere but was being tricked. And people were pretending to be her friends. It was horrible!!!!

Who is behind all of this and why would they do this to Nancy? Read Identity Theft by Carolyn Keene to find out!

Book 3 Identity Reveled: Now that Nancy found out who was behind some of the harassing she still did not know who was hacking into her account. Now the person has put her dads case files on line for every one to see. Also the person is blackmailing her friends to do things to her. Even her boyfriend. In the end the person who is behind all of this is no one you would expect!

Read Identity Reveled by Carolyn Keene to find out!

I give this Series 10 Bananas!

The Cupid Chronicles

The main characters beloved library is being closed down for no reason. So she and her friends decide to help raise money to save the library by mostly holding dances. Throughout the book Willa and her friends face challenges. It might be getting harder, but Willa will not give up.

What challenges do they face? Do they save the library?

Read The Cupid Chronicles by Coleen Murtagh Paratore to find out!

I give this book 4 bananas.