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This next book is the penultimate book in the series Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. The Conference of the Birds chronicles the continuing adventures of Jacob Portman and his friends. It opens with Jacob and Noor dealing with the aftermath of the attack on H as they try to figure out what is…
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I want to preface this by stating that I know next to nothing about art or art history but I really thought this book sounded interesting. Girl With A Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier is about the creation of the painting Girl With A Pearl Earring by Vermeer. It tells the story of young Griet,…
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Reliquary is the second book in the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. It picks up about eighteen months after the end of the previous book Relic. After some remains with unusual wounds are found by police divers D’Agosta calls in some outside help by convincing Margo Green and Dr. Frock to…
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is the first book in the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis and tells of the first adventure of the Pevensie children in Narnia. With the increased bombing by the Germans the four siblings, Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy, are sent away to the countryside in order…
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The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman has got to be one of the more unusual books about King Arthur that I have ever read. The book is about a young man named Collum who comes from one of the small isles next to Briton and wishes to become a knight of the round table under…
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A world where everything is controlled by the government. In Misguided Trust by Lauren Wagner that is the world in which Sara lives in a government run town. More specifically, the government controls the water supply as supposedly all water is potentially poisonous and has to be run through a bunch of purification filters before…
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Death Du Jour is the second Temperance Brennan novel by Kathy Reichs. It opens with Tempe traveling to Montreal for spring break to work on an excavation of a catholic nun being nominated for sainthood. However, she gets slightly busy when she is also called in to work on an arson case with several dead…
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The Borrowers is the first book in the series of the same name by Mary Norton and is a bit of a classic kids series. One day young Kate is practicing her sewing with her older relative Mrs. May when they start talking about small things that have a tendency to go missing about the…
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The Riddle-Master of Hed is the first book in the Riddle Master trilogy by Patricia A. McKillip. It tells the story of young Morgon, the land ruler of the island of Hed, and a young man who had studied at the college for riddles in Caithnard on the nearby mainland. One day it is revealed…
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