Category: kids
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If you know a kid who likes adventures on the high seas you might recommend The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi. Charlotte Doyle is a young girl, only thirteen, and is traveling from England to America by ship to meet the rest of her family who had traveled ahead while she finished her…
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The Borrowers Afloat is the third book in The Borrowers series by Mary Norton and continues the adventures of the Clock family. Having been rescued from the gypsies by Spiller and Tom they are now residing with their cousins, the Hendrearys. While they are happy to be living in a relatively safe place and to…
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Disparate strings finally coming together as a story finally comes to a close. In The High King, the fifth and final book of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander, we see the story that started all the way back in The Book of Three ending. Taran has just returned from his wandering adventure in the…
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Magyk by Angie Sage is the first book in the Septimus Heap series. The book opens with Silas Heap heading home to help his wife take care of their newborn seventh son, Septimus, only to find a baby girl abandoned in the snow on the way. After he picks the girl up Marcia Overstrand, the…
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Icefire is book two in the Last Dragon Chronicles by Chris D’lacey and continues the story of David and the Pennykettle dragons. David has a new and rather mysterious geography professor who seems to have an unusual interest in dragons but also an unusual interest in bears and the arctic. As he works on finding…
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The Borrowers Afield is the second book in the Borrowers series by Mary Norton and continues both the story of the Clock family and the story of young Kate and Mrs. May. It picks up about a year after Mrs. May first told Kate about the borrowers when Mrs. May inherits some property from her…
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Trying to figure out who you are. A bit of a noble goal that also happens to be the primary them of Taran Wanderer, book four of the Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. The hero of the series, young Taran, has realized that he is in love with the princess Eilonwy and would like to…
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The end to yet another great series. Gregor and the Code of Claw is the fifth and final book in The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. The story opens directly after the end of the previous book, Gregor and the Marks of Secret, as Gregor deals with warning Regalia for the coming war with the…
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This book is a return to a previous world as The Castle of Llyr is the third book in The Prydain Chronicles by Lloyd Alexander. It opens on young Taran being told that his friend Eilonwy must go away to learn how to be a proper princess, something that she is unable to do at…
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Secrets are something that can hold a lot of power. It is also a rather defining theme in Gregor and the Marks of Secret, book four of the Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. The book opens on Gregor preparing for a trip to the Underland. This time though it is a little different as he…