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I have read a lot or books lately, but lets start with my favorite . Harry Potter (all seven). I LOVED them! They were terrific! I highly recommend these books. So if you are brave and like good books and you haven't already read them, DO IT! Read Harry Potter. I give these books a rating of 5 Elephants. Next is some Nancy Drew books. I liked these books. They always turn exciting somewhere or other. The first one is, Nancy Drew and the Secret of Red Gate Farm. I give it 4 Elephants. The next is, Nancy Drew and the clue of the Broken Locket. I give this a rating of 4 elephants. Nancy Drew aren't nearly as exciting as Harry Potter, in my opinion, but still they are good. I will try to blog again soon.

The Gospel According to Larry

A give this book a rating of 3.5 beans. It's about this kid who sets up a web page and writes about things. His web name is Larry. Everybody tries to guess who Larry is but no one can figure it out. A lady in my ward recommended this book to me. So I decided to read it. It's kind of weird but I liked it.
(sorry couldn't find a 3.5 picture)

Work and the Glory

I read the first two books of this series. I give them a rating of 4 beans. They are really good. They are about the prophet Joseph Smith when he translated the Book of Mormon. I liked them because they were really exciting!

Physik

Physik is the third book in the Septimus Heap series. I rate it 5 beans! My dad almost had to take this book away from me since I kept getting distracted and wouldn't help my mom make applesauce. Anyway, it's a really good book! In this book a really bad sickness comes and makes tons of people sick. Septimus wants to make a cure but he doesn't know how because he's not a physician. If you want to know what happens read the book. I just finished this book today

Flyte

Flyte is book two of the Septimus Heap books. It was awesome! I rate it 5 beans. I don't want to say to much and spoil the first book or this book. This book is the next part in the story of Septimus Heap. It's so cool!!!!!!!!!!! it held my attention the whole time. Angie Sage (the author) is really good!

Magyk

Magyk is the first book in the Septimus Heap books. I rate it 5 beans!! It's about a kid who was believed dead. He is the seventh son of a seventh son. Which means that he should have incredible Magykal powers. Anyway, you might be wondering why I am spelling Magyk so weird? Well, it's because that's the way they spell it in the book. I loved this book!!!!!!!!!

Brisingr

Brisingr is the new book in the Inheritance books. Book 1 and 2 were amazing! Brisingr just came out today. My mom said I couldn't start reading Brisingr until I blogged about the books I read over the summer so here I am.

a whole bunch of books

Sprout here. I would like to tell you about some good books I have read lately. #1 is Ella Enchanted. I give this book a rating of 4 elephants. Ella Enchanted is a very good book.I liked it alot. #2 is Children of Lamp books 1,2 and 3 (the entire series so far) . I give these books a rating of 5 elephants! This series is one of my favorite series ever. These books are very intense books. So I suggest You read them. Last but not least is sisters in time "Laura's victory". I give this book 4 elephants. It is about a little girl and life during world war 2. It is a great book.

Goose Girl/Enna Burning/River Secrets

I give Goose Girl and Enna Burning 3.5 beans. But, I give River Secrets 4.5 beans. My mom insisted that I read these books. So I did. Goose Girl and Enna Burning were okay. But, River Secrets was the best by far. Mostly because it was from the point of view of a boy instead of a girl. So that's why I read these books.

Books I've Read

Instead of taking the time to blog all the books I've read since I last blogged here's a list of them.
Eulalia (the most recent Redwall book)- 5 bean
Goose Girl/Enna Burning/River Secrets (I'll blog about these books later)
Pendragon: Raven Rise (Amazing!!!***)
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (book four): Battle of the Labyrinth (also Amazing!!!***)
I also read The Outsiders for school, my English teacher made the whole class read it. It was pretty good.

I guess that's about all. See ya!

Fablehaven: Grip of the Shadow Plague (book three)

I loved this BOOK!!!!!!!!!. This book is the third book in the Fablehaven series. It's so good!!!!!! I won't say too much in case you haven't read the first two books. If you haven't read the first two then you should definitely read them. They're amazing also! If you have read my moms blog you will know that I went to UVU and did a blogging seminar. While I was there I got to meet Brandon Mull. He is the author of the Fablehaven books. He was really cool. He even gave me his personal E-mail address.

Series of Unfortunate Events

Sprout here. I would like to tell you about books 2-13 in A Series of Unfortunate Events. They were all very exciting! So exciting that I hardly ever put them down. I give these books a rating of 5 elephants. In each book the Baudelaires barely escape from Count Olaf.Which makes it even more exciting! So I think you should read these books.

The Thirteenth Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters

I gave this book a rating of 5 BEANS!!!!!! I love this book. It's called The Thirteenth Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters. I read it in less than a day. It's just over four-hundred pages. It's about a kid named Atticus Higgenbottom, but everyone calls him Tick. He receives a strange letter in the mail that says he'll get twelve clues telling him what to do if he doesn't burn the first letter. I know this sounds really confusing when I say it, but if you read the book you'll get it. Anyway he discovers what he is supposed to do by figuring out the clues and goes on a dangerous assignment to visit a place called the Thirteenth Reality. He meets lots of strange people and goes on an awesome adventure. This book joined my list of my 5 Bean Fav's. See ya later!!

Starcross: A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel, and Curious Hats.

Hey, it's me beans. I gave this book a rating of four beans. It's called Starcross: A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel, and Curious Hats. It is the second book but I don't know whether there are going to be more. The first book is called Larklight: A Rousing Tale of Dauntless Pluck in the Farthest Reaches of Space. It is about a boy named Art and his sister Myrtle. In the first book they go on a big adventure in space with a boy named Jack Havock. Jack Havock is the most feared pirate in space. They have to go save their mom and meet a lot of cool/weird creatures. In this book their house is under repair so they go to an amazing hotel in the asteroid belt. They soon find out that it isn't as cool as it seems. They then go on an adventure (with Jack Havock) on ancient Mars. To find out more you will have to read the book. The next book that I will be posting about is called The Thirteenth Reality: The Journal of Curious Letters. It was written by the author of the Jimmy Fincher Saga. (Those are rated 5 beans)

Viking Warrior

I gave this book a rating of 3 1/2. Since it's about vikings I used a picture of 3 1/2 swords. This book is the first book in the saga. It's about a kid who is 15 years old. He's a slave for this chieftain dude.
Halfdan (the boy) get's freed and goes on an awesome adventure. He's really good with a sword and bow and arrow. It's awesome! It started out as a 2 1/2 but got better through the book. It's almost a four. Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I haven't had much time to read. The next book to be reviewed is called Starcross: A Stirring Adventure of Spies, Time Travel, and Curious Hats.

Artemis Fowl book four: The Opal Deception

I gave this book a rating of 4 beans. It's the third book in the Artemis fowl series. Again, I don't want to tell you much about it in case I spoil the first three. But if you like the first ones you will most definetly like this book!

Artemis Fowl book three: The Eternity Code

I gave this book a rating of four beans (or four pairs of drumsticks). It's the third book in the Artemis fowl series. If you liked the first two you will like this book. I won't tell you anything else in case I spoil the first books.

Sorry I haven't Posted in a while

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have not had much time. I was on the junior high musical called Suesical Jr. I wasn't actually in the play I was the Sound Techy up in the sound/light booth. I was in charge of muting and un-muting the cordless microphones for the main characters. It was really fun. Today was our last performance so now I can read.

Artemis Fowl book two: The Arctic Incident

I gave this book a rating of 4 beans. It's the second book in the series so far. It's the continued story of a thirteen year old boy who is a complete genius and criminal mastermind. He runs into the fairies again in this book and they try to save his father who was thought to be dead. The first book had to earn it's way up to a four bean rating. But this book was four beans all the way through. Look for the third book on the list soon. I have started reading it. It will probably be on in a few days if I have enough time for reading (I better have some time!!!).

Sprout Here

It's Sprout again. Today I want to tell you about a book called I, Freddy, written by Dietlof Reiche. It is about a hamster who lives in a pet store. He gets sick and tired of it. So he watches the TV in the pet store and learns tricks to do when the next customer comes and looks at his cage. When the customer comes in, Freddy starts doing his tricks and IT WORKS...he gets put in a box and rides in the car to the apartment to meet his new owner, Sophie. Sophie is really nice to Freddy. But soon, Sophie's mom becomes allergic to Freddy. So Freddy goes to a guy named Mr John's house. He has a cat and two guinea pigs. Freddy soon sees Mr John typing on his typewriter, and he wants to type too. This crazy hamster knows how to read and write! Mr John gets a MAC computer. Freddy gets out of his cage and learns how to type on it. He starts to talk to Mr John over the computer. He has all kinds of adventures in his new home. This book is hilarious! I can't wait to read the next one.

Upcoming books

Some of the upcoming books that I will be posting about are Artemis Fowl: books 2-4. Also, a book that I found and pulled off the shelf called Viking Warrior. I don't know if it's any good so I'll have to find out. That's about it for now. There are a couple more books that are coming that I can't remember the name of. Since I'm too lazy to get up and check you'll just have to deal with it. Anyway, since it's almost ten o'clock I better log off. Talk to you later!

The Rangers Apprentice book three: The Icebound land

This book is awesome! I gave it a rating of four beans (or in this case, balls). It's book three to The Rangers Apprentice book 1:Ruins of Gorlan and The Rangers Apprentice book 2: The Burning Bridge. The fourth book is supposed to come out soon if it's not out already. This book is the continued story of how the Apprentice Ranger and the undercover princess try to escape the dangerous Skandians.

I need more books to read!

I know that since my grandpa shows everybody my blog, there are librarians that read it. So librarians, if you have any books that you think I would like, post a comment and tell me about it. I'm open to all suggestions.

Artemis Fowl

I gave this book a rating of four beans. It's about a twelve year old kid who is an absolute genius. He is trying to get a hold of a book containing all the fairy laws and rules. He wants to know the rules so that he can use them to get hold of fairy gold. You know how everybody says that there is gold at the end of the rainbow. Well, he wants it. He has to be very clever to do it. Read the book to find out about all the crazy things he comes up with to get a hold of it. This is the first book of six as far as I know. The author is Eoin Colfer.

The Last Apprentice: Night of the Soul Stealer

I give this book a rating of four. I ran out of pictures of beans so now I have to use just any old # 4. This is the third book in The Last Apprentice series. In this book the Spook and Tom go to the Spooks winter house and meet the Spooks old girlfriend Meg. I don't want to say anymore in case I spoil the rest of the book so I guess I'll end right here. See ya!

The Bad Beginning

I am Beans' little sister. My name is Sprout and I am nine. Beans said that I could post a review on his blog. I want to tell you about the first book in A Series of Unfortunate Events. I read this book in two hours. My favorite character was Sunny. Sunny is a baby that can't talk. She bites. This book was very interesting. I loved it! It was exciting and I never wanted to stop.

I love elephants. I give this book four big elephants!

The Rangers Apprentice book two: The Burning Bridge

I gave this book a rating of 4 beans. The first book is called The Rangers Apprentice: Ruins of Gorlan. It also has a rating of four beans. These books are about a boy named Will who has grown up as an orphan. He has always wanted to be a knight but he's much to small to become one. So he doesn't think he will be picked as an apprentice. He ends up going on a big adventure is super intense. The Third book is called The Rangers Apprentice: The Icebound Land.

The Land of the Silver Apples

I gave this book a rating of four beans. It was written by Nancy Farmer. This is the sequel to The Sea of Trolls. I'd probably give the first book a rating of four beans also. They're about a kid named Jack who is an apprentice Bard. His little sister get's kidnapped and he has to save her. While he's trying to save her he runs into all sorts of monsters and stuff. My dad just grabbed the first book randomly, since I liked it I read the second book. It's over 400 pages. It was really good!

Peter Raven Under Fire

I gave this book a rating of four beans. Peter Raven: Under Fire, is about this teenager named Peter who is a midshipman on a British Navy ship around the time of the French Revolution. It was written by Michael Molloy. Anyway, Peter, while he is on the ship HMS Torren He battles french ships and other cool and awesome things. My dad just happened to pick it up off the shelf at the library. So I thought I would try it.

The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Wolf Brother

I give this book a rating of 4 beans! It's the first book of six. It takes place about 6 thousand years ago when Europe was a giant forest. It's about this kid named Torak who's been growing up with his dad away from people. he doesn't know what it's like to live in a clan with lot's of people. In this book he is the only one who can save the forest from a very evil monster. The second book is called; The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Spirit Walker. It's also very good. The third book is called; The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Soul Eater. It's so cool! I gave these books 4 beans because it's filled with puzzles and things happen that you wouldn't think possible. Books 4-6 haven't come out yet. I think book 4 comes out sometime this year (2008). I don't know?

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lighting Thief

My English teacher assigned my class this book. It's written by a guy named Rick Riordan. He's a really good author. It's about this kid who doesn't know his dad and he's been transferred from school to school like, six or seven times. Then, at the school he's going to in this book, he meets this kid named Grover who is his only friend. They end up going on a big adventure together and meet lot's of scary people. This is the first book in the series. The second book is called; Percy and the Olympians: Sea of Monsters. The third book is called; Percy and the Olympians: The Titans Curse. The fourth book which will come out on May 6, 2008 is called; Percy and the Olympians: Battle of the Labyrinth. Or some thing like that? I gave this book a rating of 5 beans because there are lots of things that happen that you won't expect. All three books kept me reading for hours and hours. I even got in trouble by my teacher for reading ahead in book one. I can't wait until book four comes out!!!!!!

The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane

I read a book called; The Last Apprentice: Curse of the Bane. I give it a rating of 4 beans. This book is the sequel to The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch. I also give that book a rating of 4 beans. These books are about a boy named Tom Ward and he is going to be an apprentice to a Spook. Spooks go around and capture and kill witches, boggarts, ghosts, etc. I really liked these books because they really held my attention and they were really suspenseful.

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

I give this book a rating of 4 beans!
The author of this book is Brian Selznick
I liked this book because it had a good story line and the pictures in the book are amazing. Almost the whole book is pictures that tell the story. It was recently awarded the Caldecott medal. It was a book that held my attention. It's about a boy who's dad died so he had to go live with his uncle at the train station. His uncle taught him how to fix the clocks in the train station and how to keep them running. His uncle leaves him after a couple of months. He tries to fix an automaton that his dad had found. Later he meets the maker of the automaton and they fix it. The automaton, once fixed, could paint an amazing picture. Then he goes and lives with the maker.

The Alchemist-secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel

This book gets four beans!

This book was written by Michael Scott.
This book is a fantasy book. I liked it because it had magic, and battles and cool stuff like that.
It was very suspenseful and it kept my interest throughout the whole thing.