The Mark Of Athena-Percy Jackson

I just finished The Mark Of Athena by Rick Riordan. If I had to say a bad thing about this would be it: WORST. ENDING. EVER! So if you want to read it I would suggest waiting until October to read it, that's when the next book comes out, The House Of Hades.  It's about Percy, Annabeth, Piper, Jason, Frank, Hazel, and Leo. The Greeks and Romans are enemy camps. Annabeth gets sent on a quest by her mom, Athena. No other Athena child has completed before. Hazel is trying to fin her brother, Nico, who is the son of Hades. Leo has a fortune read saying he will be the 7th wheel. An enemy goddess is awaking. Overall it is an awesome book! :)

-Regan 

The House in the Night

by Susan Marie Swanson
pictures by Beth Krommes

This book is abaot a litte gril that gits to do lot of things. The litte gril unlook the door. I like this book bcuse the bird cume out of the book.

Caleb

Walk Two Moons

by Sharon Creech

I just finished this a couple of weeks ago and have told so many people to read it.  I loved it.  It won the Newbery in 1995.  It is about a girl trying to come to terms with her mom leaving.  This is done under the guise of telling her grandparents a long story while they are on a cross country road trip to Lewiston, ID (shout out to Idaho, woohoo!).  It's kind of a story in a story, and both are so interesting.  I can't tell too much without giving too much away, but I promise reading it will be worth it.  I know Cathy has already read it since I already tried to tell her about it.  It is a really good book about strength and loss and family.  I will be buying it for our family library, for sure.  

The Son of Neptune- Rick Riordan

In school, for my November book project, the theme was fantasy  So I picked The Son of Neptune it is the second book in the series. It took my 22 days to read, so have some spare time. Percy has just lost his memory and can't remember anything, except Annabeth. He only remembers bits and pieces. He is sent on a quest to Alaska and hopes to get his memory back.
The first book is The Lost Hero, the third is The Mark of Athena, and to come in October 2013 is The House of Hades.  This book is 52 chapters long, but really good!

-Regan

The Missing

Calvin and I discovered a series recently called The Missing, by Margaret Peterson Haddix.  There are currently 5 in a planned series of 7 books.  I am not going to tell you anything about them because I personally loved going in totally blind and wondering what in the world was going on!  They are adventure and history and science fiction all rolled into one.  The first book was especially well done, but Calvin has read all five and found them all very exciting, and I have enjoyed the two I've read so far. 

They are upper elementary/middle school books with a brother and sister as main characters, so really for boys or girls.

Franny Billingsley

A friend recommended the book Chime by Franny Billingsley, so I read it on my solo flight across the country for Rachel's wedding.  Honestly, if she hadn't said it was worth reading, I might have given up after the first few dozen pages.  The narrator, Briony, is intense and the world the author creates is strange and bleak, but my friend was completely right.  It was so worth pressing on.  Briony grew on me and I adored her sister, Rose, with her "I prefer" and her paper cuttings.  And Eldric?  Well, let's just say I would have had a serious crush on him as a teenager. :)  (Note:  there are a few curse words in it :( )

So I found two of her other books at the library:  Well Wished and The Folk Keeper.  The latter is more like Chime, with a strong, almost abrasive main character who is struggling to figure out who she really is.  The former is for a slightly younger audience.  Nuria is only 12 and she is adorable.  She lives with her grandfather in a little village with a magic well. 

In all three, Billingsley uses the same mix of fantasy in a realistic setting which I loved.  All three were worth reading.

The Gemma Doyle series is for older girls who know a little about Victorian England but it is a trilogy about a highschool age girl facing problems both normal and non-normal.  I loved it!  The books are long but fun read.