The Prisoner of Zenda by Chris

I just finished the book named The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope. The main character was English. He went to a foreign country to see the crowning but found the king looked like him and made friend with him. However, the Duke wanted to take place of the king and he drugged the king. As the main character, Rudolf looked like the king, he was begged by the king’s servants to pretend the king and attend the crowning and save the king who’s been a prisoner in the Duke’s castle later on. That’s how the story begins. I always read the book on bus and it makes me feel the riding is much shorter than before. I think it’s a real cliffhanger because the ending is out of my imagination and I can’t wait to know it. (In fact I read the end when I was reading how Rudolf saved the king.) As I read on the bus, sometimes it made me forget to get off or feel reluctance to get off. So, here I surely, definitely, strongly recommended the book to you all. It’s an adventuring story though, it’s also a romantic story. In the story Rudolf meet the king’s fiancé when he was pretending the king and fell in love with the beautiful woman. And it made him confused about his beloved woman and his honor to save the king and the foreign country. What did he choose?? How did their love grow?? What’s going on in the devil Duke’s castle?? How does the story end up?? You won’t know it till you read it yourself.

Murder by Art by Gladys

I choose this book because I like the title, the Author name ‘s Janet Mcgiffin .

It takes place in New York, it began in a Hospital were two people have been shot, and another one have been poisond. One of the main character is a Doctor and the other one is a policemen. At the same time, there is a Art excibition and the artist if a very famous, and the owner of the place were the art excibition is taking place, is very greety, the people from the excibition had build a musical chairs and everytime the artis played the piano the chairs moved around, this book is a real page turner, while he was playing the piano, someone had cut the rope that hold the chairs and they felt on top of the artist.

The policeman and the Doctor have the opotunity to resolve the mystery , this book kept me up.They took all the time to found out who the murders are, the people that got shot, and the one the got poised, and the artist the gat kill , they all were killed by the same persons, the owner and two of her best friends .

I was satisfaid with the way this book ends, I do recommended, it is a good book and if you read it you will enjoy it.

Two Lives by Tracy

I choose this book Two Lives because I really love to read romance novel.,I think most of the girls like romance,so Two Lives is the best choice.There are 17 chapters in this book. It is fast to read. The book describes Huw and Megan were friends at the beginning and then they fell in love. But Megan's father disagree they get together. At last they spent their times together secretly.Suddenly, Huw's brother Gareth died in coal mine when he was working,Huw and his father were very sad so they decided to leave this village and move to Canada . Huw promised he would come back and Megan said wait he,too.As soon as Huw arrived Canada ,he wrote a letter to Megan but her father hid all the letters that Huw wrote.50years later, Megan found all the letters after her dad died.Megan wrote back to Huw and told him all about this.At the end ,Huw and Megan decided met at the village ,they together again and have a happy ending.The story is a real page - turner and I can't put it down.Because I want to know what will happen in next par, it make me curious.I would strongly recommend this book- it's fast to read and very romantic.

Dracula by Frankie

I chose the book Dracula by Bram Stoker because I like to read the books about vampires. I was interested that why Count Dracula could became a vampire. Dracula is the most famous vampire in books.I like him very much. Have you seen the movie Dracula?There are some details about Dracula in the movie .This book is good for fast read and it is really a page turner! I am highly recommend it to you!

I chose the book is Tom Cruise. It's a biography. I like this kind of book because I like to know the people life who is successful. This is a level one book. It's a real page-turner. I am really into it. It's a true story .

Harry Potter by Judy

I chose the book Harry Potter by J.K.Rowling. My good friend introduce me to read this book. He said "The book is better then the movie."

This is a very long story, and it has a total of seven books. The frist book is called Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's stone. The setting is both number 4 Privet Drive and Hogwarts. Number 4 Privet Drive is the Dursley's home. Hogwarts is a school of wizardry. The
main characters are Harry Potter who lives with the Dursley's ,his friend Ron Weasley's, who was born in a wizarding family, and Hermione Granger, who was born in a muggle family(which means they are none magical).

The story starts when Harry is a baby, he lives with the Dursleys. His aunt Petunia, his uncle Vernon and his consin Dudley. They lie to him , and said his parents died in a car accident, and didn't tell him he's a wizard.
When Harry turns 11 years old , everything began to change. He goes to Hogwarts and learn how to be a wizard . He meets his friends , who joins him in his sdventures. He also meets his nemisis Voldermart, and barely survives his first year at Hogwarts.

The story is a real page-turner and I can't put it down because I want to know what is going to happen. This book is the beginning of the entire series, it still have a long story to tell. I would recommed this book.

Tinker's farm

There were a father and a daughter from England in 1800 to America to get a better life. When they arrived New York port,they wants jobs for living,then the father asked a young man where I can get the jobs,the young man pointed to a man and said,"asked him to get your job, he is a farmer he will give the job" then the father asked for a job to the farmer. The farmer looked at him and his daughter and said "you both can get the job in my farm." Then the father worked in the field and the daughter worked in the kitchen with an Indian girl. They got two Dollars each week. The father told his daughter he don't want this work any more he wants work in his own farm. One day the Indian girl invited his daughter visited her Indian's village,on the way they heard a boy cried for helped in the river,the daughter jumped in to the water and saved him from water.
Then three young people went back to the Indian village and told about the happen to the Chief. The chief felt glad and thank that she saved his son,and asked her what desire did she wanted for saved his son. The daughter remember her father wanted to own a farm. She answer to the chief "I don't want anything, but my father dreams to have a farm." Then the chief gave the farm to her father. They were began their new life in America.
This story told us how hard in those time the new comer came to America.

Nelson Mandela by evelyne

I chose this book because Nelson Mandela was one of the most important leaders in the world.Nelson Mandela was born as a son of a tribal leader in South Africa.When he was a
child,he could't go to a better school like a government's school.He studied in a school which was only for black people.When he was 9-year-old,his father died,so he was sent to another tribal leader's family.Then he had a chance to go to a government's school.In university,Mendela was aware of apartheid.He started struggling with the government in peaceful way for black people having same rights as white people.He was arrested in 1963 and in prison for 27 years since then.He was free in 1992.He became a president of South Africa in 1994, and eventually the apartheid ended at the same time.I
appreciate the way Mandela had done,not using violent.I recomment this book to everyone because it is easy to read and Mandela is a part of South Africa's histories,we should know about him.

"The Lady in White " Monie Zheng

I chose this book because I had heard the approximate content of this story from Coco a few days ago. I am very interested in this thriller, which is exciting, and I want to know what happened in this scared story.

In the story, the main characters are John who was a successful television producer, Jenny who was his assistant , Rachel who was his wife and the lady in white who was a ghostly hitch-hiker.

While John was researching a new programme, came across a story about a ghostly hitch-hiker. Soon he realized that the story of the Lady in White had many similarities to part of his own life. He began to worry about his wife and his young child that almost drove him crazy!

It is really a page-turner and cliffhanger, as a result, I open this book and read it whenever and whatever I am, like taking Muni, waiting in line and so on.

The Mummy by Fiona

I have just read the book The Mummy,it iswritten by David Levithan.It is a romance and exploratory story .It begins with a love story that happened thousands of years ago at ancient Eygpt .the pontiff fell in love with the king's wife and killed the king,so the lovers were made into mummy and buried alive ,and the pontiff was cursed never come back to the world or he would destroy the whole world .but after thousands of years the pontiff was dig out by some people ,he came back to the world and wanted to find the DEATH BOOK to made his lover come back then rule the world .Some people came to stop him ,they fight with him and his dead army,at the end of the book ,people won the mummy,and the world have peace again .

I chose this book because I had seen the movie about this story ,the movie was very interesting ,so I want read the book .After reading it ,I find the book is interesting too,It was pretty easy,but it was a page turner,I couldn't stop reading it .It is a very interesting book ,If you have time ,read it ! you will not be disappointed with it.

The 'secret Garden' Yundong

I chose this book by Anne C0llins, becaus the book took of the film. It was very famous movie in the world. The book writer a girl Mary. She was a Indian and she looked ugly and thin, nobody like her. when she was 9-year-old, her parents all died. So she moved to England live with her uncle. At the time she discovery a Secret Garden, also she found a cry boy that is her cousin Colin, before she didn't know. They are same age, but Colin was a disable boy and her mother had already died when she had expected Colin, she fell down in the garden, Colin was alive. So he father was very sad and angry with the garden. He closed the garden and threw the key away,nobody could into there. Since Mary knew the story, she wonder of the garden. One day she accidental found a key and came in to the garden. The garden was beautiful, but too much woods to cover it. Mary and her friend Dickon spent a few days to clean the garden. The garden came back to before, it was very beautiful. Then they told Colin the secret garden and encourage Colin went out to see it. Then they helped Colin went to the secret garden, Colin was very happy. They played, laughed, planted in the garden. After a few month, Colin could stand up and start to walk, his health had gotten better. His father after a long business trove to back home, he surprised Colin become a strong boy. The story is a very nice, I'm really in to it. I recommend all classmates to try it.

White Fang By Coco Huang

I finished a book called White Fang by Jack London. It's really good for me. The first time I looked at the book. I was so interested in what happened to this animal. It takes place in California. He was different from another wolf, so people gave the name White Fang to him. He is half wolf and half dog. He likes to fight with other dogs. He has met several gods. Finally, a nice man taught him how to live with others.

It's easy for everyone. You won't regret to choose it. It took me two hours to read it. It's a page-turner.Even animals have feelings like humans.

If you like the short stories about animals, you will enjoy it very much. Don't miss White Fang.

Book Clubs

Here we are doing our Scavenger Hunt at the Barnes and Nobles!

Staying Together by Denise

I chose the book Staying Together by Judith Wilson because I liked the picture on the cover -- I was interested why two people were holding hands and who they were and what they were doing. The setting is both England and Africa, and the time is the present, but it also jumps to the characters pasts and futures. There are three main characters are Suki, a young Japanese girl who travels to England to study English, her boyfriend Hiroko, who stays in Japan while she is gone, and Andoku, and young African boy who she meets in England at the English school. The story follows Suki and Andoku as they meet and fall in love in England, but then have conflict with Hiroko (Suki's boyfriend in Japan). The story is a real page-turner and kept me up late at night because I wanted to see who would end up together. It has a surprise ending, but I was satisfied with it overall. I would recommend this book to anyone - it's a fast read and a cliffhanger.