Buffy the vampire slayer: The journals of Rupert Giles

3 stories centered on Buffy’s watcher, Giles. All three are set at the time of Buffy’s birthdays.

1st story: Helpless (3rd season)

2nd story: A New Man (4th season)

3rd story: Blood Ties (5th season)

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Published in: Young Adult on November 25, 2011 at12:48 pm Comments (1)

Charmed: Trickery Treat by Diana Gallagher

Takes place after 8th series. It is halloween again for the Halliwells again, and to make up for a misunderstanding, Paige invites the leprechauns to a halloween party. However, it turns out that there are spirits in the manor and a ghost hunter to find them!

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Published in: Young Adult on November 18, 2011 at12:31 pm Comments (1)

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

In the year 1939, Liesel is taken to live with a man and a woman. She has to grapple with school, death World War 2 and the theft of books.

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Published in: Young Adult on November 4, 2011 at12:41 pm Comments (0)

The Alchemyst by Michael Scott

Nicholas Flamel, the greatest Alchemyst, was born in Paris, 1330 and records show he died in 1418. But did he? Nicholas Flamel is still alive and protecting the Codex/the Book of Abraham the Mage, which the secret to eternal life is hidden. He and his wife, Perenelle, are trying to fulfil an ancient prophecy by finding the twins of legend.

Josh and Sophie Newman are regular teenagers, but when the Flamels find them and tell them they are the twins of legend, they are forced to travel with them, while trying to escape an evil mastermind out to kill them, Dr. John Dee.

Josh and Sophie have found themselves in the centre of the greatest legend of all times.

The sequels to this book are The Magician, The Sorceress, The Necromancer, The Warlock and The Enchantress (The Enchantress isn’t available yet).

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Published in: Young Adult on October 21, 2011 at12:40 pm Comments (1)

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

Rose Hathaway is a guardian to vampire princess Lissa Dragomir. They both attend St Vladimir’s academy, where Moroi (royal mortal vampires) and Dhampir (guardians) train and are protected from Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires)

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The Clan of the Cave Bear

Back at the dawn of man, two dominant species exist: humans and neanderthals. After a huge earthquake, five year old Ayla is seperated from her family and injured in an encounter with a cave bear. She falls in with a tribe of neanderhtals who take her in despite her differences. However, she is still not accepted by the leader’s son, who makes her life miserable and against whom she rebels. This book is about rebelling against unfairness in an ancient environment.

 

Reccomended for 15+. There are adult style scenes.

 

Overall, a marvelous book, one in a series of six. It is an amazing read, and will keep you enthralled till the end.

 

TE.

Published in: Adult, Fiction, Older Readers on October 14, 2011 at12:53 pm Comments (0)

The Den of Shadows quartet

Four books in one:

In the Forests of the Night: Three hundred years ago, Rachel became Risika, a vampire. Now her past has caught up with her

Demon in my view: Jessica doesn’t fit in at her high school. But when two people arrive at school, they look very much like the two vampires in her book she wrote.

Shattered mirror: Sarah Vida is a vampire hunter. And when Christopher Ravena and hisb sister Nissa arrive at school, Sarah is the only one who knows the real truth about them

Midnight Predator: Turquoise Draka is a vampire hunter. She has to kill one of the most powerful vampires in history, and to do that, she must enter the vampire relam as a human slave . . .

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Published in: Young Adult on September 23, 2011 at1:33 pm Comments (1)

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

It’s Harry, Ron and Hermione’s 3rd year at Hogwarts, and Dementors are stalking the castle, looking for Sirius Black, mass murderer, and former friend of Harry’s parents. Also new teacher Remus Lupin with a secret, and an interesting secret for Scabbers.

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Evermore by Alyson Noel

Sixteen year-old, Ever Bloom, is the only survivor of a car crash that killed her parents, dog and little sister. But her little sister, Riley, haunts her and Ever now lives with her aunt Sabine. Ever can see dead people, read people’s auras, read thoughts and know a person’s entire life story by a single touch.

Her life is normal. She is bullied by a girl called Stacia, she has two best friends, Haven and Miles. But her life changes when a new guy comes to school named Damen. Ever tries to ignore him, but is falling for him. Little does she know that going near Damen is luring her into danger every second.

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Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda

Weakling. Skinny rabbit. Young Rowan is called many horrible names. He is the most pathetic person in Rin. But all that changes when the village witch Sheba predicts what is happening to Rin. The bukshah are slowly dying out and Rowan, with the aid of six citizens, must climb The Mountain and save the bukshah.

This book is amazing and filled with courage and determination. The sequels are called Rowan and the Travellers, Rowan and the Keeper of the Crystal, Rowan and the Zebak and Rowan of the Bukshah.

JT

Published in: Young Adult on September 9, 2011 at1:44 pm Comments (1)