Begining of things

Hi. I love reading and always have done. So I thought maybe I could share with you what I enjoy. I am only 13 at the moment so this is probably more interesting for people around that age but maybe Mums might want ideas for their 13 year olds. Bearing in mind that I like reading books that I feel you can actually read, big books that are less magic and more adventure. The problem is most of the books you get now are all dark and shadowy. Now I like fantasy, but things to do with vampires and other dark creatures just really aren't for me. I like some historical fiction books that are about things to do with going to the "new world" and about Jews escaping the holocaust. I have nothing wrong with magic but I like less dark stories. Of course this is just my opinion what you think is up to you. One more thing I would love suggestions of new books to read, so if you think I might like a book please comment and tell me about it, You can send it to my email or use comments or both, it doesn't really matter.

Monday, 24 June 2013

The Children Of Green Knowe

Magical and strange, but I love it.
The Children Of Greene Knowe
"What if my great-grandmother is a witch?" thought Tolly.
Tolly's great-grandmother wasn't a witch but both she and her old house, Green Knowe, were full of a very special kind of magic. And Green Knowe turned out not to be the lonely place Tolly had imagined it to be. There were other children living in the house - Children who had been happy there centuries before.
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Highway Girl

I started reading this book and couldn't stop, not even when it was almost to dark to see!
Highway Girl
It's 1670. When Susannah and her brother are orphaned she is forced to live on the charity of distant relations in England while he seeks his fortune in America. But when news arrives that her brother is dangerously ill Susannah will stop at nothing to get the money she desperately needs to save his life...
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The Star Of Kazan

This is a moving story mixed with a mystery I love it.
The Star Of Kazan
Annika lives as a servant at a grand house in Vienna, a glittering city famous for its great emperor and the exquisite white horses of the Imperial Riding School. Her life their would be perfect mystery of her real mother. For, as a new born baby, Annika was found in a church, and no one knows were she came from. but every day her mind swirls with dreams of a beautiful mother finally arriving to claim her.
Then Annika finds out the astonishing truth about her past and is swept on an adventure of extraordinary discovery and unexpected danger...
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Tuesday, 11 June 2013

Understood Betsy

Amazing and funny at times. I have read this book over and over again.
Understood Betsy
Sheltered nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann has always heard her aunt Frances talk about "those horrid Putney, Vermont cousins." Now she is terrified. Aunt Frances can no longer take care of her, and Elizabeth Ann has been sent to stay with her New England relatives.
   Rules at the comfortable New England farmhouse are relaxed. Aunt Abigail serves baked beans in the kitchen, Elizabeth Ann - now called Betsy - must wash her own bowl and spoon, and her relatives expect her to walk to her new school by herself. Worst of all, nobody seems to be the least worried about Betsy.
  Gradually Betsy comes to enjoy the "queer Putney ways" of her country cousins, not realising that Aunt Abigail, Cousin Ann, and Uncle Henry are quietly teaching her to think for herself. Then Betsy gets a letter fro aunt Frances. She wants Betsy to come home. It's Betsy's choice. Which life should she live. 
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The Chalk Box Kid

I love this story.
The Chalk Box Kid
A new neighbourhood. A new school. An unhappy birthday. Life isn't easy for nine-year-old Gregory. But then he discovers an abandoned chalk factory behind his house. And something magical happens: a beautiful garden and a quiet friendship spring up within his walls.

PS. There is nothing magical in this story but it's still brilliant.
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