Powers

Powers is the third book about the western shore. It is the longest one too at over 500 pages. I liked this book a lot but it's really different from the other ones. You don't see how Orrec and Gry really are connected till the end. It follows a slave boy named Gav. He is from the Marshes but when he was young, was captured by soliders along with his sister. He has odd visions sometimes about the future and has an amazing memory. He is destined to grow up and become the teacher for his house. He however has a hard childhood with many larger boys. For about 14 years he is perfectly content in his life. He can learn and have "power". Then one event changes him forever. He leaves his life and walks away. For a while he just walks and then he finds people he think he belongs with. Each time he realizes his past makes him too different. He's just trying to fiure out life and freedom. A lot of it is about what freedom really is, ignorance,bondage, wealth, love. It also explains really the mindset of many slaves , or just ignorant people. I really like this book and I hope I can find more by this author.

You can read the beginng here:

http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/9780152057701-excerpt.asp

Voices

Voices Is the next book after Gifts. It is wrote by Ursula K. Le Guin. This book is in the city of Annul, a town be the sea. It was once a posperous city, full of wealth and knowledge. For seventeen years it was captured by the Alds, a desert people.They believed that books were evil and had all the books destroyed. This story follows Memer, a seventeen year old girl who lives in the city. Her mother was in charge of a very important house, the warloard's house. During Annul's independence warlords goverened the city, now they lived in smables like the rest of the people. The owner of her house was tourtured and twisted for a year until they let him free. A few years later Memer's mother got sick and died. Around that time she found a secret room, one full of books. At first she didn't know what they were but the warlord taught her how to read.

One morning while Memer is in the marketplace a horse charges suddenly at her. After calming the horse memer realizes the commotion. There is a woman with a halflion. She introduces herself as Gry. Memer tells her where she lives and Gry imediatly wants to come home with her. Her husband is of course Orrec Caspro. Orrec has been invited to recite stories to the leader of the Alds. During the days that follow Annul will be changed forever. From a people in ruins new hope will emerge. The unthinkable will be done, good shall rise over evil. oNe day wil Memer's future be brighter with the help of her new friends?

*I think this is a realygood book:D Definetly read these.

You can read a question and answer with the author here:

http://www.teenreads.com/authors/au-leguin-ursula.asp#talk0609

You can read an exert here;

http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/0152056785-excerpt.asp

The City Of Embers

The City Of Embers is a interesting idea of what our world may oneday come to. It was wrote in 2003 by Jeanne DuPrau. The City is underground. There is no sun, no sky, just electricity. Life is just as it is here except their life is powered by electricity. The people in the city of embers have lived there about 200 years, and the lights of the city are about to go out. There are many blackouts and supplies is scarce. A group of three kids find the key to their problem, a letter. The only problem is it was destroyed. The kids must find the truth about their world and the rest of it in order to save their people. Is there more out there? Should you listen to people just because they're in charge? What would you do to make sure that your light doesn't go out forever?

Gifts

Gifts by Ursula K. Le Guin. Is a really good book. It is set on the west shore of a unknown land. The uplander(what they call the people in the hills) have gifts. They a basically magical powers. The land is broke into small domains. The domains had been waring for years. In one domain one little boy is born. Soon after a girl is born in the next domain. The boy in named Orrec, Orrec Caspro. His clans gift in unmaking. That means you can look at a animal and turn the bones to mush. His best friend, Gry, can talk to animals. Orrec's mother is not from the uplands. She was a learned preacher's daughter who came to marry a man from the uplands. At the age of about 13 your gift is suppose to work. Gry can now communicate with animals, but Orrec can do nothing. His father tries and tries but Orrec's gift won't work. Then suddenly when he is out riding with is father he "unmakes" the whole hillside. Then he does the same to his dog. They claim he has the wild gift and could be very dangerous. The blindfold Orrec, so that he can't look and destroy anything. One day they travel to another domain. Their power is they say a spell and whoever they say it over will get sick and die soon after. The men there are sometimes rude and drink a lot. They fear Orrec and don't do anything to him. His mother however feels chilled and cannot feel warm again. She gets sicker once the return. For about a year she suffers, it is clear a spell was cast upon her. Finally a year later she dies, but not before she writes books. She writes down all the stories she was taught for her son. He is the only person in the Uplands who knows how to read. For days Orrec's father shuts himself away. The days turn to months and for years he is sad. The only time Orrec ever takes his blindfold off is to read his mother's stories. Gry trains him a guide dog to help in in his life. Finally Orrec takes off the blindfold. He tries to cast a spell but nothing comes of it. Suddenly Orrec knows the truth. He never had a gift, it was a trick. A trick that prevented him from seeing his dying mother, and so much else. What will Orrec do faced with this revilation?

You can read an exert her:

http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/0152051244-excerpt.asp

google books

I have put some books into a really cool thing called my google library. If you wanna check out my book you can find the here:

http://books.google.com/books?uid=5326560964156181415&as_coll=0&rview=1&source=gbs_lp_bookshelf_list

Fairest

My library is not big, but I love it. You can find great books just sitting there. I just finished reading one of them. It is Fairest by, Gail Carson Levine, she also wrote Ella Enchanted. Fairest is set in the same world with the fairy Lucinda. Aza is a innkeeper's adopted daughter. She is not pretty, not even close to it. In her land bueaty is blond hair, fair skin and light lips. Aza has black hair, pale skin and bright red lips. She has something amazing though, her voice. It's is am amazing voice, which can do almost anything. He land is full of singers and it seems Aza has the fairest voice of them all, but will it lead her to problems? Aza is given the opprotunity to go to the royal wedding and takes it. However, tragedy quickly strikes, and the King is badly injured. Aza becomes the queen's lady-in-waiting. The new leader, Ivi doesn't know the ways of her new land and destroys many coustoms. Meanwhile, she only wants Aza, and the prince. After being together so much the prince and Aza fall in love. When Aza's secret comes out on the midst of confusion she is sent to prison but, she has finally the only thing she ever wanted, beauty. Aza must find out the true meaning of love, friendship, and bueaty. It is a fairytale and the ending isn't really suprising but it's nice.

Inkdeath

I just finished reading Inkdeath and itwas really good. I'll add more n the tab..

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Bella At Midnight

Bella At Midnight, by Diane Stanley has magic, mystery and romance. Now normally I dont like fairytales very much but this one is pretty good. The main character in the book is named Isabel. After her mother died in childbirth her father got rid of er. He was a knight. Iabel's aunt brought her to a kind farmer who took care of her. Isabel became best friends witht the price who lived at the castle nearby. The prince, Julian was taken acre of by Isable's mother. He always clled her Bella. Now for more than one hundred years a war had been going on. Finally when Bella was young the war ended, a tready of peace was signed. Julian left but before he did he betrayed his friend. He laughed with his friends about Bella, a average person, hurting her deaply. Before he could apoogize he was sent away by his father. When Bella came home her aunt was there. Her foster parents told her the truth about her mother and father. her father had finally called for Isabel. Isabel travles from her small village to the Kings city. When they arrive Isable's father just wants to see if she looks like her mother. His new wife is very unhappy. She has two daughters, one that is in the court and another that doesn't talk. She is sad beacuse of the death of her father. Isabel is thought of as hopeless and made sleep in the kitchen. Everyone else treats her like she's stupid and doesn't understand a word they say. Her thoughts are on her family and her happy life. After three years her eldest step-sister is very close the queen. She brings home news that the king is going to attack the rival palace during a huge wedding feast. Julian will be amongst the ones at the wedding. Isabel screams out and is locked in a closet. That night Isabel's step sister, Alice helps Isable. Alice gives Isable a ring. Her father gave it to her. You can look into the ring and see who you want to. Then Isabel goes to her Aunt's house. From there she starts the journey across the lands to save her friends. Masquradeing as the different people Isable is abl eto save her world. It is very iterestig ad it does have a happy ending.

-Kathryn

Inkheart

I just finished reading Inkheart by Cornelia Funke. I was really good. I also read the sequal, Inkspell. Tomorrow Ill get the last inslament, Inkdeath. Tomorrow evening I will probally add a tab and write summary. I really like the 1st and 2nd books, although the end of the second one is sad. They are pretty long though 500-700 pages each, so it might take a while to read them.

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