The Star of Kazan

I am really enjoying this book. I have read it before but the plot is so wide and every thing that happens is so unexpected that I feel the urge to read this book over and over again. All of the characters have an interesting backstory, especially the Eggharts great aunt, her life was so romantic and filled with performing. If you want an unusual backstory then you should try reading my review on A Wrinkle In Time. This book  is a bit like a growing tree, all the little problems are the roots, and the leaves and trunk are formed by the build up, climax and resolution. The story begins when Ellie and Sigrid climb up a mountain on their day off from working with some  peculiar but interesting professors. Ellie goes into a church to rest her feet but instead finds a baby, Annika. Annika is brought back to the professors home and well cared for. When Annika’s long lost mother comes, Annika is led from one different life to another and another. I highly reccomend this book for any one above the age of seven. This book can make you feel lots of different emotions, so be sure not to keep to much confidence in one character, because the next moment you could be hating him or her! If you want to read more Eva Ibbotson books, then Journey To The River Sea or The Dragonfly Pool are really amazing.

The Mighty Miss Malone

This is about a family with two children and two parents. Jimmie is the oldest of the two kids, and he hasn’t been growing for a long time. Deza Malone, Jimmie’s younger sister is very intelligent but has incredibly bad problems with her teeth, but as the Great Depression has hit Gary, where  the Malones live, neither of  the parents can afford to get a doctor or dentist appointment. On Deza’s birthday Jimmie brings her a crisp, fresh, crunchy, large apple pie. But, his parents guess that he has stolen it. When the father goes on a fishing trip to Lake Michigan, he comes out of the hospital with stitches and a lisp, plus his front teeth are knocked out. This book has a lot of facts like; The Grand Rapids is geogically located 100 miles northeast of Gary. Or that Flint is geogically located sixty miles northwest of Detroit. Did you know that Saignaw is geogically located twenty miles north of Flint. A praise in this book that I really liked is ”Hoping is such hard work. It tires you out and you never seem to get any kind of reward. Hoping feels like you are a balloon with a pinhole slowly leaking  air.” This book is very enjoyable and I hope you get as much out  of it as I did.

A Wrinkle in Time (Puffin Modern Classics)

This bundle of words is about a group of children, two of which have to rescue their father from the fifth hemisphere( the fifth hemisphere is up.) There is a monster which is named It. YES, its name is It! It hypnotises you into doing exactly the same thing as everyone else, in unison. This is quite an original book, with the normal worries about school, and the ones about monsters, all colliding and crashing into each other. The characters, Mrs Who, Mrs Whatsit and Mrs Which, especially Mrs Whatsit are all exeedingly funny and unusual. I think Charles Wallace, the youngest of the three children is my favourite. He is so young but understanding. I think the author could have added a bit more description of fear in. I LOVED how the characters were so vivid and unusual

The Haunting of Charity Delafield

This is about a girl called Charity who is shut into the grim confinement of her father’s house. When Charity stumbles into the forbidden west wing, she finds her dead mother’s diary and a book of fairy tales.  She lives the fairy tales, which I found pretty extraordinary. When Charity tries to read the words in the diary, they become dust and drift away. With the help of a chimney sweep’s boy, Silas, he and Charity find the words from the diary up a chimney. Soon Charity and Silas uncover the mystery of where Charity’s mother, Ariella, is hidden in the immense house. This is a both funny and exciting book, bound to superglue your eyes to its pages.