Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Each Little Bird That Sings

Deborah Wiles

This book is filled with hilarious moments of mystery and suspense. You will fall in love with the characters in this very well written book. This story is about a girl named Comfort and her dog Dismay. Comfort's family runs a funeral home so she was used to death but suddenly a lot of the people she knows die and her crazy cousin shows up, which could ruin the whole day for Comfort. She's also falling out of friendship with her best friend. Then she takes her cousin for a walk when suddenly there is a flash flood. Will anyone survive? Will her cousin calm down? Will she start a new relationship with her former friend? The answers are in the book with some delicious food recipes.

MT

The Secret Life of Bees - Book review

     The Secret Life of Bees
      Sue Monk Kidd

 It's a busy world we live in, and people are always bustling around, leaving one destination and heading for the next. However, whenever I find myself with a slot of free time, I like to fill it with reading.

     I usually stick to a small group of select books, but one day a couple of weeks ago, I decided to branch out and try a book called The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd. This is a book about a fourteen year old girl named Lily who lives with her father, T-Ray, in the deep south. When Lily was four, she accidentily shot her mother. Her father has resented her ever since. This book is set in 1964, where Lily and T-Ray farm peaches with an African American woman named Rosaleen. But when Rosaleen gets in trouble with the police, purely for being black, she and Lily decide to run away. They go to South Carolina, and find a farm run by three black women who manufacture honey. They stay for some time, and Lily learns many important lessons that will stay This is a lyrical novel about loss and hope that I would recommend to anyone wishing for a touching book to read again and again.

Skyler Mae 

Artemis Fowl

The Arctic Incident , Eoin Colfer

Artemis is looking for his father; he disappeared in the arctic somewhere on a business trip. Meanwhile, an underground fairy police force is having trouble when somebody is selling banned weapons to a goblin terrorist group. Artemis and the fairies will meet in an exciting fantasy and science fiction story. The story is in the second person so you see the entire setting and you know what all the characters are thinking. The writing is very detailed and you can picture what is happening very easily. After you start you can’t stop reading. This book is for adult and children alike.

I would recommend this book for anyone who likes adventure, action and a lot of humor. I hope you enjoy.


By the Octopus

Book Review: The Red Pyramid

by Rick Riordan

Amazon.com Reviews

In this 1st person fantasy novel, Carter Kane travels the world with his father, the brilliant Egyptologist Julius Kane. All he wants is a “normal” life, going to school and having friends. But he has exactly what his sister, Sadie, wants: time with their father. On the only day they are allowed to see each other, their father takes them to the British Museum, saying he will “set things right.” But when the Rosetta Stone explodes and their father releases a nasty Egyptian god, Carter and Sadie get sucked into an epic quest of loyalty and heroism.Soon, Sadie and Carter discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them--Set--has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs. With strong, relatable characters and constant action and humor, The Red Pyramid is a great choice to read.


By Pablo

The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig

This memoir about the author's life in Siberia during World War II is hard to put down. Esther and her family were arrested in Poland and exiled to Siberia where they remained until the war ended. Unprepared for the bitter climate and harsh realities of being forced to live in a land where they knew no one and couldn't speak the language, this is a story of survival and strength. This book will give you insight into an often untold story of World War II, its victims, and the hardships they endured.

Dawning Spring

Snowdrops tentatively poke their
shy heads through the
thin
layer of snow
that is melting quickly
to give way to the
vibrant green
grass

When the snowdrops
die
crocuses are glad to flourish
in the feeble sunlight
the last
of the snow

Skies clear
and daffodils grin at each other
inviting me in
but soon
they wither and droop

Sunlight blesses the horizon
kissing it
casting warm
light
on the
glittering dew
and unfurling leaves

Wisteria hangs
like grape bunches
snapdragons absorb
the light
lady slippers
prance on the
forest floor
using dainty little feet

The sun
sets
and the moon
rises
until tomorrow
when light
will shine
on the
wondrous
colors
of
dawning
spring.

Skyler Mae

Silence

In the dark,
the worst thing to hear,
out of everything else,
is silence.
It surrounds you, engulfing you,
and shows you what waits,
in silence,
to pounce on you
and muffle your scream.
- Doctor P.W. DDS