Showing posts with label Book Review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book Review. Show all posts

Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Disappearing Stranger

                                      
The Disappearing Stranger (Adventures of the Northwoods, Book 1)
Hello bloggers!! Here is the book that you guys chose for the book poll, and there will be another  I hope that you enjoy this review!
This story begins in Minneapolis in 1906 with a twelve-year-old girl named, Kate O'Connell and her Swedish, widowed mother. After her Irish father is killed in a construction accident one year before, she starts to notice that her mother was very lonely. So she goes to their paster, and asks him to help her pray that her mother will find another husband... but God gave her what she least expected!
A few days later, the preacher came to Kate's home and said that God had answered her prayers. The preacher put a add in the paper for Kate's mother, but Kate's mother doesn't know. He received an answer from a Swedish man, Mr. Nordstrom, who lives on a farm in the wilderness of  Wisconsin. He is also looking for a wife for his three young children. Anders, who is 12, Lars, who is 9,and Tina, who is 4. Kate has always wanted a little sister, she wanders if two brothers will be too much for her! Kate's mother and Mr. Nordstrom decided that the best thing to do for their families was to get married. So Kate and her mother move to Wisconsin with Kate's new family, and there a lot of mishaps that happen in the first few days that are just hilarious!  Kate starts to wander if her new brother, Anders hates her.
But on her first day of school she was kind of lost in the woods, and she saw this mysterious man that she notices is burying something in the ground. Who is this strange man, and what was he putting in the ground? Kate intends to find out!
Let me know what you think of the book and this review!! :)
                                           Sincerely,
                                        ~Mallory~

Friday, January 6, 2012

The Magian's Nephew

OK!!!!  This has to be one of my favorite books of the Narnia series, and I can't wait for the movie!!!!   I hope you guys enjoy this review!!!!  : - )

    The Magician's Nephew is about a young boy Digory Kirke, who is growing up in London with his sickly mother.  They live with Digory's uncle, Andrew Ketterley, and his sister, Letty, while Digory's father is in India for business. 
    One day, Digory met a little girl named Polly Plummer,  that lived next to him, and they became great friends.  Polly tells Digory that she had found a door to the rafters in the terraced houses in their neighbourhood. Since school was out for the summer, they decided to explore the attics of the joint houses, but they go through the wrong door,and ends up in Uncle Andrew's study!!!!!  [ That's not good!!!: - ) ]
  Uncle Andrew shows them these four rings, and he tempts Polly to touch the yellow ring and she vanishes!  Then he explains to Digory how he had invented the rings that could take you from world to world.  He then hands Digory the other three rings, one yellow and two green.
  Digory is transformed from his home to a strange woodland, with little pools everywhere. He found Polly, and they decided to visit another world before going home to London, so they jump into a nearby pool.   And now the adventure REALLY begins...

Read the book and let me know what you think!!!   Hope you enjoy!!!!

                                                   Sincerely,
                                                     ~ Mallory~