Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling shared by taamr

The book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets depicts Harry Potter (a boy who lived a magical curse driven by the powerful sorcerer, Voldemort) once again, in his second year at Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The story starts off illustrating Harry at his despicable, loathed Aunt’s and Uncle’s house (his temporary guardians). After accidentally humiliating his uncle, Harry gets locked up in his room with no way to escape. Yet luckily, he is rescued by none other than his best friend, Ronald Weasley in a flying car. At Ron’s house, Harry is shown a new way of transportation and is then introduced to a far unusually cocky man named, Gilderoy Lockhart. When it is finally time to board the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Ron miss the train. However, Harry and Ron do make it to Hogwarts via flying car, but get into far more trouble than expected. When it is time for classes to be in session, Harry learns that the unusually cocky man that he met was his new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher. After a few weeks, when Harry and Ron are in detention for the flying car incident, Harry starts to hear strange voices inside the walls of Hogwarts. He then finds a petrified cat, and large words written in blood saying, “the chamber of secrets has been opened, enemies of the heir beware.” Now, Harry, Ron, and Hermione (another good friend of Harry’s), set out to figure out more regarding the Chamber of Secrets. After months of judgment, all three find out that the Chamber of Secrets was a place in Hogwarts where a powerful wizard, Salazar Slytherin, had built a chamber where he kept a monstrous creature in his custody. At one point, Harry finds a diary in the girl’s bathroom; he discovers that the diary had belonged to someone named Tom M. Riddle and that it has unusual and bizarre powers. Powers such as, when Harry had written, “Hello, my name is Harry Potter,” it responded, “Hello Harry, my name is Tom Marvolo Riddle.” Amazed, Harry started to ask questions about the Chamber of Secrets. The diary told him that he, Tom Riddle, had seen Hagrid, his close friend, open the Chamber of Secrets 50 years ago, and set a monstrous animal into the castle. A few days following this event, Harry and Ron ascend off to Hagrid’s and discover that he has to go to Azkaban (Wizard Prison). Nevertheless, before leaving, Hagrid does tell them this, “Follow the spiders.” Aching to solve this puzzle, Harry and Ron set off to follow the spiders; however, they are discontinued to learn that their dear friend, Hermione Granger was petrified. They still continue though, for they know that this was what Hermione had wanted them to do. Several nights later, Harry and Ron sneak into the Forbidden Forest to follow the spiders. They discover the monster that killed the girl fifty years before was not a spider. They also discover that a girl's body was found in a bathroom the night the real monster attacked, and that Hagrid is innocent. Yet, seconds later, the boys almost get killed by a colony of giant spiders. As they escape, Harry and Ron decide their friend Moaning Myrtle from the bathroom must have been the girl killed by the monster. When Harry and Ron go to meet Hermione in the Hospital, Harry finds a crumpled up old paper inside her hand. It had described a snake called a basilisk. They finally deduce that the Chamber monster is a basilisk. Before the boys act on their knowledge, the teachers announce that Ginny Weasley (Ron’s little sister) has been taken into the chamber. Harry and Ron find out that the Chamber entrance was in the bathroom itself where their friend Moaning Myrtle was killed. While Ron waited, Harry enters the Chamber of Secrets to encounter Ginny Weasley’s still body and Tom Riddle (the man from the diary). To Harry’s surprise, Tom turns out to be a younger version of Voldemort, who has been enchanting Ginny through his diary. Harry calls for help from Dumbledore and suddenly, A phoenix and a magic hat arrive. Tom finally summons the basilisk; yet, the hat produces a sword, which Harry uses to kill the giant snake. Harry sticks a basilisk’s fang through the diary, destroying Tom and awakes Ginny. Harry explains his adventure to Dumbledore, and once again, all is well in the castle as the students leave for their summer vacations.

Someone Named Eva by Joan M. Wolf shared by acgab by

This book is about an 11 year old girl named Malidia and her village being taken to a camp. The men and women were separated, the women were sent to a school to be trained as a German, the girls all had blonde hair and light colored eyes. As of the men they were sent else where to be killed. Malidia was trying to remember her real identity as time went on. She was soon adopted by a German family. Eva was well treated and became close to her new family. Malidia/Eva found out that her real mother was alive and went out looking for her. She soon found out her real identity. Eva met her mom at Prague. She also found put that her father and her close friend tezerie was killed. As the story ends malidia lived with her mother in Prague.

Wild Card by Tiki and Ronde Barber shared by paris

Tiki and Ronde are having a great year on their football team, the Hidden Valley Eagles. But disaster strikes when their star kicker, Adam, is thrown off the team for academic restrictions. Without their star kicker, the Eagles have to go for two-point conversations, which won't be good, because other teams can stop it easily. Tiki has to be the replacement kicker, which he doesn't really like. So, Tiki and Ronde decide to help Adam get better with his studies. Adam needs to ace both of his make-up tests to go back to the team. Adam aces both tests and is allowed back on the team. He then nails a game-winning field goal to lead the Eagles back into the playoffs.

The 39 Clues Book 1: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan shared by jeril

I enjoyed being in the adventure with Amy and Dan in The 39 Clues Book 1: The Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan. It is mostly about how Amy and Dan’s grandmother, Grace Cahill, left certain Cahills an assignment or they could collect $1,000,000 from her will. Amy and Dan travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Paris, France to find small clues that Benjamin Franklin wrote to lead to the next big clue. While there, Amy and Dan encounter relatives that make it hard to find the clues. This book is a fun way to learn about historical famous people and places.

39 Clues Book 3: The Sword Thief by Peter Lerangis shared by jeril

I really enjoyed the 39 Clues Book 3: The Sword Thief by Peter Lerangis. There were some challenges in finding the clues because of their relatives and it was exciting. I liked how they started befriending their uncle, Alistair. In fact that's the main part of the story. The reason they start liking him is because he saved their lives and helps them. They start working together as a team. We learn that their Uncle Alistair promised Amy and Dan's parents that he would keep the kids safe. I enjoyed the humorous comments of the characters.

The Wish List by Eoin Colfer shared by chkev

Belch and Meg Finn, her partner, attempt robbery from an old man. When he came down because of all the noise, Belch's dog bit him. Meg didn't want to kill the old man, so she made Belch call him off. After that, Belch needed to preserve his pride after a girl threatened him. His dog chased her all the way until she backed into an ally with gas tanks, and Belch caught up. after a brief conversation, he shot the gas tanks and killed both of them. Meg saw her body as she floated out of it as a spirit. Soon, she floated into a tunnel, met Belch who melded with his dog, and they separated at the end. Belch went down and Meg crashed into the Pearlies wall. She found her way into Earth and a mite gave her two rocks with spiritual residue. Belch was given a personal help hologram and was sent to stop Meg from helping the person she harmed so she would enter Satan's realm. Meg found herself in a spirit form and in Lowrie's (the old man's) house. She learned she could merge with his physical body for a while and control it with increased stamina. What would normally kill Lowrie would not now. Lowrie told her she must of been sent back for a reason, so he gave her a list of things to help him do that he regrets not doing. The first item was to kiss his friend from a long time ago. They succeeded even though Belch tried to kill Lowrie, the security guard that had to be hypnotized, and the fact the TV camera was still running. Belch was sent back to Satan after a wave of pure goodness swept him away. Second, Lowrie wanted to kick a soccer ball in Croke Park. He had to climb a giant fence but luckily Meg was there to take over and get across. Unfortunately, they were found by a security guard. When he found out Lowrie was the old person from the TV, he asked for the truth on why. They made up a quick lie and totally fooled him into getting them a soccer ball. They kicked it and left for the third task: to punch someone named Ball. When in his cottage, Lowrie was surprised when Ball apologized for making Lowrie call Ball "sir". After leaving, Meg asked if she could have that wish. She wanted to punch someone named Franco for punching her mom and stealing and selling her ring. Unfortunately, Belch already sucked the life juices out of him, so Meg got mad and threw a vase at her. the vase happened to hold her mom's ashes, and since ashes are sacred, demons are allergic. That made Belch stuck in a dying body. The last task was to spit over the cliffs of moher. it was inspired by a poem, so they drove there to spit. Unfortunately, there was a storm so it was hard to climb. Belch tracked her down and almost killed them, but ran out of energy and was back with Satan. Meg gave one rock to Franco and one to Lowrie. With that, she went to Heaven.

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson shared by soand

The book, Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson starts out when a 14 year old girl named Mattie lived and worked with her diligent mom in the flourishing coffeehouse without her father, because of a broken neck. So her grandfather was replaced to help serve the coffeehouse. When the days pass by slowly, the Yellow Fever spreads across Philadelphia and people start dying everywhere, including Mattie's mom and her friend, Polly. Mattie was forced to follow her grandfather to a better place to live. When her grandfather caught the fever, they were dragged off the wagon on a deserted area far off from their coffeehouse. Meanwhile, Mattie was carried into a makeshift hospital by her grandfather for a few weeks. When Mattie and her grandfather returs home, she found the coffeehouse robbed by thieves and desperately helps her grandfather from getting killed by them, so she grabbed the sword from him and killed one of the thieves. Unfortunately, he was killed. One day, Mattie found a poor little girl named Nell on her way to home and took care of her the whole time. When the winter season came, the fever was wiped out and the business was back to normal. Finally, Mattie found her frail mother with the Lundington farmers and they lived happily ever after. I recommend this book to people who like adventure books.