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Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, Read more

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There are maybe... no, wait, I'm wrong.
There is nothing better than this, my all time favorite book. With great characters, and a wonderful plot, there is very little more a good reader could want. It has emotion, action, and still maintains great writing. You have a main character who is easy to fall in love with, for all her faults, and her other half, the other main character, who you also come to love with all your heart. The story keeps moving, and doesn't get boring for a second, because even in the less interesting parts, it's not boring, just less interesting than the brilliant other parts. The story itself is great and amazing, and every other synonym.
Interesting storyline
Fantasy not being my favorite, I found this one very good.I listened to it on audio CD, and it is read by a whole cast, not just one person doing different voices.A young girl is thrust into a harrowing adventure that she never expected.She lives in a world where each human has a demon, and civilization seems to be run by the "church".This story is very tense and exciting, going from one unexpected incident to the next with a very flowing narrative.

This's been my favorite book for 8 years
If you're an easily offended religious fanatic who's always looking for the vaguest insult or contradiction to your beliefs... I guess you shouldn't read this. (Actually, you could probably read this one and just skip the sequels.)
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The Wide Window
In the Series of Unfortunate Events isn't ahappily ever after kind of story. There are three regular children:
The Wide Window--by Sophie Kendrick
Although I am sometimes annoyed by Lemony Snicket's style of beating around the bush before he gets to the story, I enjoyed the third book in the series as much as I did the other two. I like the adventure, mystery, and sometimes down-right scariness of the book and I love all of the characters, especially Sunny. I think she has such a funny personality. Even though the whole book is just one bad thing after another happening to the poor children, I am still excited to read the next book. I hope this series never ends until something good finally happens to the Baudelaire orphans!

The most terrible story I've ever read--five stars,
This is an aweful story--you should read it, absolutely.
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Warriors Series
The Warriors series is the best series in the world! It's suspenseful and full of action. After each chapter is a new problem to think of. Betrayal, romance, action, and humor are found throughout the book. In the Warriors: The Darkest Hour, Bluestar is dead and Firestar is now leader of ThunderClan and with Tigerstar leader of ShadowClan, there's going to be problems. Tigerstar has formed with RiverClan to create TigerClan. A new threat grows in the forest though, stronger than TigerClan.
Warriors By Erin Hunter
Warriors
Bloodwill rule the forest...
Bluestar has been killed, So Fireheart has become leader of Thunderclan. When he is receiving nine lives from Starclan (like heaven), Dead Bluestar tell that four will two, Tiger and lion will battle, and blood will rule the forest. Mean while Tigerstar want more power so he hires Bloodclan to attack Thunderclan. But Bloodclan kills Tigerstar and then attacks Thunderclan. There is a raging battle and you have to read the book to figure out who wins! I think it is the best of the six because it has suspense and action.
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DON'T READ IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DON'T READ THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DON'T LIKE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
a great book
MAGIC TREE HOUSE OLYMPICS
I loved it!
The last Magic Tree House that I read was Hour of the Olympics.I liked it because it had a lot of interesting facts about the early olympics.I thought it was funny that some people wore armor when they ran in races! I suggest that you read this book! ... Read more

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Clash of the Sky Galleons
Stewart and Riddell can do no wrong. This book is just as exciting and involving as their previous "Edge Chronicle" series. The cliff-hanging parts are always nail-biting and yet intelligent without causing any eye-rolling effects. No matter how outrageous ,they are always believable. By now we have come to know and love some of the characters. I think this is the hall-mark of a truly GOOD book- that you worry about non-existent people and places. At 422 pages this book is not long enough for me. I hope these two pair up for a long time yet to come. ... Read more

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We love it!
This is the first time my 7yr old daughter and I have read any of the American Girl books and we love them. The Felicity series has been a great way for me to introduce history and how young girls lived in the early years of America. It has adventure, family life and lessons.I find it sweet and my daughter always wants to see what's going to happen next. With all the TV and gadgets surrounding our children today, I would definetly recommended this series.

My spirit is Felicity!
Oh, how I love these books! I could die reading them! I can't wait until her movie comes out on 11-29 at 6:00 on the WB! We have so much in common. I have a pen-pal in Williamsburg and I sent her this book set. It's absoluotly glorious.I can NOT get enough and I am in the American Girls Club! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another reader
I haven't read all of the series, my knowledge limits to Felicity, Kirsten, Molly, and especially Samantha, but I would have to give the American Girls series five stars.
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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

The Darkest Hour
The middle novel of the Rings trilogy opens with the tragic (though decidedly heroic) death of a second member of the Company, and sees the small band that stands in opposition to Sauron entering its darkest hour. Gandalf, the Company's leader, has at the end of the last novel, fallen in combat with the dreaded balrog; Bormoir has been slain at the start of this book, in desperate battle with a group of orks; the Company is diminished by losses, its members scattered, and Aragorn feels himself a failure in the face of the backsets that have been delivered upon him and his comrades. Where many might abandon a mission that surely seems lost, Aragorn, Gimli, and Legolas continue on in pursuit of the hobbits Merry and Pippin, captured by Orks in service to the traitorous wizard Saruman, while Frodo and Sam push on into the foul land of Mordor, home of the Dark Lord and location of the volcanic Mt. Doom, into whose fires the pair intend to cast the One Ring, which has brought so much misery onto Middle Earth. In this oft-disrespected second volume, a reader comes to understand the full depth of Saruman's enslavement by Sauron, recoils as Frodo allows the despicable Smeagol to travel along on his journey, comes to meet the ancient ents, and delves full-force into the battle of Helm's Deep, a conflict which stands to decide nothing less than the fate of the world.

Also the Best!!
As with the Fellowship, this is a really terrific book.Mr. Inglis has the perfect voice for these readings (referring to the whole series).Highly recommend to other fans. ... Read more

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Twisting book that can probbably hurt the mind
This book was very interesting, however it had too many things going on at once. It was hard for me to follow. It had a lot of action, but it was confusing and hard to follow. I like the red king series, but this was the worst of the five. Plus, it was a total Harry Potter wannabe. If you liked this book, the GREAT! Go pick up a harry potter book instead. You'll like it 10x as much. Trust me.

Through The Years
The problems at Bloor Academy intensify for young Charlie Bone in this second adventure.Poor Henry Yewbeam, actually Charlie's great-granduncle, goes missing from the year 1916 and turns up in the present.Charlie discovers his distant relative and the powerful Time Twister that allowed him to make his incredible journey.Unfortunately, it doesn't take long before Manfred Bloor, his father, and grandfather pick up the trail.Things get very complicated as Charlie keeps losing Henry while trying to figure out the riddle of the Time Twister.
Great Adventure!
This book by Jenny Nimmo is a very interesting one.It takes place in the Bloor's Academy, which is for talented boys like Henry and Charlie Bone.Henry gets time twisted by the magic marble of his cousin Zeke and appears more than ninety years later in the Academy.Zeke who is the director of the Academy ones to kill him because Henry was always better than him.Henry appears as he left in the past (14 years old) and Zeke is old.Charlie Bone tries to help Henry get back to the time he came from and with the help of his friends and his magic, he takes Henry back to his brother James.Once you start reading this book you can stop.Really good book. ... Read more

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To be continued...
Pike continues to wow me with this series, and I look forward to reading more of his future novels. The only thing that upsets me is that I still want him to return to his young adult storytelling...200-pages of solid, fast-paced action. The 'Alosha' series, like his adult novels, could be great if more to the point. Instead, we are settling for just "good". I have suggested a title change at Amazon.com because 'Trilogy' is wrong. Book 4 is on the way. ... Read more

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Dinosaurs Before Dark
This book is awsome.This story is about an 8 year old name Jack and his 7 year old sister name Annie and they found a treehouse in the forest.They found out the treehouse was magic.They open a book and look at a picture and wish to go there.

Great for kids!
My daughter loves this book.She has read it about 10 times.Mary Pope Osborne has done a great job of jogging kids imagination, while keeping the material appropriate for young readers!

Great Way to Introduce World History to Your Kindergartner!
Our child was not satisfied with the Usborne Book "Living Long Ago" which ispart of our history homeschooling curriculum. To be quite honest neither was I. The book was dull in comparison to most Usborne books. I began to search for an alternative which would be fun while stimulating her interest in world history. At this point she was fascinated with cavemen and dinosaurs. I literally stumbled onto the Magic Tree House books at our library. I had heard of them but did not know what they were about. After looking at the series I decided this would be a fun way of studying world history, so I checked out "Dinosaurs Before Dark". The book was the hit of our homeschooling year! We decided to utilize the Magic Tree House website and Research Guides to complete our world history curriculum. This book series would make a fantastic television series like "The Magic School Bus". We have utilized other books written by Mary Pope Osborne in our homeschool and have enjoyed reading them. ... Read more

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Still my favorite series.
My first thought after I finished this series was "why did I wait so long before getting my hands on these books?"
True Fantasy!!
How can one describe these books?? They are some of the greatest fantasy I have ever seen (and I read a lot!).The scenes of Death...in the Old Kingdom...especially the characters of Mogget and the Disreputable Dog in _Lirael_ and _Abhorsen_ are all fantastic and imaginative.Words cannot describe it.
Lovely and strong
This trilogy is satisfying and surprising in the strength of its female characters while never losing sight of a good story.Fantasy at its finest...you get parallel worlds, magic, mundanity, and misunderstanding, but not to comic effect, rather to catastrophic endings.
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The Great Brain
The Great Brain details the good-natured profiteering of Tom D. Fitzgerald, the middle of three brothers growing up in 1890s Utah.Tom's younger brother J.D., the reader spends the entire book gleefully at Tom's side, rooting for him, the prototypical sympathetic scoundrel, as he threads his way in and out of dozens of unlikely schemes. The Great Brain, Tom D. Fitzgerald, is a very smart, but also very greedy boy, who finds all kinds of ways to make a penny (back when a penny was worth something). The chapters mostly involve him trying to con people out of their money OR trying to make money from schemes. Yet he also uses that great brain to solve problems for others kids, such as Andy who thinks he is so plump useless without his lost leg that he tries to kill himself or the Jenson kids who got lost in the Skeleton Caves.. I recommend this book to kids who enjoy reading. Most kids will find out that they will really like this book.

Awesome Books
Wow, everyone keeps talking about how educational they were. I read them when I was a kid, and If I had known how educational they were when I was a kid, I wouldn't have devoured every single one of them with relish. I read a lot when I was a kid, and these books are the ones that stand out, above all as the best I read. Your kids will absolutely love them, and so will you. But let's keep this educational stuff a little hushed up.

A Book of Scheming for some money for a little boy Tom
I like animals a lot and there were animals in here.If you are looking for a good book this is it! There are also many funny and exciting moments. Readers of all ages will enjoy this book!!
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The year is 1906, the place is San Francisco. Annie and her brother,Jack, have just traveled here in their magic tree house, on a mission fromMorgan le Fay, the mysterious magical librarian from King Arthur's time. In aneffort to save Camelot, the children have already found three special kinds ofwriting for Morgan's library: something to follow (Read more

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Earthquake in the early morning
I like this book because it is interesting.
On Target
This is an educational fiction book.It's about the earthquake in California in 1906.Jack and Annie need to save Camelot.They are destined to find the fourth special kind of writing to put in their collection of things to cheer up the king of Camelot.If you have a 1st-3rd grade reader, this book is on target for them.These books come in amusing fiction and in enlightening research guides.

Earthquake in the Early Morning
Have you ever been in an earthquake?That's what happens in Earthquake in the Early Morning by Mary Pope Osborne.The book is about Jack and Annie going to San Francisco but there was an earthquake!I like this book because it has a lot of adventure.My favorite part is when the earthquake starts.Find out what happens to Jack and Annie. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Action & Adventure - General    2. California    3. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction    4. Children: Grades 3-4    5. Earthquakes    6. Fiction    7. Juvenile Fiction    8. Nature & the Natural World - General    9. Osborne, Mary Pope    10. Readers - Beginner    11. San Francisco    12. Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Magic    13. Time travel    14. Juvenile Fiction / Nature & the Natural World   

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Awesome book!
This book is AWESOME! It's exciting and detailed to the point where you are swept away in it. It's really easy to imagine the scene which you are reading. It's AWESOME!

Another great Ga'hoole book
My son and I have really enjoyed the whole Guardians of Ga'hoole series. This book is no exception.The story is well written and holds your attention quite well.We have read all of the series at bedtime and 3-4 chapters a night never seems like enough. We both always want more.
Great addition to the Ga'hoole series!
If you like the Guardiens of Ga'hoole series then you'll love this. Unlike the other series, now it talks about this one legend of this one spotted owl, Grank. He seems to have fire like powers such as.... when he looks at fire he has visions and so. This is so a must read and I can't wait to get the next book too! ... Read more

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"This little dog is under a spell and needs your help. To free him,you must be given four special things:Read more

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read this one.
no one shuld read this book becuse I don`t like it so no one shuld. Do you want to know why? Becuse I read ALL the rest of them and they were good sooo if you want to read one don`t read this one.

A Really Good Book
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Wonderfully Funny!
I never did read any Nate the Great growing up...and what a shame. It's amazing that Sharmat can do so very much in terms of story and humor with so few words. It's great for beginner readers and uproariously funny as a read aloud story (especially if you can do the P.I. voice-over effect). This initial installment (I believe there are over 20 in this series) finds Nate the Great on hire for his friend Annie who has lost a favorite picture of her dog Fang. Nate is confidant that he can find the missing painting and sets out to systematically follow all the leads he's been given. He questions suspects and eventually tracks down the culprit, while enjoying meal after meal and snack after snack of, what else, but pancakes (his favorite food, of course).
The Best Book in the World
This is a good book for Halloween because it takes place on Halloween.It is really, really, really funny.Nate thought his dog was a ghost and that made me laugh. It was my favorite Nate the Great book.It was the funniest book I ever read.

Nate the Great is, well, GREAT!
With charming illustrations and a clever case-cracking hero, early readers will love to read this book as well as the others in the Nate the Great series.Nate has a kid's dream "job" of being the neighborhood detective, and he is surrounded by quirky companions whose cases he solves.These witty stories with a vintage originality will have kids reaching for the next one . . . and the next. . . ... Read more

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Great story
The book starts right where Midnight ended- the questing cats are now heading back home, wondering as they go how they will break it to their clans that they must leave the forest that they have lived in for generations. They come upon a Tribe of wildcats in the mountains- cats with different anscestors and different lifestyles, yet Stormfur feels strangely at home with them.... This is a great book for children and cat lovers like myself.For more cats stories reach for Why Some Cats are Rascals by B. Nowiki.

Twoleg villians and tragedy...
The series just keeps on delivering. The 'evil' Twolegs are destroying the forest, and the six cats are still on their quest.
The worst of the Warriors series.
Any person who plays RPGs knows what a Mary-Sue is. Essentially, it is a character that is too perfect, cliche, and dominates the plot. When I read this book, I saw that many of the characters were Mary-Sues. This immediately turned me off from the book. In other Warriors books, the plots were more realistic, and based on real cat behavior. I enjoyed this aspect of the series. However, in this book, there is a lot more typical fantasy, and not nearly enough realism. It's just not a convincing book. ... Read more

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What would you do if you found yourself trapped in a runaway caravan hurtling down a precipitous mountain slope? Fourteen-year-old Violet, the oldest orphan of the three Baudelaires, decides to try to slow the velocity of the caravan with a drag-chute invention involving a viscous combination of blackstrap molasses, maple syrup, maraschino liqueur, peanut butter, etc. If plummeting to their death weren't scary enough, Violet and her brother Klaus have been separated from Sunny, their baby sister who is in a car headed in the opposite direction up the mountain with the "facinorous" Count Olaf, his "villainous and stylish" girlfriend Esmé Squalor, and their creepy sidekicks. Do Violet and Klaus find Sunny on the mountain? How will they survive the treacherous, snow-covered peaks with not much more than a ukulele and a bread knife, especially in the face of the "organized, ill-tempered" snow gnats? Will they finally unearth the mystery of the V.F.D.?Will they find out if one of their parents is alive after all? The suspense! As ever, the Baudelaires' unfolding tale of woe is sprinkled with Lemony Snicket's ridiculous, hilarious observations such as "Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like." The tenth book in The Series of Unfortunate Events takes readers through the Mortmain Mountains to the churning waters of the Stricken Stream with all the coexistent horror and silliness a Snicket fan could hope for along the way. (Ages 9 and older) Read more

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up the down mountain
The Slippery Slope is the tenth volume in A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. Having disguised themselves as Carnival Freaks and pretending to join Count Olaf's gang in order to get to the VFD headquarters, the Baudelaire Orphans have been discovered by Count Olaf and while Sunny was kidnapped, Klaus and Violet or locked in a trailer and are rolling backwards down a mountain road with no control over the trailer. This is where we begin The Slippery Slope. The elder orphans struggle to find a way to save themselves and then make their way back up the mountain to the secret headquarters, and Sunny struggles to find an opportunity to escape to find her siblings or to learn more about the scheme of Count Olaf.
I'm impressed
Best of the series so far. Alternating the action between the two older siblings in one chapter and Sunny in the next really worked for me.

I'm in the middle.
I'm in the middle of this book, and I can't put it down. It is so good. It makes me laugh out loud and gasp too when I learn about new things. I love all of these books. ... Read more

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Family Entertainment
This collection of "Little House and the Prarie" episodes from the first season has brought back many happy childhood memories for me. Its like stepping back to atime when old fashioned values were appreciated.I am thrilled to be able to share this quality enterainment with my young children.Every episode teaches a lesson in kindness, love and understanding.The locations are so beautiful and and life so simple then.My four year old loves it now, especially the episodes where Nelly Olsen gets whats coming to her!If you're worried aboutmodern televisions negative influence in your childs behavior take control, go out and buy this.You will be very glad you did

Beautiful Illlustrations and Colors but...
in this set, which I gave to my daughter for Christmas, when she unwrapped it, the box was broken on two edges.We are reading book #3 and the pages have begun falling out.The quality of the set is the problem.The stories are wonderful.

A Classic, yet still exceedingly timely, collection
I do not remember the first time I real all the Laura books.They have, however, been on my list of comfort reading ever since.Was it because it was so easy to identify with her sibling rivalry in the first couple books, or because of the vivid descriptions that brought life in America over 100 years ago into my imagination, or because the chapters, so good for bedtime reading, encapsulated each vignette into a cohesive whole?It's hard to say exactly what it was about these stories, but Mrs. Wilder's voice creates a window into our country's past that no child should miss out upon.Where else would they find such a narrator of pioneer western America?Let alone one that is so easy to identify with.This collection is beautifully colored (the illustrations have always been wonderfully evocative) and the pages are a tad thicker than normal and shiny and feel good in the hand. ... Read more

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