Posts Tagged ‘ series ’
Review: A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
A Swiftly Turning Planet, the third book published in Madeleine L’Engle’s Time quintet (apparently, Many Waters takes place in time between A Wind in the Door and A Swiftly Turning Planet, but wasn’t published until later) occurs about nine years after A Wind in the Door. Meg is now married to Calvin and pregnant;…
Review: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
Set about a year after A Wrinkle in Time, A Wind In the Door follows Meg Murry and Calvin O’Keefe on a quest to save Meg’s brother, Charles Wallace. Charles Wallace has a medical condition that the medical field hasn’t yet learned how to treat. In the second novel of Madeleine L’Engle’s Time quintet,…
Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Meg Murry’s story begins one dark and stormy night with a knock at the door. Meg’s father has been gone for some time and nobody knows where he has gone. It’s up to Meg, her brother Charles Wallace and their friend Calvin O’Keefe to find Mr. Murry and bring him home. With a little…
Review: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Format: Hardcover Published on: March 27 2007 Published by: Margaret K. McElderry Books Pages: 485 ISBN: 1416914285 Goodreads Fifteen-year-old Clarissa “Clary” Fray has spent her entire life in the mundane world – the world of ordinary humans. When she witnesses a murder at a night club she frequents, she is introduced to the world…
Review: A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Format: Paperback Published on: March 22nd 2005 (first published December 9th 2003) Published by: Delacorte Books for Young Readers Pages: 416 ISBN: 0689875355 Goodreads After her mother’s death, Gemma Doyle is sent to the Spence Academy, an elite finishing school for girls in Victorian era London. At Spence, Gemma is initially ostracized but eventually…
Review: Boys That Bite by Marianne Mancusi
Format: Paperback Published in: April 2006 Published by: Berkley Jam Pages: 262 Goodreads Identical twins Sunshine (Sunny) and Rayne McDonald couldn’t be any more different: Sunny is the tank top, flip flop wearing type who plays field hockey and Rayne is the Goth who wants to be a vampire. One night, Rayne drags Sunny…
Review: Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception by Maggie Stiefvater
Format: Paperback Published in: 2008 Published by: Flux Pages: 325 Goodreads A talented harp player, 16-year-old Deirdre Monaghan meets Luke Dillion at a music competition. Luke is an incredibly mysterious boy whom Deirdre finds herself drawn to. That’s when the trouble in Lament: The Faerie Queen’s Deception starts: Deirdre learns that she’s a clover…
