Archive for the ‘Children’s / YA’ Category
#13 – A Horse and His Boy
A Horse and His BoyC.S. LewisChildren’s Lit3/25/06 – 3/26/06My grade: 10 I read this a while ago and completely forgot about it. This is the third book in the Chronicles of Narnia, and it’s not really about Narnia at all, but rather about a boy and a horse from another country south of Narnia. (Has [...]
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#9 – The Magician’s Nephew
The Magician’s NephewC.S. LewisChildren’s LiteratureRead from 2/25/06 – 2/27/06My grade: 10 What a gorgeous creation story. It warms even my cold, hard, atheist heart. More than the other Chronicles of Narnia this is a fairy tale – heroes, villians, enchantments, magic rings, quests. I adore it, and Polly and Digory too. It evokes a weird [...]
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#41 – The Penultimate Peril
The Penultimate Peril Lemony Snicket Children’s Read 11/26/2005 – 12/2/2005 My Grade: 8 Not much happened in this story, oddly. Everyone came back, both good and evil. And there was more moral ambiguity, but there wasn’t the usual plot this time around. I’m so excited for the last book – there are so many loose [...]
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince J.K. Rowling Children’s (Ha!) / Fantasy Read from 8/19/05 – 9/1/05 My Grade: 9 I liked this one a bit more than #5. I, like Harry, was glad to finally get some goddamned backstory. And to see the Malfoy gun finally go off – what was that, five books [...]
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Molly Moon’s Incredible Book of Hypnotism Georgia Byng Young Adult Read from 6/26/05 – 6/27/05 My Grade: 8 My brother recommended this – he said it was one of his favorite books. It was pretty good, too. Molly uses her hypnotism powers to get ahead in life, and has all sorts of adventures. It was [...]
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