"Enthusiasm" by Polly Schulman

Enthusiasm is the perfect book for Pride and Prejudice fans! The book is about a girl, named Ashleigh, who is an enthusiast (person who changes interests faster then the weather). Her best friend introduces her to the world of Elizabeth Bennett and Ashleigh gets hooked. When Ashleigh decides to find their soul mates, will it go wrong or will Ashleigh and her friend find their “Prince Charming”. This book is filled with romance, friendship friction, and unwanted beaus as well as a mystery.

I really enjoyed this book and I think that any girl who reads it can’t help but identify with one of the main characters. This book would attract girl readers and any fans of romance or romantic mysteries. Pride and Prejudice fans will love this modern spin-off of the classic.

The author was very creative with her characters and also with just making this book into a modern fairytale, which ties in with Pride and Prejudice. There are many twists in the plot that keep you interested and there’s also a nice ending.

"Freak the Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick

The main characters are Maxwell Kane, a huge but learning- disabled kid and his friend Kevin, nicknamed "Freak", who is physically crippled but very intelligent. They meet each other when they are still kids in a day care center, and after a long time they met each other again when freak moves in behind and becomes his neighbor.

This book has easy vocabulary, and the content is awesome. I think an adventure over will like to read this book because it is an adventure kind of fiction. The author clearly describes Max’s mind about things he sees, and his emotional side.

Chiui

"Fire Star" by Chris D’Lacey

In the third book of The Fire Within series, David rain travels to the arctic reaches for a field trip, only to find that an old enemy is back and has kidnapped Lucy, his land owner’s daughter. As soon as he returns, his girlfriend who stayed in the arctic mysteriously disappears. A young being of the multi-dimensional race of the Fain, enters the world through one of David’s dragons, G’reth, which subsequently causes an older, and much more malicious Fain to follow, wrecking havoc through the world. All of this ends up back where it all started, but not without some paying the ultimate price.

An exciting saga, surrounded by mystery and loss, hope and grief. Filling you with wonder of what will happen next, till the very end. However, it has a sad ending, and leaves too much in shadow, and is not for the weak hearted. One who wishes for more would enjoy this story, surrounded with the lights of the north to the gloomy weather of a rainy island. This story makes you wish to never put it down, and you can’t wait for the next book in the series. It can be improved if it tells more at the end. I highly recommend you to go to the website, www.icefire.co.uk.

"Anne Of Green Gables" by L.M Montgomery

This story is about Anne Shirley, an amusingly imaginative and bright little girl who is an orphan, who is adopted by a stubborn woman named Marilla Cuthbert. Eventually Anne comes to live at a place where everyone dislikes her because of her wild imagination--a rare feature for a woman.
I believe that this book is really good but as they say, nothing can be perfect, “Anne of Green gables” did have some weaknesses. One of the main weaknesses in this book was the two pages long chattering of a little girl called Anne Shirley. It does get boring when the dialogue gets long so I would recommend the author to change her ‘superbly long’ passages to something short and interesting. I am very sure that this book has wild imagination in it and it grasps the reader’s attention despite the long paragraphs of details. Personally, I love reading this book as many times as I want. This book symbolizes me with wild imagination and endless talking. Readers who love to go into detail about how a place looked or how something felt to someone would love to read such books.

Shushmita

"The Secret Scroll" by Lynne Ewing

Four seemingly ordinary girls are born as the goddesses of the moon to protect the goodness of the world from the enemy, the Atrox. Catty has a special power; she can go back to the past. One day, she gets a secret scroll from a man she doesn’t know. She realizes that it will help them destroy the Atrox. Of course, people on the Atrox side wanted it too. She keeps it very safe. She gets a new boyfriend. He is very kind to her, and they like each other so much. On another day, when she was walking down the street, same man talked to her, but said ‘don’t look at me’. Though she held up her mirror to see who he was, and found out that it was her boyfriend. After the notice, they corporate to fight against the Atrox. Unfortunately, Atrox noticed that Catty has the secret scroll. So the strongest Follower, who is in the inner circle of the Atrox, calls her to the park at the night with no moon. But before that, she wrote the fake scroll; because she knew it she would have to destroy it. As she thought, Follower said to destroy it. And he hunts down her to the death. For he can read the mind, he realizes that it was the fake one. Of course he let Catty get the genuine one. While getting it, she remembered the spell that will weaken the Atrox. She uses it with other goddesses, and won the ‘game’. But suddenly, she was caught up in the other world with a flash…

I think the strength of this book is that at the end of the book, it is usually the good ending, like goddesses beat up the Atrox. But in this one, one goddess disappeared and ended. It was really unexpected one. Weakness is it is always same that main character’s boyfriend is related to the Atrox, or the goddess, so it was very obvious that her boyfriend was the man. Still I liked this ending the best. It didn’t tell us about what was the flash, and where she was. So it inspired me to read the next one. And teenagers will enjoy this book.

Maria

"Dragon's Blood" by Jane Yolen

Jakkin is a bond servant working in the dragon barns of Master Sarkkhan. Dragons are raised to fight in the pits, and bond servants must tend to them. Jakkin loves dragons and dreams of freedom. The only way to freedom is to steal a baby dragon, raise it to be a fighter, and win battles to get enough gold to pay his way out of bondage, so he attempts it.

This story has a great plot. Although the story is great, I think the author doesn't develop much of a setting. I definitely know it's in the desert, but sometimes it talks of starships and other planets. Even with the bad setting, I would still recommend this book to people who like fantasy because it is a really fun story.

Mil

"The Pact" by Jodi Picoult

The main characters of this book are Christ Harte and Emily Gold. Their parents are friends, so they grow up together and become lovers when they get older. The story begins when the police find Chris and Emily together, but Emily is dead. When Christ is taken to the hospital, he tells the police that it was going to be a double suicide, but the police had come before he could shoot himself. Emily’s family sues Chris, who has to endure the pain of being accused of murdering his own girlfriend. Throughout this story, secrets are revealed about Chris and Emily’s relationship and the true reason behind Emily’s death.

I think that this is a great book that is very deep and meaningful. Chris and Emily really love each other a lot, and it is so sad that it even made me cry. The book really makes you want to know what really happens because there are so many times in the book when you think you know what happened or why something happen and be proven wrong in the next chapter. I think that people who like a lot of action in books will not enjoy this book because there isn’t much action. Anyone who enjoys romance and mystery will enjoy it though.