Revisiting books in a series
I did find time over Easter weekend to read Pure Dead Magic by Gliori. This series is part Addams family, part Series of Unfortunate Events, and Harry Potter. This family lives is a house with a giant crocodile in the moat and a Yeti in the dungeon. Terrible things happen to them–their father has been kidnapped by his own nefarious brother. The baby has vanished into cyberspace via the computer modem and a giant tarantula is searching the World Wide “Web” for her. Mother is a witch in training and daughter steals her multi-pack of spell wands to try to make things right with semi-disasterous results. I plan to read at least one more (Pure Dead Wicked) just to see what mischief happens next.
Also managed one of the Chet Gecko books, a quick read with the “trench coat and fedora” detective motif transferred to public school. This was a fun book especially if you enjoy animal characters. Pair it with another animal detective story, The case of the cat with the missing ear : from the notebooks of Edward R. Smithfield, D.V.M. by Scott Emerson. This one was a Sherlock Holmes take off, especially fun if you are acquainted with Conan-Doyle’s characters.
My other weekend read was Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar. Surviving freshman year is Scott’s goal and maybe attracting the attention of a certain female. His life fills with extra-curricular activities and unexpected friendships in pursuit of the elusive and oblivious Julie. Scott records his many observations on family and school life in a journal addressed to the baby brother that his mom is expecting. Not part of a series but I loved this book…funny and fulfilling. Lubar has written some other books that I have read. Dunk is more serious, a look at the life of young man who aspires to become the clown in the dunk tank on the boardwalk. Flip is about total opposite twins who discover some disks with the power to transform them into historical and literary characters. When you are not sure of who you really are, does it help to become someone else?
hey mrs. huba these books sound really good. Expecially “sleeping Freshman never lie”. My friend read it and said it was really good. Many of the books you mentioned sound really good, i might try to read some. one book(flip)caught my attention because it reminded me of this one book i read that was really good. If you haven’t read it yet you should and to all the people reading my comment, i highly recomend it. It is called” Flipped” its about two people and how they view each others relationship and their point of view of life and certian situations. Although it may not sound that interesting i garentee it to be a good book it can be found it the library in the fiction section(fic van). hope you enjoy it and have a great day!!!
though such a thing has only happened once to me i dont know alot about it but i think that it would be a very good idea to try if someone were to go unconcious and not remember or something like that.If that happens to me ever again i will try and remember that and try for myself though i really hope i dont have to.