Mesečni arhiv: november 2022

WONDER

The book is about a boy named August. A lot of his classmates think that he is a freak because his face looks very strange. He starts going to school when he is ten and his mum cannot teach him anymore. So, the principal calls three kids to his office.  Julian, Jack and Charlotte. Jack and August become best friends, but Julian does not like him because of his face. He thinks he is a freak.  And because Jack is his friend, everybody thinks he is a freak too. So, Julian and his friends often steal their homework or send them very rude notes. But at the end everybody realizes that he is not a freak, so they become friends. Julian gets kicked out of school because of the messages he sends to August and Jack.  August also works very hard and gets a medal for all his hard work.

Ema, 7. r

WUNDERSMITH

THE CALLING OF MORRIGAN CROW

This is the second part of the trilogy that follows the magic world of Morrigan Crow.

In the first book we meet a twelve-year-old girl that has always felt like an outsider in a normal world. One day a stranger named Jupiter comes for her in her home and takes her to a secret and completely different magic world named Nevermoor. He believes that Morrigan has a very special superpower. And that is true, Morrigan soon discovers that she is a Wundersmith just like Ezra Squall the worst villain of all time and no one else.

In the second book Morrigan goes to the most elite school Wundrous Society. Her classmates never like her because of her gift, but one day that turns even worse.

When one day they arrive to their private train station to go to school, they find a letter. In the letter anonymous person writes that one classmate needs to do something to embarrass themselves or something nearly impossible. If they don’t do that, the blackmailer will tell their class secret. They hate Morrigan even more because they think they have to protect her secret about being a Wundersmith. The letters come individually.

In the meantime, a lot of Society members disappear, which is really bad because the Society was supposed to be the safest place in Nevermoor.

One day the Ezra Squall visits Morrigan secretly and wants to teach her how to use her Wundersmith gift.

Will Morrigan and her friends find who’s behind all off this? Will Morrigan teach how to use her power? Will the others finally accept her?

Ema, 9. r

THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY

The book is about a 16-year-old girl Belly, who spends every summer since she was born with her mother, her brother, her mother’s best friend and her two sons Conrad and Jeremiah at the summer house in Cousins.

Belly has always had a crush on Conrad, but for him she was like his little sister. At least she thought so.

Conrad’s younger brother Jeremiah, who always has a lot of energy and is a very funny person, is Belly’s best friend and has never looked at her like something more. Until this summer.

So there’s a love triangle between these three.

Belly’s older brother Steven was always annoyed when she was with him and the boys because he always looked at her like she was a child, so she spent a lot of time with her mom and her best friend  Susannah.

They were best friends for a lot of time.

Susannah had cancer a few years ago, and now it came back. She and Belly’s mom Laurel wanted to keep this a secret, but Conrad accidentally found out, so he wasn’t himself all summer.

One night the kids were at a party and Belly met a boy called Cameron. They started dating and Conrad and Jeremiah were jealous beacuse they both fell in love with her.

But while Belly and Cameron were dating, she constantly thought about Conrad because she still had a crush on him, so she ended the relationship with Cameron.

At the end they all found out that Susannah was ill and it was heartbreaking for all of them.

But the love triangle never ends.

Zana, 9. r