Joshua Dread

Joshua Dread  ̶  The Dominion Key –

By Logan w.

Joshua Dread The Dominion Key is a great book for Second Grade To Fifth, and with a lot of close escapes, good story line, plus good humor, I think that the book is amazing at all levels of interest.

          In Sheepsdale Sixth Grade Joshua Dread is in trouble against a long ago enemy, Vex, who tries to imprison Joshua and his friends. But when the young superheroes are attacked, do they protect themselves, or will the group fall to the malicious super villain? When they try to hide in their new school the plan doesn't work out.

Hilarious, funny Joshua Dread is a perfect book for grades second To sixth, with many surprises and conflict.

          Joshua Dread is available at the King County Library And Amazon Prime.

One Choice Can Transform You

(Divergent)

By: Maxine P.

The book Divergent by Veronica Roth was so good; I could not stop reading it! It’s about a girl who has to choose where she belongs and goes through a process to fit in and prove her bravery(it’s a lot better than that sentence just made it sound).

               In more detail, it’s about a community in the future where the people are divided into five factions (Dauntless values courage, Abnegation values selflessness, Amity values peace, Erudite values intelligence, Candor values the truth) and when you reach a certain age you have to choose which one you will spend the rest of your life in. Most people have one faction they are cut out for but very occasionally someone comes along that can fit into multiple factions. That is called being Divergent. If you are Divergent it is dangerous if the government finds out because it means your brain is wired differently and that is bad. The main character, Tris, is Divergent and chooses a daring life in Dauntless over a quiet life in Abnegation with her family and goes through a somewhat violent initiation. She faces many fears, such as zombie apocalypse (of a sort), public humiliation, and jumping off a building on a vertical zipline, and she struggles to overcome those fears. Then her life falls apart with a war between factions but I really do not want to give away the ending.

The book combines adventure, romance and dystopian fiction all in exquisite detail. It is the first in a trilogy but I have not read the others yet. It is one of the best books I have ever read and I highly recommend it. I think it is best for fifth grade and up, there is violence and it doesn’t seem like the best interest level for little kids. It is available at the Seabury middle school if you are interested in reading it. May your pages forever turn in happiness. 

Rainbow Magic

Rainbow

Magic

The Music Fairies

Reviewed by: Maddie S.

This book I think would be good for girls ages 5-7. It is around 65 pages long. It is a very exciting book with a magical fairy land, evil goblins, two girls and stolen things. Will the girls and a fairy be able to get the lost things back? Sadie the saxophone fairy burst out in a mist of pale blue sparkles! She wore a green-and-blue ruffled dress, with a glittery sweater around her shoulders, sparkly blue knee-high boots, and a matching headband.

This book is by Daisy Meadows and the tiles in the series are  Poppy the Piano Fairy, Ellie the Guitar Fairy, Fiona the Flute Fairy, Danni the Drum Fairy, Maya the Harp Fairy, Vitoria the Violin Fairy, and Sadie the Saxophone Fairy. In each one they try to get an object from the evil goblins.

  This book I think would be a good read for girls ages 5-7 and would be a just for fun book!

Slathbog’s Gold

Slathbog’s Gold

By M. L. Forman

Reviewed by Dan S.

            Grade 4 and up. This is an amazing book and the first of a series. It goes to great depth to explain the characters and the scenery is amazing! It kept me on the edge of my seat and I could not put it down until I finished. It is so amazing it’s hard to put into words; it just has an unbelievable plot. Great adventure/fiction book!

            So basically what happens in the book is Alex, the main character of the book, is walking down the street when he walks by a bookstore. There is a small sign in the door that says: “adventurers wanted”. He looks around to see if anyone saw the sign and when he looked back at the sign to see if he missed anything, it had changed to “adventurers wanted; apply within”. He blinked, surprised that it had changed. He looked closely, but there was no mechanism to switch the sign! He looked back at the sign and this time it said: “adventurers wanted; apply within, reasonable prices!” He wondered how it was doing this, and went inside what looked like him to a bookstore.

            Inside, he was surprised once again, to find only a few tables and a couple couches. There was no shelves, no books, just the tables and couches. There was a person there, and he decided to ask him. The man introduced himself as Mr. Clutter, and Alex introduced himself. Then Mr. Clutter asked him a lot of questions and wrote them down on an “adventurers contract”. He was surprised because just a while ago he was wishing for a different life.

            Alex goes on a quest with some others, (Halfling, dwarfs, elf) and defeats Slathbog the red who has been causing trouble. He also faces a 3 legged troll, and some bandits. He finds a “magic” sword named “Moon slayer”. The other members of the party are Bregnest, Halfdan, Thrang, Tayo, Skeld, Andy and Arconn.

            So yeah, good book overall and I recommend reading it at 9 or 10 years old. Yeah, just go read it! C’mon, what you waiting for? 

Bomb

Bomb; THE RACE TO BUILD AND STEAL THE WORLDS MOST POWERFUL WEAPON 

By: Griffin H.

Author: Steve Sheinkin 

Ages 9+

An enticing book, very well written, taking after real people that had studied to build the world’s first atomic bomb.

Robert Oppenheimer, physics professor and teacher at Harvard, had no interest at all in World War II, until one day a German scientist named Otto Hahn discovered that when uranium protons and neutrons collide, they split apart, causing them to release a small amount of energy into the air.

This small discovery caused a huge arms race to build a bomb so powerful it could wipe out whole cities; scientists all over the world were rushed to offices to build this weapon of mass destruction.

Though it isn’t all about the scientists, soviet spies and Norwegian freedom fighters like Knut Haukelid and Harry Gold spice up this adventure of how the first atomic bomb was built and “distributed” to Hiroshima, Japan.

This book is very interesting, good to read before you go to sleep, and some funny stories about what happened to a lot of the characters! The book is very fast-paced with surprisingly barely any violence at all.