• Trumpet of the Swan – Reviewing Classics

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:63 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.15 Fraction:3.15★ Rating:63 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.15 Fraction:3.15★ Rating:63 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.15 Fraction:3.15½ Rating:63 Star Piece:0.15 Fraction:3.15☆ Rating:63 Fraction:3.1563%
    Trumpet of the Swan
    E.B. White
    Harper Trophy, 1970
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0064410943
    272 pages

    Synopsis

    An unusual boy named Sam who loves nature stumbles on a pair of trumpeter swans who have secretly made their nest on a secluded lake in Canada. The swans soon discover that their son Louis is mute, and they let him know he may have trouble in life because he is different. As Louis grows older, his heart is set on a young female swan, but because he can’t trumpet, she is not interested in him.

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    Inkheart

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:54 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:2.7★ Rating:54 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:2.7½ Rating:54 Star Piece:0.7 Fraction:2.7☆ Rating:54 Fraction:2.7☆ Rating:54 Fraction:2.754%
    Inkheart (Book 1, Inkheart Trilogy)
    Cornelia Funke
    Scholastic, 2003
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0439709105
    560 pages

    Synopsis

    While reading a book aloud to his wife, Mo finds that he has an interesting talent: the ability to read elements straight out of a story and into real life. The catch is that things from the real world disappear into the story. That fatal night, Mo read his wife into the story, and read the antagonists out of it. Now realizing that he can exploit Mo’s abilities for his own gain, Capricorn will stop at nothing to capture Mo and his daughter Meggie in order to make this power his own.

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    Across The Wall

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:59 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:2.95★ Rating:59 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:2.95½ Rating:59 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:2.95☆ Rating:59 Fraction:2.95☆ Rating:59 Fraction:2.9559%
    Across the Wall (companion book – The Abhorsen Trilogy)
    Garth Nix
    EOS, 2005
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0060747137
    320 pages

    Synopsis

    The main story of this collection, “Nicholas Sayre and the Creature in the Case” takes readers back to the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre, with a short story about Nicholas facing an Old Kingdom creature within the boundaries of Ancelstierre.

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    Airborn

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:58 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.9 Fraction:2.9★ Rating:58 Fullstar:2 Star Piece:0.9 Fraction:2.9½ Rating:58 Star Piece:0.9 Fraction:2.9☆ Rating:58 Fraction:2.9☆ Rating:58 Fraction:2.958%
    Airborn (Book 1 – Airborn Series)
    Kenneth Oppel
    Eos, 2004
    Fantasy Fiction
    ISBN-10: 0060531800
    355 pages
    Honor Book – Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature (ALA)

    Synopsis

    On a routine flight aboard the cruise airship the Aurora, Matt Cruse, its cabin boy, spots a fledgling hot air balloon heading toward them. Rescuing the pilot just before his inevitable death, Matt thinks nothing of the old man’s ramblings about some beautiful and unknown flying creatures.

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