• Eon

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:79 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:3.95★ Rating:79 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:3.95★ Rating:79 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:3.95½ Rating:79 Star Piece:0.95 Fraction:3.95☆ Rating:79 Fraction:3.9579%
    Eon
    Alison Goodman
    Firebird, 2008
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 0142417114
    576 pages

    Synopsis

    Eon has been studying the ancient art of Dragon Magic for four years, hoping he’ll be able to apprentice to one of the twelve energy dragons of good fortune. But he also has a dark secret. He is actually Eona, a sixteen-year-old girl who has been living a dangerous lie for the chance to become a Dragoneye, the human link to an energy dragon’s power. It is forbidden for females to practice the Dragon Magic and, if discovered, Eon faces a terrible death. After a dazzling sword ceremony, Eon’s affinity with the twelve dragons catapults him into the treacherous world of the Imperial court where he makes a powerful enemy, Lord Ido.

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    Dragons of Silk

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:90 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.5 Fraction:4.5★ Rating:90 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.5 Fraction:4.5★ Rating:90 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.5 Fraction:4.5★ Rating:90 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.5 Fraction:4.5½ Rating:90 Star Piece:0.5 Fraction:4.590%
    Dragons of Silk
    Laurence Yep
    HarperCollins, 2011
    Fiction
    ISBN: 0060275189
    352 pages

    Synopsis

    The Weaving Maid wove robes of silk for Heaven, but when she met the Cowboy, she abandoned her loom to be with him. But Heaven would not allow this, and put the Milky Way in between them.

    Silk binds the lives of four girls from different generations with the fate of the Weaving Maid. Across a span of seventy-five years both in China and America, each girl shows the strength and courage of a dragon as she fights and sacrifices for the survival of her family and the pursuit of passion.

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    Posted in 2011, Classroom, English/Reading, Fiction (non-fantasy), Geography/Culture, Historical Fiction, History/Period, Recommended, Reviews, Series | No Comments »

    Superior Saturday

    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%
    Superior Saturday (Keys to the Kingdom, Book 6)
    Garth Nix
    Scholastic Paperbacks, 2008
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 0439436591
    288 pages

    Synopsis

    The secret of his own identity.
    The identity of The Architect.
    The complete Will of the House.
    The fulfillment of his fate.
    Arthur Penhaligon is getting closer and closer to these things… but not without risks, conflict, and adventure.

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    The Necromancer

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:68 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.4 Fraction:3.4★ Rating:68 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.4 Fraction:3.4★ Rating:68 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.4 Fraction:3.4½ Rating:68 Star Piece:0.4 Fraction:3.4☆ Rating:68 Fraction:3.468%
    The Necromancer (Book 4, Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
    Michael Scott
    Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2010
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 0385735316
    416 pages

    Synopsis

    San Francisco

    After fleeing to Ojai, then Paris, and escaping to London, Josh and Sophie Newman are finally home. And after everything they’ve seen and learned in the past week, they’re both more confused than ever about their future. Neither of them has mastered the magics they’ll need to protect themselves from the Dark Elders, they’ve lost Scatty, and they’re still being pursued by Dr. John Dee. Most disturbing of all, however, is that now they must ask themselves, can they trust Nicholas Flamel? Can they trust anyone?
 


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    Behemoth

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:86 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.3 Fraction:4.3★ Rating:86 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.3 Fraction:4.3★ Rating:86 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.3 Fraction:4.3★ Rating:86 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.3 Fraction:4.3½ Rating:86 Star Piece:0.3 Fraction:4.386%
    Behemoth (Leviathan, Book 2)
    Scott Westerfeld
    Simon Pulse, 2010
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 1416971750
    496 pages

    Synopsis

    The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker powers.

    Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan’s peacekeeping mission, they find themselves alone and hunted in enemy territory.

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    Posted in 2010, Best Of, Classroom, Fantasy/Science Fiction, Geography/Culture, Ignite Imagination, Recommended, Reviews, Science/Engineering, Series | No Comments »

    Blue Fire

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:81 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.050000000000001 Fraction:4.05★ Rating:81 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.050000000000001 Fraction:4.05★ Rating:81 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.050000000000001 Fraction:4.05★ Rating:81 Fullstar:4 Star Piece:0.050000000000001 Fraction:4.05☆ Rating:81 Fraction:4.0581%
    Blue Fire
    Janice Hardy
    Balzer + Bray, 2010
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 0061747416
    384 pages

    Synopsis

    Part fugitive, part hero, fifteen-year-old Nya is barely staying ahead of the Duke of Baseer’s trackers. Wanted for a crime she didn’t mean to commit, she risks capture to protect every Taker she can find, determined to prevent the Duke from using them in his fiendish experiments. But resolve isn’t enough to protect any of them, and Nya soon realizes that the only way to keep them all out of the Duke’s clutches is to flee Geveg. Unfortunately, the Duke’s best tracker has other ideas.

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    The Celestial Globe

    Overall Rating: ★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55★ Rating:71 Fullstar:3 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55½ Rating:71 Star Piece:0.55 Fraction:3.55☆ Rating:71 Fraction:3.5571%
    The Celestial Globe (Book 2-The Kronos Chronicles)
    Marie Rutkoski
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010
    Fantasy
    ISBN: 0374310270
    304 pages

    Synopsis

    When Prince Rodolfo’s discovers who has tricked him, he sends his evil monsters attack Petra Kronos and her father. In just the nick of time, she is spirited away to London by none other than the shifty British spy John Dee.  However, in order to protect her, Dee must imprison her within his own house. As she struggles to escape, Neel and Tomik sail the high seas, in search of her and an elusive, powerful relic, The Celestial Globe.

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