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I had to read a historical fiction because that is what we were studying in school. I read The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung a Chinese Miner by Laurence Yep and it is a good example of historical fiction (which means that it has things that were true in real life but it was the life of somebody who probably doesn’t exist). For example when Runt (the main character) was on the ship to America a lot of people died. That was true in real life and it also happened in the book. Also when Runt got to “The Golden Mountain” (what the Chinese called America) a lot of people didn’t want the Chinese people to be there so they threw them out of some of the mining camps. Again that happened in real life and in the book.
There was also a lot good writing including similes, personification and even metaphors. Here are a few good examples of those things. One is when the tax collectors came to collect the taxes from the Chinese miners the boy, Runt called himself “as lethal as a cobra” because he didn’t have any money to pay the tax collectors but his uncle, who was there paid it for him. Another good example for metaphors would be when Runt’s mother was writing him a letter and in that letter she said that when he was small she thought that he would die but he “fought to live.”
This book is not very long, but fun to read and has a lot of historical fiction in it. The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung a Chinese Miner is a very good book. It is by Laurence Yep. I hope you like it as much as I do if you read it!

So starts DRAGON RIDER, by Cornelia Funke.

Did you know that she spoke German?

I did not really like Inkheart so when I picked up this book I thought that it would be no different.

Boy was I wrong! Here you will see why…

This book is about a dragon named Firdrake. (I don’t know if that is spelled right.) Him and his his trusty companion Sorrel (a brownie) go on a quest to find a land where dragons and their kin live freely since there are humans coming into Firdrake’s land. Along the way they pick up a boy named Ben, get information from a djinn, battle cobras and buy maps from mice. But there is a shadow over the “free land’ it is gaurded by the evil golden dragon, Nettlebrand. In the end they have to fight him. The trio may not escape with even their lives…

It is a very good book but it is more than five-hundred pages.

Happy reading!!!!

Here is another one of my book review about Inkheart…

Magic to Reality, Not a Very Good Mix

I did not really like the book Inkheart. I didn’t because it kind of went to fast from magic to reality, I mean when Mo (the father) is reading stuff out of books (which I really like), while Capricorn (the bad guy) and his followers are using guns. (I think that they should have used swords since they are more magical.) Well, anyway, lets get on with the whole thing! I am getting old here!

The book is about a little girl named Maggie and her dad Mo. Maggie’s mother mysteriously disappeared after Maggie was born.

Then one night an old friend of Mo’s, Dustfinger, comes and warns Mo of something. (It turns out that Mo is such a good reader that he can literally read things in and out of books. He read Dustfinger and a villain named Capricorn out of the same book that Maggie’s mom got read into.)(That is how she dissapeared.) The next morning Maggie and Mo have to abandon their house and flee with Dustfinger over to Maggie’s great-aunt’s house to escape Capricorn who wants Mo to read him treasures out of other books. A few days after they get to Maggie’s great-aunts house, they get ambushed by Capricorn’s followers and Mo gets captured!

I liked the book less than I think I would have and stopped reading it three quarters of the way through. I might start reading it again but that doesn’t mean that you won’t like it. It’s just not my taste. I love Fantasy though and I have some good recomedations. Here they are…

Eragon (By Christopher Paolini), Drift House (By Dale Peck), The Lightning Theif (By Rick Riordan), The Underland Chronicles (By Susanne Collins), East (By Edith Pattou) and The Lord of the Ring Trilogy (By J.R.R. Tolkien). These are really good books that I highly recommend but most of them are more than three-hundred pages!

I wrote another amazon review. This on is called Oh My Gods and it is about the book The Lightning Theif. Here it is…

Oh My Gods!!!!

… So the greek gods have chosen to settle in Western Civilasation, Since that is where they are respected the most.

“So I am the son of one of these ‘gods’ who DON’T EVEN EXIST!!!!!”

So says Perseus Jackson, son of Sally Jackson and “Posidon”.

This is a book about a boy whose father, he finds out is really the greek god Posiden and is called a “half blood” since he is half mortal-half emortal. Since ancient greek myth monsters chase him everyhere around the United States. ON top of that he is not the only half-blood. It turns out that there is a whole CAMP of halfo bloods. He has to go to that camp and there meets a daughter of Athena named Annabeth. Annabeth,himself and a saytr (goat on the bottom half, man on the top) have to go on a long perilious journey to go to the underworld and clear his name from stealing Zeus’s master thunder-bolt. He only has untill the winter solstice and if he doesn’t sucseed…

He will probobly die!

This book is great for lovers of fantasy and science fiction. It doesn’t have any pictures but makes up for that in words. It is not t long and a fantastic quick read. All ages can probobly read it but I wouldn’t recmond it to anybody under seven since it is kind of scary for little kids.

It is by Rick Riordan and the first in the series.

Give “The Lightning Thief” a try!!!!

This is my first Amazon Review. I will post most of my Amazon reviews on here. The first on is called A Crooked House. Here it is…

A Crooked House

A crooked house, a talking parrot, a temperologist (a person who literally studies time) for an uncle and even mermaids! (With very bad tempers though and an octopus disguised as a mermaid for a queen.) All of this is in this amazing book Drift House: The First Voyage by Dale Peck.

It is about a girl named Susan and her two younger brothers, Charles and Murray, escaping September eleventh by getting evacuated from their city house to live with their Uncle Farley in an old house that is called Drift House next to the Bay of Eternity which leads into the Sea of Time. Pretty good spot for a temperologist huh? Wrong-o. Here is why…

On the first day the children find that Drift House has drifted out into the Bay of Eternity and then out onto the Sea of Time. According to President Wilson (the parrot), Drift House is some kind of time vessel and next thing they know. Susan and her brothers end up having to save time itself from extinction.

If you like Dragon Rider or any other kind of fantasy or adventure book you will LOVE Drift House. Some of it is funny, but I have to warn you. It has more than four hundred pages. One of my favorite parts, (well it is not just one part, it is actually a lot of parts though out the book) is when Susan (the eldest sister) says something British like, “I daresay” Charles (the middle brother) says, “Don’t say `I daresay,’ it’s affected.”

If you think that Drift House is just about time, I daresay you are wrong. Whoops I forgot, `I daresay’ is affected.

At school we had to write about somebody that we knew who emigrated from another country to this country. I was going to interview my great-uncle, but that didn’t really work out so I did my mom. She is from Austria and moved here in 1991. It was a really long process. First we had to interview the person and while we were doing that we would record it on a recorder. Then we would have to listen to it at school and then write it down on sheets of paper. After that we had to type it all onto an alpha smart (something that has a keyboard and a really little screen just to type on) and from that stage we had to transfer it onto a computer. Next we had to edit, edit, and even more editing!!!!!! Then we pasted it into a book dummy, Pasted the words into a real book, draw the pictures and then… Voila!!!!!! We were finished!!!!! As you can probably see, it took a long, long time.