Sorry I don't have a blinkie up for this page yet, we just got my computer back from getting a new Power Supply and all so I haven't been able to work on this site, but below you will see some of the books that I've read and what I think about them. Enjoy!

This first one is long, but very good. I love it to death.


Pirates! by Celia Rees: At the dawn of the eighteenth century, when girls stay home and sew while men saidl the high seas finding adventure, danger and gold, two unusual girls, Nancy Kington and Minerva Sharpe, one a rich merchant's daughter, the other her plantation slave, set sail from Jamaica on a ship the crew renames Deliverance. Not just any trading ship, Deliverance flies black flags from its mast and proclaims to all that the new ship is a pirate vessel, sriking fear into the hearts of those she approaches. Or so they hope. For Nancy, Deliverance is her escape from an arranged marriage with a controlling and devlish man. For Minerva, it is escape from slavery, as well as from the fearsome overseer on Nancy's family plantation. But in the end, the money, the adventure, the companionship and the chance to see the world not as women, but as fearsome pirates, is an opportunity neither can deny.

I loved this book. I bought it a few months after I saw Pirates of the Caribbean (my all time favorite live-action Disney movie). Plus it's like one of the only hardback books I've bought so far this year. It's very good and will keep you wanting to read more. Surprises and turns all the way through and tells the true life of a pirate.

This one I just got done reading and I could not stop crying at the end of it. It's about life in the ghetto during WWII.


Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli: He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham. He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels. He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. And when the trains come to empty the Jews from the ghetto of the damned, he's a boy who realizes it's safest of all to be nobody. Newbery Medalist Jerry Spinelli takes us to one of the most devastating settings imaginable -- Nazi-occupied Warsaw of World War II -- and tells a tale of heartbreak, hope, and survival through the bright eyes of a young orphan.

I seriously recommend this book if you love to read about how the Jewish people suffered during WWII.

Yet another by Jerry Spinelli, and just as good. I don't even remember when I read this, I think it was last year though, very good story of how people can be so cruel to "different" people.


Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli: Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out--under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes--for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter of ukulele music, enchanting the Mica student body.

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