Captain Grey

After his father and sister are killed in a pirate raid on the city of Philadelphia, Kevin Cartwright is kidnapped and made to work alongside the other inhabitants of the evil Captain Grey's "colony". Kevin has no family now, so even if he did escape he would face only two options... dying slowly in an orphanage or dying quickly on the streets. He decides to bide his time as the "ships boy" of the crew and dream of ways to escape. But he have found his calling in the adventures of being a pirate. Can he find his way in the new life he has chosen? But first, he has to take his revenge on the man who killed his honest family... what will happen next?

Eona

The sequel to the book Eon, about a girl warrior masquerading as a boy in ancient Asia, then chosen to be a Dragoneye, the highest rank below Emperor in the land, this book is about Eona's story after the truth that instead of being Lord Eon, she is Lady Eona. The High Lord Sethon, taking advantage of the uproar following her confession, has seized the Empire, slaughtered the Emperor and his wife and killed all of the rightful heirs... except the crown prince, who has managed to escape to the mountains bordering the land. Rumor is that the prince and rightful Emperor is slowly building a resistance force against the false king, and Eona wants to join it. Since the other ten Dragoneyes were killed the night of the takeover, she now has the power of eleven god-like dragons at her command. This makes her a great tool for the resistance... but also a great tool to destroy anyone who crosses Sethon. With the Empires soldiers hunting her and her friends night and day, the journey to mountains is proving difficult and dangerous. For what no one knows is that Eona can not control her new found power... and that she's far more likely to accidentally kill everyone in the Empire than bring down a corrupt Emperor.

All The Lovely Bad Ones

This book is about two kids by the name of Corey and Travis. They've always considered themselves bad, and have tried to live up to the idea by playing as many tricks as possible. But when their exasperated parents send them to visit their grandmothers ancient Victorian inn in rural Vermont, one of their classic pranks turns into something very real. The inn is supposed to be haunted and every year, lots of ghost hunting enthusiasts come in search of ghosts. Corey and Travis decide to play ghosts to the fear and delight of their fellow guests, but their antics awaken real ghosts... the true bad ones. Killed by the wicked supervisor of the inn back when it was a poor house, the boys spirits still haunt the inn today, causing mischief and playing tricks on unsuspecting guests. Now that the supervisor has awoken, the boys and Corey and Travis are in grave danger. They must get rid of the evil ghost... before they become ghosts themselves.

Cat on the Scent

By Rita Mae Brown and her cat Sneaky Pie Brown (supposedly), this book is one of many in a series starring Mrs. Murphy, Pewter and Tucker - two cats and a dog living in the tiny town of Crozet, Virginia. Their owner, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen. The cats and dog usually solve murders that have occurred in the small town (a lot seem to happen over the years) then try to make so that the humans can understand what's happened and catch the murderer. This particular book is about the local Civil War reenactment that's taken over the whole town. Everyone's trying to outdo their neighbors by being the most authentic and realistic... until someone is very realistically shot in the back. That combined with a local wild child's mysterious dissappearence has the local sheriff and deputy on the hunt. But curiousity killed the cat, and Mrs. Murphy can't resist trying to solve the killing.

The Witches of Friars Lantern

By Sandra Forrester, this is a book that meant for an age range of 8-12 years old. I say meant for. Which means that basically it's good for anybody. It's about a girl named Beatrice Bailey. She has to break a spell created by Dally Rumpe, an evil sorcerer whose taken over the world. There are five books in this series, and this is the second one. It's a decent book, not extremely good, but not very bad either. It's like the peanut butter in a peanut butter and fluff sandwich. It's just there so it can be called a peanut butter and fluff sandwich, not a fluff sandwich, because then we can fool ourselves into thinking that it's not that bad for us. It's just a there book that you might as well read because it's there.

Secret Army

If you like Britain, history, spies and books where the main characters are teenagers, you'll like this book. Set in 1941, England is in war. After several desperate attempts to win the war against the Nazis, the government has finally decided to give Charles Henderson, a man not supposed to exist, a chance. A top British spy, only a few months earlier, his entire operation was compromised by a group of teenage children. His life was then saved by these same children, along with an incredible victory for Britain at the hands of the latter. Now, back in the world of pompous bureaucrats and crooked politicians whose most realistic experience with war is sitting in stuffy meetings while an officer covered in glittering medals announces war tactics that seem to be in a different language, Henderson's last chance to promote his idea of using child spies rests on one man. A particularly pretentious administrator,  Air Vice Marshall Walker married into his position and has accumulated a deep and abiding hatred for Henderson over the years, which began when Henderson punched him so hard he was in the hospital for two days. Now, it's up to PT, Rosie, Marc, Troy, Paul and Joel to save the beginnings of CHERUB (Charles Henderson's Espionage Research Unit B) before the malicious Walker brings the group crashing to the ground.

The Battle of the Labyrinth

The fourth book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, this book is all about Percy, Annabeth and Grovers adventures and experiences within the fabled Labyrinth from the Ancient Greek myths. Luke, the  demigod who has turned against his father and Olympus in favor of the evil Titans, has been trying to use the Labyrinth to gain access into the well protected Camp Half Blood. Once in the Labyrinth, the kids soon discover secrets, facts and betrayals between and about one another. If they survive the Labyrinth, they'll save the gods and the world... but will they be able to save one another?

The Last Olympian

The Last Olympian is the last book in the world renowned series by Rick Riordan. It is a great ending to the series, full of action and effectively ends all of tiny mysteries that have cropped up through out the series. I really like this book, although it's slightly darker and more serious than the others before it. It's the final stage of the battle between the gods and the Titans, and it's anyones war. Plus, does Camp Half Blood have a traitor in it's midst? Dun dun dun...

Pendragon: The Reality Bug

Book four in the series, this book is about Bobby Pendragon's journey the the world Veelox, a territory completely dependent on technology. Right now, Veelox is in trouble. A game called Lifelight has been invented, and every inhabitant in Veelox has been addicted to it. It's like living you life, but perfectly. Everything happens the way you want it to. You lie down, push a button and enter the virtual world. The only issue is people aren't leaving. Citizens have stayed in the game for as long as a year, abandoning reality. Bobby Pendragon's supposed to stop it... but what if the cure turns out to be the final factor in bringing down Veelox?

The Lost Hero

The first in the new series by Rick Riordan called the heroes of Olympus, this is an absolutely awesome, fantastic, amazing, remarkable, spectacular, marvelous, wonderful, stupendous, stunning and superb book. Really. Honest to whatever-your-religion-is. So I highly recommend it. It's super funny, and it's a whole new catastrophe this time with a whole new cast of interesting characters. The only thing I dislike about the book is it's evident lack of Percy Jackson. They mention his name though, but you spend the whole time worrying about him as you read the book becasue apparently, he's MIA...missing in action.

Divine Madness

This is a book in the bestselling British series CHERUB. The series is based on a group of children that the government funds and sends on missions all around the world. They're trained in martial arts, weapon handling, espionage, computer skills and trickery. There are lots of CHERUB agents, but the series mainly follows James Adams, his younger sister Lauren Adams and their group of close friends. This particular book is when CHERUB discovers a link between eco-terrorist group Help Earth and a wealthy religious cult known as the Survivors, James, Lauren and a new agent named Dana are sent to Austraila on an infiltration mission. It's one of the toughest missions so far. The Survivors outback headquarters are completely isolated, and the cult's brainwashing techniques mean that the kids are under massive pressure to conform. This is an excellent series and a great book.

The Host

By Stephanie Meyer, I swear on the Bible, this is nothing like the Twilight series. Honest. This is about the world being taken over by aliens. They are small, very small, around three inches long and are silver. They kind of resemble ribbons with eyes. Anyway, they take over by being implanted in a persons neck, and then just taking over that persons body. This sounds evil, but it's not. I mean, I wouldn't want it to happen to me, but the Souls, as they are called, a very kind, gentle people. They don't lie, cheat or steal. There's no crime and if you need something, clothes, food, a house, whatever, you can just go and take it. No charge. This is about a soul named Wanderer. She is relatively famous, having lived on 9 worlds (the Souls have taken over other worlds besides Earth) and is put inside a recently captured rebel human named Melanie. At first, Melanie hates Wanderer, and Wanderer is not that fond of Melanie, but because she is a soul, and a naturally kind and gentle person, tolerates the voice screaming in her head. But then Melanie accidentally shows Wanderer a family, a man and a boy and Melanie. The boy is Jamie, Melanie's kid brother, and the man is Jared, Melanie's kind-of-maybe-wants-it-to-be-boyfriend. After seeing them, Wanderer sets off to find them, with Melanie giving her instruction all the way. But once she gets to the place, Wanderers story is just beginning...and it's painful. Really good book, you should read it.

Divergent

This is a really good read...if your into the whole future America in shambles, people rebelling, lots of blood kind of thing. Think The Hunger Games. It's almost exactly like that, except there's no government in control, just different factions fighting amongst themselves. There are five different factions after wars nearly destroyed the world. One faction blames the lack of knowledge for the war, another blames cowardliness, one blames selfishness, yet another says it's because people lied so much, and one just blames hatred. The main character, Beatrice, who is from Abegnation, the faction the blames selfishness, switches to Dauntless, the faction the blames cowardliness, when she reaches the age of 16 and is able to choose what faction she wants to be in. The only issue is, she's Divergent, which means according to her aptitude tests she takes to see which faction she would fit in with the best, she could have been equally happy in three different factions. That doesn't sound so bad, except when one faction suddenly makes a move to wipe out another and become the rulers over all of the factions, Beatrice (or Tris, as she likes to be called) is the only one that isn't affected by their mind control. Which means that she's the only one who can save all of the factions. But she has to sacrifice something to do that...

Pendragon: The Rivers of Zadaa

As strange as the title sounds, this book (the sixth in a series) is actually rather good. The series is all about a boy named Bobby Pendragon who is a Traveler, which means he can travel between dimensions to help the people and creatures that live there. Bobby's greatest enemy, the thing that threatens the what ties all of the universes together, is jumping from world to world, trying to take over each one or destroy it. His name is Saint Dane (ironic, right?). In this book, Bobby is in Zadaa, a dry and dusty land where the population consists of menacing warriors. His friend, Loor, called him to the world when two tribes, the Rokador  and the Batu are on the verge of war. Saint Dane has somehow caused all of the water in the land to dry up and disappear, and each tribe blames the other. Now Bobby must hunt down Saint Dane once and for all... or risk another world falling to Saint Danes evil influence.

Pride and Prejudice (And Zombies)

A New York Times bestseller, this book is based off of Jane Austens classic, but with a new twist. Elizabeth Bennet is still the girl the literature world knows and loves, but now she's fighting the undead as they rise from their graves, thanks to a mysterious plague. She's the best swords-woman there is in the quiet English village of Meryton, and is determined to erase the zombie menace from her home. Her sisters fight alongside her, and nothing can waver her concentration from annihilating the living dead - until the arrogant better-fighter-than-thou Mr. Darcy arrives. Following his arrival, plenty of civilized, mannerly sparring between the two, and even more violent sparring against the zombies on the field of battle. Pride and Prejudice (And Zombies) turns a masterpiece of world literature into a book you'd actually want to read.   

LeBron's Dream Team

Written by LeBron James, this is a story of his high school basketball days, when he was playing with his best friends Romeo, Willie, Sian and Little Dru. They came to be known as the Fab Five later on, as their skill and aggression became famed throughout Ohio and the United States. At 17, LeBron was on the cover of Sports Illustrated, rocketing the team into the spotlight. This is the story of how 5 kids from bad neighborhoods and messed up families for some, overcame the misgivings and criticism of almost all of Ohio. How would you feel if you were raised in neighborhoods where people thought you were a traitor if you were a great athlete and played in a private school? Or when you're 16, 17 and the whole world's watching you, waiting for you to mess up? This book is about five friends conquering the bitter world of fame. This is the story of basketball in its rawest and most wonderful form.

Eldest

Eldest is the second book in the Eragon series. It continues the story from where Eragon finally met with his cousin, whom he was forced to leave behind after his uncles untimely death spurred his dragon and him on to hunt down the murderers. Roran, his cousin, and the rest of the village have dealt with constants attacks by the Ra'zac, nightmarish creatures that serve the evil King Galbatorix. Finally, after Roran's love, Katrina, is kidnapped by the Ra'zac, Roran leads the village to a city nearby, fighting and sneaking stealthily through the mountains, trying to find the boy who abandoned them (or so they think) to such terrible attacks. The Ra'zac are hunting Roran and Eragon. When they finally reach Eragon, they discover he's a Dragon Rider, the only one in hundreds of years, since Galbatorix destroyed the Riders and wiped out the dragons. Roran and Eragon reunite and Eragon swears an oath to Roran to help him find Katrina. While Roran has been fighting off the Ra'zac, Eragon has been honing his skills as a Rider among the elves, deep in their hidden forest. His mentor is a crippled elf Rider and his three legged dragon. It's very good, I highly recommend it. Read the first book first though, because it won't make sense if you don't.

Eragon

Eragon is a good book, but not meant for younger children or people who dislike reading. It's difficult and complicated, and there's a lot of words that are very confusing, like the names of people and places. They are all in a different language and are made up. It's also 500 pages long. I would recommend it to people who like Lord of the Rings and other fantasy novels similar to it. It's a wonderful story, full of excitement and action. There's lots of bloodshed and violence too. Basically, it's this fifteen year old guy named Eragon (e.g the title) that finds a beautiful blue stone while hunting deer up in the Spine (a creepy and supposedly magical place in the mountains where no one else dares to go) for his poor family. He tries to sell it, but it turns out it's a dragon egg! Yeah! A dragon egg! One with a very temperamental and snooty dragon hatchling inside! But bad people are looking for the egg, not knowing it's hatched. After his uncle's farm torn to pieces by something, Eragon and his dragon take flight to avenge his families death by killing the evil king that rules Alagaesia. With an old storyteller/ knight/ ninja for company and an ancient yet creepy elf sword that shines red, he's off to kill everybody evil!
Of course, it's much more serious then that if you actually read the book, but that's my interpretation.

Subject Seven

What would you do if you suddenly found out you were adopted? Well, what would you do if you found out you were adopted from a strange boy you'd never seen before who gathered you and four other teenagers your age to one room somewhere in a city? Would you freak out? More importantly, would you believe him when he told you that you weren't even real?
The government's made a terrible mistake. Deep in the earth, it has been creating children born with another side, a dangerous, deadly supreme killing machine side. Like Dr. Jekel and Mr. Hyde, deep within these children is a sleeper assassin, brought forth with a key phrase and completely under control.
*Snicker, snicker*
Considered failures because their sleepers failed to activate via code phrase when they were babies, these children have been sent out into the world to be adopted by various families all over the States. But when Subject Seven, the only "success" in the batch escapes from where he's been held and experimented on deep in an underground lab, he's out to find his only family and awaken them. Being the leader, or the "Alpha" only he can find and rise his slumbering brothers and sisters deep within their Others, or other selves.
The teenagers the world knows, the cheerleader, the mafia princess, the geek, the football captain and the snarky know-it-all are only the covers for a team of warp speed fast, Superman strong and Einstein intelligent assassins. Except they've decided they don't want to be the good little government army at all.
They're out for revenge.

Beka Cooper : Terrier

It's a long time ago in what is referred to as H. E - the Human Era - when a girl named Beka decides to become a Provost Dog - an elite member of the city Guard. As a trainee she is called a Puppy, but after a year of learning from her two Dogs (her mentor), who are the best of the best, she'll earn her status as a full member of this Pack. But Beka will learn faster than she bargained for when she unearths a bloody scheme of slaves, murders, theft and greed headed by the elusive Shadow Snake - a child's nightmare come to life. Now, she and her friends, an odd mix of young criminals on the rise to fortune and fellow Puppies, must hunt this monster down... like a pack of terriers.

Dracula

Full of vivid (and slightly disturbing) drawings, and with lots of interesting facts, this is good book despite it's creepy cover. It's the story of Dracula - but not the beloved version so well known to us. Instead of fancy words and fainting women, this is the rough-and-rumble version full of blood and dirt and Van Helsing. Dracula, instead of the black haired middle aged creeper that is so well known, is now a blond, 25 to 30 year old who is not creepy any more.
He's down right terrifying.
Seriously, this story is the strangest, scariest version of Dracula you will ever read. I highly recommend it.

I am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want To Be Your Class President

IAAGOUEAIWTBYCP is a complex book that is strangely realistic in its description of a public middle school. Slightly less realistic is its description of a fat, genius pre-teen billionaire who conducts his business through other, older people. He decides where to invest, what to buy, with whom to meet and other, billionairy things like that. He also has the school rigged to suit all of his needs, like lockers that are actually doors into secret expensive looking rooms complete with elderly British butlers, seats on the bus that can warm up, vibrate or dispense snacks and bodyguards trained around the school to attack those who bully him, either with blow darts or a well aimed dodge-ball. The only thing that's wrong with his life is his dad. An pompous, arrogant man who sells things on T.V, he thinks of his son as an incompetent loser and himself as God's gift to the world. So when his father announces that he was class president, he decides to become one himself... no matter how much money he has to spend.

Alanna

Alanna is about a girl in another world where magic, gods and sorcery are very real. This world is defended from evil wizards, sorcerers and demons by the valiant knights of various kingdoms led by various kings, counts and dukes. Alanna and her twin brother are complete opposites. Her brother uses his mind to guide him, depending on his brains to solve every problem he has. He has the potential to be a sorcerer of fantastic power, but his father has enrolled him in a training area where he will become a knight eventually. But he hates violence and can't fight to save his life! Alanna is a different story. Strong, fierce, with a talent in battle and a good set of smarts, all she has ever wanted is to be a knight. But her father has enrolled her in a school high in the mountains where she will learn magic and other things more suited for a woman. No knight has ever been a woman before in history. But when Alanna comes up with a brilliant plan to disguise herself as her twin brother, and go to knight school in his place while he goes to learn magic in hers, neither of them have the faintest clue that Alanna becoming a knight will change their world forever... but not before she goes through a series of wild adventures as a trainee that might possibly save her kingdom.

Tom Sawyer

This is a classic book by Mark Twain. The original is hard to understand and uses a lot of complicated words, but if you get the revised version for children, it's pretty good.The story is about a young boy named Tom who is very mischievous. He has a lot of adventures and get-rich-quick schemes that almost always end in disaster. The most memorable is when he and his homeless friend Huckleberry Finn went to the graveyard to look around. They were surprised by grave robbers, and immediately hid to watch them, thinking it was going to be fun. They ended up watching a man be murdered and another man framed by the killer. After swearing each other to secrecy, they went home to be plagued by nightmares. Eventually, Tom could stand the guilt no longer, and showed up at the courthouse to give his testimony. The killer was put behind bars. 

The Warrior Heir

   Jack, an average, unremarkable teenage boy. The Weir, a complex, bloodstained, magical world ruled by warring wizards that have enchanters, future tellers, sorcerers and warriors under their tyrannical thumbs. When these collide, sparks will fly, and neither will be the same again. As it turns out, Jack is not as unremarkable and average as he previously seemed. He is Weir who was born without a Weirstone, the thing that the Weir channel their powers from. There are different stones for different people, wizards have stones that make them wizards, enchanters have stones that make them enchanters and so on. After he was born, Jack began to die because Weir cannot live without a Weirstone; its like a human heart. A wizard was flown in to implant a wizard stone in him, because that's the stone that he was supposed to be born with. But wizards are tricky, devious people...
    Instead of a wizards stone, he was implanted with a warriors stone, because all the warriors have died out. Now this might seem like a good thing that wizard did (she saved a species, hurray!) but it's not. Remember the "warring wizards" I mentioned? Well, they don't actually fight each other. There are two sides, the White Roses and the Red Roses, who have secretly been at each others throats for the past one hundred years. Once a year, they come together to duke it out in a respected tournament that the wizards created as a peacemaker. The only issue is, they force two warriors, one representing each side, to fight to the death. They have no choice in the matter. Every other person involved in the Weir that isn't a wizard, is essentially thought of as wizards property. Like slaves, except that race is no factor.
    So Jack becomes a warrior even though he wasn't meant to. Now, he is forced to fight in the tournament being as he is one of the last warriors still living, as hundreds of years of this tournament as practically destroyed the warrior race. He rebels (of course) and so the wizards threaten his family and friends. What will Jack do to save his friends and stop the cruel injustice that the wizards carry out? You'll have to read the book to find out!

Dear America: Voyage on the Titanic

This was a short, yet vividly detailed book written in the form of a diary by a young, British orphan named Margaret Ann Brady. A tough, cheerful girl born in a warm but poor family, she fell victim to misfortune and eventually ended up at the Orphanage, a safe but chilly place. Margaret jumps at the chance to leave London and head to America on the Titanic as a companion to the fabulously wealthy Mrs. Carsilde. Once aboard the enormous ship, she quickly makes friends ranging from the esteemed designer of the ship, to one of the wealthiest men alive, to a handsome and friendly steward named Robert. The glitz and glamor of the rich dazzle Margaret as she resides in the luxurious first class alongside Mrs. Carsilde, but as she tells in her diary, the wonderful voyage soon turns disastrous... and not everyone will make it out alive.

Silverfin

Do you know James Bond? Great big action hero, smooth with the ladies and an extremely fashionable dresser? Yes, well this book (and the others that follow) are about his childhood. He had quite a few adventures then as well, from stopping kidnappings to solving murders. Silverfin is about his first adventure, which takes place in Bond's home country, England. More specifically, Eton, where James is enrolled in a boarding school since both of his parents are dead. A boy at school has a fabously wealthy father, but both of them look unnatural, too healthy and vibrant. They practically glow and the father has a gleam of craziness in his eye. When a new friend of James's (Red Kelly, an Irish thug) cousin goes missing after fishing near Loch Silverfin, where the boy and his father reside in a weathered, stone castle, James decides to (or rather, is forced to by Red Kelly's persistence) investigate. But what he finds he beyond human comprehension.  What he finds is the end to the world as we knew it and hello to the deadliest weapon of war that could ever be imagined. The old castle holds more secrets then it's cold outside lets on...

I am Lavina Cumming

This is a touching and heartwarming tale of a young country girl sent to live in a city, far away from home. By Susan Lowell, the story begins on a small ranch on prairie, with a little girl watching her father prepare to send her to California. Lavina is ten years old and loves her family, but her father wants her to grow up to be a lady. Her mother dead and with no sisters, he decides to send her to live with his sister in the hopes that she will grow up educated and respectable. After arriving, she discovers that her cousin, her "playmate", is a spoiled brat and her aunt is prim and proper. The only thing she likes about California is her school, where she excels and makes many good friends. But when her town is ripped apart by the San Francisco earthquake, will she and her family finally be able to come together? Or will more than buildings be torn apart?

Pippi Longstocking

This is a short, fun read that's really entertaining. Written by Astrid Lindgren, it's about a young girl (Pippi) who has been left a house and a whole trunk of pirate gold by her father, a wandering captain on the high seas. After tons of adventures aboard her fathers ship with his hearty crew, her father is suddenly washed overboard and disappears into the briny blue. She has utter faith that he will return, but until then she is sent home to wait his re-arrivial in relative dullness. But life where Pippi Longstocking is anything but dull... in no time at all, she and her monkey Mr. Nilsson get into oodles of adventures with their new found friends Tommy and Annika, who are fairly normal children. From her first (disastrous) day at school to beating the circus strongman with a flick of her wrist, life with Pippi is an adventure from the get go!

Guineveres Gift

This novel by Nancy McKenzie is a brief look into the life of the famous Queen Guinevere's life as a child. Orphaned at an early age, Guinevere is sent to Gwynedd, where her mother's sister and husband reign. There she befriends her mischievous cousin, Elaine, who lands Guinevere in hot water more then once because of her grand schemes. In this book, a new man comes to town around Guinevere's thirteenth birthday, with a evil plot hiding behind a charming smile. When the king is gone, the kingdom is run by Queen Alyse, who doesn't particularly like Guinevere simply because she reminds her of her dead older sister. Alyse bans Guinevere from the stables, where she spends most of her free time, but not before the girl overhears some dangerous information while out riding - and makes a friend who she never should have met.  Now, armed with information and enough determination to bring the Kings Army to its knees, she must bravely battle the invaders and save Elaine from kidnapping thieves all while trying to discover the real reason why she was sent to Gwynedd. Was it for her protection...or to keep her in the dark of her future?

Cryptid Hunters

By Roland Smith, this book is, from the beginning, packed with enough adventure and exciement to last life time. The main characters, twins by the name of Marty and Grace, are thrown into a whirlwind life when their parents go missing in a helicopter crash and they are sent from their cushy boarding school to their possibly insane uncle who lives on a private island off the coast of Washington. Uncle Wolfe turns out to be a really nice, if busy guy, but when his nemesis Dr. Blackwood, a multibillionaire hunter of types heads to the Congo to poach a dinosaur (the same that killed Wolfes wife), he must leave immediately to try and get to it first. But the twins don't want to leave their newly found interesting uncle and so try to sneak onboard the flight to stay, bu they end up falling from the plane. Very klutzy, but they survive with the help of a parachute and end up treking through the dangerous jungle to try and find a treehouse where Wolfe once lived with his late wife. Blackwoods there now though, so the twins live in the jungle takes a turn from dangerous to definatly lefe threatening as both parties search desperately to find the dinosaur and survive.

The Witches

This classic by Ronald Dahl is time honored and very interesting. It's about this young boy, an orphan, who lives with his grandmother, a old lady with a fondness for cigars and stories. She warns her grandson about the witches, women who hate children and have magical powers to turn them into things to send them away or kill them. His grandmother falls ill, and is sent away to recover with him at a sea side hotel. When he is exploring he finds a convention of witches under the name of Protctors of Children, or something like that. He hears an evil plan discussed and approved to eliminate thousands upon thousands of Brithish children and only he and his grandmother can stop it!