Check out this great fantasy book! It's a SC Junior Book Award Nominee and if you like the first book, there are two more in the series! It was an exciting book with lots of twists and turns! Here's more about it...
If you weren’t sure when you’d have your next meal and survived by picking pockets and stealing, you probably wouldn’t care that your country’s king, queen, and crown prince had been assassinated and the younger prince is presumed dead. But, if you were guaranteed a better life, a rich life, simply by pretending to be someone you weren’t, wouldn’t you do it? Sage and three other orphan boys have been “rescued” by Conner, a nobleman with the idea that one of them could be groomed to be the heir to the throne. The boys quickly learn that Conner’s plan is devious and dangerous. All three boys must train to behave like a prince would, but also must keep the treasonous secret. One, and only one, boy will become the prince and the rest will be killed to hide the secret. Can Sage overcome his stubbornness? His only choice may be to lie or die. Read The False Prince by Jennifer A. Neilsen |
Check out one of my favorite SC Junior Book Awards, The Raft by S.A. Bodeen! Here’s something about this book... Robie is an experienced traveler. She’s taken the flight from Honolulu to the Midway Atoll, a group of Pacific islands where her parents live, many times. When she has to get to Midway in a hurry after a visit with her aunt in Hawaii, she gets on the next cargo flight at the last minute. She knows the pilot, but on this flight, there’s a new co-pilot named Max. All systems are go until a storm hits during the flight. The only passenger, Robie doesn’t panic until the engine suddenly cuts out and Max shouts at her to put on a life jacket. They are over untold miles of Pacific Ocean, with no land in sight. She sees Max struggle with a raft. And then . . . she’s in the water. Fighting for her life. Max pulls her onto the raft, and that’s when the real terror begins. They have no water. Their only food is a bag of Skittles. There are sharks. There is an island. But there’s no sign of help on the way. Read more to find out what happens next! |
LOVE this book! Moses Thomas is an endearing book character that I laughed and cried with in this book! Crow by Barbara Wright is a must read!! The summer of 1898 is filled with ups and downs for 11-year-old Moses. He's growing apart from his best friend, his superstitious Boo-Nanny butts heads constantly with his pragmatic, educated father, and his mother is reeling from the discovery of a family secret. Yet there are good times, too. He's teaching his grandmother how to read. For the first time she's sharing stories about her life as a slave. And his father and his friends are finally getting the respect and positions of power they've earned in the Wilmington, North Carolina, community. But not everyone is happy with the political changes at play and some will do anything, including a violent plot against the government, to maintain the status quo. |
This book is filled with pirates, mystery, treasure, and tons of adventure! There are 2 more books in this series is like this one! Check out Deadweather and Sunrise!
Egg lives with his family on Deadweather Island with retired pirates. A mysterious trip to Sunrise Island leads to an unfortunate accident and Egg winds up living with the wealthy Pembroke family, and their beautiful daughter, Millicent. His new life is much improved, but short lived. Soon Egg is running for his life and joining forces with a one-handed cabin boy named Guts. Together with Millicent, they must fight to stay alive, save Egg’s home on Deadweather, and search for a mysterious map that may lead to treasure.
Egg lives with his family on Deadweather Island with retired pirates. A mysterious trip to Sunrise Island leads to an unfortunate accident and Egg winds up living with the wealthy Pembroke family, and their beautiful daughter, Millicent. His new life is much improved, but short lived. Soon Egg is running for his life and joining forces with a one-handed cabin boy named Guts. Together with Millicent, they must fight to stay alive, save Egg’s home on Deadweather, and search for a mysterious map that may lead to treasure.
In the not-too-distant future, huge tornadoes and monster storms are a part of everyday life. Sent to spend the summer in the heart of storm country with her father in the special StormSafe community his company has developed, Jaden Meggs is excited to reconnect with her dad after he spent years researching storm technology in Russia. She’ll also be attending the exclusive summer science camp, Eye On Tomorrow, that her dad founded. There, Jaden meets Alex, a boy whose passion for science
matches hers, and together they discover a horrible truth about her dad’s research that is putting countless lives at risk. As a massive tornado approaches, threatening to destroy everything in its path, Jaden is torn between loyalty to her dad and revealing his secret. Can she find the courage to confront her dad and save everyone from the biggest storm yet? |
“I play what’s inside me. That’s what I mean by thrumming. When the vibrations of the music make
your soul vibrate, you feel the thrum. It’s like you’re perfectly in tune with the song, as if you are the
music and the music is you.” When I thrum I know I’m being heard. The notes escape me and as I play
the vibrations take away all that I feel. Music is not the notes on the page but instead the feelings that it
helps relay. For Lyla, though, music was all about the notes written on the sheet and how those notes
are performed. Lyla was all about following the structure of the sheet music instead of feeling the music
inside her. I would have never imagined that she would find the freedom of music and I would find the
structure of the note.
your soul vibrate, you feel the thrum. It’s like you’re perfectly in tune with the song, as if you are the
music and the music is you.” When I thrum I know I’m being heard. The notes escape me and as I play
the vibrations take away all that I feel. Music is not the notes on the page but instead the feelings that it
helps relay. For Lyla, though, music was all about the notes written on the sheet and how those notes
are performed. Lyla was all about following the structure of the sheet music instead of feeling the music
inside her. I would have never imagined that she would find the freedom of music and I would find the
structure of the note.