Schlagwort-Archive: Book for young people

Review: Stolen

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Lucy Christopher – Stolen

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  • Publisher: Recorded Books
  • Duration: 8 hours 39 minutes
  • Part of a series: No
  • Summary: „Told in a letter to her captor by 16-year-old Gemma, Stolen explores the influence that a really wild and remote space can have on the inner development of a young woman.Gemma, a British city-living teenager, is kidnapped while on holiday with her parents. Her kidnapper, Ty, takes her to the wild land of outback Australia. To Gemma’s city-eyes, the landscape is harsh and unforgiving and there are no other signs of human life for hundreds of kilometres in every direction. Here, there is no escape. Gemma must learn to deal with her predicament, or die trying to fight it.Ty, a young man, has other ideas for her. His childhood experience of living in outback Australia has forever changed the way he sees things. But he too has been living in the city; Gemma’s city. Unlike Gemma, however, he has had enough. In outback Australia he sees an opportunity for a new kind of life; a life more connected to the earth. He has been watching and learning about Gemma for many years; when he kidnaps her, his plan finally begins to take shape. But Ty is not a stereotypical kidnapper and, over time, Gemma comes to see Ty in a new light, a light in which he is something more sensitive. The mysteries of Ty, and the mystery of her new life, start to take hold. She begins to feel something for her kidnapper when he wakes screaming in the night. Over the time spent with her captor, Gemma’s appreciation of him develops …but is this real love, or Stockholm Syndrome?“  Quelle: http://www.lucychristopher.com/stolen
  • Review: I liked this book very much and can only recommend it to you – it is a very special story about a girl and its kidnapper, that shows that sometime things aren´t that easy they seem to be. Gemma is a wonderful girl an sometime I almost cried when I read her story and thoughts.
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Review: Hunger Games 02. Catching Fire

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Suzanne Collins – Hunger Games 02. Catching Fire

  • Publisher: Scholastic Us
  • Number of pages: 472
  • Part of a series: Yes, it is the second part of a trilogy.
  • Contents:
    Katniss and Peta have survived the Hunger Games and are enjoying their lives as Victors home in District 12. Without intending to do so, they create upheaval in the districts on their Victor’s tour. In its struggle to uphold its power over the people of Panem, the Capitol plots devious ploys against them. But a rebellion is about to start and sometimes help comes from people you’d least expect it from.
  • Review:
    I loved the first part of the series and was looking forward to read what happens next. And the second part is great, too. Only the end was a litle bit confusing to me. Why have so many people been ivolved in the revolution? But I can recommend the book to all readers and have bought the third part, too. I want to know, how everything ends.
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Review: Endymion Spring

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Matthew Skelton – Endymion Spring

  • Publisher: Puffin
  • number of pages: 444
  • Part of a series: No
  • Contents:
    Blake is a boy, living together with his mother and little sister in Oxford, St. Jerome´s College. Often he spends his time in the library. One day he finds a strange book, which bites him and has first only blank pages and then after a few moment suddenly appearing letters. The letters aren´t easy to understand for the boy and can only seen by him… Many years before the mystery has begun in dark times…
  • Review:
    The book was recommended to me by a friend and it was real fun to read it. But because I only read it in the evenings it took long time to read it and I often forgot important things. So it is my fault and nothing wrong withe the book that I could not say it is wonderful. I think I can recommend it to all readers of exciting, mystery books but you have to read it without long breaks to have much fun.
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Review: Skulduggery Pleasant

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Derek Landry – Skulduggery Pleasant

  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • number of pages: 380
  • Part of a series: Yes, there are more parts.
  • Contents:
    The life of the twelve years old Stephanie changes after her uncle has died. He gets a house and meets Skulduggery Pleasant, a living skeleton. Together with him a big adventure begins and Stephanies life isn’t the way it has been before.
  • Review:
    The book was recommended to me of a friend of mine and I loved it the same way she did. The story is great, I like the characters, most Skulduggery and Stephanie. It is unbelievable, how she acts, especial for her young age. I am locking forward to read how live goes on for this special skeleton and tough girl. To lovers of magic I can recommend this book.
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Review: Supernaturalist

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Eoin Colfer – Wishlist

  • Publisher: Puffin Book
  • number of pages: 273
  • Part of a series: No
  • Contents:
    Cosmo is a 14-jears old boy and he lives in a gruesome orphanage. One day he runs away and becomes bad injured. He is close to death when he is rescued my a mysterious trio. Together with them he starts to fight against evil parasites, which only a few people are able to see. A big adventure changes the live of Cosmo and many new things make his live special  while not everything is the way it seems to be…
  • Review:
    I loved the stories about Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer and so I decided to read some other books. That was a very good choice. „Wishlist“ , the first other book is a great, but „Supernaturalist“ is much better. I really love this book. It is exciting from beginning to end and I like the story very much because of the wonderful charakters and the way the story goes and how it was able to surprise me many times. The book told me to remember again that the things often are not the way you think when you see them first. It makes you give the things / people a second chance and try to find out how they really are. I can really recommend it to you.
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Review: Call me Hope

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Gretchen Olsen – Call me Hope

  • Publisher: Litle Brown
  • number of pages: 280
  • Part of a series: No
  • Contents:
    Hope is elven years old an has many trouble with her mum, so she decides to make a list and give herself point for feeling bad for example. Her live starts to change…
  • Review:
    I loved this story and especial Hope. She is such a cute, smart and creative girl. I like the way the book is told and the way the author brings in the  „Tagebuch der Anne Frank“ and how reading it gives power to Hope. The books has a special but very important topic, it shows the power of words and how they sometimes hurt. That is one of the reasons I like the book of. And I so I discovered the project „Hands and Words are not for hurting“. A very wonderful idea , I think. But most I liked the book for its way a difficult relation between mother and daughter is described and how it comes to and wonderful end. So I can it special recommend to mothers and daughters.
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Review: Wishlist

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Eoin Colfer – Wishlist

  • Publisher: Puffin Book
  • number of pages: 200
  • Part of a series: No
  • Contents:
    Meg  is a girl, that hast wanted to steal something from an elderly person called Lowrie. But her crime doesn´t work well an her partner killes her in the end. When she arives in heaven / hell something special happens because she has done as much bad as good things in her live. So she gets a second chance by helping Lowrie, who is very ill do what he has noticed to be done before death at his Wishlist. But the bad side doesn´t want her to mange this…
  • Review:
    I loved the stories about Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer and so I decided to read some other books. That was a very good choice. „Wishlist“ is a great book. Meg is a wonderful, lovely girl and Lowrie is very lovely, too. I liked to read, how the both get closer to each other and was very interested in finding out, what the points on the Wishlist are and how the mange to do it. The book is exciting till the end and funny, on many pages I had to laugh out loud. I can really recommend it to you.
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