The Big Field

The Big Field is a great book by Mike Lupica. I think Mike Lupica is a very good writter when it comes to basketball and baseball. I can make a lot of connections in this story because I play baseball. I realized that in Mike Lupica's books there's always some great, funny, goofy side character that is the main character's best friend, and there is always a mean character. I like to see how the main character handles the mean character. I enjoy reading these parts of the book. This book really had me thinking to myself, "Oh no! The ball went through his legs!" And, "Yes! They won that one by a hair!" I actually said these things aloud sometimes because I know how it feels like.

The Amber Spyglass

The Amber Spyglass is the third book from the series, His Dark Matirials. It is a very good book so far and I enjoy how there aren't too many knew characters and there still are some old characters. I'm guessing that the new character, Ama, will find something called the Amber Spyglass because in the Golden Compass Lyra finds the alethiometer.In the Subtle Knife, Will who is a knew character finds the Subtle Knife. So now in the Amber Spyglass, Ama is the knew character and the Amber Spyglass could be the tool she finds. This book is a great book and I would rate it a 9 so far. It falls .3 short because I liked the Golden Compass so much and This isn't completely the same as the Golden Compass. But it is similar.

The Mistmantle Chronicles, Urchin of the Riding Stars

This book is about a young squirrel named Urchin who's mother gave birth to him and died. Urchin has different fur then the other squirrels from Mistmantle. But nobody knows who his mother was, or where she came from. Urchin was raised by a sweet, dull-headed squirrel named Apple. But Urchin longs to be a castle squirrel, and even more to be Captain Crispin's page. Captain Crispin is one of the three castle captains. One day Crispin chooses Urchin to be his page. That's when Urchin finally gets to be a tower squirrel. But just then, strange things start happening in the castle. This book really gets you into the story. At one point I got so scared I started shaking. That's really rare for me. The voices in my head were saying stuff like, " ooh, this is freaky" and "You're so close to solving the mystery!". This book really got me into the story and I never wanted to stop reading it. This book is the first of two and I would rate it a 9.

Summer Ball

Summer Ball is about a boy named Danny Walker. Danny is an amazing basketball player(like his dad). But, Danny is very short. Although he has learned how to use his shortness to his advantage, and he's very good at basketball, he still has a lot of things to learn about the game. His dad signs him up for a hard core basketball summer camp that only exeptionaly good players go to. Danny, and his two friends, Ty and Will, decide to go to the camp(although none of them are very exited about it). At camp Danny runs into mean people, though times and new friends. But he ends up getting through it and in my oppinion, when he leaves camp, he's a whole different person. Some parts of this book made me feel like I was in the story, or at least I wanted to be in the story. Other parts made me feel completely furios with some characters. And there were even some really touching parts. I would rate this book a 9. This is one of my top 15 favorite books!


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Gregor and the Code of Claw

This book is one of the best in its seriese. Even if you read the first book, and didn't like it. I recomend giving the second book( Gregor and the Proficy of Bane) a go. If you don't like that one, you might not want to read this seriese.

It might be a little intense soumetimes, so if you're a person who can handle stuff like underground wars betwean giant rats, giant cochroches, giant bats, giant spiders, giant mice, and other stuff like that, you'll be able to handle it.

Because I loved the other books in the seriese, I never got bored while reading this book. I sometimes cought myself saying stuff like, "don't do that!", "It's a trap!", or"you finaly figured it out!"I feel that if you get into the seriese, you'll love this book.