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I enjoyed this book. It was about a girl named Kristine and her family who lost their horse, Dandy. After that Kristine never wanted to love another pet again. But her dad surprises her and gives her the last thing she wanted for her birthday... a new puppy! With a baby sister on the way, why should she need to take care of a puppy?

After a couple of weeks in their house with the puppy, a new fence was being put up. During this, Kristine went to go feed Mattie (the puppy's name). Mattie kept jumping up onto her leg and Kristine was wearing shorts. To get away from the puppy so she wouldn't get scratched, Kristine ran to the door, and the door closed on Mattie's leg. It broke her leg, but the vet said that it was a clean break and would heal nicely. For 2 weeks Mattie avoided Kristine, and for Kristine, that made it easier to not like her.

After the second trip to the vet, Mattie forgot how dangerous Kristine was so Kristine started training her. When the door slammed shut on Mattie's foot there was a turkey bell on the door and now Mattie is scared of the bell. Kristine decided to use the bell to help train Mattie.

After a while Kristine wants to show off how well she has trained Mattie, but when everyone was out, there Mattie was... too busy playing with them to pay attention to Kristine. To get her to listen, eeryone went inside and watched out the window. She had to use the turkey bell to get her attention. When she went inside to see how everyone felt about the training, everyone ran out the door. Kristine chased them to find out why they were leaving, but she wishes she hadn't.

To find out why, I'll let you read the book.

I really enjoyed it.

Meesha Clark

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The Secrets of Droon

The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet

The Secrets of Droon is an exciting book. Its about 3 kids, Eric, Julie and Neal, who find a magic staircase in Eric's basement, in a closet, while they were cleaning it. The staircase leads to a a magical place called Droon. There they meet a princess, who is also a wizard, named Keeah. She needs to stop Sparr, who wants to conquer Droon. Because Keeah promised to help them get home, Eric, Julie and Neal decide to help Keeah stop Sparr and his ninns on groggles, which are big flying lizards. 

Before Keeah left to distract the Ninns, she left a message with Eric to deliver to Galen the 1^st wizard of Droon. But its in code, so the Ninns, if they got a hold of it, they couldn't read it. But Keeah was captured trying to stop Sparr from getting the red eye of dawn, which would give him enough power to conquer Droon. So Eric, Julie, Neal and Max (whom they meet and is a spider troll) go to save her. But then they meet Sparr and they get trapped. They manage to escape but only after Sparr got the red eye of Dawn. They end up trapping themselves in a storage room with a bunch of rugs, not just any rugs, but flying rugs. They all climb onto one and fly out. While they are flying, they see the stairs they used to enter Droon and they head home.

I loved this book. It was full of adventure.

Meesha Clark

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This book is very exciting and suspenseful. I really enjoyed it. In this book, Bluestar is shaken up and not herself because (in book 3) Tigerclaw attacked her and Tigerclaw was her most trusted warrior and the clan's deputy. He attacked Bluestar so he could become leader, and he failed.

In the middle of this book, Fireheart found out Cloudpaw (his nephew) was sneaking “kittypet” food from the human place. One time when he went to get food, he was taken away by the humans and he wasn't seen for a while. But Ravenpaw (a friend in book 1 but left because he knew too much about Tigerclaw) came to say he saw a cat that smelled like part of the Thunderclan. So Fireheart went looking for him. Fireheart found him and now Cloudpaw is more respectful to the warrior code.

Another part I thought was exciting was the fire. A few cats ended up dying to trying to save other cats.

I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did.

Meesha Clark

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I really enjoyed this book. It was very adventurous. Its great for anyone looking for adventure. It was a pretty thick book, at just over 300 pages. I would recommend this book for someone around age 8 all the way through to adult. (My grandma likes this series too.)

This book is number 3 in a series. I hope, if you read it, you'll enjoy it as much as I did.

Meesha Clark

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I loved this book. It was full of adventure. (Book 1 was about Firepaw's adventure as an apprentice, training to become a warrior.)

In this book, because Firepaw became a warrior, his name was changed to Fireheart. This book is about Fireheart's adventures as a warrior and a mentor. Fireheart's apprentice was named Cinderpaw. She was very adventruous and excited about training and jumped ahead every time she went hunting. During leaf-bare a sickness, called greencough, runs thru the forest and a lot of warriors and kits get sick and die. So Fireheart went to the two-leg place to pick cat nip so the medicine cat, Yellowfang, could use it to help cure the leader from greencough.

However, Tigerclaw (the deputy) wanted to see the leader go and get evidence of other clans hunting in their territory. Fireheart needed to go tell Tigerclaw that the leader was sick, but Cinderpaw wanted to deliver the message. Fireheart said no, but because Cinderpaw was so adventurous, she didn't listen and went anyway. She tried to cross the thunderpath (which is dangerous to cross) but Cinderpaw tried to cross it, but she didn't make it across. Fireheart realized what she did and went running to her. Now she will never become a warrior because of her leg.

While all that was happening, Graystripe (his best friend) was sneaking out of camp to see someone he's not supposed to see. He was seeing a cat from their rival clan. Fireheart was angry that he was breaking the warrior code, but then realized that he was also breaking code by going to visit his human family.

Unfortunately a battle was coming between the 2 clans. Graystripe said he would not stop seeing his girlfriend and nothing could make him.

I loved this book. If you decide to read it, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Meesha Clark

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10/9/2009

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NOW AS AN ADDED BONUS THIS WEEK WE HAVE A 2nd REVIEW!

This 2nd review is by Meesha's younger brother Nathaniel who wanted to follow in his big sisters footsteps.

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN

SPIDERMAN VS. KRAVEN

I thought this book was good. Peter Parker went to the zoo to take pictures. He saw Kraven was letting the animals out. Spiderman fought Kraven and Spiderman saved all the animals.

Nathaniel Clark

© 2009

American Sisters

Down the Rio Grande
1829

I enjoyed the story. It was exciting and adventurous. It was about a girl named Rosita who feels unappreciated, so she runs away. Her stepsister Maria (whom she doesn't like) follows her onto a boat and they end up going down the Rio Grande. While on the boat, Maria and Rosita become friends. Also while on the boat, someone comes by and asks if they've seen Rosita and Maria and said that their father was ill because he missed them so much. The guy who finds them gets a reward, so the captain of the boat decided to lock them in a room to try to get more money out of the father. But the girls had a plan. They would carve their way out through the roof of the boat and climb out and be free. Only things went wrong. Rosita had Maria climb down first and Maria fell into the fast rushing water. Rosita jumped into the water to find her but she couldn't, so she went up onto the shore, upset because she might never see her sister again, so she started singing. After a while, Maria came through the trees. Maria said she heard the singing while in the water and that gave her the strength to get out and find her. They were very happy as they started walking the long walk home.

Meesha Clark

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