Mid-winter Reads..

Life is a bit boring right now...so here are some books to spice it up!

- Sal and Gabi Break the Universe - Sal and Gabi Fix the Universe (By: Carlos Hernandez) Sal is a magician, but not just an ordinary magician, a magician who can reach out, and pull something from another universe into this one, who can make things happen without touching a thing, that is, if the other universes out there don't count as 'a thing.' Gabi is a perfectionist on the Student Council, she is well-known at the school, and has great grades, but, she has a secret...a big one...

- Percy Jackson and the Olympians-- Rick Riordan Percy is a wrecking ball. Bad things always happen to him, and everyone around him. He has never been able to stay at a school long enough to learn anything. Along with that he has dyslexia and ADHD. But, he has always been good with water, like really good, he could hold his breath for hours if he wanted too, and he can do all kind of tricks, but, he’s never known why. Then he learns something crazy about his paternal heritage...

Heroes of Olympus-- Rick Riordan (again...) So, the first thing Jason sees when he wakes up is that he is on a bus, holding hands with some random girl he doesn’t know. Apparently, she’s his girlfriend, Piper and Leo is his best friend. Supposedly, they all go to the Wilderness School, a school for all the ‘bad’ kids. Then, while on a field trip, he jumps off a railing, and into the Grand Canyon, to save a girl he hardly knows, while being attacked by one of his so called ‘classmates’. Then he gets whisked off to a wacko camp, by a guy who, somehow has hooves and horns. He also must go on some mysterious quest. You wake up, know nothing about your past, or anyone, and now you have to save your world. Great.

- Trials of Apollo-- ALSO Rick Riordan! Apollo’s life is pretty good, you know? Sun god and all. But then he is punished. For what seems like no reason, he is turned into a human, and dumped into a dumpster. To make matters worse, he is sent to be a servant to a young girl, who has boogers everywhere, only wears cat eyeglasses, loves rhinestones and is very picky. AND he must fulfill a prophecy that makes no sense. Easy-peasy, right?

(The four series above are best read in this order) -

Harry Potter-- J K Rowling Filled with magic, danger, adventure and lots of humor! Let’s not forget this amazing series. Harry, a young boy who lives under the stairs, with his horrible aunt and uncle, is just a normal boy. Right? He had been getting mysterious letters he never got to read, and they became so annoying to his uncle, that they moved out of their house, and into a broken-down shack in the middle of nowhere. But that isn’t stopping the mysterious sender, a jumbo human, or a medium giant, breaks the door down and tells him something astounding, but amazing. ‘Harry, you’re a wizard!’

- A Tale of Magic & A Tale of Witchcraft-- Chris Colfer By author Chris Colfer, here comes a before-everything story, showing how 5 magical students can change their world, while being adventurous and hilarious. Brystal has always been different, she loves to read and learn, but that is outlawed, women basically aren’t allowed to be smart at all. Then she discovers that she is magical. Her life blows up and she ends up meeting a boy who is always on fire, a girl who can make anything and everything into a gemstone, a nymph who is made of water, a girl obsessed with bees, and a misfit who can make pianos fall from the sky. Welcome to Madame Weatherberry’s Academy of Magic.

- The Inheritance Cycle-- Christopher Paolini (It's a bit of a complicated series, but still a very interesting one.) Eragon has no recollection of his parents, but he does know his way around. He is the only one willing to go up to the Spine, so he makes money off the things he sells. Then one day he finds a peculiar smooth, round looking blue stone. What is it? A dragon egg?! Oops...

- The Hunger Games--Suzanne Collins A thrilling story of how a girl, who works her butt off all day to provide for her family, suddenly has go to the arena and kill any others who stand in her way of winning the Games. She has no choice, the evil dictator who is weirdly obsessed with roses, will kill her and her family otherwise. Mix lots of sarcasm, humor, and adventure together, and you will get The Hunger Games! (WARNING: There is also a bunch of gore, and violence.)