I am currently reading 4 books >.<
1: The Astonishing Life Of Octavian Nothing, Traitor To The Nation - MT Anderson
Volume I: The Pox Party
In November of 2006, it won the National Book Award for Young People
Set in the time leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War.
It's about a boy and his mother who live in a house with scientists. Him and his mother are the only two that go by names; everyone else is known by numbers.
Everything about their lives are recorded: when they ate, what they ate, when they go to the restroom, when they go to bed, what time they wake up, and many more such situations.
This is all Octavian has grown up knowing so it doesn't seem out of the ordinary for him. That added to the fact that he's never allowed to leave the house by himself.
An evil sort of man then comes into the story and starts messing up their peaceful life.
This is as far in the story as I have gotten.
2: Inkspell - Cornelia Funke
Second book in Inkheart trilogy
It was named the 2006 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Children's Literature category.
It's about character's who can bring stories alive. In the first one the main character's (Meggie) father (Mo) reads a book called Inkheart (also the name of the first book) and brings out 4 of it's characters.
The first book is about how the characters try to get back into the story.
This book is about how Meggie discovers she has the same power and reads herself into Inkheart. The book is then about how she is to get out again.
3: The Named - Marianne Curley
The first book in the Guardians of Time Trilogy.
An International Reading Association’s Young Adult Choice 2004
A “Recommended Read” Red House Children’s Book Award 2003
This book is told (rotating chapters) from the view point of Ethan (a member of The Guards) and Isabel (a soon to be member).
Member's of the Guard travel through time setting things right so the present and future will be as it should. They battle an organization called The Order.
The story goes through Isabel's training and beginning missions. It also focuses on Ethan's abilities and struggles.
4: The Fellowship of the Ring - J.R.R. Tolkien
First in The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Hopefully you all know the story.
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