A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

Rating: ***** (5 stars)

Age group: 10+

Type: Science fiction

This book is about a girl called Meg Murry whose father has gone missing. One day she gets up in the middle of the night during a hurricane. She decides to go downstairs. Her little brother, Charles Wallace, is already waiting for her. Charles Wallace can pretty much tell what Meg is going to do next, most of the time. Their mother comes to join them and drink hot cocoa. Suddenly, a woman who Charles Wallace is friends with, Mrs. Whatsit, comes into their house and upsets their mother very much. So the next day, Meg and Charles Wallace and their dog Fortinbras go to Mrs. Whatsit's house, which is known as a haunted house. They meet a boy called Calvin O'Keefe hanging around the house. They take him inside with them but instead of Mrs. Whatsit, they meet her friend Mrs. Who. Mrs. Who tells them to go because it is not yet time. But then a bit later, Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and their other friend, Mrs. Which, show up at their house and take them to planets and tell them who they actually really are. They begin a dangerous journey to save Meg's father, visiting many planets by tessering, which is basically making a wrinkle in the universe so they have a shorter distance to travel. They have to visit a weird planet where everybody does the same thing and where Meg's father is trapped. But at this planet, Charles Wallace goes into IT: a giant brain who rules this country. Now Charles Wallace is not Charles Wallace anymore, and Meg must save him from IT.

Wow this book was so awesome and touching and I think anybody would love it. You would like it if you like science fiction and excitement and really this book is great. It is very exciting and sad and happy and I just LOVE IT!!!!

***NOTE: If you are a very sentimental person have tissues on hand.

PARENTAL SECTION

Sexual parts: no!

Violence: not really. Except Charles Wallace does hit somebody evil.

Fighting: no

Pregnancy: no!

Kissing/romance: yes a little.

Stealing: no

Vandalizing: no

Operation Redwood

by S. Terrell French

Rating:*****(5 stars)

Age group: 9+

Type: Realistic fiction

This book is about a boy called Julian Carter-Li who lives in California. His uncle is part of a company called IPX and IPX recently bought a forest of old-growth redwood trees and are planning to cut every single one down. When Julian is sick he sees an email which has a very interesting subject line saying Sibley Carter (Julian's uncle) is a world-class jerk. Julian looks at

it and this is how he finds out his uncle is going to cut down redwoods. The sender is a girl named Robin Elder. He replies to her and soon they have a plan to try to save the redwoods, which involves Julian traveling to Robin's house as part of a student exchange program in order to escape a four-week math camp in Fresno, a super-hot place in California. Danny, Carter's best friend, is also part of this plan. But the plan does not go as planned... What will they do????

This books is extremely good and very exciting and it involves a lot of exciting characters and exciting scenarios. You would like it if you like environmental stuff or excitement.

PARENTAL SECTION

Sexual parts: none

Violence: none, except there is a pretty suspenseful part where they are very high up the ground

and Julian is in danger of a thug who is trying to grab him

Fighting: not really except for the above-mentioned thug

Pregnancy: none

Kissing/romance: none

Stealing: none

Vandalizing: none

***NOTE: There IS something about a "kidnapping" and also Julian and his best friend Danny have to hack into a computer.