Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, Number 1 - Extreme Danger

Paperback, 176 pgs.

This is the first book in the all new hardy boys series.  My least favorite part was when someone got murdered.  Ollie, an old man who owned a store, is the person who got murdered.  A doctor, Maxwell Monroe, put too much medicine into his coffee on purpose becuase when they were both younger, they were rivals.  Both of them used to be paper reporters and Ollie used to make much better newspapers.  My favorite part was when the Hardy boys chased their friend because their friend was undercover.  They went upside down on a loop called the Monster loop.

The Hardy Boys solved the mystery.

Rex Tabby, Cat Detective

Softcover, 144 pgs.

Rex Tabby is the best cat detective in Whiskerville, U.S.A.  He catches crooks, but the crooks that he's after now are not your average crooks.  They're the Manx family, the sneakiest cats around.  It wasn't that funny, but I liked the characters.  He was pretty cool.

The Mouse and the Motorcycle

Softcover, 158 pgs.

Dun dun dun . . . .
The adventure begins when Keith and his family move into rooms 215 and 216 at the Mountain View Inn.  Keith's room (room 215) is special because it has a mouse hole where Ralph and his mother and younger brothers and sisters live.  Unfortunately, his father died from eating an aspirin tablet, so he doesn't live there.  Keith is special because he has a toy motorcycle, ambulance, and race car.

When Keith went down for dinner, Ralph (loving speed and adventure) climbed up the telephone cord, jumped on the motorcycle, and tried to ride it.  But he couldn't find the starter for the motorcycle. Ralph had idea of how to ride it.  He could push the motorcycle along and then jump on and grab his tail so it wouldn't get caught in the spokes, and coast around the telephone table.  Unfortunately for Ralph, the telephone rang, startling him, and making it so he didn't watch where he was going, and flew off the telephone table into the metal waste basket like a little tweety bird.  Dun dun dun . . . .

Keith found Ralph when he found his motorcycle in the metal waste basket.

Ralph saves Keith from a really big fever by bringing an aspirin tablet from the 1st floor back up to him in Keith's toy ambulance.  He couldn't use the motorcycle because Ralph had lost it.  Matt, the old bell hop returned the motorcycle to Keith.



Keith offered to Ralph about taking him home so he could ride the motorcycle every day, but Ralph decided he liked the hotel best.  Then Keith let Ralph keep the motorcycle because he was a big, grown-up, responsible mouse.

Dun dun dun . . .      

Found (The Missing Series, Book 1)

Hardcover, 320 pages

In the beginning of the story, Jonah and his friend Chip find out that Chip is adopted and so is Jonah.  In the middle of the story, CJB (Cute Janitor Boy, according to Katherine) tackles Gary because Gary is trying to kidnap Jonah and Chip.  In the end of the story, they go to an adoption center (where adopted children learn how to stay calm and not wonder who their real parents were) where Jonah and Chip and Katherine (Katherine said she was Danielle, and Danielle is one of the adopted people that were supposed to be at the center, but she wasn't) go into a cave which has a stone formation which has a sensor inside the rock (which makes the children locked in the cave). 

They find out that they were from the past and the future.  Chip and Alex belong in the 15th century (Chip being the King of England and Alex being Chip's younger brother). 

I loved it.

Andrew Lost, In The Kitchen (Andrew Lost Series, Book 3)

Paperback, 96 pages

Andrew escapes the bathroom, only to get flushed down the toilet!  Now they have to find their way through a maze of pipes.  It isn't going to be easy, because giant cockroaches scurry across the counter and giant flies patrol the air, along with bees.  In the beginning of the story, Andrew hops onto a fly, and rides it like a horse.  When Mrs. Scuttle tries to hit the fly with her fly swatter, Andrew thought that he didn't drown in the bath tub, just to get drowned in a puddle of bug juice!

Star Wars: The Last of the Jedi, Underworld (Star Wars Series, Book 3)

Paperback, 137 pages

I REALLY liked this book.  

Ferus Olin was gazing at the almost completely destroyed Jedi temple through a sprinkle of rain.  In the beginning of the story, Ferus Olin breaks into the temple (being under Emperor Palpatine's control), trying to find the missing Jedi.  Rumor had it, she was inside the temple.

He almost got caught, but he sliced through all the storm troopers, and jumped out the window (actually he cut a window-shaped box in the window and jumped through it). 

The book ends with Ferus getting captured and before he got captured, he found out that there was no Jedi inside the temple.  There's no missing Jedi, just a trap to lure all the Jedi to their death.  He found all the Jedi light sabers.

Earthquake in the Early Morning (The Magic Tree House Series, Book 24)

Paperback, 72 pages

The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to San Francisco just before the famous earthquake.  In the beginning of the book, Jake and Annie witness the earthquake of San Francisco.  It happens Wednesday, April 18th, 1906.  During the earthquake, Annie falls into the road that has a crack in it because of the earthquake.  Jack tries to help Annie get out of the crack in the road by passing fallen bricks down to her.  Annie piles them up in a stack, climbs up onto the stack, and Jack put his arm out to Annie and Annie climbs up on his arm. 

The library keeper was moving all the rare books to the pavillion, and Jack asked if they could help.  The librarian said, "Sure.  There are only a few left by the door.  Grab 'em! Hurry!"  But he made the wrong choice moving books to the pavillion because in Jack & Annie's research book it told them that lots of people tried to save important things but they didn't always succeed.  Their book said that a librarian tried to save all his rare books and move them to the pavillion, but the pavillion caught on fire, which is the opposite of what he thought (his thought was that if he moved the books to the pavillion, they wouldn't catch on fire).

The thing that they learned was "keep having hope".  It was written on a piece of wood in the place where people who had lost their homes were writing poems about hope.  This was what the poem said "There is no water and still less soap.  We have no city, but lots of hope". 

Charlie Bone and the Shadow (The Children of the Red King Series, Book 7)

Hardcover, 464 Pages

Count Harken Badlock is back to take revenge on the Red King's children, starting with Charlie Bone's family.  He takes Billy back to Badlock (which is his home world) because he thought Billy would be useful. 

Billy really liked Matilda (who is a very pretty girl).  She convinced Billy to stay in Badlock.  She's working a little bith with Count Harken, but kind of hates him because he is too evil.

Then Charlie came to rescue Billy from Badlock, but Billy doesn't want to go back because he has his own little forest (which turned out to be just an illusion, but it felt real, smelled real, and looked real). 

So the book ends and he's still in Badlock.  See what happens next . . . IN BOOK 8!

Midnight for Charlie Bone (The Children of the Red King Series, Book 1)

Hardcover, 416 pages

Charlie Bone discovers that he has an endowment (which is a gift) that helps him listen to voices in pictures.  In the middle of the story, Charlie Bone resists getting hypnotized by Manfred Bloor.  At the end of the story, again Charlie resists being hypnotized by Manfred.  Manfred is evil, and he's trying to get a lot of information out of him to learn the good endowed children's secrets.

He runs home and he discovers the onimouses, and their three cats, the flames.  The flames are the Red King's three leopards.  That information will help him in the later books.  

Andrew Lost, In The Whale (Andrew Lost Series, Book 6)

Paperback, 96 pages

Andrew Dubble is ten years old, but he's been inventing things since he was four. In the beginning of the story, Andrew and Judy get swallowed by a whale. They have to find their way through the THREE big stomachs of the whale, go out the whale's spout, and go to Hawaii.

Charlie Bone and the Red Knight (The Children of the Red King Series, Book 8)

Hardcover, 480 pages

Charlie Bone and the Red Knight is where Count Harkin Badlock is an evil enchanter.  In the end, Charlie Bone finds out the Red Knight is his dad.  In the middle of the story, Dorcas Loom disguises herself as Olivia's godmother, gives her a present that she made using her endowment (to enchant clothing) to make a magical vest for Olivia that makes her turn to the Dark Side. 

Charlie Bone and his friends make an identical copy of the vest, and then they switch it for Olivia's enchanted one. 

In the very end of the story, Charlie's uncle, Paton Yewbeam gets struck in the chest with an arrow.

Pokemon: All That Pikachu Ani-Manga

Paperback, 104 pages

This is a comic book where Pikachu fights Raichu.  Pikachu goes to a Pokemon camp with no humans allowed.  Pikachu is excited to go there.  Pikachu gets to make new friends, and the new friends take care of Togapi.  Togapi is a spike-ball type of Pokemon that Ash and his friends found in a cave full of Pokemon fossils.  What powers does Togapi possess?  Nobody knows. She's still a baby Pokemon, so Misty (Misty is Togapi's Pokemon owner) hasn't tried her out for a Pokemon battle.

They have fun at the pokemon camp.