The Reality Bug by D.J. MacHale

Bobby Pendragon is off to save the world again. This time he's going to a world called Veelox. Veelox's citizens are all in their own perfect realities while the world goes to waste. A friend of Bobby has invented the Reality Bug, a computer program that will make the realities not so likeable. But it malfunctions and Bobby has to figure out the code that should shut down the Bug. Or is Veelox too far gone to be saved?

The Reality Bug: I really liked MacHale's flume idea. The flume is how people travel between worlds. A good thing about Bobby is that he gets things wrong. This is not a Disney movie where everyone lives happily ever after. I also liked that the book was mostly written as a journal. There's a part where Bobby is writing in the journal and then there's another chapter about his friends at home.

A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett

A Hat Full of Sky: Tiffany Aching is a witch off to go into service for an elder witch with two bodies. The Nac Mac Feegle, blue six-inch high men who are always drunk and ready to fight, realize that a hiver is after Tiffany. Hivers are creatures who have felt every animal and human and things conscience for thousands of years. They possess things because they believe that by doiong that, they will be able to shut that feeling of everything. It takes over Tiffany, but the Feegles go inside her head and throw it out. After that Tiffany and the greatest witch in the world track it down at the Witch Trials. Tiffany takes it into death and shows it how to become human enough to die. The witch that has been traveling with her takes her back into the first world and she becomes famous.

A Hat Full of Sky: The Feegles are my favorites.They talk funny, think they can take on anything and pull it down by head butting whatever it is. I was also happy that there wasn't any romance. Terry Prattchett is pretty much the only teen writer that doesn't put it in. And Tiffany's a word addict. She's read through the whole dictionary and has been given a Dictionary of Amazingly Uncommon Words with stuff like plongeon (???), 'a curtsy about one third as deep as the traditional one'.

The Sight by David Clement-Davies

The Sight: Under a mythical place, two wolves are born with a magical gift called the Sight. Another wolf with the Sight, Morgra, is chasing them, seeking justice for a mistaken crime. She curses the pack, and one by one they are killed until there are four left. Larka, one of the cubs, runs away because she hopes that by leaving the pack that the curse will stop. She finds a human baby that is marked and steals it so Morgra won't find him. She goes to an ancient Roman fortress where Morgra takes the baby so she can become Man and control all the animals. But Larka changes instead and then decides to stay a wolf. Morgra tries to kill the human and Larka fights back. Suddenly there is an earthquake and both the wolves are hurled down to their deaths.

I thought Clement-Davies did a very good job on the Sight. At first I was mad that he killed Larka but then started to admire her. There is a scene where she uses the Sight to look into the future and sees her death, and then gos and saves everybody anyways. What a heroine. Also see Clement -Davies' other book, Fire Bringer.

The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern

The Princess Bride: In which the most beautiful woman in the world and a farm boy fall in love. But Wstley sails to America to make his fortune and becomes the Dread Pirate Roberts on the way. Buttercup is told that he was killed by pirates and vows never to love again. She is noticed by Prince Humperdinck and is taken to the royal capital to learn royalty during the three years before the Prince becomes a king. Then she is kidnapped on Humperdinck's orders. Westley comes to save her and they get away but are caught again. And guess who dies?

The book I read was the abridged version, of which I am greatful, because the abridger tells you what he has cut out. Like the 103 pages of the princess packing and unpacking her clothes. But the parts that I did read were good. I like Buttercup and Fezzik the giant best because Buttercup is the most perfect woman in the world in love with a farm boy who she thinks has died. She knows things about life that most wouldn't. Fezzik is a loveable giant who everybody boos.

Pirates! by Cecilia Rees

Pirates! is set in 1724. Nancy Kingston is the daughter of a wealthy sugar merchant. She is a wild girl who plays at the docks with sailors' kids, in particular William. At a very young age they had decided to marry each other, he a captain, and she going with him. But when Nancy's father dies, his wish is for her to go to his plantation in Jamaica. There she meets her half-sister, Minerva, and discovers that her brothers have arranged a marriage between her and a cruel Brazilian. Instead of marrying him she and Minerva run off together and become pirates. After a while at sea the women and the crew are captured by the Navy, officered by William. Nancy tells him who she is(she and Minerva are in men's clothes)and they are put aside for later. Then the ship starts sinking and William sets them free. Almost every pirate survives the wreck and they are soon back at sea again. After a long time of sailing, the crew splits up and those who are still together settle on Madagascar. But the Brazilian soon finds them and captures everybody but Nancy and Minerva, since Minerva's Nancy's 'slave' and he doesn't think that she can do anything. Right before he kills Nancy, Minerva kills him. Minerva marries a pirate and Nancy goes to find William.

Pirates! is a creepy book. There was one part that I read right before bedtime that made me stay awake for a while. Since Pirates! is set in the times of slavery, you read a lot about the cruelty of white people to blacks. It makes me mad. The main character is Nancy, but Minerva did everything. I admire M because she was so determined to stay with n that she ran away, became a pirate, and left her mother with strangers.

Summerland by Michael Chabon

Summerland=baseball. In the four worlds of the Middling, Winterlands, Summerland and the Gleaming, everyone plays baseball. On Clam Island nobody plays baseball except four teams. Ruth's Fluff-n-Fold Roostershave lost every single game that season. On the morning of a game Ethan Feld, the second baseman, wakes up to find a werefox sitting on him.Cutbelly takes him to Summerland to meet the Boar Tooth mob of ferishers, also known as the fair folk. there he is the despair of the Home Run King of Three Worlds, Cinquefoil. They dig up an oracle clam who says,
"Feld is the wanted one. Feld has the stuff he needs." Everyone thinks it means Ethan, but it's really Ethan's dad. But Coyote kidnaps Mr. Feld. Ethan, the Roosters pitcher Jennifer T., a changeling called Thor, and Cinquefoil come to find him and save the world as the Shadowtails baseball team. Thor scampers them to Summerland and they cross the Raucous Mountains, cross the Big River and battle with the biggest catfish of all time, almost get eaten by a giant, are taken prisoner by ferishers and play ball all the way. They are joined by a Sasquatch, a five feet tall giant, a knee-high princess, and a wererat. Finally the Shadowtails arrive at Diamond Green. all this time Mr. Feld has been making an envolope to put Coyotes poison in to end the world. What looks like the last game of baseball the worlds will ever play is played. Ethan hits a homerun that opens the Gleaming and Old Mr. Wood comes out with his relatives. Ethan and his dad and Jennifer T. go back to Clam Island.

Summerland is awesome! mythology, stories, ball, just the rigt amount of everything. My favorite guy is Jennifer T. She's consistent, works hard at what she loves, has a hard life, and sympathatic to the problems of others. I definately reccomend Summerland.