The Ukrainian Egg Mystery, by George Edward Stanley

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The Ukrainian Egg Mystery is about a hockey team from a small girls’ school that boards a plane thinking they are headed to Buffalo for a championship game, but actually is headed for Moscow. The girls soon realize that they are meant to play the Russian men’s team, and also get caught up in a search for royal jewels when they become aquainted with princess smuggling a jeweled egg into Russia that supposedly marks the spot where her family’s treasure is buried.

This book is really funny, and people of all ages will enjoy it. I first read it when I was probably 9, and I reread it the other day, and got a lot more of the jokes.

The author, George Edward Stanley, does a very good job over exaggerating the characters, and giving them great personalities, and they all fit together so well in the end that every crazy thing that happens throughout the book makes sense in the end.

I really like this book, and if you’re looking for a book that involves hockey, making fun of the American embassy in Russia, and a book that won’t take too long to read but still has a good plot, I suggest it.

47, by Walter Mosely

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The book 47 is about a young boy who is a slave in 1832. He has no name, but is called 47. He is sent to work in the cotton fields, and one day finds a boy who calls himself Tall John, who immediately changes not only his life but his ideas and ways of thinking.

This book is a very powerful book about a young boy born into slavery, and the author, Walter Mosley, does a very good job showing how if you’ve grown up knowing something and only that one thing that it is hard, but not impossible to change your way of thinking.

Walter Mosley shows this when 47 is astonished at the fact that he could be free, not someone else’s property, and when he stumbles upon the idea that he could have the responsibilities of a white man, he cannot really imagine that to be true.

I think that 47 is a very good book, however, it is very intense, and shows all aspects of slavery, bringing attention to the horrifying ‘trade’ that went on in the United States. This book was very meaningful, and I really liked it.

The Trouble with May Amelia, by Jennifer L. Holm

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The Trouble with May Amelia is about a girl named May Amelia Jackson who has six brothers and lives on the Nasal river in Washington. She is the only girl in her family and in her school, and the story is about her adventures on the family farm and her being the only girl in a family of eight kids. It takes place in 1900, and May Amelia does not like doing things that “a young lady should. “

It is a well written book, and there are many funny parts, however, the author adds in a bunch of weird capitalization, like she’ll be saying that Wilbert is Her Best Brother. She also doesn’t use quotation marks. For example, she would write, my mother said stay inside. I asked why, it’s not raining.

This was kind of weird, but overall it is a good book, and I would recommend it if you like Laura Ingalls Wilder books, or that genre of historical fiction.

Everything, Everything, by Nicola Yoon

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Everything, Everything is about a 17 year old girl named Madeline who hasn’t left her house in 17 years. She has a form of Severe Combined Immunodeficiency. As she puts it, “Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in 17 years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. “

That is the case until their next door neighbors move out, and a new family moves in. A boy, Olly suddenly lives right across from Maddy, and she finds herself wanting something she’d never wanted before.

I really liked the book Everything, Everything and I would definitely suggest it to people who liked The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green.

A Faraway Island, by Annika Thor

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A Faraway Island is about two Jewish sisters, Stephie and Nellie, who are sent to live on an island is Sweden because of World War Two. They and their mother and father all used to live happily in Vienna, Austria, but since the German invasion, their father had been forbidden to continue working as a doctor, the sisters hadn’t been allowed to go to regular school and many other things were closed to them just because they were Jews.

When the sisters are sent to Sweden, they are only supposed to be separated from their parents for a short time, six months at the most. Their parents original idea was for them to get visas so that they could immigrate to the United States. However, as the war goes on, it gets increasingly difficult, and the six months turns in to seven, the eight, and soon a whole year has gone by.

A Faraway Island is a very well written book, however it leaves a few too many questions unanswered at the end. If you enjoy reading historical fiction and learning about children in World War Two, you will enjoy this book. Annika Thor does a really good job writing the story of Stephie and Nellie, and I enjoyed reading it.

Wednesday Wars, by Gary D. Schmidt

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I very highly recommend this book. It is one of my favorites, and is really well written.

Wednesday Wars is a novel that covers a lot of different topics. It was written as a young adult novel, but I think that adults will enjoy it and appreciate it just as much. There are many funny parts, but even though it is an overall hilarious book, it also takes place during 1967 and 1968, and the Vietnam War is a big part of the story. Holling Hoodhood, who is the main character of this book is stuck with his teacher, Mrs. Baker, when the Catholic half of the class goes to catechism, and the Jewish half goes to Hebrew school on Wednesday afternoons. Holling is the only Presbyterian in his class, so he stays with Mrs. Baker, an arrangement that neither of them are very happy about.

Overall, Wednesday Wars is an amazing book, and if you like reading historical fiction, or reading at all, you should check it out.

A little about me:

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I thought that before I started posting about books, I might write a little about myself and why I’ve decided to start this blog.

My name is Aria, and I love reading and writing. I like telling people about the books I read, and I thought that writing reviews would be a good way to share my opinion.

I hope that people will read my blog, and be inspired to read the books that I write about and even write their own reviews.

I hope that you enjoyed this post and that you continue to keep reading!

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