Lily’s Crossing by: Patricia Reilly Giff May 24, 2010

A little girl named Lily spends the summer in Rockaway,  New York in 1944 during World War 2.  Lily’s summer was supposed to be a fun, happy summer, but it changes fast. Her best friend Margaret’s family is moving to Detroit, Lily’s father gets shipped to Europe to help with reconstruction, is stuck with her grandmother, and has no friends until her neighbors in Rockaway introduce her to a boy named Albert. Albert is a hungarian refugee. Both Albert and Lily share the guilt and pain from being apart from their family, and become very god friends. They also share lies that could risk Albert’s life!

I recommend this book to people who like historical fiction, and world war 2. This book was sad and very good!! I think everyone who reads this blog should read this book!  Read the book to see what happens!!

The Graveyard by: Neil Gaiman February 26, 2010

It all starts on a foggy night when a very creepy and mysterious man named Jack comes into a house and tries to kill the whole family! He kills almost everyone in the house and wipes the blood from his knife and steps up to the attic where the baby sleeps. When jack got into his room he goes to the crib to find no baby. He goes to check the whole house and finds nobody, so Jack leaves to find the baby.

The little baby boy was smart and crawled out of the house. He was lucky! He only got out because Jack left the front door wide open. He takes himself across the street to the graveyard. Jack runs out of the house fast and furious, because he somehow knew there was a little baby! He goes across the street to the graveyard. A man works at the church next to the graveyard, he guards it at night so one can get in. Jack tells the man what he is looking for, but the man says there would not be. So Jack just leaves.

The night guard was wrong..the baby was able to fit through the bars of the graveyard. Ghosts found the baby and named him nobody. The ghost parents last names were Owens. So Nobody Owens lived  in the graveyard with ghosts. He was allowed to rome the graveyard by himself by the tie he could walk. He learned about the past because the graveyard and graveyard ghosts were very old and knows a lot of history. Nobody has learned a lot of history from this. Oe day he met a girl, and now they are good friends. Bod is Nobody’s nickname, and Bod eventually goes to school and makes new friends.(not all of them are ghosts.) When Bod turns twelve strange things start to happen. There good things about the graveyard but there are also bad things. It is a very dangerous place! Read the book to know the ending!

I recommend this book for people who like very suspenseful and creepy things. This story is based on a murder so you would also have to be interested in mysteries. The suspense keeps you wanting to read more and more of the book!

Jade Green by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor November 22, 2009

Judith Sparrow a fifteen year old orphan had to move in with her Uncle Geoffrey in South Carolina because her mother was killed in a madhouse. When she pulled up to the house she was thinking that it was almost watching her. There were two gables with a window in each, the curtains parted like cats eyes. The man who had been driving her was telling her the names of the towns. They reached the town of whispers. He had told her it was named after the trees. He almost spilled the secret that the house is……haunted?

Her uncle told her nothing green was allowed in his house. She misses her mom terribly and had one silk green frame. It was the only picture she had of her mother. Judith could not bear to part. She hid it under clothes in a trunk in front of her bed. That way people could not see it. Judith thought anyways what could be the worst thing that could happen? Big mistake.

Judith made new friends, especially with Zeke Carey the Miller’s son. She was liking it there, but her Uncle Geoffrey’s house had secrets. Strange things started to happen. Her picture frame had let out some very powerful forces that are eager to bring the houses secrets back. Do you think that Judith might be following her mom down the path to madness? Maybe, maybe not.

I recommend this book to many people. People who love to be left on a cliffhanger! This book may get confusing at times though. No doubt it was a great book!