Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

"This looks like a job for... Captain Underpants!" Here it is to More action, more 'laffs' and more flip-o-rama. Welcome to the land of Talking Toilets!

I love Captain Underpants books because they make spelling mistakes, but not so much that we can't read the story, they make such weird and unnatural plots that it makes me laugh until juice comes out of my nose, and last but not least, because it makes sense even if you read the last one before you read the first one! Now let's travel into this book, shall we?

In this book, Harold and George have to save the world from evil talking toilets that are going around, eating people, and saying: "YUM YUM, EAT 'EM UP!" How will they ever escape?

How did these toilets become alive? Thanks to Melvin Sneedly's PASTY 2000. This machine can photocopy things into real life! It seems like a pretty innocent invention to me! After all, George and Harold are pretty sure that it doesn't make real copies and that Melvin was just fooling with them. So they sneak into the gym and start photocopying their comic book, only to be proved very wrong! It does turn things into real life! As they run from the gym in a hurry to not get eaten, what will happen next? Read the book to find out!

***I give this book a 8 out of 10***

Harry Potter VS Twilight

Hello. Yes, some of you may not know, but there has been this big debate going on. It's called Harry Potter Versus Twilight. It's actually been going on for quite a while by now. Personally, I'm a Harry Potter fan, but I have nothing (much) against Twilight. Just saying, no offense to the Twilight people, but I think Harry Potter is way more original... After all, how many times a day do you come across a book that has vampires and werewolves in it? A LOT! Just think about it.... :P

My Rotten Life: Nathan Abercrombie, Accidental ZOMBIE

Nathan Abercrombie, accidental zombie, officially not breathing, not chewing, not digesting and definitely not feeling, is here. What will happen to this unlucky boy next?

In this book, Nathan Abercrombie looses his thumb (and thankfully manages to glue it back on) and tries to get the cure for this 'disease'. At the same time, there are good things about being a zombie and it's that you don't have to sleep, you don't feel tired, you don't to go to the washroom at bad moments, and last but not least, you don't get hurt! For example, in the book, Nathan gets stabbed by a fork, but when he pulls it out... Ta da! Only for neat holes on the bridge of his nose! Also, there was an incident when he lost his thumb and when he found it, it could do some gross things! How will he ever be about to find a cure for this dreadful 'illness'? How will he hide this from his safety-oriented-kind-of-insane mom? Read to find out more about this accidental zombie and his adventures to find a cure. Will he be able to turn back alive in time?

***I give this book a 8.5 out of 10. The plot was great, but the actual story lacked something.***

Firegirl

Tony Abbott is an amazing author. In this book, a girl named Jessica Feeney moves into Tom's neighborhood and school. As said in the book:
'On the outside, it doesn't look like much happened. A burned girl (Jessica) was in my class for a while. Once I took her some homework. In class she said my name. Then she was gone.'
In some ways never imagined, though, Tom is changed in the inside. Stuff he used to do like playing with his friends Jeff and Rich don't seem to make sense anymore. To play and joke around while another person is somewhere fighting for her life and sitting alone every hour doesn't seem right. Firegirl is a powerful novel that shows how the smallest of gestures like bringing somebody (whom others don't like) their homework can have a great impact on someone.

When Tom and his class first meets Jessica, they are all disgusted. They are afraid of her and don't want anything to do with her. After a few days, Tom starts getting closer to her and at the end holds a tentative friendship with Jessica. As Tom starts going over to her house (first to drop off her homework but them slowly to see how she's doing), he learns more than he could every imagine about Jessica and her terrible accident. What has made Jessica this way and who is the mysterious girl in the picture? Will Jessica be okay? Read on as Tom slowly unravels the mysteries of Jessica's past and looks into her future.

***I give this book a 9 out of 10. Excellent novel study book!***

Captain Underpants and the Perilous Plot of Professor Poopypants

Captain Underpants, to the rescue! George and Harold aren't bad kid at all. It is just that they think school is boring and sometimes decide to 'liven things up a little'! Except that sometimes it gets a little out of hand and they get in heaps of trouble. Well, most of the times, really. Even when they really, truly believe that they are doing the right thing, such as switching the sign of "Don't UNDERESTIMATE Our Good TEACHERS" into "Our TEACHERS Don't USE DEodERANT" Yes. Very funny.

In this comic/novel, when George and Harold's evil science teacher, Professor Pippy Pee-Pee Poopypants (really, not making it up), tries to take of the world with a maniacal, mad scientist guy in an enlarged robot suit, well, things get out of hand. Who will save the world this time? seems like a job for CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS (who is actually Mr. Krupp, their mean principal). Will Captain Underpants succeed?

This book is full of 'Laffs', 'Romance (Just Kidding)', and 'Action'! Your are sure to hurt because of laughing so much!

***I give this book a 8.5 out of 10.... ***

Little Bo in Italy: The Continued Adventures of Bonnie Boadicea

Little Bo, short for Bonnie Boadicea, is off to Italy. At first, because of the cat and the cartoon-ish pictures, I thought that it was a childrens' story. However, I was downright wrong to be so judging of the book. "Never judge a book by its cover." This book has amazing vocabulary (and also as amazing pictures) and the authors, Julie Andrews Edwards (best known for her performance in Marry Poppins, the Sound of Music, and The Princess Diaries) and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton. Wow! This family sure has done a lot of amazing things!

In Little Bo in Italy, Little Bo travels with her new-found owner, Billy Bates, to Italy with Lord and Lady Goodlad's famous yacht, Legend. Bo is delighted - now she can see more of the world and she continue her quest to find her lost brothers and sisters. She is determined to know that they are all safe and sound. Which relatives will she meet this time? What new things will she learn? In Italy, little Bo sees sights she's never seen before, has adventures that test her strength, courage, and spirit. She shows once again that even a small cat such as her can make a difference in the world.

I feel that the Little Bo series is a lot of inspirational books. I believe that everybody should read them because they each tell us that we all have choices to make. Even the smallest pets. What choices have you made? As little Bo travels all over Italy, she proves that even the smallest act can make a big difference. And so can you!

***I give this book a 9.5 out of 10!***

Artemis Fowl the Graphic Novel

As I mentioned in the other blogs, I have talked about Artemis Fowl, the teenage genius. This is the first book turned into a graphic novel.

In this book, Holly Short, the first female LEPrecon officer in all of history, is captured by Artemis Fowl and charged for fairy gold. As Butler, Artemis, and Juliet, Butler's sister go argue between the fairies and Commander Root (otherwise known as Beetroot with his comrades at the LEPrecon office) the price of Holly Short, Mulch Diggums, the dwarf criminal who has spend the last three hundred years going in and out of prison, as gone into Artemis' safety box and took The Book. The Book is the fairy bible and contains all the fairy people's rules, laws, and weaknesses. However, it is written cleverly in Gnomish, which no human can decode. No ordinary human anyway. Artemis, this tricky genius criminal, has decoded it. What has Artemis started by clashing the fairy and people world together when the fairies have worked so hard to keep it apart? Read the beginning of the amazing adventures of Artemis and Captain Short!

About this series, though, I believe that you should read the book before before you read the graphic novel because if you read the comic first, it gives you the pictures of the people, but in the novel, you can imagine what they look like, first. For one, I did not think that Artemis Fowl would look like that I definitely not that about Holly either. I also didn't think that Juliet was so small compared to Butler. I am not saying that the book didn't have good descriptions, but that the people who drew it must have thought of them in ways that I didn't. Therefore, I think it's good to test your imagination first. See how close you get.

I recommend this book to people who love the Percy Jackson series and the Harry Potter ones as well. Eoin Colfer wrote a novel fit for pictures and words!

***It give this graphic novel a 9 out of 10. Be sure to read the book first!***