The 39 Clues Series (The Maze of Bones) By Rick Riordan

Would you like to solve a great mystery? How about winning $100,000! Check out this new series 39 Clues and it could happen to you. The first book in the series tells the story about the powerful Cahill family, reading the books gives you clues, and there are trading cards and an online website for you to become a member of the Cahill family to compete for prizes. Grace the Matriarch of the Cahill family, the most powerful family in the world has died, and left a will giving her closest relatives a choice to take one million dollars or try to solve the source of the family’s power, becoming the most powerful person in the world. There are a total of 39 clues hidden all around the world that tell the family’s secrets. Amy and Dan, Grace’s grandkids decide to try to solve the mystery and receive a clue to head for Paris, where they learn all about the history of Ben Franklin while trying to find other clues. There is danger everywhere as other relatives try to knock them out of the race. My favorite part is when they find the second clue and one of the other relatives try to steal it from them, and Amy and Dan escape by climbing the stairs to the top of a church and lock the doors, but the Kabras family jumps through the window tackling Amy and Dan. Luckily, Amy and Dan are able to escape with the clue. To find out what happens to Amy and Dan read this book and the other books in the series, and you may be the one to solve the mystery and win great prizes.

By: Danny

Double Fudge by: Judy Blume

Hey, are you obsessed with money? Well if you are, “Double Fudge” is the book for you! This book is about a young lad named Fudge who loves money so much when his teacher tells him to draw a picture he draws a “Fudge Buck". A fudge buck is a type of money that Fudge had created; he thinks that he can buy everything in the entire world with his fudge bucks. What an imagination! His older brother, Peter and his parents think that he has a serious problem. Peter just thinks that he is just a nutty six year old and that he doesn’t understand a single thing at all. My favorite part of the book was when the family meets their long lost cousins. Fudge is going crazy because their younger son has the same exact name. He loves money and is the exact same age as Fudge! Will there be more hysteria when the two Fudge’s move in together? Find out in the best comedy book ever, “Double Fudge”.

Daphne

Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris

Are you craving an action-packed medieval comedy? Then, read Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris. This story is about a young boy named Christian who runs away from his parents and is taken in by a troll in a forest! Now, Christian has grown up and has started being an inventor. He uses his inventions to spy on the King Swithbert and the royal family and slowly falls in love with the youngest and only unmarried daughter of the king, Marigold. Christian secretly p-mails (a pigeon mail service) Marigold under a secret identity and discovers she has a mysterious power Christian soon starts working in the palace to be near Marigold and hears the Queen’s perilous plot to grab the kingdom and killing Marigold. The queen will spare her only if she marries the not too bright men that the queen has chosen. My favorite part was when Princess Marigold tries to get the men to leave because Marigold always does something rude, like pick her nose in front of the guests. Will Christian save Marigold and find out about her secret power, find out about his mysterious past, and prove the queen and her slimy ferret are not as innocent as everyone thinks? Find out in Once Upon a Marigold by Jean Ferris.

Maigh

Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix.
By: J.K. Rowling

Do you like books that have action, adventures, and mysteries, all packed into a fantasy? In Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, the sixth book in the series, read how Harry goes to a hearing in the M.O.M (Ministry of Magic), and how Harry saves his only relative, his godfather, Siris Black, from the evil clutches of Lord Voldamort. My favorite part was when Harry, Ron, Hermione, Luna, Neville, and Ginny go straight into the ministry, and Harry fights Voldamort again, alone. Though Voldamort escapes, the scene is full of action and weird objects, like flying brains. Will Voldamort return? Read this exciting book to see if Harry and his friends survive Voldamort’s followers, ‘the death eaters’?
Alfiya

MISSING NANCY DREW By Caroline Keene

Are you the type of person who goes for those mysterious action impact stories? Well if you are, then this story is for you! This book is about a detective named Nancy Drew and she has three best friends named, Bess, Ned, and Georgia. At the beginning of the story Bess, Ned, and Georgia went to meet Nancy at a diner but Nancy never showed up. So they called her cell phone on a pay phone and she never picked up. Upon returning to Nancy’s house they found the cleaning lady and Nancy’s dad. They asked if Nancy had stopped by, but she hadn’t so they looked for clues in Nancy’s room. Her cell phone and clothes that she was going to wear that day for a date were in the closet. After finding these facts, Bess, Ned, and Georgia jumped in the car to go look for Nancy because perhaps she was going to investigate a case at the museum. They were thinking that this was a case that they needed Nancy to help with, but they needed to find her first. Was Nancy found? Read the book to find out the rest and by the way, my favorite part was when Georgia, Ned, and Bess were looking for clues in Nancy’s room.

JERRY FINK AND THE MEANING OF LIFE By Wendy Mass

Did you ever think about what the meaning of life was? Well Jeremy Fink and his best friend Lizzy definitely were interested. The story is very complicated but I will briefly tell you about it. Jeremy and Lizzy have been best friends since they could remember. One day when they were coming back to their apartment, they found the mailman with a package for them. When they got the package they were interested of what was inside so they just had to open it. When they did, there was a wooden box that was beautifully made. On the box in carved letters was written, FOR JEREMY FINK TO OPEN ON HIS 13TH BIRTHDAY, CONTAINS THE MEANING OF LIFE. When his mom got home, he asked her where the box came from and she was very surprised to see that the box was there in the first place. When she explained, Lizzy and Jeremy asked why his dad who had died years ago would make such a box for him and where the keys are to open the box. The problem was that his dad's good friend the one who had the box all these years had lost the keys. Read this great book to see if Jeremy finds out what his dad had put in this box to explain what the meaning of life is, and why he did it in the first place.

BEFORE I DIE By Jenny Downham

The book Before I Die is an amazing book the main character is Tessa. Tessa is sick she has cancer and doctors never expected to get worse and it's quicker than anyone thought. When she figures that out she decides to make a list of ten things she wants to do and some of the things are risky and others are unbelievable. Tessa wouldn't do the list alone so she got her friend Zoey to help her with the list. Even though she was doing the list that doesn't mean that she still didn't have her illness she would have to go to the hospital for fainting or she would get blood tests and have to see the doctors. This would sometimes affect her from doing the list. My favorite part was when Tessa and her dad were having a nice moment and it really touch my heart. Would she be able to finish the list before she dies? Would the doctors be able to cure Tessa before it's too late or would Tessa not make it and die? If you want to know what happens I recommend you to read Before I Die and found out what happens to Tessa.