Lit Literature Gang

  Prisoner of cell 25 is the first book in a great series. I have recently re-read the book, so here is my review:   Summary: Michael Vey is a teenager with the power to send high voltage shocks through anything he touches. This is a secret that only his mom, and his best friend Ostin know. He accidentally reveals this secret, however, when bullies push him to far, and force him to use his power. The bullies get knocked out by this, but his crush is there and witnesses it all. When they figure out that they both have powers (she can read minds), they do research to find out what is wrong with them. They find out that an evil company did experiments on children, and is hunting them down, which sets them on a wild adventure.  Review: I have to say, reading this book again gave me so many flashbacks to sixth grade, when I first fell in love with this book. I miss reading books that I like for hours every day, and racing my friends to see who could finish a series first ...

By Marlow Tracy (no spoilers) I recently finished reading And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, which I found to have too many murders and not enough clues. Despite the questionable amount of death, I liked the writing style of the book, so I picked up another well-known novel by the same author: Murder on the Orient Express . The story begins with the famous detective Hercule Poirot, whose journey on the Orient Express takes an unfortunate turn when one of the passengers is found stabbed to death with his compartment locked from the inside. With the train stranded on a snowdrift, Poirot must work quickly to find out which of his cabin-mates is the murderer using a series of obscure clues. Before starting the novel, the concept of a story taking place on a train intrigued me. The confined setting creates character interactions that otherwise might never take place, and the lack of need for description forces the author to focus on advancing the plot and includin...

By Kate Welcome back to the Lit Literature Gang blog! As a kid, I loved reading, and I had many favorite things to read, so I thought I would share some of the books I liked when I was younger. Leave a comment if you have read any of these books or liked any other books when you were a kid. Rainbow Magic Fairy Books by Daisy Meadows       The Rainbow Magic Fairy series contains several hundred books, and they are divided into sets of seven books. Each of the sets is a different category of fairies, such as animal fairies or color fairies. I didn't get the chance to read all of the books, but I read a lot of them, and I would sometimes read an entire set in one day. All of the books are about two girls named Rachel and Kirsten, and in each one, the girls run into a problem caused by the main antagonist, Jack Frost, and a different fairy helps them solve the problem. I loved these books because it was exciting to see where Rachel and Kirsten's adventures wo...