The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Hi everybody!!!! So my next post is on The Graveyard Book. It was a really good book, and even though I found myself getting lost in the beginning, everything seemed to tie together by the end. I found myself getting confused, and sometimes, because of this, I would get bored. But by the end, it was really really really good! One thing that really caught my eye was that there are picture in the book!! And have you all seen and/or heard of the movie Coraline??? Well, Neil Gaiman wrote that book!! So here we go....

The story starts with a family of four sleeping in their home during the night. Everything seems perfectly fine until the man Jack enters the scene. He has come to kill the family with his knife. He manages to kill the parents and a young girl, and all he has left is the baby. When he gets to the crib, the baby is gone!

The child had crawled out of bed and made his way to the graveyard close by. Mister and Mistress Owens, two ghosts, find the baby, and they raise him. Silas, who neither is a part of the living or the dead, becomes his guardian.

The problem is that this baby needs to live in the graveyard among the dead, otherwise the man Jack will surely kill him. But first, he requires the Freedom of the Graveyard to live with the ghosts. And fortunately, he is granted it.

Years go by, and the man Jack still has not found him, but danger has come young child's way as he grows up in the graveyard. He has met the Sleer, the Indigo Man, a witch named Liza Hempstock, and even made his way on occasion into the world of the living. If he keeps this up, the man Jack will find him.

And who really is Mr. Frost???

Enjoy the book!!!

Rattle his bones
Over the stones
It's only a pauper
Who nobody owns
~Traditional Nursery Rhyme

Paper Towns by John Green

So hello everyone!!!! The next book that I read was Paper Towns by John Green. For the record, it was amazing....=]

This book is about Quentin Jacobsen, the senior in high school who hangs around with the band geeks. When he was younger, he had a best friend, named Margo Roth Spiegelman. When the two were about nine-ten years old, they were in the park, and they spotted something very unusual. Margo's reaction to this sight was quite peculiar. This scene changed both of their lives, especially Margo's.

Quentin, or Q, had always loved Margo from at a distance. As the two drifted apart, Margo got a boyfriend, and Q never stopped loving her. They did not hang out anymore and had no real connection, until Margo Roth Spiegelman shows up at Q's window in the night asking for his mother's car. Not only is Q confused, but his decision changes that night drastically. So what is Margo up to? Will their friendship be reunited? Q's love for her addressed?

After the night, Margo disappears. She has done this before, but this time is different. She has always been sneaky and leaving clues for her parents to find her, but now, it is Quentin's job. The clues vaguer than ever, the odds of finding her against him. Will Margo Roth Spiegelman ever be found? Are her strings connected with Q's? Read to find out the deal with this paper girl, this paper boy, and this paper town.

13 Litttle Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Ginny Blackstone, the normal "Plain Jane" American girl from New Jersey was given a huge task to complete. Ginny's Aunt Peg, who she considered to be amazing and adventurous, died of a brain tumor. Ginny never really accepted that her aunt was dead, but more in fact that she was gone. Aunt Peg was a striving artist who was always broke, traveling from place to place, and somehow getting by. Ginny thought that Peg was so interesting, but she could never be unless her aunt was with her (or so she thought).

Before Aunt Peg died, she wrote thirteen letters, sealed in thirteen little blue envelopes, addressed to Ginny. In each envelope was a task to complete in a foreign country. Some envelopes told her to go places; others told her to meet new people. After she followed Peg's directions in an envelope, she was allowed to open the next.

All of Ginny's traveling takes place in Europe. She is not allowed to bring anything with her that won't fit in her backpack. Ginny was not allowed to take guidebooks, money, or "electronic crutches." Aunt Peg had thought all of this through. So what is the point of this? What is Aunt Peg really trying to tell Ginny? Read to find out.