When a mysterious creature appears in Jacks village he sets out on an adventure with two other people to save his village.I gave this story five stars because it was well written and about mythology. It made me want to keep reading until I finished. It describes the many different stories of myth...
Nancy Farmer's third book of the trilogy had a very strange ending that almost made me change my overall opinion. (For the better.) But I won't...it was good to visit with Jack and Thorgil again and go on an adventure; it was good to meet up with old friends and share a song; but overall, it was...
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer is an intense, interesting, suspenseful fantasy book based around an 11-year-old boy named Jack, and his little sister Lucy. The book takes place in 793 A.D. of a fantasy world. This world is separated into 3 regions, each containing different occupants. One is a...
Initial reaction: I'm pretty much at a loss for words at this point in time because I didn't expect this story to grip me as much as it did. Following Matt's journey in the course of this book was one full of many ups and downs, tragedies as well as triumphs, and I honestly haven't come across m...
Okay, I definitely expected more from this book. 1. Where was the mystery? I thought it would be some intense plot filled with true villains who wanted to overthrow the government, or a group of outsiders who want to take revenge against the general by kidnapping his kids. I have this thing calle...
THE CHILDREN FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS BRAVE THEIR WORST NIGHTMARES -- UNDERGROUND. Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; stolen a second time in her young life, as he learn...
An interesting read about a young girl from a remote village in Mozambique who sets off on her own journey to get to Zimbabwe. I offered this book as a book project choice to my fifth graders, and all of them who read it really enjoyed it. I dare say it was the most popular of the ones I offere...
Celia’s picnic basket was on the bed, and in a corner of it was the napkin containing the dead finch. He didn’t want to move. He didn’t want to make decisions. How simple it had been at the plankton factory, though of course it had been terrible, too. There he hadn’t been responsible for anything...