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The Hunger Games

We would like to present the suspense-packed page turner: The Hunger Games. It is an absolutely brilliant novel, written by a fantastic author, Suzanne Collins who came up with this compelling story.

The Hunger Games are set in destroyed North America. After a war, the glorious country Panem developed. Its centre, the beating heart is called the Capitol, which is surrounded by twelve districts. The districts have to support the Capitol. In return they keep peace and people would live under their reign in law and order.

Once a district 13 exited. It planned a revolution against the Capitol, which failed, district 13 was destroyed. And to remind the people of the remaining districts, that they haven’t got a chance against the power of the Capitol, they invented the Hunger Games, which are organized every year. In these games, 24 tributes, one girl and one boy from the age of twelve to eighteen from every district get picked to fight in an arena, with a yearly changed location, until only one is left. The winner then is a hero for lifetime.

Katniss Everdeen is a sixteen year old girl from district 12. (One of the poorest.) There she lives with her little sister Prim and her mother a very hard life. Since her father died, Katniss was the one who had to provide the family with food. So she had to learn how to hunt. Katniss is excellent with bow and arrow, even better than her friend Gale, who’s the only person she can really trust. Katniss is not really the joking type of person but who would be like that if he or she had to fight every day to survive. She is a really strong willed, tough, clever, loyal and passionate person, who would die for the things she believes in. But Katniss’ life changes completely when Prim’s name gets picked at the reaping. (The day when the tributes get chosen.) There is nothing that she loves more than her little sister, so Katniss volunteers.

Now she has to go to the Hunger Games. There are 24 tributes and only one can survive. Will Katniss come back to the things she loves so much, to Prim who won’t last long without her, who believes that her sister will come back? Only one can get out of the arena alive.

Who will it be?

 

 

 

Warriors: Into the Wild

Into the wild is the first novel of the series warriors. In this book cats play the main characters. There are wild cats who live in the wood and fight each other. Rusty the main character lives with humans but he decides to join one of the clans in the wood but there life isn’t easy for a houscat like him and there are many enimies. I like this book and I think it is very exiting to read and it is fascinating to read from a cat’s view.

Skulduggery Pleasant

Skulduggery Pleasant is the first novel of the Skulduggery Pleasant series, writen by Derek Landy. The novel crosses the Horror, Comedy, mystery, and Fantasy Genres.

The Story is about the character Skulduggery Pleasant, an undead magician and dedective, with his Partner Stephanie Edgley who goes by Valkyrie Cain, and numerous Magic-wielding allies as they try to prevent Nefarian Serpine from unleashing a weapon of terrible power on the world.

Twilight


If you like fantasy love stories you have to read Twilight!

It is the first book of five volumes (so you will have enough to read for a long time) The other books are called:

New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn & Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. But the main story of Twilight is in the first four books.

The book tells you the story of the seventeen year old Bella who moves from her mother to her father called Charlie. Her father lives in a very small town called Forks. Forks is a town where it rains almost every day. In the beginning Bella hates Forks, because hates rain, but on the first day of school she meets somebody called…

…Edward. Edward is the most beautiful person Bella has ever seen. When they get to know each other better, they immediately fall in love. But is he really a human?

He looks indescribably good, he’s indescribably fast, indescribably strong and he behaves as if he came from another time. But this love is more dangerous than she thought and there begins a fight with love, life and death.

Edward is a Vampire. But Bella doesn’t care what he is, she is unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him. But Edward is not the main danger because he only drinks the blood of animals. There are other Vampires in town, who are much more dangerous than Edward.

James the tracker wants Bella’s blood. Trackers hunt their prey till they catch it. For James this is the most exciting hunt he has ever had, because the Cullens, Edward’s family protect Bella like a real family member…

This fantastic book was written by Stephenie Mayer. She was born on the * 24 of December 1973 in Hartford, Connecticut.

And if you want to know if James the tracker catches Bella you have to read this thick, really good Book!

By Leonie Tatzberger & Sophia Yazdani

When the Snow Fell + Mary Poppins

When the Snow Fell

When the Snow Fell is a great book about a joung boy called Joel Gustafson, who lives a poor life. Annualy he does his new year resolution. For example he wants to sea the sea, but he hasn’t got a lot of money. There is also another new year resolution: He wants to find his mother. Is he going to manage that or any other of his wishes?

Author: Henning Mankell

Pages: 256

Anna’s Recomentation: I liked to read the book and I would read it all over again. It was interesting, because Joel’s life is much more different than mine. Only sometimes it was a bit boring.

Dora’s Recomentation: I haven’t read the book yet, but after listening to Anna I really want to read it. I think it sounds like a sad, but worthwhile story. Everyone of you, including me, has to read this novel!

 

Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins is a famous novel about an extraordinary nanny, who works for the Banks family. tTogether with the four children she experinences many adventures, but not normal things. No, it’s a book full of magic moments and funny scenes.

Author: P.L. Travers

Pages: 224

Dora’s Recomentation: I liked this compelling book, and it was written very well. I think I would have liked it more if I would have been a bit younger-but still you have to read it.

Anna’s Recomentation: I have heard about the book, but I never read it. But after you watch our video the same that happended to me will happen to you: You would love to read the book!

City of Bones

CITY OF BONES

The mortal instruments was written by Cassandra Clare published by walker books.

City of Bones is about Clary Frey, who finds out about a new world.  The Shadowhunters. Her best friend Simon is turning into a vampire, she notice that she doesn´t knows anything about her family and she gets a boyfriend who has a relationship with her, for short: her whole world gets crazy. But there are even more secrets about her, that even she doesn´t knows. She joins the shadowhunters and has to deal with crazy warlocks, bloody vampires and her family.

More about Shadowhunters:

They have angelic blood and human blood (note from the author: that´s very sad) Shadowhunters, also called Nephilins, fight against downworlders, demons and  half-blooded monsters. They have special weapons and healing materials. Mortals (normal humans) don´t see them if the don´t want to get seen. With the steal (like a wand) they burn marks in form of tattoos into their skin to have extra powers, like faster running or healing.

 

Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Have you ever heard about Harry Potter? Probably yes, but if you have only heard about it you should really start reading one of the books of this amazing series. So why do I recommend this book so convincingly to you? Harry Potter is a fantasy novel and this special edition is probably one of the most fascinating books I have ever read.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of the Secrets is my absolute favourite one. It got my attention right from the beginning and I could hardly stop reading. It is about wizardry and about friendship. The story also shows some aspects of racism: the magicians don’t accept the muggles because they think they’re all disloyal and bad-natured. They come to this judgement even though they don’t really know them. Just because the muggles are different that doesn’t mean that they are evil. This is exactly what happens in real life, too.

The Harry Potter novels were all written by the same author, named J.K Rowling, who has become famous all over the world with this series. She had her breakthrough with her first Harry Potter book and her books are bestsellers world-wide.

I also saw the movie, but I liked he book better, because you can let your fantasy work and imagine it the way you want it to be. This author also has an incredibly convincing way of expressing the characters’ feelings and describing the situations they are in.

Repeating myself, I can only advise you to read this book yourself. I am convinced that you will like it just as much as I did.

By Matteo and Moritz