The Indian in the Cupboard is a thrilling novel by a creative author named Lynne Reid Banks. This book tells a story about a boy named Omri and his journey with a toy Indian named Little Bear. Omri discovers this little Indian friend when he receives him as a birthday present from his friend Patrick. When Omri came back from school after receiving his toy Indian from Patrick, he was greeted with showers of presents from his family members. The last present to open was from his older brother, Gillon. As Omri ripped the last pieces of wrapping paper off his last surprise, he uncovered a small white metal cupboard. At first, when Omri opened this gift, he was disappointed. Little did he know that when later playing with this cupboard and his new Indian, he would witness a great deal of amazing magic.
In this book, the author does a great job of going into detail when describing a certain person, place or thing. For example, when the horse comes out of the cupboard alive, I love how the author explains the scene: "There, prancing and pawing the white paint, was a lovely, shiny-coated little brown Arab horse. As the door swung open he shield nervously, turning his face and pricking his ears so far forward they almost met over his forelock. His tiny nostrils flared, and his black tail plumed above his haunches as he gave a high, shrill neigh." In this example, the author is very specific and uses great adjectives to describe the appearance of the horse. One of the reasons why this book is so wonderfully written is because the author uses very descriptive language.


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Further Into Catching Fire!

I am a little further into the book Catching Fire and I absolutely love it! This book is filled with action, adventure, romance, and more. I will tell you that I just recently went to see the first Hunger Games movie which was fantastic! I think that the moviemakers changed a few little details to make it different from the book, but it still was incredible. I have to admit, I cried during one scene in the movie just as I did during that part in the book. I am very eager for the Catching Fire movie to come out, and I am just as eager to finish the book. Right now I am at the part where the Game Makers announce what the Quarter Quell Hunger Games will be. I already know, but I won't spoil it for you. This book is so intense and amazing that I am addicted! When I start reading I can't stop!

Catching Fire (The Second Hunger Games Book)

Ever since I finished the first Hunger Games book, I have been dying to read the second one. I think that to get the full story, you have to read all three books because of course you want to find out about everybody's future. I'm guessing that the author did that so people would keep on buying her books. Anyways, I haven't gotten that far, but I can tell that I will not be getting nearly enough sleep for the next week because of this suspenseful book! The first book ended when the two winners of the Hunger Games were coming home, but did not explain them seeing their family for the first time for a while, which I am hoping to read about. I am currently on page six, and still reading. Nothing really exciting has happened yet, but I will continue reading right now to find out.

Flowers For Algernon (Amazing Book) By Daniel Keyes

Hey Guys,
I am about 25 pages into an amazing book called Flowers For Algernon. I have been reading it for almost a week now and I love it so much! I hear from a lot of people that have read it that it is very sad in the end. I really want to know what happens, and once I start reading it I can never put it down! It is about a mouse named Algernon that is a laboratory rat and has had to overcome many tests and surgeries. He receives surgery to become more intelligent. I haven't gotten much further than that, but the title, "Flowers For Algernon" kind of implies that something bad happens to someone and they receive flowers, maybe. That's just my prediction about the rest of the book. I really recommend this book, but I will warn you just like I was warned, it may be a tearjerker! I will try to blog once I finish this book and let you know about the ending of the book. Bye!
~Nikki
P.S. If you noticed, I accidentslly posted this on Rachel's blog too, but I still need to fix that.

The Hunger Games

I just started reading an amazing book called The Hunger Games. I started this book because I saw the movie preview and it looked really good. Another reason that I started the book is because it got recommended to me by a lot of people. Even though I'm only on page 38, I can barely put the book down when I pick it up! I knew that I was going to be addicted from about page 20, because the beginning of the book was a little slow. When I started reading it I told my friend that the beginning was really slow and boring, but she told me to keep reading.


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