Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck,(118 pages) is an extremely unnerving novel that probably cannot be recomended to anyone (especially by me). It is about two men, Lenny and George, that are good friends and travel together. Lenny is very strong, rather dumb at times, and loves petting things that are soft or feel good, and George is the smarter of the two and is alaways taking care of Lenny, even when Lenny does something he shouldn't. Like an incident that happened in Weed: they were working and there was a woman that had a fluffy, red dress and so Lenny went to touch it, then she started to scream and Lenny held on and finally he let go and ran away, but the woman said that Lenny had hurt her. So George and Lenny hid in a sewage ditch for the rest of the day and when night came, they got out as fast as possible. So they get a job as barly-bucking farmhands. Thier new boss has a son named Curly, who has a wife. Both Curly and his wife are pretty snobby characters, and when Curly's wife comes into the barn, Lenny is in there. She and Lenny talk to each other and she brings up the topic of soft items... I don't want to reveal what happens. But if you want me to tell you in person, Ms. Ullner, I would be happy to do that. It also uses some slang, dialect, and very 'Bad words' in it.

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis, 154 pages long, is when Lucy, Edmund, Susan, and Peter go through a magic wardrobe and into a world called Narnia. There, Edmund meets the White Witch and is treated nicely, so he decides that she is the one to stand for. He soon learns otherwise when Aslan comes and her powers are weakened. Then he finds the true good in Narnia and fights to defeat the White Witch. When she dies, all evil dies n Narnia and peace is restored.

Barnaby Grimes: Return of the Emerald Skull

Return of the Emerald Skull, by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell, is 203 pages long and is about a boy named Barnaby Grimes. He is a "Highstacking Tick-Tock Lad" and is suppost to deliver fragile stuffed birds to the Headmaster of a school. It turns out that the school is being haunted by an evil skull made of Emerald. As the hipnotised school-children are trying to kill him on the orders of the Emerald Skull, Barnaby must distroy the skull or let its victims distroy him.

A Wind in The Door

A Wind in the Door, the second book in the A Wrinkle in Time series, by Madeleine L'engle, has 240 pages. It is an exiting novel about Meg, Calvin, a sick Charles Wallace, the Echthroi, ( Nothingness filled up just enough with hatred, that that is what it entirely becomes. Still a vacuum, an emptiness, a lack of matter in space, but that which hates, and is determined to X, or distroy all life,) and three new characters: Proginoskes, a cherubim of both wings and eyes; Blajeny, a tall Teacher of the Names of everything; and a snake, Luise the Larger,( another Teacher.) Together, all of them accept the powerful Echthroi and Charles Wallace, have to go INSIDE one of Charles Wallace's Mitochondion, one named Yadah, INSIDE one of Charles Wallace's cells, to defeat the Echthroi that have almost succeded in Xing him. They finally are all, including himself, able to sacrifice Proginoskes's life to save Charles Wallace's. I found it kind of sad.
 JUST A TINY BIT THOUGH!

A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine  L'engle, (232), is an exiting, evil filled, don't-want-to-put-it-down novel. At one point, the wise and at the same time naive Chares Wallace, is being controlled by an extremely evil IT. Meg and Charles Wallace lose their father because he tessers, or moves forward in time and space, to the planet Camazotz. Within the atmosphere of Camazotz, Camozotz contains IT, which is a giant brain and somehow has the power to control anything that is on the planet which IT lives. IT is also creating The Black Thing, a black, smoke like substance that is pure evil. So Meg, Charles Wallace, and a friend named Calvin, have to rescue their father. In the end they succeed.