Book Report: Mel the Chosen

Mel is tired of her parents choosing where they live, and what they eat. Especially after her grandparents mysteriously passed away. She can’t wait to become an adult and make her own choices. When she finds a new world that she is worshiped in, Mel gets offered the chance to live in a world without parents. But there’s a trick, she has to give up everything.

Book Report: Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Sticky-Fingers Cure

The Winter Effluvia (a magical disease that makes people and animals do strange things, like float in the air), has affected the house and the animals. Missy also has to give children cures for their habits: usually magical candies or vitamins or potions.

For example, the Sticky-Fingers Cure (which is the one this book is named after) was given to a boy who liked to take things from other children, and it caused things to cling to him. Eventually he learned to not take things.

Book Report: The Silver Balloon

Gregory ties a index card with his name and address on it to a silver helium balloon and lets it go out of his window. Three weeks later a envelope arrives addressed to Gregory. A person named Pete has found his balloon! Gregory writes back and the two of the become pen pals, Exchanging mystery gifts in their weekly letters. When a mystery gift comes and Gregory can’t figure it out he heads to the Museum of Science and Industry where they put the artifact (Saber Toothed Tiger tooth) on display.

Book Report: Tuck Everlasting

The Everlastings, Doomed to – or blessed with eternal life after drinking from a magical spring, wander about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they possibly can. When 10 year old Winnie Foster comes upon their secret the Everlastings take her home and explain why living forever at one age is less a blessing than it might appear to be. Problems arise when Winnie is followed by a man in a yellow suit who wants to sell the spring water for a fortune.