Book Report: Lola

A magical illness called the Stillness is coming to infect their world from Floresta. It makes everything it touches dry and grey. Alex catches it! Lola has to go to Floresta and talk to the queen, Madre Luci. She is small, and nothing like her mother, Madre Mitla. Madre Mitla died, though. Lola and Cualli figure out they need to tell the queen to tell the woodpeckers to turn the season to winter! Then the tree could rest, get strong, and get rid of the Stillness! They talk to Madre Luci, but she refuses to help them. She says, “If we turn it to winter, things will die! Especially my mother’s flower. ” Every queen gets a new flower as soon as they are crowned. When winter comes, the flower vanishes if the queen is dead.

Book Report: Asterix and the Cauldron

Chief Moralsarelastix asked Asterix and his village to guard his cauldron of tax money but in the middle of the night it was stolen. Asterix and Obelix think that Julius Caesar’s Roman soldiers were the ones that took it and they try to steal it back. But they found a Roman tax collector who had the same exact coins. It turns out Chief Moralsarelasix stole his own money so he could pay the taxes for his village but trick Astrix into refilling the cauldron with gold.

Book Report: The Search for Delicious

It all started with a fight in the court over the definition of ‘delicious.’ The Prime Minister was writing a dictionary for the King. The fighting got so bad because everyone disagreed over their favorite food. Finally they decided to send Gaylen around the kingdom to take a poll of everyone’s vote. In each town the people would start to argue and fight when Gaylen started his poll. Hemlock used the arguing to try and start a war throughout the Kingdom so he could be King.

Book Report: Skulduggery Pleasant

Serpine is after the Sceptre of the Ancients, which contains a lot of power and cannot be destroyed. But soon Stephanie (a.k.a. Valkyrie Cain) , Skulduggery, and Tanith find out that Serpine is ACTUALLY after the Book of Names, an old, ancient, book. It contains everyone’s real names inside, which is important because knowing someone’s real name gives power over them.