Book Reports

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charlie hates being in Colby, and she really hates the canning jars in her room and the Cinderella pillowcases that Bertha got for her. Charlie is waiting for her mom to get her feet on the ground back in Raleigh so she go back to her mother and sister Jackie. Her only friend in Colby is Howard, and the rest of the kids treat her pretty badly. One of the only things that makes living in Colby better is her dog Wishbone, who she caught in a trap that Howard helped make.

When Gladys enters a New York Standard essay contest after being banned from the kitchen, her essay mistakenly lands in the applications for restaurant critic pile, just as Gilbert Gadfly, the normal restaurant critic for the New York Standard burns his tongue in a hot chocolate incident. The chief editor of the dining section picks her to review a new restaurant in the city called, “Classy Cakes,” but the train ride is one hour, and there’s no way she can get on the train without her parents noticing.

Thea found a treasure map for the Emerald Eye and sweet talked Geronimo into joining her expedition. They sail through a storm before reaching the island on their map. Trap was supposed to be an expert sailor but he only read 11 chapters of the giant sailing guide! They found the island but it turned out to be a popular vacation spot. As Geronimo flew home he saw that the whole island was shaped like an eye, it was really the treasure!

Geronimo and his group save the rainforest from loggers and protects the temple of the Yanomami. They also keep the Fire Ruby from being stolen by a group of misfit rodents.

Su Li, Hazel’s maid, was murdered in an elevator in a bank. Wu Shing, the elevator operator, kidnapped Hazel’s newborn baby brother, Teddy. The murder weapon was a pin Hazel lost. The suspects are Svensson (someone who wants money from Hazel’s father), Fu (someone who runs a tea shop and wants money), and Wa Fan (who wants money).

Cos and his crew were trying to save The Minors from the King’s silver mine. The King thought they were miners, but actually they were minors, get it? That means they were kids. The King trapped them in the mine and forced them to work so hard they looked old.