The Golden Compass – His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman

 

The Golden Compass movie will hit the theaters on December 7th. Have you read the books: The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass?

If you have a couple of minutes to spare, you can visit the official movie website.  Choose your language and then click on “Meet your Daemon.”  If you answer the personality questions you are told who your daemon is.  What is a daemon?  In the story, the daemon is a person’s soul.

Please feel free to comment on the blog about who your daemon is!  Of course, you can also comment if you read the books or saw the movie.

I’ll tell you who my daemon is…

Author – Laurie Faria Stolarz

I finished a series of four books. The first book is called Blue is for nightmares by Laurie Faria Stolarz. Its about a girl named Stacey who goes to a boarding school. Stacey has premonitions that once predicted the death of a little girl. In this books she’s getting them again but this time they’re about Drea, her best friend. Each book has Stacey having a different premonition that she must deal with. The next three books in this series are White is for magic, Silver is for secrets and Red is for remembrance.

- This post was from Mackenzie

Click here to get to Laurie Faria Stolarz’s website.

Author Tamora Pierce – Song of the Lioness ; Daughter of the Lioness

I’d like to say that Tamora Pierce is an awesome writer! All of her books are very good. Alanna the Lioness is very good example. It’s set in a world, not earth. The book is about how Alanna wants to become a knight but of course girls don’t become knights! So she must disguise herself as a boy. It’s so intriguing to see how she deals with things like strength, women hood, and boys that must not find out the truth. There are four books in the series.
Alanna, In the hand of the goddess, The woman who rides like a man, and Lioness rampant

Tamora also wrote the Trickster’s Choice and the Trickster’s Queen. (they’re together) It’s set in the same world as Alanna the Lioness, but the time is set some years after Alanna’s story. This is how Aly wants to become a spy, like her father, and her adventure to become a spy even though it is against her mothers and fathers better judgment.

This post was from Mackenzie.

A Great and Terrible Beauty; Rebel Angels; Sweet Far Thing – Libba Bray

Hey me again! GOSH so many books! Ok one more series. This series is probably my favorite series ever except for the Twilight series but someone already wrote about that. Libba Bray another fantastic author Wrote two books so far and is coming out with her third to complete the trilogy. The first is called A Great and Terrible Beauty, the second is called Rebel Angels and the third, that comes out December 26, 2007, the day after Christmas! Is called The Sweet Far Thing. So the setting is somewhere near London, during the Victorian age with big pretty dresses and Huge hats. It’s about four friends who break the rules at Spence Academy for young ladies. Its very good since it’s nicely written and they’re so many things that happen since Gemma, the main Character, can enter a secret Realm, which the book describe as the passing before death filled with magic. Not to mention Gemma’s relationship with a certain gypsy boy… Well if this books sounds interesting i’d look it up for a way better description.

– This post was from Mackenzie.