Matilda
Roald Dahl Summary This is a fun tale of an incredibly smart, young girl called Matilda who lives with her mean parents and brother, all Matilda wants is to learn and so eventually,
I Think, Therefore I Draw
Daniel Klein & Thomas Cathcart Summary This is a non-fiction book, explaining common philosophical questions through cartoon drawings. There are sections, each one of the 'big questions' (eg. The Meaning of Life?), each
Children of Blood and Bone
Tomi Adeyemi Summary Set in Orïsha, a land where the magic was once precious and now any descendants of maji are now shunned; this is the journey of Zélie, Amari and Inan. Told
Lenny's Book of Everything
Karen Foxlee Summary This is a story of Lenny and her brother Davey who live with their mother after their father left them. Davey has a medical condition which means he just keeps
Quiet Power
Susan Cain Summary This is the sequel to Quiet, a book about introverts. This book is a slightly simplified version of quiet, as well as being a 'guidebook', as it is more aimed
Quiet
Susan Cain Summary This is a non-fiction book about the secret strengths of introverts. It gives information on the introvert-extrovert spectrum and how to make our society a better place for introverts, and
Book Reviews
Mila van Stokkum Age Ratings I categorize all the books I review based on the rough appropriate age for reading them, some I put under multiple age groups, simply because this book would
Illuminae
Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff Summary It's the year 2575, and two groups are fighting each other over a little planet. Kady and Ezra who currently aren't at best terms find themselves on
Momo
Michael Ende Summary Momo is an orphan, living an abandoned amphitheater. Momo has a talent for listening and everyone in the town comes to visit her to tell her things, until one day
The Walls Around Us
Nova Ren Suma Summary This book jumps forward and backwards in it's timeline, telling the slightly creepy story from 2 points of view. Some of the chapters are years apart but the narrators
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Summary This is a story inspired by a plane crash. It is a short novel in which an man's plane crashed in the middle of the desert and he is
The Land of Stories
Chris Colfer Summary This is the first book in a series that follows Alex and Conner, two twins, Alex discovers a book in which you can go into and live inside a fairy