Book based on an on-line game

Review:

 

 

The Poptropica series is based on an on-line role-playing adventure game imagined by Jeff Kinney. In this book Oliver, Mya, and Jorge are on a hot air balloon ride that crashes on an unknown island. They soon realize the island is filled with Vikings and the balloon’s pilot has a sinister reason for bringing them there.

 

The graphics are bright and the story is fast-paced and exciting. There are four books in the series. Reading the books may encourage kids to check out the game or vice versa, but, it isn’t necessary to play the game to enjoy the book. 

 

The book was fun, but will appeal more to kids than adults.

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Review:

 

This is book two in the Secret Coders series. 

 

Hopper, Eni, and Josh meet Professor Bee, founder of the Bee School, which has been mostly demolished and replaced by Stately Academy (the school all three friends attend). Professor Bee teaches them to code (program a robot turtle to follow specific paths). But Principal Dean and the rugby team are following them and trying to discover a secret.

 

The Secret Coders series follows the friends as they learn coding and try to solve the mystery of Stately Academy. Gene Luen Yang, along with being a “graphic novel superstar” taught high school computer programming.

 

The website (www.secret-coders.com) offers videos, activities, information, and coding lessons for interested readers.

 

This book is fun to read and kids could learn something too. 

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Red is a smart & fun heroine

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Red is a spunky 10-year old girl who runs away from her foster home, looking for a place to belong and ends up abducted by an alien spaceship. When the spaceship crashes on an alien planet, Red is stuck with a crazy bunch of aliens that she must learn to live with. The artwork is gorgeous, bright, and colorful and adds to the humor of the story.

 

I really liked this one. Red is smart and headstrong. The other aliens are funny, including two that look like the man-eating plant from Little Shop of Horrors, and a cute gray alien with huge eyes. 

 

Kids will enjoy this adventure.

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Booklikes-opoly status update

This game has been so much fun, but this is my last Booklikes-opoly post. I have a final paper due Sunday, so I won't have time to read another book by the 31st. :( 

I am sad it's over, but I LOVED playing. Thanks to Moonlight Reader and Obsidian Blue. You guys are so creative!!

 

Bank: $92.00

 

 

July 27th

Finished Niceville by Carsten Stroud (4th of July extra)

450 pages = $10.00

 

Finished Drowned City by Don Brown (Free read Friday)

96 pages = $2.00

 

 

Bank: $80.00

 

July 2nd

Finished The Island by Clarissa Johal (Book with water on the cover)

210 pages = $6.00

 

Still reading

Niceville by Carsten Stroud (4th of July extra)

Drowned City by Don Brown (Free read Friday)

 

 

Bank: $74.00

 

July 2nd

Finished Decelerate Blue by Adam Rapp & Mike Cavallaro (1st Free Read Friday)

200 pages = $4.00

 

Finished Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter (Author's name has "Tesla" letters)

282 pages = $6.00 (not counting because of user error)

 

Finished The Nest by Kenneth Oppel (2nd Free Read Friday)

272 pages = $6.00

 

Roll: 9

Landed on Water Works (a book with water on the cover or where someone cries)

Book: The Island by Clarissa Johal

 

 

 

Bank: $64.00

 

June 26th

Finished The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Talking animals)

277 pages = $6.00

 

Free Read Friday

Book: Decelerate Blue by Adam Rapp & Mike Cavallaro

 

Roll: 9

Landed on Electric Company

Book: Every Ugly Word by Aimee L. Salter

 

 

 

 

Bank: $58.00

 

June 18th

Finished The Big Fear by Andrew Case (Main character knows how to handle a gun)

274 pages = $3.00

(Memorial Day Extra Roll 2)

 

Finished Fever Crumb by Philip Reeve (Steampunk) 

325 pages = $3.00

(Memorial Day Extra Roll 1)

 

Roll: 5

Landed on Fantasyland 7

Book: The Wild Robot by Peter Brown (Talking animals)

 

 

 

Bank: $52.00

 

June 4th

Finished Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub (Ghost story)

304 pages  = $3.00

 

 

Memorial Day Extra Roll 1: 10

Landed on Paradise Pier 28

Book: Fever Crumb by Phillip Reeve (Steampunk)

 

Memorial Day Extra Roll 2: 11

Landed on Frontierland 2

Book: The Big Fear by Andrew Case (Main character knows how to handle a gun)

 

 

Bank: $49.00

 

May 25th

Finished Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (author born before 1955)

228 pages  = $3.00

 

Roll: 9

Landed on New Orleans Square 19

Book: Lost Boy Lost Girl by Peter Straub (Ghost story)

 

Bank: $46.00

 

May 22nd

Finished Lamentation by Joe Clifford (Wintry scene on cover)

202 pages  = $3.00

 

Roll: 6

Landed on Main Street USA 11

Book: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes (author born before 1955)

 

Bank: $43.00

 

May 16th

Finished The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (from the GO space)

320 pages (according to Amazon) = $3.00

 

Roll: 7

Landed on Fantasyland 6

Book: Lamentation by Joe Clifford

 

 

 

Bank: $40.00

 

May 7th

Finished Twilight Eyes

451 pages (according to Amazon) = $5.00

 

Roll: 6

Landed on GO, free read

Book: The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood

 

 

 

Bank: $35.00

 

April 24th

Finished Beastly Bones

305 pages = $3.00

 

Roll: 7

Landed on Paradise Pier (31)

Book: Twilight Eyes by Dean Koontz

 

 

Bank: $32.00

 

April 19th

 

 

Bonus $10 from The better to see you, my dear

Nice Luck! Thanks!

 

Roll: 8 (doubles)

Landed on the Ring square

Roll again: 11

Landed on Chance (25)

Reading: Beastly Bones

 

 

Bank: $22.00

 

April 15th

Roll: 8

Landed on Chance (8)

Book: City of Ember, Graphic Novel

144 pages = $2.00

 

 

Bank: $20.00

 

 

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Great way to learn about historical events

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I read this book for my graphic novel class and for a free read Friday. It is very well done. I learned a lot about the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina in New Orleans, details I wasn't aware of before. Don Brown does a great job of presenting facts without a lot of bias. He uses facts and quotes to present the information. The illustrations are sepia toned and provide emotional details not given in the text. The faces are very expressive and even the way Brown draws the bodies shows how devastating the events were for the people of New Orleans.

 

Free Friday Read

96 pages = $2.00

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