Great reads

 by Gail Carson Levine.  Available in the junior library.

Reviewed by Ms McGowan 

‘That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me.  She meant to bestow a gift. ‘My gift is obedience.  Ella will always be obedient.  Now stop crying, child’. “  Ella can’t wait to be free of Lucinda’s gift and feel that she can be herself.  But it just isn’t that easy when she knows that at any time, anyone can order her to hop on one foot, cut off her hand, betray her kingdom, marry a prince …  Ella’s quest to break the curse is a funny, poignant and truly enchanting tale set against a bold tapesty of princes, ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters and fairy godmothers.

Reviewed by Rebecca

 by Rachael Mead

Reviewed by Ms Carruthers

This is an awesome book – the begining of a series of course.  It focuses on the life of a young girl, Rose, who has dedicated her young life to being the guardian of her best friend and vampire.  They are at a school, a vampire academy actually (funny that) and are training to become the best they can be.  Lissa (the friend/vampire) is the last surviver of her family after her parents and older brother were killed in a car accident that could have quite easily killed Rose and herself too.  This accident occured before the book is set however everything that occurs is a result of it.

As these girls are teenagers, they have love interests, relationship issues and bullying to deal with as well as their eduacation.

It is an incredible story that will leave you wanting more.