The Age of Adeline [Movie]

Although it did make me cry, and had a semi-happy ending, overall I hated it. The movie features a woman who was born mid 1920's. Driving home from a party she gets in a servere car crash and is killed. But after she is taken to the hospital they give her a jolt of electricity that (not on purpose) maligns her aging atoms or something like that- they give a really scientific explanation but it comes down to this: she can't age. So in order to keep on living like she is, she keeps her condition a secret from everyone and continually changes her name and never lives in one place for more than six months or so. She lives through a lot, and never dies, but the hardest part is leaving all the men that she has become involved with. Eventually we reach 2015 when she is having an affair with some artist guy. This is a really awkward and slow moving part (along with one bedtime scene that explains the PG-13 rating) that leads to her being invited over to the guy's house with his parents. 

SPOILER ALERT- As it turns out, the guy's father is one of the men who Adeline has previously fallen in love with. (That was the part that made me cry) She runs away, fearing discovery, but dies again, ugh, and they give her another jolt of electricity that (shocker!) makes her age again. 

This movie was slow-moving, grim, and very sad. Again: Don't watch this movie.

I have just one comment: Do not watch this movie.

Gaby, Lost and Found By: Angela Cervantes

Gaby Howard starts helping out at a local shelter and starts to find a passion for writing adoption advertisements. She makes flyers and helps the dogs and cats find their forever homes. To Gaby a Forever home  is where you're loved and cared for, no matter what.

Gaby thinks that she is in need of a new forever home. Her mother just got deported to Honduras and Gaby doesn't know what to do. Gaby's favorite shelter cat, Feather, needs a new home. Gaby would love to help her but ever since her mom got deported she has been living with her father. Her father hates cats and is mildly allergic, whereas her mom loved cats and cared for many off the street. 

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone By: J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is the first book in the Harry Potter series By: J. K. Rowling!

Harry Potter lives with his aunt and uncle, having to endure their bothersome son, Dudley. All Harry remembers about his past is a bright green light and pain. One day when Harry receives a mysterious letter addressed directly to him, he finds himself and the rest of his family on a very long road trip that will change his life forever. 

After reading the letter Harry finds out the shocking truth about himself... HE IS A WIZARD! A very famous one at that. He leaves his horrid life behind and goes to Hogwarts, a school . At Hogwarts he learns about his family and why he is famous. 

He soon learns that there is something hidden under the stones of his school and that whatever it is someone's trying to retrieve it. Harry suspects that it is Professor Snape an old enemy of his dad. This hate for this professor grows and grows until the very end.

The Mysterious Benedict Society By Trenton Lee Stewart

This book is a spy novel, a book of enigmas, and a touching friendship novel all at once. Four unique orphans (or runaways) are brought together by a newspaper advertisement to complete a series of tests designed to test their minds. All decidedly brilliant children, they must ensue on a drastically dangerous mission to save the world- but first they must learn to get along. Solving mind-bending puzzles and narrowly escaping predicaments, these extraordinary kids are tested in every way in their struggles to find where they belong.
I WHOLLY recommend this book to anyone. Anyone! 
(This book is also a series in which the books get better and better as they go along. READ IT.)
This is the cover of the first book. You've probably already seen it around.                                  

Island of the Blue Dolphins By: Scott O'Dell

Karana is a girl who lives on the Island of Blue Dolphins. One day the Aleuts come to hunt the otters that live on the coast of the island. The captain of the Aleuts promises that all trades will be fair. When the captain of the Aleuts does not keep his promise a fight breaks out on Coral Cave. In this fight her father dies. When the white men come she and her brother and supposed to go with them to the main land for a better life. 

Before they are about to leave her brother says he has forgotten his fishing spear. Karana tells him not to go but this does not stop him from going back. Going back for his spear means getting left behind. Karana feels it is her duty to back for him so she  jumps off the boat knowing that she can never go back. With limited resources and a pack of wild dogs on the loose she must find a way to survive. 

For many, many suns and moons she waits for the ship to return for her. But it never does and Karana decides that she must make the island home again.

The Faerie Path By: Allan Jones

When a mysterious things start happening to Anita Palmer she is whisked away, against her wishes, to a magical realm of Faerie. At first she thinks it is all a dream. When a troublesome man interferes with true love the realm of Faerie is almost destroyed. The only way to save the realm is for Anita to truly believe that she is Tania, seventh daughter of daughters seven, of Oberon and Titania.

Finally accepting that she is, indeed, a princess of a mystical land. With the help of her sisters: Eden, Sancha, Hopie, Zara, Rathina, and Cordelia. She vows to destroy Gabriel Drake forever. Destroying Gabriel Drake will be harder than it seemed with someone very close turned traitor.


This is just the first book in the Faerie Path series.

1. The Faerie Path
2. The Lost Queen
3. The Sorcerer King (The Seventh Daughter)
4. The Immortal Realm
5. The Enchanted Quest
6. The Charmed Return

I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives By: Caitlin Alifirenka & Martin Ganda With Liz Welch

Caitlin, the girl who loves going to the mall and hanging out with her friends after school. She is a normal teenage girl living in Pennsylvania. When she chooses Zimbabwe as the place she wants to have a pen pal she has no idea how much it will change her life.

Martin is from Zimbabwe and is always top in his class. Since he is top in his class he got the first pen pal letter from America. He hears that a girl, Caitlin, wants to be his friend and writes back. At first he keeps much of his life a secret, thinking that if Caitlin knew what his life was really like she would no longer want to be his friend. 

When Caitlin hears what Martin's life is really like she is determined to help him. at first she sends him a single US dollar not knowing that what switched to Zim dollars (Martin's currency) it is equivalent to much, much more. Caitlin sends Martin money from babysitting and helps feed his family when Martin's father looses his job.

Martin's mother wanted all her kids to finish school. With the money that Caitlin sent he is able to go back and continue his schooling. When times start getting harder money is taken from it's envelope that was intended for him. When his family gets a Christmas present from Caitlin's whole family they are over excited.

One letter really did change two lives.

Unwanteds By: Lisa McMann

Unwanteds is about a teenage boy, named Alex, and his friends, Megan, Samheed, and Lani.

In their town creativity is a crime. If you do something creative, like draw in the mud, the punishment is death!

Megan, Samheed, and Lani all did something creative. You think I forgot about Alex don't you, well I didn't.

Alex's twin brother Aaron did something creative, but their father mistook Aaron for Alex. It was the day they called "the Purge." That is when all the rule breakers die.

The unwanted people get on a bus and drive to a place called the death farm to be killed. At the death farm they get rescued from death by an old mage named Mr. Today.

He gives them magic, shelter, and everything else they need. Together the teens go to war and on adventures.

There are clues to be figured out and people in the magical world that Mr. Today created, and that every unwanted and magical creatures lives in, help them to find out what they mean.

Oh, I forgot to say that by the end of the book Aaron wants to have Alex and all the other unwanted's dead.

If you want to find out the clues or go with them on adventures then read this book.

If you really like this book then check out the other five books, THE ISLAND OF SILENCE, THE ISLAND OF FIRE, THE ISLAND OF LEGENDS, THE ISLAND OF SHIPWRECKS, AND THE ISLAND OF GRAVES.   

Sea By: Heidi R. Kling

Ever since Sienna's mom died she has never been the same. She doesn't go swimming, she doesn't body board, she is most of all afraid of flying in a plane. So when her dad presents her with a ticket to go to Indonesia she is surprised but most of all scared. 

A trip to her old pal Spider's house and she realizes that she has to go. Before the trip her dad shows her a video. In it there is one little girl who won't say anything. She vows that if she meets the girl on the trip she will try and make friends with her. 

While she is on the trip her dad wants to make friends with a boy named Deni. Sienna is quite sure she knows who it is because her father described him as "the leader". When she does find Deni it is quite different than how she suspected it to be. They meet on a rainy night, out of bed past hours, where Sienna was not supposed to go. 

Soon after there is a call asking for a boy named Deni. So sure it's his dad Deni takes off leaving Sienna behind. Deni comes back but not for long, he is determined to find the person who called asking about him. Sienna wants to go with, against her father's orders, she buys two plane tickets and they set off for his hometown, where the call came from. When they get there they discover who called and is looking for him. When she has to say good bye once and for all to Deni she knows that it's for the best.

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place By: Julie Berry

This is from Goodreads:

There's a murderer on the loose—but that doesn't stop the girls of St. Etheldreda's from attempting to hide the death of their headmistress in this rollicking farce. 

The students of St. Etheldreda's School for Girls face a bothersome dilemma. Their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, have been most inconveniently poisoned at Sunday dinner. Now the school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home—unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders and convince their neighbors that nothing is wrong. 

The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place is a smart, hilarious Victorian romp, full of outrageous plot twists, mistaken identities, and mysterious happenings.