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__Where the Mountain Meets the Moon__ by Grace Lin This book is one of the best books I have ever read. I﻿ loved it because it was mystical yet sad. It was mystical because Minli needs to speak to the man who lives on the moon and ask him to grant her one wish - to save her town; it is sad because the village she lives in is very poor because the sun will not shine and the rice fields are filled with swampy water. Despite many obstacles, she keeps her hopes up and starts the long journey up the mountain and to the moon. Many things get in her way.........Will Minli get her wish?

__Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix__ by J ﻿.K. Rowling
In this book Harry and his friends are troubled by the new defense against the dark arts teacher. Professor Umbridge. She is cruel to the kids at Hogwarts and has the kids read during class instead of teaching. To stop this, Harry and his friends invent the D.A. where they learn defense against the dark arts. Things begin to go very wrong at Hogwarts: Dumbledore flees, Harry is kicked off the quidditch team, and Voldemort is back. How will Harry be able to live through Hogwarts? This book was full of suspense and excitement. I recommend it to anyone who loves a thriller.

__Fever__ by Laurie Halse Anderson
This book was one of the best thrillers I have ever read. It was very sad because the yellow fever had struck Massachusetts. People were dropping dead like flies and towns looked deserted. The main character's family owns a coffeshop near the harbor where the fever started. Mattie was sent to stay with her aunts to escape the fever, yet she was stopped by her grandfather. When they walk back from the tiring journey, she finds that her mother is gone and her grandfather dies a week later. Will little Mattie be able to over come the fever?

**__Skeleton Key__ by Anthony Horowitz ** 14-year old Alex has saved the world many times. Maybe he will have to do it again when he is asked to go undercover for MI6. He is told that he will just be relaxing, but when things start to get in his way, will he really be relaxing? After he is almost killed, he is sent to Skeleton Key to be part of a fake family. Things almost immediately start to go wrong. Will Alex Rider be able to save the world again......or will he have to take part in one of the worst tragedies Russia will ever have?

__Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz__
This book is the first book in the Alex Rider series. In this book, ordinary kid Alex Rider finds out that his uncle who has died in a suspicious "car crash" is actually an intelligence spy working for MI6. After this tragic accident, Alex tries to find out what really happened to his uncle. After he does, M16 sends him for training and then on a mission. Then he starts to encounter http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DF6ZR8G7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg dangerous obstacles in his way. Will young Alex Rider survive? Or http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DF6ZR8G7L._SL500_AA300_.jpg MI6 have one less spy?

__Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling__
10-year-old Harry Potter has always been "just Harry" living with his horrible aunt and uncle until one day he gets a special letter addressed to him. His aunt and uncle take it away without a word. Letters keep coming until Harry finds out he is a wizard. Now he has to face the fact that he has to leave his aunt and uncle, go to Hogwarts and start a new life. After a while of absolute joy, things start to turn. Things and people from Harry's past have come back, and now Harry is in grave danger.