Book Review - Danger After Dark by Ellie McDonald

Title: Danger After Dark (Creative Girls Club)
Author: Ellie McDonald
Genre: Young Adult
Challenges: 101 Books in 1001 Days, From the Stacks 2008, The Naming Conventions Challenge

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: 120
Published: 2007


Bacl Cover:
The abandoned mansion loomed above them in the dark night. Wait! Did she just see a flicker of light coming from a window? Who could be lurking inside the mansion in the middle of the night? Someone looking for the lost treasure on the estate?
Mine:
What a neat story of investigation. These girls know how to figure things out by just thinking.
It was easy for them to find the “hidden treasure” before the many adults that were looking.
Would read more from this series again.

Book Review - Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlin

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Title: Sarah, Plain and Tall (Newbery Medal Winner 1986)
Author: Patricia MacLachlan
Genre: Young Adult
Challenges: Baby Steps, 101 Books in 1001 Days, Naming Conventions, Around The States
Rating: 5/5
No. of Pages: 64
Published: 1985, Epilogue 1992
From the back:
Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prarie is quiet now, and Papa doesn’t sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elizabeth Wheaton of Maine. Papa, Anna and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings.

Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa, I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plina and tall, and tell them I sing. Anna and Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she like them? Will she stay?

What an endearing story about how people used to live and think. It seems all so simple. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a simple life now. How people were match quite often didn’t have to do with if they loved each other, but if the circumstances were right.

Sarah was nice, she did like them and she did stay.


Reading: Sam’s Letters to Jennifer by James Patterson
Listening to: Reflections by Barbara Bush

The Naming Conventions Challenge

Started 10/21/08 - Ended ????

Sponsored by Maria

My aim with making this challenge is to have as random a challenge as possible but still having some sort of guideline to work from. Yes, I'm weird, I know.

Even the length of the challenge is random! Well, it starts on September 1st, but how long it lasts depends on how long your name is.

Confused yet? No reason to be, just hang on, and I'll explain it all.

Instructions
1) Write down your first name (or whatever name you usually go by)
2) Do any or all of the following (i.e. do 2a and/or 2b and/or 2c):
2a) For each letter, pick an author whose last name starts with that letter.
2b) For each letter, pick an author whose first name starts with that letter.
2c) For each letter, pick a book that starts with that letter.
3) Books can be cross-overs from other challenges, but each book can only be used once in this challenge. Authors may be repeated though.
4) The challenge lasts one month per letter of your name
5) Sign up by commenting to this post.

The books can be read in any order and the list changed at any time during the challenge.

2a - Pick an author whose last name starts with that letter
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2b - Pick an author whose first name starts with that letter
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2c - Pick a book that starts with that letter
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