I love reading. It's like I'm being transported to a place that's unpredictable, yet safe and warm. It's always been my escape when times get rough.... or homework piles up. Did I just rhyme? I think I just rhymed. English is great.
Anyway here is a list of books you can read instead of do your maths homework! (It's okay, I hate it too.)
1. The Hunger Games Series
By: Suzanne Collins
You follow Katniss as she goes through the ins and outs of a barbaric game that the Capitol has named; The Hunger Games.
9.75/10
2. The Maze Runner Series
By: James Dashner
Thomas wakes up in a dark box with no memories of his past. As he finds himself in the Glade he tries his best to find out about a strange company that supposedly put them in the maze; W.I.C.K.E.D. He makes many friends and enimies as he battles many savagely cruel obstacles. 'Why?' is what Thomas wants to find out.
10/10
3. The Chocolate Box Girls
By: Cathy Cassidy
Meet the Tannbery sisters and their stepsister Cherry as they go through some extremely high highs and extremely low lows that almost tear their 'family' apart.
9/10
4. Murder Most Unladylike
By: Robin Stevens
Join Hazel Wong and Daisy Wells as they solve assorted murders and record the ride in their handy-dandy case book.
9/10
5. Girl Online
By: Zoe Sugg
Penny Porter is an average awkward, anxious teenage girl... with an anonymous blog, a hectic love life, a best friend with parent and sexuality issues and maybe the anxiety is getting out of hand....
10/10
6. Sunny Side Up
By: Marion Roberts
An entertaining story that never lets you down. Join Sunny, her best friend Claudia, her step siblings, parents and Grandma who suddenly wants to meet her grand daughter after her and Sunny's Mum blew up years ago.
10/10
7. Series of unfortunate Events
By: Lemony Snicket
The three Baudelaires have a rather depressing life as they move from guardian to guardian after their parents tragic death. Will they ever find their happy ending, or will the notorious Count Olaf keep them in his clutches until the day they die?
9/10
8. Harry Potter
By: J.K Rowling
Do I even need to explain this one? IT'S HARRY POTTER AND IT'S AMAZING AND I LOVE IT TO PEICES AND OH MY GOD I'M CRYING I LOVE IT SO MUCH. This, The Maze Runner and The Hunger Games are some of the only books that have ever made me cry. And I never cry. Ever. It's a sign. Read it.
10/10
9. Malory Towers
By: Enid Blyton
A classic story as we follow Darrell and her younger sister Felicity Rivers throughout their time at Malory Towers - the famous boarding school.
8.75/10
11. Wonder
By: Raquel J. Palacio
A dramatic and emotional tale that teaches you a lot about life and what it's like to be at the other end of someones stares. Follow Auggie, his sister, his friend, and his sister's boyfriend as they experience a day in the life with or as August Pullman, a boy who's genes went wrong at birth and left him deformed and confused.
9/10
12. Black Beauty
By: Anna Sewell
Another classic - how could you not want to follow the gorgeous Black Beauty and his friends throughout the life of a horse?
9/10
13. Alice Through the Looking Glass
By: Cathy Cassidy
This book is definitely a favourite. When Alice falls down the 'rabbit hole' and ends up on a hospital bed in a coma we are glued to the book as we learn about what lead up to this moment, what it's like to be the person seeing Alice in a coma and what's going on inside of Alice's damaged head
10/10
14. Dear Dumb Diary Series
By: Jim Benton
Take a peek into Jamie's life as she shares about her best friend and smelly beagle, Stinker - the beagle is called Stinker, not her best friend. Jamie promises everything in her Dumb Diary is true, or at least as true as it needs to be...
8.75/10
15. Dork Diaries Series
By: Rachel Renee` Russel
Join Nikki and her BFF'S Chloe an Zoey as they go on some dorky adventures and find good luck in the midst of all the bad stuff.
8.5/10
16. Jacky Ha-Ha
By: James Patterson
Join middle child Jacky in a house full of seven sisters while her mum fights in the war and her dad raises suspicion for Jacky and her best friend. While all this is happening Jamie tries to make up for her detentions by being in the school play and on the speech team.... but with a st-st-stutter all that isn't as easy was it sound - and it doesn't sound easy at all!
8.75/10
17. Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy
By: Karren Fox
Ophelia, her older sister and father go to a city where it always snows, a short time after her mother's death. Ophelia find a little boy locked up in the museum her dad works in and he tells her about a quest involving a precious sword, misery owls, ghosts and a Snow Queen... oh yeah and the One Other who he won't tell her the name of..
9/10
18. I Funny
By: James Patterson
We take a spin on the world as we read from a comedians point of view, who is also bullied by his adoptive brother because he's in a wheelchair. Can he prove he's worth it by winning a humour contest with his kind uncle's help?
9.25/10
Wow! This list reminds me of just how spectacular a good book is. I especially love those books that seem to become a part of you, and when you finish it you feel like a friend just died..... in the best way possible. It's hard to explain, but you get what I mean.
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XOXO Emily
Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go read a book to distract me from the other things I should probably be doing to prepare for school on Tuesday. AHHH! Definitely NOT excited for school.
QOTD: Storms make the earth honest. They rattle the edges and tear it to shreds before gifting the calm again. Your own hardships and storms do the same to you. They rinse you clean. They paint new colours. They deepen your understanding. They give you a new language. A certain sweet serenity not previously known. - Victoria Erickson.
