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Tuesday, January 12, 2010

"Warriors: Book 1, Into The Wild" by Erin Hunter


The medicin cat of Thunderclan is told by Starclan " Fire alone will save our clan"

Rusty, the young, flame colored housecat has a dream for the third time. He is in the forest hunting a mouse and then wakes up. Later the next day Rusty decides it is time to venture into the forest beyond his garden fence. Once in the forest he is attacked by a forest cat about his age name Graypaw. He is one of the apprentices in ThunderClan, one of the four warrior clan in the forest.(ShadowClan, WindClan, RiverClan and ThunderClan) ThunderClans leader, Bluestar, saw the battle and thought the young kittypet fought well against the training apprentice and would make a nice warrior. Bluestar askes Rusty to join ThunderClan. The housepet will return to the forest hte neght afternoon to give the clan his final answer. That night Rusty decides he should go to the clan. He is given a warrior name when he decides to join the clan, Firepaw for his fire colored pelt. Soon after Firepaw was givin his warrior name another apprentice named Ravenpaw, who had been with the deputy of the clan redtail and a warrior named Tigerclaw, comes back and says Redtail was killed in a battle with RiverClan soon before Tigerclaw come back with the dead deputy in his mouth. Redtail had been Ravenpaws mentor so Raven paw was given a new mentor, the warrior Darkstrip and the warrior Lionheart was made the new deputy. the next day Firepaw was taken on a patrol to learn the forest and the borders of the clan and caught his first mouse.
after two months with the clan Firepaw is take out for his first solo hunt. fora while Graypaw hunted with him and they saw a fox and a ShadowClan warrior from across the thunderpath(road).
While hunting one day Firepaw runs into the former madicin cat of ShadowClan who had been run out of her clan. They fought for a while but stoped when a patrol came and took the tartior back as a prisinor. When at the camp firepaw is punished for feeding the tratior and not finishing her off. He is also given a mentor...Bluestar.
Firepaw is now making friends with Graypaw and Ravenpaw. They will be going togeather to a gathering, a meeting of all the clans to speack of numorous things. At the gathering Shadowclan says Yellowfang is a dangerous creature and will harm any clans kits. They are told to kill her before any kits are harmed. Bluestar decides that Yellowfang will be fine to stay for now and that she will be taking Firepaw and his friends to the moonstone, a great place where all leaders go to and get messages and visions from StarClan(The dead ansestors of the clans, each cat is a star). This is a journy each apprentice must take before becomeing a warrior and a great honor.
There was a long journy to the moonstone whome wich the three apprentices went iwth Bluestar and Tigerclaw. Only Bluestar and Firepaw went into the cave the rest of them stayed outside by Bluestar's orders. Bluestar is given a frightning vision while and moonstone and hurrys back to the camp as fast as she can until she meets an old friend who is a loner and are attacked by rats at the farm where he stays. When they get to the camp ShadowClan is attacking already. Only one warrior is killed...but it is the deputy Lionheart. The new deputy that is named is Tigerclaw. While the clan is fixing up the camp from the battle Firepaw over hears Tigerclaw talking to Darkstripe and longtail saying that Ravenpaw snuck off durring the journy to help Shadowclan and tell them the camp was less garded. WHile Firepaw is tarinign with Bluestar he hopes to tell her about Tigerclaw and Ravenpaw but is unable to.
There are four new kits in the clan. After visiting the kits Bluestar talks to firepaw about soeme diffrent sthings and tells his that she lied to hte clan about how many lives of her nine she has lonst. She told them she had only lost 5 so they wouldn't worry but when they were at the rat attack she actualy lost her 7th!
Yellowfang is blamed for killing the medicin cat of thunderclan and takign the four new kits and then takign them to be killed in SHadowClan. Ravenpaw is also blamed for being a help so Firepaw and Graypaw take him to the loner at hte farm to hide until things are fixed. Firepaw and Graypaw find Yellowfang in ShadowClan teritiory, not hurting hte kits but trying to find them. She also tells the apprentices that she was blamed for killing kits and kicked out of SHadowClan for what their leader was doing. He was making kits apprentices at 3 moons(months) and not 6 like normal and full warriors at 5 moons! The three of them decide ot try and get the kits back so Yellowfang get three old friends to help and a ThunderClan patrol comes and helps. Yellowfang is taken in liek a prisnor but actualy brought the ThunderClan warriors in so they could defeat the bad warriors of ShadowClan and make it a better clan again and tog et hte kits out safly. They sucsesfully do both of these.
When the cats return Graypaw and Firepaw are given their warrior names. Graystripe and Fireheart.

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars for great detail and orginazation as well as just being a fun read. I would recomend this book to anyone.

Monday, September 21, 2009

"Including Alice" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor


In the book Includign Alice Alice's dad marries her old teacher Silvia Summers. Alice is happy until her dad and Silvia leave on thier honey moon without saying goodbye. Alice is left with her aunt. Wher her dad and Silvia finnaly get home things change, some for the better.

I woudl give this book 4 out of 5 stars and recomend you read it.

"Death By Bikini" by Linda Gerber

Death by bikini is a book about a girl named Aphra who lives on an island with her father. Her father owns a resort so Aphra works there. When some agents and villans started to come to the resort things started to get weird. Aphra strtes to fall in love with the son of a family that has been running from the law. People are injured, including Aphras father and finally things get sorted out and all is well again.

After reading this book I would give it 3 1/2 stars out of 5 and recomnd that you read it to.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

"The Sight: Warriors, Power of Three" by Erin Hunter


Firestar is re-seeing a prophecy he was given even before his daughters had been born that told him “There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.” He thinks this may mean that Squirrelflight and Brambleclaw will have three kits who hold the power of the stars. This come true with Hollykit, Jaykit and Lionkit. Hollykit is the only girl and Jaykit is blind and Lionkit is much like his father Brambleclaw. they all want to become apprentices and explore the world outside of the camp. They will soon be six moons old so they can be apprentices but they are starting to be a nuisance in the nursery to Ferncloud and her small kits.
Spiderleg and Thornclaw rushed back from a patrol and announced that there was a dead fox on the thunderclan territory. The kits are jealous of the apprentices that get to look for cubs of the she fox so Lionkit, Hollykit and Jaykit ask their father Brambleclaw if they can help since they are ALMOST apprentices but he said no, not until they ARE apprentices.
Because of the answer they got out of their father Jaykit, Hollykit and Lionkit leave camp by themselves to show they are able to defeat the cubs and are useful to the clan. When they get to the den of the fox they the cubs are bigger than expected and Jaykit is chased out of the den by one of the cubs. From being blind he falls off a ledge and falls on the side of the thunderclan hollow.
While unconscious Jaykit gets a dream like the medicine cats from Spottedleaf. When he wakes Jaykit finds himself in Leafpool’s den. They talk and Leafpool thinks that Jaykit could be her apprentice to become a medicine cat. Leafpool asked Jaykit if he could tell by sent what herbs she had used and Jaykit figured them all out and even knew what Leafpool had used them for.
In the forest Hollykit and Lionkit are found by the patrols looking for the fox clubs. One of the patrol leaders is their father Brambleclaw and he is very disappointed in their behavior. When they are taken back to camp they see Jaykit when he is still unconscious on the side of the hollow and think he is dead. When Brambleclaw, Squirrelflight and Firestar tell Hollykit and Lionkit that Jaykit is ok they also tell them they were VERY bad and will have to stay in the nursery unless they have permission to leave from one of the queens in the nursery. If they misbehave once more their apprenticing ceremony may be help back by Firestar’s command.
Lionkit couldn’t sleep that night without Jaykit who was still in Leafpool’s den recovering from that morning to Lionkit snuck out of the nursery without permission and heard some warriors quarreling about how Firestar had given ShadowClan a piece of land. Lionkit also heard them tell stormfur and brook they were not needed because they were not thunderclan to their faces. While in hiding Lionkit was scared and angry from this fighting. an apprentice sees the kit hiding and asks him what he is doing but tells Lionkit he will not tell if he goes strait back to the nursery with Hollykit.
After Hollykit helps Lionkit get thorns out of his fur from the night before Hollykit gets some herbs from Leafpool to stop infection. When Mothwing and her apprentice Willowpaw come to talk to Leafpool about Willowpaw’s new dream Hollykit asks Willowpaw about being a medicine cat. After that Hollykit decided she wants to be a medicine cat when she gets older.
At the apprentice ceremony Lionkit becomes Lionpaw and his mentor will be Ashfur and Hollykit becomes Hollypaw and Leafpool’s apprentice. Jaykit is disappointed. He becomes Jaypaw and Brightheart’s apprentice. Jaypaw is disappointed because the others feel as though he is weak and useless because of being blind and because Brightheart has only one eye. Brightheart has talked to the blind warrior Longtail to help with some of the training. Jaypaw just wants to be treated like his brother and sister and not like a weak blind kit, Jaypaw is an APPRENTICE now and wants to be treated like one.
While Lionpaw and Hollypaw get to head out to the forest Jaypaw has to go with Brightheart and check for ticks and change the bedding in the elders den. Once Jaypaw is done Brightheart takes him to see some of the ThunderClan territory and treats Jaypaw like he has not sense of awareness what so ever. Jaypaw tries to act like he can fend for himself but then slips down a hill. Brightheart was beginning to believe Jaypaw was responsible too. On their way back to camp they run into the fox that Jaypaw had tangled with as a kit. A patrol helps then but the older apprentices start treating Jaypaw like a kit again.
Jaypaw tries to show the clan he can be the same as his brother and sister even without sight so he goes exploring alone. Jaypaw falls into the lake and Crowfeather saves him. When Crowfeather is taking Jaypaw back to camp he meets with Squirrelflight’s patrol who was looking for Jaypaw. When they get to camp Crowfeather takes Jaypaw to Leafpool. Jaypaw can sense a feeling between Leafpool and Crowfeather.
Jaypaw has to stay in camp for a ¼ moon. He cannot go to the gathering with Hollypaw and Lionpaw. At the gathering GRAYSTRIPE appears with a cat named Millie. Firestar is amazed and gratefully happy as is everyone else and surprised. Everyone had thought Graystripe was dead.
After they had checked to make sure Graystripe and Millie did not need anything to help make them stronger and healthier Leafpool took Hollypaw into the forest to do some battle training. When Hollypaw was doing well Cinderpaw and her mentor asked if Hollypaw and Cinderpaw could practice together.
Leafpool went to the moon pool and asked if Firestar should choose Brambleclaw or Graystripe as deputy and they just said that he should fallow his head not his heart no matter how hard it is. Jaypaw had fallowed Leafpool and had actually seen her dream. Leafpool told Jaypaw that she thought Jaypaw should become her apprentice. Jaypaw does not want to be a medicine cat even though he knows in the back of his head that he can’t really be as good a warrior as he can be a medicine cat.
Shadowclan moved the border and then Shadowclan and Thunderclan fought. Jaypaw Hollypaw and Lionpaw fought well.
Jaypaw wants to know if he should be a warrior of medicine cat so he goes to the moon pool to talk to Starclan about it. He wanders around trying to find someone to talk to and finds Tigerstar and Hawkfrost and when they are trying to talk him into training with them in his dreams like Hawkfrost and his father did Spottedleaf comes and takes him to a safer place and tells him that he has a gift. He can see things that Starclan can’t even see. She tells him that he has more power that the sharpest claw. After his dream Jaypaw hears whispers saying “Accept your destiny, Jaypaw”.
Jaypaw told Firestar that he needs to be a medicine cat and Hollypaw told Firestar told Firestar he needed to be a warrior. Firestar agreed and Hollypaw’s new mentor is Brakenfur. Hollypaw went right to training with Lionpaw and she caught a mouse.
Jaykit went with the medicine cats to the moon pool and Jaypaw heard a warning to windclan of dogs being set free by the twolegs to guard sheep when they eat the new grass. Jaypaw heard a few different dreams and wondered if Mothwing had dreams with starclan but when he asked Leafpool she changed the subject. Jaypaw told Firestar about the dogs and he told him not to get into business other than his own.
Windclan was attacked by dogs but thunderclan heard the fighting and came to help . Jaypaw had been right to tell Firestar after the trip to the moon pool when Firestar told Jaypaw not to get into other clans business.
Greencough and whitecough are in the clans. Most of the cats got better by the next gathering. At the gathering the clans decided to have a gathering in 2 sunrises and compete letting apprentices challenge each other and warriors challenge each other during the day peacefully.
Jaypaw had a dream and saw Firestar talking to an older cat and the older cat told Firestar “There will be three, kin of your kin, who hold the power of the stars in their paws.” Jaypaw realizes they are talking about him Hollypaw and Lionpaw.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

"Twilight: Warriors, The New Prophecy" by Erin Hunter


The clans have arrived at their new home and are settling in well. They have decided the borders and have started to search their new territories but still need to get used to the land.
There was a war between the clans. ThunderClan is trying to help sort things out after the fighting. Squirrelflight is upset with Brambleclaw for trusting his ½ brother Hawkfrost who she thinks is crazy and mean just for being Tigerstars son even thought Brambleclaw is too. a ThunderClan patrol fights off a badger and her three cubs after talking to windclan about their new leader Onestar. WindClan does not want any help from ThunderClan or even to speak with them even after they helped them survive the trek from the forest to their new woodland home. Because of being a medicine cat apprentice Leafpool cannot love any other cats but during the war Crowfeather told her that he loved her and she loves him back but she can’t tell anyone including her sister Squirrelflight. Leafpool does not know what to do now and Cinderpelt and Squirrelflight have both noticed that she isn’t acting normal. At the gathering the clan decided some major rules for their new home. Leafpool has a dream and must tell Mothwing that Riverclan is in trouble from twolegs. Leafpool tells Cinderpelt she is going out for herbs when she is really going to tell her. When the new apprentice Birchpaw becomes apprentice Brambleclaw does not become his mentor. He is upset because to be a deputy you must be a mentor to an apprentice and he wants to be a deputy so very bad. At the half moon the medicine cats went to the moon pool to get a message from starclan. The other cats got a similar dream and Leafpool got a totally different one which she cannot figure out. She has not told anyone. The other cats cannot figure out their massage either. On the way back she saw Crowfeather but they were not able to talk long. They planned to meet again when they are not near others. While a thunderclan patrol is patrolling the border they meet up with Daisy, a cat from the horse barn they found on the way to the now territory. She had 3 tiny little kits who if they had not taken them back to the camp would have probably died. She was taking her kits away from the twolegs who were going to take they away. Will they stay with the clan? When one of the Riverclan warriors comes rushing into thunderclan something must be wrong. They need Leafpool to help. The clan is majorly sick and cats are dying. She goes quickly to help and find out what is happening. When she gets there they find out from a patrol that the twolegs have left a metal thing with silver green liquid coming out. This is what made the clan sick. They find out the Dawnflower’s kits are the ones who found it and they are very sick along with their mother. One of the kits died and a warrior died otherwise the clan is ok thanks to Leafpool and Mothwing. When Squirrelflight meets up with Tawnypelt she find out that kitty pets are hurting the clan because their twolegs are hurting and killing the cats. Thunderclan and Shadowclan defeat them together. During the next gathering Crowfeather and Leafpool sneak away. The windclan leader Onestar does not agree with thunderclan or the other 2 clans. Thunderclan for helping other clans and river and shadow for letting them help. He must understand that thunderclan helped him and his clan when they needed it. Leafpool and the other medicine cats were talking and the weird dreams are continuing. Leafpool had a new dream and it was in a dark forest she does not even think starclan has ever trekked through. In it Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost are looking a listing to their father Tigerstar. she is very worried now. One night Squirrelflight catches Leafpool sneaking out of camp late at night and when she tries to find out why she won’t tell her. After getting caught by Cinderpelt and Leafpool going to the moon pool leafpaw and Crowfeather decide to leave the clans and go to the mountains behind WindClan territory. They left and now windclan and thunderclan are looking for them. First the clans thought that the other clan had stolen their cats but when both of them were missing they followed their scent trails out of the whole territory until they did not think they could have gone any further. Leafpool and Crowfeather found a pool and a few trees where they are sleeping for the night. They awake to find the old badger Midnight who is on her way to warn the clans. The rest of the badgers were pushed out of their homes when the cats moved in. that is why there where so many badger sightings at first. The badgers are planning on killing many cats and running the rest of them out of the forest. Midnight is on her way to warn the clans of this terrible war. The 2 cats try to sleep but Leafpool gets a dream and Cinderpelt dies in her dream from a badger attack. The dreams of the other medicine cats are not coming together. They were being warned about the badgers. When neither of the as could sleep they decide to go and save their clans. The badgers have already started attacking and there has been no sign of Midnight, Leafpool or Crowfeather anywhere. The kits and queens are getting out of the camp and the elders are going to the leaders den for now. Leafpool and Crowfeather sneak in through a path where she left to sneak out of camp to see Crowfeather and they found the kits and queens huddled up there they told them the badgers were already there and they had to go and help. They ran into camp to see badgers and flying cats along with cats dead and dyeing on the ground. Her sister is garding the nursry and she and Crowfeather run over to her. Squirrelflight greets her and tells her there are kits coming in the nursy and she needs to go and help Cinderpelt. Crowfeather stands guard while squrrile flight and another warrior attack a badger heading strait for the nursry. When Leafpool gets inside the nursery she finds Cinderpelt on the ground, she is dead! When Crowfeather comes in to see what is going on he trys to comfort her but it is no use. She is blaming cinderpelts death on herself because she left. Outside another badger comes but does not start attacking instead she goes over to one of the two apprentices they have and strts talking to her to see if she is ok and what is going on. Along with her, Midnight, windclan came with some of their best warriors. She explaind when the rest of the badgers had fleed that the attack happened sooner than she expected so instead of coming alone she got some of the windclan cats to come. Leafpool exits the nursry and anonces that there are four new kits to add to thunderclan. The warrior guarding the entrence then lets out a yowl and everyone thinks there is another badger coming but instead they find Stormfur, the cat who left the clans to join the tribe because of his sisters death and fathers disaperence and Brook , one of the cats from the tribe whome Stormfur was in love with. They are shocked by the sight of the camp.
Will they be able to help all of the injured cats and how many of the cats have died or will die of injury? Is thunderclan going to have enough warriors after today’s attack? Most importantly is stormfur just visiting or here to stay?

"Sunset: Warriors, The New Prophecy" by Erin Hunter


Thunderclan was attacked by badgers. Just before the attack Leafpool had run away with the WindClan warrior Crowfeather. They came back when the badger Midnight came by and told them that she was going to warn the clans that they had pushed the other badgers out of the forest and they were going to attack and get revenge. Then neither of the cats could sleep and Leafpool got a dream and Cinderpelt died in it so they headed back. When they got there the badgers had already attacked and they were too late to save Cinderpelt.
Thunderclan is trying to sort things out after the badger attack. Only a few cats were killed. Sorreltail’s kits ,who were born during the attack, were named Molekit Honeykit Poppykit and Cinderkit, the kit who looked just like Cinderpelt. Leafpool saw Spottedleaf in her dreams and she told her that she did the right thing and that Cinderpelt’s death was not her fault. She told her that Cinderpelt would reach her soon. On a border patrol some ThunderClan cats found a twoleg thing probably to trap foxes. They will keep an eye out and tell Firestar about it to see if the other clans should know especially ShadowClan where the trap was nearest. Leafpool tells Squirrelflight about a sight that she saw where she and Brambleclaw were walking so closely together that you could not tell the paw prints apart. There are twolegs with boats according to Daisy and they may be a problem for RiverClan and ShadowClan and will be reported at the next gathering and will be watched carefully. Leafpool gets a dream with three cats who know her. At first she thinks she is in the forest where Tigerstar walks but it is not. The cats are Yellowfang, Bluestar and Lionheart. They try to tell her about her future by telling her that other cats will shape her future but know no more than that. The next night she spies on Brambleclaw when he walks out of camp casually late at night. He just sits and stares at the lake. She sees a sign that shows that a prophecy that is “before there is peace blood will spill blood and the lake will run red”. Berrykit goes out exploring and gets into a fox trap they get him out but they need to get him to Leafpool soon. When they get to camp they drop off Berrykit and go over to the main part of camp to find that Stormfur and Brook are leaving to go to RiverClan and hopefully become warriors of RiverClan and they are not going back to the mountains for some reason. The clan is beginning to wonder why they came to the clans. Berrykit has not regained consciousness from the fox trap incident. Part of his tail was taken off and he is feverish. When Leafpool is taking a quick nap she gets a message from the former Riverclan medicine cat to give a message to Mothwing but Leafpool cannot give it to her yet and really needs to fast. During a patrol ThunderClan finds ShadowClan trying to place their scent markers way into the ThunderClan territory and they were fought away by Firestar and some of his warriors. At the gathering it is announced that Mothwing has a new apprentice, Willowpaw. While talking about RiverClan and ShadowClan taking over some of ThunderClan and WindClan’s territory because there are twolegs with water monsters, boats, in their territories a fight begins. Then the sky turns very dark and gloomy and they see this as a bad sign that they were wrong to fight at a gathering and that they angered their ancestors in StarClan. They must now go home but Leafpool needs to talk to Mothwing. At the thunderclan camp Daisy’s kits are chasing a butterfly and kill it making Leafpool wonder if Mothwing’s sign to be a medicine cat was made by Hawkfrost putting a moth’s wing in front of the medicine cats den in RiverClan to make his sister become the medicine cat. Then daisy leaves in the night with her kits and creates an uproar in the camp. Cloudtail and Brambleclaw got to the horse barn to see if she went there with the kits and she was there. With the help of the kits they get Daisy to go back to the forest mainly because the kits REALLY want to live in the forest and become warriors of ThunderClan, especially Berrykit, they will head off in the morning after a good night’s sleep in the barn. They will leave the kits father and another cat who lives in the horse barn in the horse barn and may allow the kits to visit latter when they are older, probably full grown and trained warriors. Leafpool gets a dream from feathertail and takes her to willowpaw in her dreams wich does not normally happen. They show her where they can find a herb which they may need. While she is speaking with her sister leafpool hears a voice whom she does not know that tells her “before there is peace,blood will spill blood, and the lake will run red. Brambleclaw was sent out to watch riverclan and shadowclan to see what the twolegs were doing to them when they found twoleg nest that were moveable on their border. While brambleclaw was spying on riverclan from in a tree he saw stormfur and brook on a patrol with hawkfrost. At camp stormfur attacked hawkfrost when he made him angry making him and brook have to leave the clan. They will go with brambleclaw back to thunderclan at least for the night. Stormfur and brook have a choice to stay or leave. The other cats mainly dustpelt and mousefur want them gone for being a tribe cat and a cat who they say can’t decide where they belong. They think that Firestar is letting them stay because stormfur is Graystripe’s son. Cats are telling Firestar that he needs to appoint a new deputy and stop belivign that Graystripe is coming and face the unkown fact that Graystripe is dead/ They will sit vigile for the night and decide the deputy in the morning. Leafpool will look out for any sign for Starclan about him or the deputy that Firestar should choose. Leafpool finaly gets a sign and bramble claws are garding the calan and she thinks this is a sight of Brambleclaw becoming deputy and she will go tell Firestar. He agrees he is a good choce and tells her he was also thinking of Brackenfur. He chosses Brambleclaw and tells him he will become Barrykits mentor as soon as he is ready. When he tells the clan Ashfur says that Brambleclaw being Squirrelflights mate and Squirrelflight being Leafpools sister they created a plan to make it so that it looks like Leafpool got a sign for Brambleclaw to become deputy. Brambleclaw meets Hawkfrost and Tigerstar in a dream and tells them of him becoming deputy. He will meet with Hawkfrost in a few days. He is a little overwhelmed and comfused about his duties and Berrykit is very exited about become him apprentice and wants to become apprenticed as soon as possible so he can be the DEPUTY’S apprentice. Willowpaw is going to the moonpool with the medicin cats to see if she will be accepted by starclan. She is and she dreams with Leafpool about a storm cloud. They think this is a sign of danger but will not say anything until there is a clearer sign. While Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost are at there meeting they hear a cat in distress. It is Firestar. He is caght in a fox trap. Ashfur had been with him and he has gone back to camp to tell leafpoola dn squrrileflight. He tells them that Firestar is caught and Brambleclaw and Hawkfrost are there so that they think the ½ brothers are trying to take after there father and get revenge for him by killing Firestar. When they get there tey smell blood and think firestr is dead but find out that Firestar is a live and Brambleclaw saved him. Firestar is proud for Brambleclaw killing his ½ brother and betray his fathers will. Leafpool decides that the propachy ment that brothers would fight and one would spill the others blood making the lake red referign to Brambleclaw and hawfrost and Brambleclaw killing his kin.

"Cats Of The Clan: Warriors" by Erin Hunter


Each of the clans has special warriors along with medicine cats, deputies and leaders. In this book you can find out about theses cats and the clans.
ThunderClan is the only of the clans who uses the technique called the hunters crouch and they are the cats who made up this technique. These cats have always had border problems. In the original forest they fought over Sunning Rocks and now at the lake with ShadowClan over the hunting grounds between their clans main territories. Firestar is a clan leader who was once a kittypet named Rusty. He is probably the best non-clan born cat of them all. He was thought to fulfill the prophecy that fire would save ThunderClan. StarClan gave him dreams of all sorts of things such as Tigerstar’s treacheries. He was one of the few cats who helped bring back WindClan after ShadowClan ran them out of the forest when he was a new warrior. Bluestar was the cat who gave up her kits to become deputy and save her clan from Thistelclaw, the cat who would have been deputy, and was even the mother of half clan kits with a father in Riverclan. Two of her kits grew up to be strong warriors of RiverClan but the smallest of the kits ,Mosskit, died on the RiverClan border. Bluestar is the cat who trained the kittypet who became Firestar and believed in him. She gave up her 9th leader life to save her clan from the dogs whom were brought in by Tigerstar and was found dead on the RiverClan/ThunderClan border probably going to say goodbye to her mate and kits. Graystripe is a loyal deputy of ThunderClan and Firestar's best friend. He was the cat who went with Firestar to save WindClan. He also had halfclan kits and fathered Silverstream’s RiverClan kits. He relized that his duities to his own clan and not to his kits clan and stayed with ThunderClan instead of with his mate in RiverClan. Millie is a kittypet who meet Graystripe after he was taken away from the clans just before they were forced to leave. She encouraged him to go and find his clan at the lake and got him back. Sandstorm is Firestar’s loyal mate. She is fair minded and a good warrior and very determined. She is a great mother to her kits Leafpool and Squirrelflight. Yellowfang was a very stuburn and cranky cat but very determined and loyal to her clan. She started out a ShadowClan cat and changed to be a ThunderClan cat. Cinderpelt was a warrior who was hit by a monster and given another chance at survivel. StarClan gave her a dream telling her she would be the new medicine cat but they told her when and how she would die. She keept this secret from her apprentice Leafpool and acted like she new nothing. She was a great medicin cat but was not givin the signs from starclan as clearly as the other medicin cats. She was a very kind and loyal warrior and medicine cat. Leafpool and squrrielflight are Firestar and sandstorm’s kits. At birth they were givin a special bond. Leafpool could see things from the time she was still a small kit. She knew when almost everything was going to happen. One of the only things she did not see coming was seeing herself fall inlove with the windclan warrior Crowfeather. She was ment to be the medicin cat and even when Cinderpelt know she was going to die she let Leafpool findout for heself that she belonged in the clan because she knew she would figure it out. When Squirrelflight, a stong minded and bold warrior, went along with the cat warrior from her clan that was chosen to go to the sun drown place she went even if she was not chosen and that shows how strong minded she is. She has the courage and determination of her parents. She was the right match for Brambleclaw because they were equally “filled with fire”. She is a great mother to her 3 kits. Brambleclaw is a brave and loyal warrior who is determined and was the first cat to get a sign for going to the sun-drown-place and probably even better than Firestar because of their personalities. He was even loyal evought to help and go back through the trek to save the clans. Ashfur is a strong and brave warrior who was in love with Squirrelflight. Some cats say he is too quick to argue and he dislikes that Brambleclaw “took away” squrrielflight from him. Brightheat is a good warrior but because of scars from battels kits and even warriors are afraid. Cloudtail is Firestar’s sister princesses kit and was brought to thunderclan and givin a chance as a warrior. Brightheart does not belive in starclan but does belive to save the clan. Jawpaw hollypaw and lionpaw are Brambleclaw and squrrielflight’s kits. Jaypaw is is the blind medicine cat who sees through his dreams and knows all of the herbs by heart. Hollypaw is the thinker who is cunning and sensitive and always aware of consicensis. Lionpaw is the hunter nd fighter and brave as Tigerstar as well as being strong and skillful.
Shadowclan is a clan that hunts at night mostly because of their surroundings. They are the most of the cause for bloodshed and enemy of every clan even starclan. Tigerstar is a cat who some cats wonder if he was a Shadowclan or thunderclan cat. The only cat in all of Shadowclan who gets dreams from him is his daughter Tawnypelt who wont listen to anything he telles her. He was the braves warrior in the forest and took any chance to kill. And even stared Bloodclan wich died along with him. Brokenstar was the son of a medicincat and leader who killed his father not knowning that he was his father. He was the cat how drove windclan out of the forest and became a prisionor of thunderclan how was forced to eat deathberries by his own mother when he returned to Shadowclan. Blackstar has pride in his clan and wanted to make his clan take over all of the clan both at the forest and at the lake. Tawnypelt was givin dreams from her father Tigerstar but refused them because she want loyalty and peace and is loyal to thunderclan even while remembering her kinship with the thunderclan warrior Brambleclaw, her brother.
Boulder was raised in Bloodclan and left when a forest cat told him about the life of a forest cat. He he led Tigerstar to them because he wanted to prove he was loyal and to impress Tigerstar. Littlecloud tried to save kits and warriors even from otherclans but had to remember that even as a medicinecat you had to respect your own clan first. Runningnose is littleclouds apprentice who admired Cinderpelt who saved him when the great sickness came over Shadowclan. Windclan is a clan that wont give up. They are quickly starteled and fircly protective. These cats have speed and sense of danger. Tallstar defended bordeder and allianes defeated any harm to the cats in his clan. Sosme think he is too willing to make friends with other clans. He gave up his life after the jurny knowing that the cats were safly in their new home and made onewisker the new deputy just before he died so that he would be made leader.
Onestar is good friends with firestar and have been scence they were young. They have to stop being such good friends and not allow any friendly patrols of border crossing that are not nessasary just for a friendly chat.
Mudclaw was an ambishious cat but would surrender his life for his clan wich he did when a tree feel on him and killed him during the attack. This tree created the brige from the clans to the island where they have the gatherings at lake.
Crowfeather is a brave cat. He was the only of the 6 cats who went on the journey to the sun-drown-place who was an apprentice at the time and did not have an old friend on the journey either. He loved feathertail and had to watch her die to save the clan and the tribe cats. He then loved leafpool who he had to let go back to thunderclan to be there medicin cat when the badgers attacked and killed cinderpelt.
Nightcloud is crowfeathers mate. She is short tempered and to quick to act for her son breezepaw according to some cats.
Breezepaw shares nightclouds arrogance and is a fierce and brave and loyal warrior. He grew up hearing stories of how his father was disrespectful to his clan but he disagreed and would not let himself be thought of like that too.
Heatherpaw was a cat who was determined to meet with her thunderlan friend lionpaw so she did so by going to a forest of dunels deep under the earth. RiverClan is the only clan who can catch fish and they will not share their pray. They are in the best shape over the winter because they can still catch fish while the others have to search for food. They may not let you have something of theirs but if they need something they will gladly take it like when the river at the forest was poisoned and they were giving food by another clan they took it and never gave anything in return.
Crookedstar was the leader of RiverClan when Firestar first came to the forest. When he was a kit Crookedstar was playing on the sunning rocks, which riverclan had power of then, and fell and brook his jaw, giving him his name for his crooked jaw. When a patrol found mistyfoot and stonefur and newborn kits he knew by their sent that they were the kits of the thunderclan leader bluestar and took them in as riverclan kits. He was not happy when graystrip of thunderclan brought his two kits feathertail and stormfur to riverclan. Their mother had been Silverstream, crookedstars only daughter. Crookedstar was cunning, confident and farsighted when dealing with his clan. This made him one of the strongest leaders the clans have ever seen.
Leopardstar was crookedstars deputy. She is a proud and ambitious cat. When tigerstar offered to make one big clan of only pure forest-blood cats leopardstar agreed. Tigerstar made the clan and named it tigerclan and also made himself leader of it. On the eve of the bloodclan attack leopardstar ended up with the side of firestar and was on the winning team against tigerstar and bloodclan. Now she does not trust her own judgments and seems hostile and defensive against her clan because she is afraid of make the same mistake all over again.
Graypool was the oldest queen at the time that mistyfoot and stonefur were born and brought into the riverclan camp. She raised them as her own when they were really bluestar and oakhearts kits. She got away with this without them asking because she raised them their whole life and they had almost the same fur color so they thought that she was their real mother at least until bluestar finaly admitted that they were her kits.
Mistyfoot was appointed riverclan deputy and mentored stormfur and feathertail. she fleed to thunderclan when the attack f bloodclan was happening and returned afterwards.
Stonefur was captured and killed by darkstrip and blackfoot under the commands of tigerstar.
Silverstream was crookedstars only daughter and fell in love with the thunderclan cat graystripe. She bleed to death and sunning rocks giving birth to graystrips kits. She will always be remembered in rierclan.
Feathertail was born in thunderclan and reaised in Riverclan. She was saved by Firestar Graystripe and revenpaw when they were inprisined with her mentor stonefur to watch stonefur be killed. They joined Mistyfoot in thunderclan and returned with her to Riverclan after the Bloodclan war. She gave up her life in the tribe cave on the sun-drown-place adventure to save the tribe and clan cats form the mountain lion they call Sharptooth.
Stormfur went with his sister Feathertail to the sun-drown-polace and had to watch her give up her life and then on the second trip when they went to the lake he stayed in the tribe with the tribe cat Brook. They were driven out of the tribe and then kicked out of Riverclan forced to go to thunderclan and then were called back to the tribe again.
Hawkfrost follows after his father Tigerstar and is the son of the rouge she cat Sasha who came to get him and his sister when they were driven out of the forest but he was too used to the clan and wanted to take over the clan and then the forest. He was killed by his half brother Brambleclaw and the prophecy that there would be no peace until blood spilled blood and the lake ran red came true.
Mothwing was made medicin cat because her brother Hawkfrost put a moths wing infront of the medicin cat den to make her medicin cat to help him. She knows her medicin but does not belive in starclan so she in givin messages from her friend Leafpool.
Willowpaw is mathwings apprentice who had an intrest in being a medicincat sense she was a a kit. She was givin dreams as lesons for visions from starclan by dream from leafpool and Feathertail.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

"The Royal Diaries: Isabel, Jewel Of Castilla" by Carolyn Meyer


Isabel is the princess of Castilla. Her elder brother Enrique is the king. He banished her and her younger brother Alfonso to Segovia to be cared for by his queen Juana and her daughter princess Juana, princes of Asturias. Alfonso left and become a king against Enrique to defeat him and become the king of Castilla. Enrique is in court in Madrid. Enrique wishes that Isabel marries queen Juana’s elder brother who she calls El Escorpión, meaning scorpion. A letter from Enrique said that Isabel would not marry king Afonso , El Escorpión. She will marry Pedro Giŕon. The wedding is to be in one week and Isabel is to go to Madrid immediately. Pedro Giŕon is even more old and ugly compared to king Afonso. Giŕon has still not arrived in Madrid. Isabel will not eat until the wedding is canceled. A messenger said that Giŕon saw what he and his men thought an ill omen. Only hours after Giŕon fell queasy and died. Isabel felt ill. She had chills and a fever. The physician diagnosed her with ague. Isabel is visiting her mother and Alfonso just arrived. Alfonso has left to go to Toledo. BeatrÍz is expecting a child in spring. She had her child a baby boy and named him Rodrigo. His godmother is Isabel. Alfonso and Catalina both died. Isabel is to meet with Enrique. Enrique swore Isabel as his heir and then broke all of his promises. She has made a plan to make it so that she will not marry king Afonso. While Enrique is gone Isabel is leaving and has made marriage plans without Enrique’s OK. She will marry Fernando. They had 5 children named Isabel, Juan, Catalina, Maria and Juana. The only lucky of her children was Maria. Isabel died in child birth, Juan died at 19 Juana went mad Catalina married Henry VIII. Isabel died at the age of 53 just 9 years before Fernando.


I would give this book five stars and think that you should read it too.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

"The New Prophecy, Warriors, Book 2: Moonrise" by Erin Hunter

After their long expedition to the Sun Drown place and meeting Midnight, the badger, and found out what trouble was coming to the forest. They must get back to get to the forest before the two legs destroy the forest to make a new thunderpath. The 4 chosen cats and the 2 cats that came along with them meet up with the old tabby tom Purdy when they were on their way out of the forest with Midnight. Squirlepaw’s wound from the rat bit was mostly gone from the burdock root that Midnight had. After they got out of the forest they realized that they could either leave through the two leg territory again or they could go through the mountains. They decide to go thought the mountains. While on patrol some of the Thunderclan cats see monsters coming off of the thunderpath and destroying the forest. Some of the Thunderclan cats try to talk with the other clans about the two leg destruction but neither Shadowclan or Windclan will talk and Riverclan cats have not been disturbed by the two legs. after the 6 cats that are on their way home decided to go through the mountains they jump over a ledge, barely making it over. Once they started climbing up more of the mountain a flood begins and start to carry Crowpaw and Stormfur of the mountain. All of the sudden they are all slipping on the mountain. Back at the forest, Leafpaw makes contact with Squirlepaw to tell their father, Firestar that the six cats are all OK. This gives Firestar more confidence for his daughter and the other cats. Back on the journey to the forest the cats wake up finding that they had fallen off of the mountain. They see things moving in the bushes and realize that there are cats in this area. These are the cats of the Tribe Of Rushing Water. These cats seem to be very interested in Stormfur. They allow the cats to go back to their cave. In the forest the Thunderclan cats awaken to a disturbing surprise. Windclan warriors have been stealing fresh kill! Firestar is going with a troop to talk with the Windclan leader Tallstar. The six traveling cats, go into the cave where the tribe cats live. They eat and start to tell the tribe cats about their journey and believes. The tribe cats seem worried but were unable to explain why. This must have to do with the Cave Of The Pointed Stones that the tribe cats speak of. Back at the forest the Thunderclan cats meet with Windclan and make a deal saying that there will be no more stealing of food and that Thunderclan will tell Windclan anything they find out about the two leg destruction. With the tribe cats the clan cats are staying with the tribe cats until Tawnypelt's shoulder gets better. The other cats go with some tribe hunters and learn how they hunt. The traveling cats meet with the tribe cats at The Cave Of Pointed Stone. The cats tell Stormfur that he must stay to defeat a lion-like creature called sharp-tooth because Stormfur is the chosen one that will kill sharp-tooth to save the tribe. The medicine cats of the clans are meeting, with their apprentices, at mother mouth to speak with Starclan about hardships and the twoleg destruction. Leafpaw tries to make contact with Squirlepaw to find out what is going on. While doing so she makes contact with a former medicine cat named Spottedleaf, who helped her father Firestar to read his dreams before becoming the Thunder clan leader, that the journeying cats were safely on their way home and with the tribes at that time. Spottedleaf told Leafpaw that she could not make contact with Squirlepaw with the tribe cats. The tribe cats are making all of the clan cats accept for Stormfur leave and go back to the forest because it is Stormfur’s destiny to save their tribe. The clan cats leave with the escorting cave-guards and then, once the cave-guards are out of sight, leave to go back and rescue Stormfur. When they are about to enter the cave a strike of lightning flashes and they think they see the creature they call sharp-tooth in the cave! The sharp-tooth was in the cave. Many of the tribe cats were injured or killed and the animal took away the kit mother named Star. All of the clan cats go out even Stormfur. At the forest one of the Thunderclan elders eats part of a rabbit and ends up dying like the Windclan cats said that the twoleg were doing something to the rabbits so that anyone who ate one died. Also from Thunder clan the two cats, Cloudtail and Brightheart, have gone missing. The journeying cats are on their way home and stop to rest in a cave where they sense that there is another cat in with them. This cat is speaking with them. More of the cats from Thunderclan have died and they are still looking for the now 4 missing cats. In the mysterious cave the clan cats realize that these were tribe cats that had been kicked out of the tribe until they came back with the pelt of Sharp-tooth. There were 6 cats to begin but now only three still survived. One of the cats is the sweet tribe cat Brook Where Fish Swim’s brother! The clan cats are going to go back and help to destroy Sharp-tooth. The monsters have not stopped their destruction yet before leaf-bare in the Thunderclan territory. While Sorreltail and Leafpaw are out gathering herbs Sorreltail gets onto Riverclan territory and Hawkfrost catches her. Hawkfrost’s sister and the Riverclan medicine cat apprentice saved them. From things that Hawkfrost said he sounded like the dead and crazy cat Tigerstar was their father! The clan cats and the cats from the tribe make a plan to lead sharp-tooth to the cave using blood. The plan is to lead sharp-tooth to the cave and then have him eat the rabbit body that they filled with death berries which will either make him die or weak so that the cats can strike and take him down. When sharp-tooth entered the cave he swatted away the body of the rabbit and went after the cats. When all of the cats accept for Crowpaw were hiding in ledges near the ceiling Feathertail jumped onto one of the rocks hanging on the ceiling that broke under her weight. It landed on sharp-tooth and killed him. Shortly after sharp-tooth died so did Feathertail. She is now in Starclan with her mother Silverstream. Crowpaw is blaming himself for Feathertail’s death. At the forest the cats of Thunderclan are weak. Some twoleg dislocated Mistyfoot’s shoulder but Cinderpelt was able to fix it. Leafpaw is going to find out if she can figure out where the other missing cats went but while in twoleg territory she is shut in a tiny twoleg den. The 5 remaining cats from the journey have finally returned to the forest safely. But are they in time to save the clans from being destroyed by the twoleg?

I give this book five stars and I think that you should read it too.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

"The New Prophecy, Warriors: Midnight" by Erin Hunter


In the forest there are clans of cats. These clans are united by their ancestors of Starclan. One cat from each of the clans has a dream that they think is from the star clan that leads them to a place in the forest called Fourtrees. From the wind clan the young Crowpaw is chosen, from the river clan the warrior Feathertail is chosen and brings the warrior Stormfur along, from the shadow clan Tawnypelt is chosen and from thunder clan Brambleclaw is chosen and brings along the apprentice Squirlepaw along. All of the chosen cats have a dream and then decide that they will leave and go to a place they are not sure of that is far out of the forest. They are calling this place the sun drown place because when Brambleclaw has another dream he sees a river which he falls into. It is very salty water and just before he wakes up tasting salt he almost drowns and falls into a placed with spikes coming up out of the ground and that is where the sun is setting looking as though it was eating the sun. As they are on their way more of the cats have the salt water dream. Eventually all of the chosen cats have the dream. The dream seems to be a sign that they are going in the correct direction. They meet an old tabby tom and call him Purdy. He says that he knows where the sun drown place is and the clan cats follow him. Some of the cats starts to decide that they do not want to follow him because they are not going in the correct direction because the sun is setting in the opposite direction that they are heading. When they are passing through a two leg place and meet up with a bunch of rats they fight. They fight them off but Brambleclaw is afraid of his sister Tawnypelt being OK because of one of her wounds.
At the next ceremony at Fourtrees all of the clans are wondering where these six cats have gone. Squirlpaw’s sister Leafpaw is the only one that knows about where they have gone but promised not to tell. She wants to tell her father, Firestar, the thunder clan leader where his daughter and the thunder clan warrior Brambleclaw have disappeared to. After the ceremony Cinderpelt, the thunder clan medicine cat and Leafpaw’s mentor, asks Leafpaw if she knows anything about where Squirlpaw was. Leafpaw tells Cinderpelt than all she knows is that Squirlpaw was far away with the cats from the other clans and that they were OK but did not know where they were or what they were doing. Cinderpelt told her to tell her father, Firestar, so that he would be at least a little bit less worried.
When she gets back from the ceremony she asks Cinderpelt if she can have some burdock roots because she thought that her sister might be helped by it as Leafpaw was given dreams showing the cats being all right and what not as if the sisters were given visions of what each other were doing from their ancestors in star clan.
When the 4 chosen cats and the 2 cats who followed along got to another forest with the help from an old tabby tom’s guidance. While they are hunting Squirlepaw realizes that burdock root is they cure for rat bits. They message from her sister worked!! This forest was very near to the sun drown place. When they got to the place they tasted the air and tasted, a badger!
This badger could talk heir language!! She was midnight. They had not come here waiting until for a time to speak with Starclan. They had come to speak to a badger who had traveled far and had talked to many different animals. She was able to talk to their ancestors in Starclan. She told the cats that there was danger coming to the forest and they needed to get all of the clans to work together and get out of the forest as soon as they could. The two legs were making a new thunder path right in their forest! They must get their clans out fast. Will they get out before they are destroyed by the two legs?
I give this book five stars and think that you should read it too.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

"Catherine: The Great Journey" by Kristiana Gregory

This book is about a young princess named Sophie. She receives a letter from the empress of Russia to come and be the grand duchess, marry the duke Peter and rule all of Russia after her. Sophie's name is changed to Catherine and she has to change her religion an d language to Impress the empress in order to keep her duty and rule Russia after empress Elizabeth. when the grand duke peter gets sick Catherine is afraid that measles and other dangerous and killing sicknesses will make have to leave Russia after the grand duke dies. luckily the grand duke survives but will be able to cover up the scars from his sickness to show his face in public, or even in front of Catherine ever again?

I give this book five stars and think that you should read it to.


Sunday, October 5, 2008

" Tornado" by Betsy Byars



If you are looking for a good book then look for the book Tornado. This book is about a boy and his family. One day a surprise tornado hits the farm, Pete tell a story of when he was younger and they had a tornado. During this tornado a doghouse had flown to their yard and when they looked inside they saw a big black dog! They named him tornado. When Pete went with his dad to the town for lumber, a little girl saw the dog in the back of the truck and started calling him buddy. The little girl said that she had lost him in the tornado at the same time that Pete and his family had found Tornado. Pete was so upset. One day when he was doing work in the barn, Pete thought he was hearing Tornado scratching at the door because he missed him so. When he turned around to look to see what was making all of the noise he saw Tornado. Tornado must have run away from the little girl to come back to Pete and his family. When his father saw the dog he told Pete that the dog would have to stay here and not come with them to the town if he wanted to keep the dog. If the little girl found out where he was though he would have to give him up again.
I give this book five stars and think that you should read it too.

Monday, September 29, 2008

"Anacaona" by Edwidge Danticat


Anacaona is an interesting book. Anacaona was the princess of an island of Xatagua in Haiti in the 1490's. She has a brother named Behechio, Baba and Bibi (mother and father). She moves to another island called Maguana when she marries Chief Canabo and becomes queen of that island. She trains to defeat the Killan and to protect her land from all harm. Later she has a baby . When some white men come to attack and take away their gold Anacaona, Canabo and their warriors defeat them. She defeated the white men to not only protect her land but to protect her baby. She meets a woman from Maguana and makes friends with her. When ever she needs help she is there for her. I highly recommend the book Anacaona to you.
I give this book five stars.