"Skulduggery Pleasant: Playing With Fire" by Derek Landy

In the book Skulduggery and Valkyrie are trying to stop Baron Vengeous who has stolen armor from a sacred place , used vampires to help him do what ever he wants, and has brought the Grotesquery back to life to kill people everywhere and to bring the faceless ones back to earth with there gods to rule forever. Valkyrie learns to use fire and air magic to defend herself and help with what ever mission. In the end Skulduggery's arm gets cut off after killing the Baron by taking of his invincible armor and shooting him in the chest with his revolver. The Grotesquery is still living. Stephanie stabs a sword into it's chest twist it moves it down and twist it again making it scream in pain and die. Valkyrie falls down and Skulduggery picks up his removed arm and asks if she needs a hand. After to days Skulduggery is in one piece and Valkyrie is not even scared.

I would read this book if i wanted to learn about what happens after the first and who the new villain is and what he is trying to accomplish until Skulduggery and Valkyrie take him down.
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"Sparrow Hawk Red" by Ben Mikaelsen

In the book Sparrow Hawk Red Ricky Diaz thought his mother died in a car accident but soon learns she was murdered by drug dealers and he wants to find revenge. His father refused to do a drug mission by stealing a plane and smuggling drugs from other countries. Ricky then decided to do it himself by running away to Mexico disguising himself as a street boy. Has a lot of trouble surviving ,when he meats a friend she helps him to get into the drug compound get the plane and return home.
This is one of several good Ben Mikaelsen books that I would read if I liked to read Fiction that could one day come true as a book tells it to be. I would rate this book
5 stars.

"Tree Girl" by Ben Mikaelsen

In the book Tree Girl Gabriela and her sister Alicia escape a brutal attack from the guerrilla soldiers into the trees. The soldiers killed everyone in there village and the next and the next until they traveled through a field to a new town they thought would be safe until a troop of soldiers came in started beating people to death slaughtering some and hanging them while being burned over a fire, during all this Gabriela was in a tree in the center of town her sister in the woods. after the soldiers left from killing and burning everything to the ground she got down and looked for Alicia in the woods but didn't find her.Gabriela went on for miles and miles before she found a refuge camp, but the guards told her it was full and the next camp would be several miles away. Gabriela walked for days loosing hope every moment that her sister might still be living and that she would survive. In every moment she also thought of herself as a coward hiding in a tree instead of getting what every one else got,to dye.she promised herself she would never climb a tree again in her life. Soon she finally found the camp and lived with two older women.She also made a school to teach children all over camp how to read and write. Somewhere in all this she found her sister traveling in camp with a bunch of others. The second she saw Alicia her hope went as high as it could for survival. Gabriela thought they should leave the camp and head for Mexico ,but she decided she had made family and friends at the camp and a new way for the children to learn.Alicia had not spoken since the night of the attack on her village but Gabriela and Alicia went to a tree just outside of camp and climbed into it, Gabriela explained to Alicia how being a tree girl is not being cowardly it is being strong and honest. That very moment Alicia asked to go higher into the tree.
Read this book if you would like to now how a desperate army for a win in war attacks villages because they think there working with the other side and against them. Many incessant people were killed when all they wanted was peace and nothing to do with war.

"Jaguar" by Roland Smith

In the book Jaguar as a sequel to Thunder Cave it starts out as Jake and his father back in New York, but Jake would be lucky to see his father more than once a day because he would always be researching jaguars and other animals in South America because he was planing on making a reserve for the jaguars with his life long friend Bill. He told Jake that he would be gone for a month and Jake would be staying at a home with his grandfather. After several months at the home Jake got worried and started sending letters to his dad in South America. his dad never sent back Jake got a ticket for a plane and left.
when Jake got there his dad and bill were just arriving on the boat they were going to travel upriver in. when they got off Bill stayed on board to check something while Jake's dad got of and went to greet him. Out of no were the boat exploded killing bill and braking his dads arm and another friends leg. Jake learns how to fly the plane that the other friend made. a week later they all leave to build the reserve. on the way there the boat gets sabotaged and to men try to find an old tribes treasure that's buried under a lake, Next to Jake's camp. one of the men shoot the other while he grabs Jake and threatens to kill him, but there friend a woman archer shoots him in the chest with an arrow and kills him were he stood. the police come take the bodies, and Jake his dad and the two friends finish bills dream to create a Jaguar reserve.
I would read this book if I were into action , adventure , family , and nature.

"Thunder Cave" by Roland Smith

In the book Thunder Cave Jacob thinks he has a normal life, but when he gets home from school and gets a message on his phone saying his mom was hit by a car while she was jogging. He rushes to the hospital just in time to say goodbye. His mom died that night. His dad was in Kenya, Africa researching Elephants in the bush. Jake's step dad was going to send him to Oregon to live with his uncle but he wants to go to Africa to be with his dad. His step dad has to go on a job in the south for a week. Jake finds his opportunity to get an air travel ticket to Africa. After he had his bike painted like a zebra he took of on his plane. Immediately after arriving in Africa he was having Major problems from getting mugged, to having his bike stolen, to stealing it back, to have to ride through the bush in search of his dad, and going face on to a lion. After going through all of that he had set up a camp near a tree fell asleep and awoke to being stampeded on passing out and waking in a bloody dried river bed with tons of dead animals. when he gets up and sees what scared them all he spots flames and burnt plants and animals everywhere. Later that day he spots a bunch of poachers slaughtering a mother elephant and its baby. after being captured and almost killed a few times by the poachers he reunites with his dad and takes down every last poacher.
I would read this book if i was into action , adventure, and the nature of other counries. Thunder Cave

"Skulduggery Pleasant" by Derek Landy

In Skulduggery Pleasant a girl named Stephine thought she had a normal life until her Uncle Gordon died and his will was read! The last request on Gordons will was that Stephanie got his fortune and his house. That night she stayed in the house by herself reading her uncles written books about magic and monsters and secret wars. But little did she know most of the books were based on real things most people don't know about. She was almost done with a book when someone knocked on the front door and demanded to come in to get a key, out of now were skulduggery pleasant burst through a window and started throwing fire at the man who wanted the key. After the fight he lost his hat, sunglasses, and scarf that covered is face, revealing his skeleton self. None the less Stephanie asked questions about him, until she asked to go with him to were ever it was he was going next. He hesitated but then agreed. Stephanie gets introduced to elemental magic and scocers magic. in elemental there are fire, water ,air, and earth. Skulguggery soon figured out that Serpine the one who killed him a long time ago was trying to get a hold of the book of names(book of names,every name of every person)which only had the protection of will power, the closer you get the more you think your getting trapped. After the leaders of all Magicians were killed by Serpine and his gang there was a fierce fight between good and evil. Soon enough Skulduggery had Serpine pined against a wall when he turned him to dust with the ancients scepter and destroyed the evil of Serpine ounce and for all.
I would only read this book if i were into sarcasm ,fiction, and the good and evil forces in a great book!

"Red Midnight" by Ben Mikaelsen

In the book Red Midnight you will learn how in Guatemala a boy named Santiago and his young sister Angelina escape from there village before the guerrilla soldiers kill them like all of there other friends and family. After there escape they walk and ride in the back of a drunk drivers truck for miles until Antiago spots his uncle Ramos'es summer hut. After a short rest on his uncles bed him and his sister are awoken to Enrique a good friend of there uncle who watches over the hut in the winter. Antiago thought he would be safe there but Enrique told him the soldiers were visiting here often as well. They decided it would be to dangerous to stay so Enrique told him that he would have to take his uncles kayak across the ocean and Mexican Gulf to get to Florida in the United States of America. During the long and perilous journey Antiago and Angelina learn a lot about what had happened when the soldiers destroyed there village, and killed all the people in it besides them. But soon they arived on a rapid wave that through them onto Florida's beach. That very night would be there last on the ocean, But there first in America with people and soldiers who dont want to kill them but instead help them.

In my opinion as a reader and a student I think Red Midnight would be a great book for someone who likes to learn about history through stories!