Journey of Hope Lurlene McDaniel, 2004

The first book in this: Heather has just finished school and is going to go on a mission trip to Africa before heading to college in the winter but when she arrives on the boat taking them everything changes when she falls in love and I’m not just saying she fell in love with someone which she did but she fell in love with helping out in Africa too and when she meets a little girl who has lost her mother and also her baby sister who is being searched for. When they finally find the baby Ian her love decides he should go and get her but little does heather know she will never see him again.

The second book: Heather returns home but not for long because she tells her family she wants to go back her sister amber is shocked and doesn’t understand heather any more these days but wants to and when heather actually is allowed back also traveling with her mom a plastic surgeon who is planning to help heather’s sister feels left behind. But then something happens to heather and she isn’t allowed to go and amber steps in and decides to go in her place. Heather is relived that atleast her mom is going to be with someone helping children in Africa. But when amber gets there she doesn’t really understand why she came but she too falls in love eventually and has an adventure no one would ever want. Read the book to find out what happens.

Clear and Present Danger Tom Clancy, 1989

Reviewed by Andrew, 13.

Flora Segunda Ysabeau S. Wilce, 2006

Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog. In her first novel, Wilce imagines a living castle a kind of blending of Gormenghast and Hogwarts and she breathes life into her tale with a wry sense of humor. The book opens as narrator Flora Fyrdraaca, the heroine of the title, is about to turn 14, a rite of passage that qualifies her to enter military training.