Inkheart
3 journalers for this copy...
This book was chosen because it is on the 2009 Reading Olympics list for Bucks County, and Morrisville's Gifted 6-12 students are required to read one Reading Olympics book per month this school year. Our goal is to get the books on the list, journal about them as we read them, have a release party at the end of the school year, and track the journey of our books next school year. We're excited to see where this book goes!
My name is Matt and I recommend that youn read Inkheart. Inkheart is about a girl named Meggie who finds out that her father has a power that allows him to read characters and objects out of books. When Meggie and her father Mo get captured by the evil Capricorn, Meggie finds out that she has this power too. Also Meggie learns that her mother actually was trapped in a book when Meggie thinks she is gone. Capricorn selects Meggie to read the Shadow out of Inkheart. Meggie gets help from the author of Inkheart and she reads Capricorn and his followers back into the back. At the end, Mo's friend Dustfinger takes the last copy of Inkheart and leaves without saying goodbye.
I got this book over the summer, read it over the winter, and it's taken until now to get around to logging a journal entry for it. This is a Reading Olympics book, so I decided to read it because my students might be reading it. My mom also told me how much she liked the series, so I thought I'd give it a shot.
I found the idea of this book very similar to The Heroines, by Eileen Favorite and The Book of Lost Things, by John Connolly. It's funny that I could come across three books so similar within a year without realizing it. I thought Inkheart was enjoyable, but I would recommend either of the aforementioned books over this one. I'd also recommend the His Dark Arts trilogy, despite the failed movie attempt.
I'll be releasing this book into my classroom. We'll probably release it into the wild in June.
I found the idea of this book very similar to The Heroines, by Eileen Favorite and The Book of Lost Things, by John Connolly. It's funny that I could come across three books so similar within a year without realizing it. I thought Inkheart was enjoyable, but I would recommend either of the aforementioned books over this one. I'd also recommend the His Dark Arts trilogy, despite the failed movie attempt.
I'll be releasing this book into my classroom. We'll probably release it into the wild in June.