Imagine having a voice so wonderful, so incredible that when you read aloud from a book  some of the characters would appear in this world.  Meggie’s father, Mo, a bookbinder, has this gift.  But this gift also comes with a curse for when one character from the Inkheart‘s world appears in our world, someone from our world disappears into Inkheart’s world.  Two characters, Dustfinger and Capricorn, have been released from Inkheart  into Meggie’s world and Meggie’s mother has disappeared.  Capricorn and his gang are searching for Mo.  They have an evil plan for our world and Mo’s gift is needed to set the plan in motion.

Follow up this great read with the sequel, Inkspell.  Meggie reads herself in to Inkworld and a new adventure begins.

 I just finished reading the Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor. I actually had a chance to meet the author at the Comic Convention in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. He gave me a 60 second synopsis of the book, enough to make me curious and purchase the book. He plans to write a triology and he is working with others on a comic book series that is already out entitled Hatter M based on Alyss’s bodyguard. I’m intrigued with the concept of having cross-over characters in the novel and comic book. Those of you who are familiar with Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass should read Looking Glass Wars just to see how Beddor uses familiar characters and the setting of Wonderland to take us on a whole different journey. And now for Looking Glass Wars…

At Queen Genevieve’s command, Hatter Madigan, the Queen’s faithful and loyal bodyguard, snatches up seven-year-old Princess Alyss and flees through the Pool of Tears to keep her out of the clutches of her vicious Aunt Redd. After emerging from the portal, Alyss finds herself separated from her bodyguard and alone in Victorian London. In London, she meets the author Lewis Carroll to whom she entrusts the terrible story of the Wonderland coup. Alyss hopes that someone will read the tale, come to her rescue, and return her to Wonderland. Lewis Carroll publishes her story as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and he gets everything wrong including the spelling of Alyss’s name. Meanwhile, Wonderland has come under the cruel rule of the Queen of Hearts, Alyss’s Aunt Redd. Will those loyal to Alyss be able to find her in time to return her to the throne? Will Wonderland ever return to its former glory? Check out a copy of The Looking Glass Wars to find out.

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Well, the gods of Mt. Olympus have been at it again.  They’ve been interfering with the lives of mere mortals. Poor twelve-year-old Percy Jackson is about to be kicked out of yet another boarding school for causing trouble during a class field trip.  But he had to defend himself against his pre-algebra-teacher-turned-monster.  After all, she was trying to kill him!  When the Minotaur chases Percy to a summer camp for half-bloods, Percy begins to understand the life he has been dealt.