The Judge's House by Bram Stroker

This book is actually not scary, considering it is a horror book. It was very short and easy to read, but not scary. 
It was about a man who lives in the Judge's house and has all these rats sent to him. 
Her is my review: **1/2

The Lost Chronicles of Earth Revelations by Eric Chacon

Overall this book was pretty good. It was exciting...but long. The beginning seemed to take forever, but once you pass page 100 or 150 then it is so exciting!
I warn you, it is kind of like one of those 2012 movies, except in 2065. But I remind you...IT IS JUST FICTION! It's not like you could really wave a wand and cast spells or go back in time such as in other fiction books. It's fiction.

***1/2

THIS BOOK COULD WIN THE JACK K FICTION AWARD!!!
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Brady by Jean Fritz

This book was about Brady, a boy who discovers the secret of the underground railroad.
I think this book was pretty good. I would reccomend it.

****

ENDYMION SPRING by Matthew Skelton

This book is about a boy who finds a strange book that only he can read...but there are people trying to take it from him.

I think this is a good book, overall. It was creative and exciting. The end got a little boring when they were talking about Endymion Spring (the person.) Other than that, bravo!


****

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

This was a book about Bod Owens, a boy being raised in a graveyard.
This book jumps around a couple years each chapter, so that took a few chapters to figure out. Second, this book was strange with commas. Another thing that bugged me was in one chapter he's just naming things like: the 33rd President of the United States or The Emperor of China. Meaningless things. They should be names, sometimes that bugs me.
At the end, I might add, the book got so much better. It was sad, and exciting, all at the same time! That is something not many writers can do.

***

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

This book is about Jethro Creighton who is a boy at the time of the Civil War. It's pretty self-explanitory.

At the beginning of the book I found it somewhat interesting, then when there are about two years left in the book, it's just paragraphs of what's happening. I found the end very boring. Before that I found it interesting. It was a little less that Marooned (***) but more than Hatchet (*) so I had to go with this:

**

It is the first two-starred book I have given-mostly because if I don't like the book sometimes I can't finish it-it was good up until the end, with an interesting twist in the beginning.

Tentacles by Roland Smith

This is the sequel to Cryptid Hunters (*****) and a very good sequel at that. The story begins with Marty's friend Luther coming to the island to join them on their search for the Kraken or Architeuthis. But there are unwanted guests on board (besides the ghosts) and you don't know who they could be.
This is a really good book. I didn't want to put it down. It was that good. Both books got me interested in Cryptozoology. It is just a good book.
The things I would recommend changing if I was Roland Smith. Marty and Luther frequently say "Nose picker." To each other almost as much as "Duh du jour." It gets pretty annoying.
Also, Blackwood really shouldn't have custody over Grace. She belongs to her dad. That needs explaining. The good thing is that that is not enough to lower one star so it's fine.

*****

This book could win the Jack K Fiction Award for 2009!