The Horse and His Boy

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis is 224 pages.  In this book a boy named Shasta meets a talking horse named Bree.  They then go on a journey and travel to Narnia. Along the way they meet a girl named Arvis and another talking horse named Hwin.  They find out that a man named Rabadash is going to attack Narnia so they have to get to Narnia and warn them before Rabadash and his army get there.

The Haunted Bridge

The Haunted Bridge by Carolyn Keene is 180 pages long and it is a Nancy Drew book.  Nancy, Bess, and George are at a hotel that has a golf course. Nancy is playing against a man named Barty.  While playing, Nancy hits her ball and it lands in a forest near by.  When she goes to get it, her caddy, Chris, tells her that the bridge that goes across a river to the forest is haunted.  He says that there is a ghost that sometimes walks on the bridge and they  hear it moan and scream.  Later, Nancy's father gives her a case about a gang of jewel thieves.  Nancy later learns that there is a woman who used to live at a house in the woods but her house burned down and after that she ran away.  Nancy then finds a box of jewels hidden in the river and thinks it belongs to the lady that lived at the house.  She finds out that the lady had a gardener and tries to find him.  After Nancy investigates some more, she starts to think that Mrs. Merriam, the lady that lived in the house at the forest, is innocent and is being framed for stealing the jewels she found.

The Message in the Hollow Oak

The Message in the Hollow Oak, by Carolyn Keene, is a Nancy Drew mystery that is 182 pages long.  In this book, Nancy's Aunt Eloise tells her that she knows a detective named Boyce Osborne who has a mystery for her.  When she gets to Aunt Eloise's house, her aunt introduces her to Boyce, and Boyce tells her about the mystery.  He says he was solving a case about a hollow oak. The oak had a message inside it. The message was on a lead plate and it said PF, and there was an arrow under it pointing east.  Boyce says that before he could finish solving the case, he had to return home.  Later Nancy tells Ned and he says that he has a cousin that is going to work at a dig near were she is going, so Nancy goes to meet her.  She takes a plane and meets a man named Kit who is very rude.  After she gets off the plane, she meets Ned's cousin, Julie Anne, but she also runs into Kit again.  Then, a lady tells Nancy that Kit is a troublemaker.  Nancy goes to the dig and goes to sleep, but then she wakes up and hears a voice that says, "Nancy Drew, Nancy Drew".  After looking around, she spots a goat in the corner of her room eating some cookies.  After this, Nancy starts to think that Kit is up to no good.

The Whispering Statue

The Whispering Statue, by Carolyn Keene, is a Nancy Drew mystery book that is 179 pages.  Nancy's father tells her that he has two cases for her to solve and he introduces her to Mrs. Merriam.  Mrs. Merriam tells Bess, George, and Nancy about the mysteries she has for them.  The first one Mrs. Merriam tells them is about some books she had that she wanted to sell.  She contacted a man named Mr. Basswood, who agreed to help sell the volumes, but she believed that he wasn't giving her all the money he made.  The second is about a whispering statue.  Mrs. Merriam tells a story about a statue and says that it got stolen.  She wanted Nancy to find the statue, figure out who stole it, and find out why it whispered.  After their conversation was over, someone knocked on the front and the back door.  Also the phone started ringing.  When the doors are opened and the phone is answered, two men with black masks are standing at them.  On the phone a strange voice says that Mrs. Merriam had better stop talking or they will get hurt.  The men at the doors escape and Mrs. Merriam starts to think that her case will be to dangerous for Nancy.  This is only the beginning.

The Devil's Arithmetic

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen is 170 pages long.  Hannah, a Jewish girl, goes to her aunt's house to celebrate the Passover.  Hannah is chosen to open the door to let the Elijah inside.  When she opens the door, she time travels back in time and ends up in a house.  She meets a woman named Gitl.  The next day they go to celebrate a wedding.  While there, Nazis come and ask them to go with them because they need to be relocated.  Hannah finds out what year it is and she tries to warn the other Jews.  They don't listen to her and go with the Nazis.  Once they are taken out of the boxcars, they see that they are in a camp. 

Dogsong

Dogsong by Gary Paulsen is 177 pages.  I didn't really enjoy this book.  Dogsong is about a Eskimo boy named Russel.  Russel wants to be a man and find his own song.  He goes to a old man named Oogruk for advice.  Soon after this Oogruk dies, so Russel takes his dogsled team out across the ice. A while later, he finds a pregnant Eskimo girl close to death.  He learns that her name is Nancy and she had run away but her snow machine had run out of fuel.  After Nancy gets better, they continue on his journey together because Nancy doesn't want to go back to where she lives.  Once they continue on their journey they run out of food and there is no caribou in sight so Russel leaves Nancy to go look for food.  Then, he comes across a bear.

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm

The Mystery of the Ivory Charm, a Nancy Drew book by Carolyn Keene, is 179 pages long.  Nancy, Bess, and George go to a wild animal show.  They meet a boy named Rishi and his cruel father, Rai.  When they get home they find Rishi in the trunk of the car.  He tells Nancy how horrible Rai is to him and that he learned from his mother that Rai is not his real father.  His real father lives in River Heights, which is the city Nancy lives in.  Rishi gives Nancy a ivory necklace that looks like a elephant and he says that it brings good luck.  Nancy calls the animal show to see if Rai is there but the man says that Rai quit so Nancy decides to take care of Rishi for the time being.  Nancy meets a woman named Mrs. Allison who owns a house with a lot of land.  Nancy, Bess, and George go to see if they can find her but instead they find that the house has a tunnel that leads to a opening in a rock.  Nancy then starts to think that Rai and Mrs. Allison are up to no good.