Summer Reading Book

For my summer reading project, I read a book called Scarlet by A. C. Gaughen. It was a book that was set in Europe. It was a variation on the traditional tale of Robin Hood. The thing that made this story different, was that it wasn't centered on Robin, like most orher stories like this. It was centered on someone in his band, named Will Scarlet.
Will Scarlet was a really special character, this was because Will Scarlet was actully a girl, named Scarlet. Scarlet was a female thief, who had been caught trying to steal from Robin. Robin had then caught her, and said that she could join his band  of thieves, or he would send her to jail. Scarlet knew that going to jail, would mean a slow, painful death. She then joined Robin's band. She didn't know it then, but Robin had been trying to protect her. He would have never thrown her into jail, he hust wanted to keep her safe and well fed. He also didn't know that she was a girl back then.
When Scarlet joined up with Robin's band, she really didn't trust them at first. Later on she had started warming up to the guys in the band. Throughout the book, Scarlet was warming up to the band. At the begining of the book, she would tell the band a few, little things about herself, but she would lie to them about her eating habits, which were terrible, she would almost never eat, and it made the band very upset. By the end of the book, though, she would tell them almost anything, and she started getting really close to them.
She told them that she was actully Lady Marian, a noble, and that she was running away from her fiancè. Her fiancè was named Guy, and he was a terrible man. That was a really large thing for her to give away. All of this shows, how througout the book, Scarlet had started learning to trust her friends.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11983940-scarlet

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

This week, I've started reading a  book called Inkheart it is by Cornelia Funke. I've already read this book once before, but that was a while ago. So I decided to read it again. I am somewhere in the middle of the book, and the story has been captivating. I love the idea, that someone can read a book out loud, and make things come out of the book. Books have so many amazing things in them, I wish that I could read a book out loud and make magical, hypnotizing creatures appear from the story.

Of course this power comes with a price, this is a storybook, when has someone ever had an amazing and addictive power that didn't come with a price? The price for this power, is that when something comes out of the book, something else has to go into it. That doesn't sound so bad right? Well here's the thing, you  can't control it. Anything could come out, and anything could go in. imagine trying to show this power to you best friend, they don't believe you, so you start reading out loud to them. A magnificent creature appears from the book, you look over to see the look of amazement on your friend's face. Your friend isn't there you look around to find them, and you can't. They are in the book. You can never get them out because you can't control the power. you will now have to live the rest of your life without them.

Sounds terrible right? I bet you wouldn't want the power as much now, but it stays with you forever and you can't get rid of it.

Any way, this is exactly how Meggie, the main character, lost her mother. She had to live her whole life without her mom, because her father accidentally read her mom into the story. It happened when she was little, so she doesn't even remember her mom. Can you imagine living without a mom, it sound's pretty hard to me.

I left off at a part where Meggie and her dad, Mo, are running away from Capricorn, the bad guy, with her aunt, Elinor, and Dustfinger, her dad's friend. Dustfinger and Capricorn are people who switched places with Meggie's mom. they are having trouble escaping because Elinor is old, and her feet are sore. there is a line that says, "'Elinor's feet must need a rest, and if you ask me this wouldn't be a bad place for one. 'What feet?' asked Elinor, sinking to the ground with a groan, 'You mean these poor sore objects attached to my legs?'" I feel that this line was put in the book to show how much it hurt Elinor to run, and this was the first sign of any pain she showed in the whole book. Before, she had been very strong, and would hardly show any emotion. Also, before this, she had hated Meggie, but now, she is really warming up to her, and she defends her a lot. I used to not like Elinor as a character, but now she seems really cool.

Meggie, Mo, Elinor, and Dustfinger, had also just reached a house, where they have rested for the night. While they were resting, Capricorn's men caught up, their names are Basta and Flatnose. They brought some dogs to help them track Meggie's group, and I haven't gotten any farther in the book.

So far the book has been filled with action and I hope it stays action filled.