Author: Scalli

Jonathan Stroud has succeeded in awesome worldbuilding and character depth in his six-part ghost-hunting series Lockwood & Co.. As the author says in his foreword, he wanted the fight between the living and the dead to be fair. Instead of the ghosts having all the power over unlucky individuals, they have weaknesses as well. But … Continue reading The Screaming Staircase

This well-known book and movie series by James Dashner has received a lot of attention. The Maze Runner is a dystopian book that shows an alternate world that is carefully crafted and controlled. On the first page, a boy wakes up, traveling vertically at speed. He has no memory. The only thing he is sure … Continue reading The Maze Runner

This eight-book fantasy series by Eoin Colfer is about a twelve-year-old boy named, surprisingly enough, Artemis Fowl. This boy may be young in years, but he is a criminal mastermind. Determined to restore the family fortune, most of which was gathered on the wrong side of the law, Artemis begins searching for a way to … Continue reading Artemis Fowl

Christopher Paolini’s first book of the Inheritance cycle was originally drafted when he was fifteen years old! The book is called Eragon and although it has parallels to the Earthsea books and the first three Star Wars, the series as a whole has an amazing reputation. After all, what’s not to love about dragons, magic, … Continue reading Eragon

This is an amazing book by Anthony Horowitz, in the action genre. The protagonist, Alex John Rider, is a boy who gets unwittingly recruited into the English spy agency, MI6. We follow Alex through a series of books that begins with Stormbreaker, and finishes on the thirteenth, Nightshade. Alex, throughout the collection of books is … Continue reading Stormbreaker