The first book in the Camelot Code series, The Once and Future Geek , mixed time travel between the medieval world of King Arthur and our own, and it is a very entertaining book. The second book in the series, Geeks and Holy Grail (Hyperion, October 2019), is also entertaining (though not quite as funny; King Arthur as a modern day high school student is hard to beat....). When Morgana, sworn enemy of King Arthur, attacks the druids of Avalon, Nimue, the youngest of them, takes the Holy Grail and runs with it. King Arthur is dying, and only the Grail can save him. Desperate to keep it from falling into Morgana's hands, she stumbles into Merlin's Crystal Cave. But instead of Merlin there to help her (he's on vacation in Los Vegas, in our time), there's only his very inexperienced apprentice, Emrys. His attempt to hide the grail works, in a sense--as a small, flatulent dragon, it sure doesn't look much like a grail. But it isn't much use to Arthur as a...
By: Ursula Dubosarsky I have to start by saying that this cover is beautiful. The golden, orange, and brown tones of the cover melt together and form a watercolor that fits the book perfectly. While the cover is a rather simple scene -- a path leading to two people off in the distance, the overall picture is beautiful. The way the leaves border the top make it seem as if we are peering into one single moment shared by the two people off in the distance. This is exactly what the book is like. It is a short book with about 150 pages. It is a glimpse into the life of eleven school girls in Australia during the Vietnam War. The writing style matches the beauty of the cover. Ursula Dubosarsky writes from the eyes of the school girls, Cubby in particular. Cubby seems to be a little scared and confused. Although it never states her confusion or her fear clearly the writing brought it out so that I felt it rather than saw it in Cubby. ...
