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: Kathryn Lasky While reading this historical fiction book I thought it was completely fabricated. The book was about a girl, Lilo, who is taken to a concentration camp with her parents. Her dad is sent away and Lilo and her mom, Bluma, are picked by Leni Riefenstahl, Hitler's favorite filmmaker, to be in a movie. Lilo, Bluma, a boy named Django, and everyone else picked go to the set where they are going to film the movie. From then on, mostly bad things happen. The reason I didn't realize this book was based on fact was because of the lack of emotion. I didn't feel connected to Lilo at all even though the book was based on someone who actually was picked to be in Leni's film. It was as if Lasky was talking to me, recounting her day, and no matter what she said I just sort of said "oh, that's nice" because I wasn't really paying attention. The problem was that what she was saying wasn't nice. I should have been more invested in Li...
