Book Review: Heidi by Johanna Spyri

        Heidi is a charming classic tale of, yes, Heidi, a young orphan girl with no stable place to belong to. This all changes when her Aunt Detie delivers her to her gruff grandfather (who everyone calls Uncle Alp) to live with him on a mountainside in the Swiss Alps. He had a frightening reputation, but Heidi knew better. She discovers a beautiful natural world on the mountainside, making friends and discoveries and wondering, dreaming, and adoring everything. This footloose and fancy-free life is altered when Aunt Detie comes to get her and take her to live with a family in Frankfurt, as a playmate for a twelve-year-old invalid named Clara. It is here that Heidi realizes how rare-and special- God's blessing of home is.

This book was enchanting and especially cute; I recommend this to anyone. Five stars!

Book Review: Cycles by Lois D. Brown

           Cycles is impressive. Its plot entangles you and keeps you there past the back cover; Lois D. Brown is a living legend.

Renee Beaumont is about to die....again.
That is the slogan for this teen urban-fantasy. This book is unexpected. It's intense. It's...incredible!

Renee has weird flashbacks, her next-door neighbor has samples of her blood for no apparent reason whatsoever, and, even worse, her parents have a dark, dark secret that could very well decide Renee's fate.
 Any more explanation of this thrilling novel will completely and totally spoil its dynamic plot for you. Anyway, this novel is probably grade-school appropriate for sci-fi action. Five stars! Five freaking stars!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Check out its equally amazing sequel, Spaces)

Movie Review: Iron Man 3

    Last night I went to see Iron Man 3, and frankly, it is the best movie I have ever seen before. It is also the best out of all three Iron Man movies and out of all the Avengers movies. I enjoyed every second of it! Marvel has truly outdone itself with this action-packed (seriously- it's better to keep track of what didn't explode), intensely intense, amazingly incredible, fantastic movie. In this third installment to the Iron Man story, America is having scary, mysterious surprise attacks from an insane terrorist that calls himself the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley). His bombings and attacks have got everyone terrified, except, of course, Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). All he's scared about is how on Earth he's going to protect his girlfriend, Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow). He has anxiety attacks everywhere he goes, everyone is expecting him to do something (but how can he when no one knows where the lunatic Mandarin is), and he needs the help of a friend, Colonel James Rhodes (Don Cheadle), or, with his new star-spangled suit courtesy of Tony himself, The Iron Patriot. At the same time, a creepy science experiment gone evil is threatening the stability of the world itself. This was a fantastic and amazing movie, 10 out of 5 stars.
As far as parent reviews go, Iron Man 3 contains almost constant scenes of violence (it is, after all, a superhero movie). Here are  the Kids-In-Mind and Common Sense Media reviews:
http://www.kids-in-mind.com/i/ironman3.htm
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/iron-man-3
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