This book is the second book in the Ranger's Apprentice series. This book starts off where Will, his friend Horace, and the Ranger Gilan travel to Celtica, a neighbouring country to Araluen. They discover that everyone has vanished. Will and Horace wonder if every villager has been either killed captured, but Gilan believes that the evil Lord Morgarath devised a plan to cross the mountain pass faster. If that were true, and the King wasn't warned, the country would be destroyed. After a while, they discover that the king’s army is in danger of being destroyed in a treacherous ambush. Only Will, Horace, and a girl named Evanlyn, stand between them. This book is a good book, I would recommend this book to people who have already finshed the first one.

This book is about Roald Dahl journey to Africa as a worker for Shell and him joining the war and serving as a pilot. It starts off in 1938, he is a worker for shell and he's sailing on a ship called SS Mantola to Africa. On the way he sees some strange, funny things going on. When he gets to Dar es Salaam, the city they're going to, he thinks that it's a very nice looking place. There was a lot of wildlife there, he saw many elephants, hippos, zebras, and antelopes there. The only animal he didn't like was snakes, he hated them a lot, especially the black mamba, one bite from one of those snakes and you will die. One time he was shaving in the bathroom, and he looked out the window and saw his shamba-boy, Salimu raking, and then he saw a black mamba coming right at him, and if he hadn't warned him about the snake behind him, he wouldn't been bitten and died. When he was in the military serving as a pilot, his airplane crashed once and he suffered injuries that would affect him for the rest of his life. This book has many adventures from his journey, it is a very interesting book and I would recommend this book to anyone looking or a good non-fiction book to read.

This book is about an astronaut named Mark Watney who is stranded on Mars after he was hit by a satellite dish during a sandstorm that caused his crew to abort their mission and leave. Now he is on the verge of dying with very little food and water, and has to find ways to create water and make food. He has no way of contacting anyone because of no satellite. Will he survive long enough until someone can come to Mars and save him? Can he make enough food and water to survive and how will he do it? Will anyone come save his life? This is a very interesting book. It is a book I would recommend this book for science fiction books fans.

Every year for 74 years a boy and a girl between the ago of 12 and 18 has been chosen from 12 districts to compete in the Hunger Games. At the reaping eremony, Prim, the 12 year old sister of the main character, Katniss, was selected, and Katniss takes her place to save her from possibly dying in the Hunger Games, and the other tribute selected was Peeta. They are then taken into custody, and are sent onto the Tribute Train to the capitol after visits from their families. After they arrived, they were taken to the remake center to be readied for the opening ceremony, and after the opening ceremony they were taken to the training center, where they stayed until the games. This book is very action packed and interesting, and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good book to read.

Morgarath, the former Baron of Gorlan in the Kingdom of Araluen, is training an army of Wargals, creatures that had only existed in rumors and legends in the remote mountains, and is planning to attack the Kingdom of Gorlan. Meanwhile in Araluen, the big day has come for Will and his wardmates Horace, Alyss, Jenny and George, where they become an apprentice. Will first choice is battleschool, since his father was there too. However, he doesn't have the abilities they are looking for, so he becomes an apprentice to a Ranger named Halt. Will learns skills most Rangers have, like using bows and being able to be unseen. During that time he became closer to Halt and was also given a horse called Tug. Meanwhile, Will's friend Horace is having a hard time at battleschool despite being one of the better apprentices. The training is very harsh and he is often picked on by older students. When Will and the rest of his friends get together during a local holiday, Will and Horace get in a fight, making them hate each other more. But after saving each other from a boar they start liking each other again. I think this is a really good book, I would recommend it to people looking for a good book to read