fact: during the Second World War, there was a marine biologist who joined the
Marine Corps when the war broke out. He became a combat medic and he had a patient on Guadalcanal who was going to die without extra blood plasma. But there was little the former marine biologist could do since the division's supply of blood plasma had been destroyed in a grenade explosion. So the medic injected coconut milk into the soldier and he survived, not just the battle but the whole war. He
survived because of the mrine biologist's long hours of research and discovery, he found out that 91% of the proteins found in coconut milk are found in blood plasma.

Flight of the Fire Thief

 

The Flight of the Fire Thief by Terry Deary is the extremely humorous yet soberly serious sequel to the Fire Thief as Prometheus, now known to the gods of Mount Olympus the infamous Fire Thief, is on the run from the vengeful Avenger for giving fire to the humans. Prometheus struck a deal with Zeus: If Theus can find one true human hero; he will suspend Theus’ punishment for eternity. If not, Theus will be destroyed. In this exciting adventure, the story all boils down to one question: Who is the human hero depicted in the Temple of the Hero at Eden City?

My favorite part of the book was the funny footnotes and head notes that the author puts in to make this otherwise serious book a little more humorous. The book is written in the form of diary by Helen, a girl who helps Theus in his time at Eden City.

Terry Deary was born on 4^th March 1646 and he quotes “the schools I went 

to never taught me essential life skills such as parenting and money managing. I’ve never used Boyles Law or Trigonometry in my life so why teach it to me? Schools should change.”

 This is a very good book, and if you are interested in Greek mythology and that sort of thing, this is a good series.

Just a random thought. It's been said that crocodiles cry as they eat their meat. What if they were smart enough to realize that dried tears contain salt so maybe they are seasoning their food as they eat it. 

The Quantum Prophecy Series- The Awakening

The Quantum Prophecy Series- The Awakening

 The first book in a series of spectacular books by Michael Carroll tells the story of a great battle, which wiped all the superhumans. The question is, did they merely just retire and blend back in with society, or did they all perish in the battle that supposedly took the lives of many supervillians as well as many superheroes? Colin Wagner and Danny Cooper are about to find out what exactly happened to the superhumans that decade ago, as their own superhuman powers begin to manifest, Colin and Danny must take a dark journey into their own past as they uncover astonishing revelations and disturbing truths in this awesome action thriller with all the twists, surprises and cliffhangers of your favorite Commando adventure.

 My favorite part is again the whole book. Why, I don’t know. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the warp-speed pace of the book does not slacken until the end or that even when Danny and Colin had thought the worst of their troubles were over, they had to face a new threat in the second book, which I am now currently reading.

 Michael Carroll was born on March 21^st 1966 and is and Irish writer. The Quantum 

Prophecy series is his dream project. He lives in Dublin with his wife Leonia and the world’s only sane cat!

 This is a very good series, one that I encourage beginning readers to try since it is easy to read but not too boring. For the Superman or Spiderman in you, try this.   

Spy High- The Frankenstein Factory

Spy High- The Frankenstein Factory

This fast-paced action story set in 2064 by A.J Butcher tells the story of a school for secret agents in training, Deveraux Academy. But the Academy’s students rarely call it by its proper name. They call it Spy High. In the first installment, the six members of Bond Team, Ben Stanton, Lori Angel, Cally Cross, Jake Dally, Jennifer Chen and Eddie Nelligan have petty disagreements. Stanton-always wants the limelight, wants to be the best and will do anything to get to the top. Angel- Not just a pretty Miss Perfect, Bens’ girlfriend. Daly- A boy born under an agricultural dome. Doesn’t have many privileges due to his birth, Ben thinks of him as inferior to him. Nelligan- the class clown, the joker. Never gets good grades. Chen- quiet, has a dark secret connected with her parents murder. Cross- technical genius, grew up on the streets. So tough she would make Schwarzenegger cry for his mother. As this unlikely team is forced to cooperate with each other tempers explode and fights break out between team members. The senior tutor, Elmore Grant, asks them to take a vacation to the woods. But this vacation turns in an action –packed adventure as they uncover a plot by a mad scientist to turn the world’s population into mutants.

 

My favorite part of the book was the final battle between the mad doctor Frankenstein and Bond Team. Many times it is hard to describe a fight in which futuristic weapons are involved, because we haven’t developed them yet. A. J

Butcher has done a good job of describing so much with so little information.

 

Overall this is a very good book, and I look forward to reading the 10 other books in the series.

1. Flabbergast- surprised, astonished, a you-have-got-to-be-kidding-me sort of expression.

2. Cask- a container usually made of expensive wood like oak and used to age, ferment of store drink such as wine, whiskey, beer and spirits.

3. Cynical- an attitude; if a person is cynical that means that he is distrustful of others,always thinks that people have a bad or selfish motive for doing something, even a good deed.

4. Accumulate- to gather, to collect items, often in very large amounts.

5. Provisions- supplies, often used to describe food or military rations, if you are going on a long trip on a mountain, you will need provisions.

6. Ominous- a signal that something bad is going to happen. Ex- "The dark bank of ominous rain clouds hinted a storm."

7. Subvert- to intentionally sabotage a machine of a plan so not everything goes according to plan.

8. Congregate- to get together at a specific place and time, a meeting of sorts.

9. Adversary- your enemy, your opponent. Classic examples would be Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader or The Joker and Batman.

10. Contradict- to disagree, to correct, often in a rude way.