The Eccentric Bookshelf

Category: Book Reviews

  • The Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan

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    The Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan is about a young boy named Will. Will has been selected to train as an apprentice with one of the most notable rangers of all time: Halt O’Carrick. However, Will is reluctant to become Halt’s apprentice after living as an orphan in Castle Redmont and hearing what the servants…

  • The 1000-Year-Old Boy by Ross Welford

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    The 1000-Year-Old Boy by Ross Welford is a touching story about two boys, Alfie and Aidan. However, Alfie isn’t really a boy, in fact, he’s one-thousand-eleven years old. When Alfie was just eleven during 1014 A.D., he used one of his fathers, livperler or, life-pearls against his mother’s warning. She cautioned that he must wait…

  • Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good by Louie Stowell

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    Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good is an excellent and hilarious book about the Norse god Loki. Some people may know Loki as the person from a movie or television show or others may know him from books such as this one. However, Stowell writes uniquely writes about Loki’s time in Midgard, known…

  • The Bad Guys by Aaron Blabey

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    Along with the release of The Bad Guys movie, I’ve decided to write a review about the book. (Yes, there is a book.) The Bad Guys were one of my favorite comics in the second grade. It had sharks, snakes, wolves, and even a piranha, but most significantly, laughs. The whole book was filled with…

  • The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell

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    The Good Thieves by Katherine Rundell is a beautifully written novel about a girl named Vita. Vita travels by boat with her mom to her grandpa’s apartment in New York to try to persuade him to return to Europe with them. However, as Vita is there, she realizes that her grandpa’s castle on the Hudson…

  • Kay’s Marvellous Medicine: A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body by Adam Kay

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    Kay’s Marvellous Medicine: A Gross and Gruesome History of the Human Body by Adam Kay is one of the most informative and hilarious books on medicine I’ve ever read. Each chapter has multiple subsections in which Kay writes about how different people tried to cure diseases with crazy medicines. There are multiple different eras which…

  • Inkling by Kenneth Oppel

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    Inkling by Kenneth Oppel is a unique and heartwarming book about a boy named Ethan. Ethan’s dad is one of the most accomplished graphic novelists in the world but has fallen into a profound writer’s block after the tragic death of their mother. Ethan also has a sister named Sarah. She has Down syndrome and…

  • The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch

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    The Name of This Book is Secret by Pseudonymous Bosch is one of the most unique mystery novels I have ever read. The book is about an eleven-year-old named Cassandra, or “Cass”. Cass is a survivalist and predicts disasters that never, ever, happen. Her backpack, which she never takes off, is equipped with everything she…

  • Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed

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    Omar Rising by Aisha Saeed is an uplifting and heartwarming novel about a boy named Omar, who gets a scholarship to the acclaimed Ghalib Academy. It’s his chance to reverse his life and get a better one. Because Omar is the son of a servant, he will most likely have a low-paying job too. If…

  • The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson

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    The House With Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson is a beautifully written novel that is somehow uplifting and heartbreaking at the same time. The main character, a girl named Marinka, lives in a house with her grandmother, a Yaga. Her grandmother, who she calls baba, guides the dead into the afterlife and is a guardian…