Diary of a Wimpy Kid 'Dog Days' By Jeff Kinney

Looooooove Wimpy Kid? Then allow me to introduce to you, the almighty ‘Dog Days'. This new book starts from the part where Greg explains how he is an indoors person but eventually ends up in the Country Club with his buddy Rowley. One day, they bring this new girl Trista to the club and Rowley’s dad got pretty steamed up about that situation, so bottom line is, this is how Greg lost his Country Club privileges. Then, Greg has to go back to the town pool. I’ll give you a brief explanation of the area - it is where men shower in the open (pretty traumatic according to Greg) and where Greg tried to get his love Heather Hills (sister of Holly Hills, read: last straw!). So, moving on, the annoying comic ‘little cutie’ is going to send up its last edition and the headlines are that Rodrick has this scary movie called ‘the muddy hand’ which is pretty spooky. This movie ends up making Greg the ultimate scaredy cat; he does such bizarre things that you can’t even think of because of that muddy hand movie. No wonder Greg is wimpy - he goes to the parlour and gossips with the aunties sitting there! Can you believe it?! Greg’s fun-killer mom starts a new club called ‘reading is fun’ and it is so dead boring for Greg (I wonder why he didn’t sleep halfway through?)! Greg continues on his bizarre, turning and twisting adventure, from waterslide parks to beach visits to the ultimate ride that makes you a man called the cranium shaker... but I can’t reveal it all otherwise what’s the fun? I can tell you my views though….. it is absolutely hilarious bluboriously fascinating and all the other words from outer space - this book is excellent, each part of the book is unique in its own way with an as always perfect art! A must read (exceptions are if you are in outer space or mad). The latter part of the book, which I can't reveal because I don't want people dying of laughter, is hilarious. You cannot call yourself a Wimpy Kid fan without reading this! Must read! Must read! Must read!

Magic Thief III: Found by Sarah Prihneas

The magic thief is back and is looking for a locus Magicalicus this time. Last time, Connawear was exiled from the city Wellmet because he blew Heartsease to smithereens with his last pyrotechnic experiment. So captain Kernn (the dawn palace’s head guard) and her lieutenants have an eye out for Connawaer. But gutter boys are never caught, gutter boys are always safe from a place guard, but you can never look out for minions. Like all gutter boys Connawaer was caught by the minions and taken to the dusk house ruins, where the Wellmet magic is preparing itself for something, something which I haven’t disclosed to you yet. A predator magic Arihonvar is coming for Wellmet after destroying the city of Desh in Book 2. Nevery and Connawaer are prepared, but the Magisters don’t agree with Conn and Nevery, they’re too scared of facing the truth to believe that magic is a living being. So Conn and Nevery's last hope to get some help is to do a finding spell to find Conn a new locus stone. The spell works and takes Conn to a place very far from Wellmet (on the way Conn finds Rowan who followed Connawaer from Wellmet), but in the middle of their journey a huge (thought to be extinct) dragon picks Conn up and takes him to the dragon mountain, where Conn finds his locus stone, which is accidentally eaten up by a baby dragon called Pip. Conn discovers that all dragons die and turn to magic and that magic turns into a city and protects the city; for example Wellmet. so Conn takes (kidnaps) Pip and takes Pip along to Wellmet.The predator magic is just about to arrive, but to Conn’s misfortune the Magisters sentence Conn to death for coming back before his time of exile was over. Now to Wellmet's magic’s despair, Arihonvar arrives capturing the whole of the sunrise part of town.Then around a day or two later Connawaer gathers his strength and faces Arihonvar and does a epic thing (I’m not going to disclose it! So don’t nag!) - which I still think is impossible to do. 
Now to the ups and downs, I've figured the secret about those occasional letters after each chapter that have a secret code. You have to encrypt the code with a language  that is given at the back of the book - it's fun encrypting those letters and Connawaer is as smart as ever and is hard to catch. There are super interesting  points like the dragon cave or when Conn is slipping out of the academics or when Arihonvar arrives, at these points my heart was in my throat literally. This book is very much like original material it's not a copy of an old boring classic magic story, there should have been a little less action a bit more of story. The book is overall pretty good.