Name of Reviewer: Sindhu
Title of Book: The Luck
Uglies
Author of Book: Paul
Durham
# of pages: 387
# AR points: 12
RL: 5.5
In a quaint, little
cottage there lives an unusual, risk taking, little girl named Riley O’Chantler
with her peculiar mother, who keeps a knife called Fair Warning in a sheath
strapped to her thigh- don’t worry, that knife is used for cutting vegetables.
. . mostly. Riley’s little sister,
Lottie, who is impossible to potty train, also lives with them and is a bit
odd. Riley had a father who supposedly
was a solider and went to Beyond the Shale, a land that people get sucked into
and once there, never return home. Riley
has a close encounter with a Bog Noblin, a huge, ugly, creature who eats
children and collects their feet. I loved The Luck Uglies
because it was full of fantasy
and adventure, drawing the reader’s imagination into a whole new world with Bog
Noblins and mean kings. If I were
the author, I would better describe Beyond the Shale so that the reader would
understand it clearly. If I were Rye, I would most definitely make a hasty retreat
instead of standing with my feet fixed to the ground and screaming when a Bog
Noblin was about to eat me. If I
had to pick a word to describe
this book, it would be fantasy because the tales in this book could never
happen in real life . . . or could they?
I strongly recommend The Luck Uglies to you if you are the type of person
to enjoy a little bit of terror mixed with mischief and adventure.
