Peter+and+the+Starcatchers

** Title: **// Peter and the Starcatchers // ** Summary: ** Peter is an orphan traveling on a ship to serve as a servant to a king far off. Peter’s clothes are ripped and worn, and he has shaggy blonde hair that could use a good trimming. On his boat, //The Never Land//, young Peter meets Molly, a pretty girl in Peter’s eyes with large green eyes, and long brown hair that curled slightly and turned gold at the tips. Molly is also a starcatcher. As a starcatcher, Molly tries to obtain a type of magic called “starstuff” before the “others” get it and use the power for evil. It turns out that there is a very large amount of this starstuff on //The Never Land//, though at first Molly and the other starcatchers don’t know this. Molly and Peter go on a crazy adventure including attacks by Black Stache, a man named by his long black mustache that curles at the tips, shipwrecks, and captures until everybody ends up on an island where the starstuff passes between lots of peoples’ and animals’ grasps. Whose hands does it end up in? And what happens to Peter and Molly because of it? Read //Peter and the Starcatchers// to find out! // Peter and the Starcatchers // is an amazing book. I loved how much adventure is in it, and how much detail the authors include. I couldn’t put the book down because of the cliffhanger chapter-endings. I couldn’t wait to know what would happen next! ** Recommendation: ** I would recommend this book to any 5th to 8th grader that loves to read adventure fantasy fiction books, and to someone that can stand some gruesome details. But if you are not so interested in adventure books, and do not like fantasy very much, this book may not be right for you. If you liked //Peter and the Starcatchers,// you might want to check out these other books by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson: · //Tricky Business// · // Big Trouble // · // Parallel Lies // · // Middle of Nowhere // ** Final Rating: ** 9 out of 10
 * Authors: ** Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson
 * Genre: ** Adventure fantasy fiction
 * Length: ** 451 pages
 * Recommended Grade Range: ** 5th to 8th grade   ** Year Published: ** 2004
 * Review: ** I rated this book for 5th to 8th grade because it has some gruesome details that are too much for younger kids, but it may be a little boring for a high school student. In some parts of the book, it can get confusing because of some of the “sailor terms” that some kids might not know the meaning of. But otherwise the vocabulary is easy and it is a good read.