It seems funny but I never seem to read the first book in a series. So I finally managed to find both of the first book in each series. It is always interesting to see how a series progresses.

I think Ms. Perry uses strong characters and also creates sympathy for some of the murderers, as well as the victims. You begin to feel an interest in the lives of the recurring characters who tend to make appearances in each of the books.

She uses the right amount of suspense to keep the reader's interest and keeps the endings a surprise.

My favorite books of hers in each series so far is:

"The Whitechapel Conspiracy." for Thomas Pitt.

"Slaves of Obsession," for Monk.

So, if you like mysteries you may like these series too.

1.The first one I thought of is Harry Potter. I mean who hasn't heard of it? It's about this teenage kid who defeats the greatest Dark Wizard of all time in his first year, stops a memory and kills a giant snake(Basilisk) in his second year, rescues his god father from a fate worse than dead in his third, wins a tournament against school wizards of age (adult wizards) winning a lot of money and baffles and stalls the completely resurrected Voldemort and escapes from him in his fourth. The next year he helps a secret group thwart Voldemort and watches Dumbledore, the only one that Voldemort feared, duel him. He learns about Voldemort's past and watches a dark wizard kill dumbledore and then Harry injures a few of the dark wizards. Finally in his final year, he goes out on the run and destroys what makes Voldemort immortal before killing him.

2. The second one I thought of is the Inheritance Cycle. Some people have heard of it but not that many people have read it. It's about a boy who watches a dragon hatching becoming it's rider. In the first book, Eragon, Dragon Hunters, the Ra'zac, find news of a strange stone, the dragon's egg. They hunt the boy, Eragon, to his farmhouse but he left and the Ra'zac kill his uncle and destroy the building. He ends up with a storyteller, learning magic words, growing a bond with his dragon rescuing an elf, joining the resistance movement and killing a shade. The next book, Eldest, he goes to the elves learns magic while his cousin, Roran, escapes from the Ra'zac. Eventually Eragon is summoned back and must fight for the resistance movement. He is shocked that one of his friends who was thought dead is the new dragon rider for Galabatorix. He fights and loses but his friend gives him mercy and only takes his sword. In the third book, Brisingr, Eragon and Roran go to the Ra'zac's hideout to rescue Roran's love. They come back and Eragon is summoned to the dwarves to help elect a new leader. Then Eragon goes to the elves and finishes his learning and gets a new sword. He returns so that he can help the resistance movement capture another city.

3. The third one is Redwall. I cannot give a overall description because the author writes the book in a random order and they go past to future and such. I can also not give a description because each book is like a series itself. For this you have to read it yourself in published order.

1.Redwall

2.Mossflower

3.Mattimeo

4.Mariel of Redwall

5.Salamandastron

6.Martin the Warrior

7.The Bellmaker

8.The Outcast of Redwall

9.The Pearls of Lutra

10.The Long Patrol

11.Marlfox

12.The Legend of Luke

13.Lord Brocktree

14.Taggerung

15.Triss

16.Loamhedge

17.Rakkety Tam

18.High Rhulain

19.Eulalia!

20.Doomwyte(Coming in October 16, 2008)

I hope this helped you. Please comment

I hope some of you enjoy them as well.

1. "The Harry Potter Novels," by JK Rowling

   These fantasy novels are good escapism. Filled with magic and wonder. Some issues teens face only on a grander scale.

2. "The Wolf Walker Series,'"by Tara K Harper

   These science fiction novels are about the telepathic bond between Healer Dion and her wolf.

3. "The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories," by Carolyn Keene

   These mystery classics remain timeless, still entertaining young readers.

4. "The Noah Bishop" novels by Kay Hooper.

   These books are about paranormal suspense. Psychics solving crimes.

5. "The Last Mountain Man," by William W. Johnstone

   These westerns are adventures of Smoke Jensen. I liked some of the earlier editions.

6. "The Chaos Gate Trilogy," by Louise Cooper

   These fantasy novels are about the clash between the gods of Order and Chaos, as well as the humans caught in the middle.

7. "The Thomas Pitt Novels" By Anne Perry

   These mysteries are set in Victorian era, London.

8. "Wizard in Rhyme Series" by Christopher Stasheff

   These fantasy novels combine classic literature with magical situations.

9. "The Jane Marple/ Hercule Poirot mysteries, by Agatha Christie

   I must say my favorite mystery writer is the incomparable Agatha Christie her style is still unmatched.

10. The Floating Outfit Series" by JT Edson

    These western adventures are my favorite series. I have read them for years. I especially like the characters as well as the imagery.

A kittypet (housecat) who lives with his twoleg (human) owner in a Twoleg Nest (house) next to the forest in which the wildcats live. His name was Rusty. He decides to abonden his twoleg home to join the wildcats who lived in the forest. There he meets a apprentice , Graypaw, who was very obnoxious of kittypets of that time, and assailed him. He agrees to the join ThunderClan after a brief talk with their leader. Many cats challenged him to opposition of a Kitypet joining the powerful clan. He proves his vital skills (hunting and attacking) and joins ThunderClan. His name becomes Firepaw for his flame-colored pelt. He proves his loyalty to ThunderClan doing many courageous things. He fully becomes a warrior and is known from there as Fireheart. He rescues WindClan from ShadowClan. He saves Bluestars (Thunderclan's leader) from Tigerclaw (a traitor). He then moves a step higher and becomes Clan Deputy. TigerClaw, sieges a bunch of rogues and forces them to join ShadowClan. He then overpowers the former ShadowClan leader and becomes the new leader. He arranges a dog pack to attack ThunderClan leaving Bluestar dead. The traditions require that after a leaders death, the deputy of the clan would be the next leader. Therefore, Fireheart becomes the Clan Leader. His name becomes a full leader name Firestar.

Tigerstar, the ShadowClan leader , who is still at large, makes an agreement with another group of cats who live in the city, to help them attack ThunderClan and WindClan agreeing that they would give a portion of the territory of the two clans after they conquered them. Tigerstar is killed by the city cats. They threaten that they will take over the forest leaving the forest cats without a home.

All 4 clans of the forest unite in order to fight the city cats. Firestar murders the city cats leader which sends them packing away.

The Warrior Books are:

• Original Books The New Prophecy Power of Three
• Into The Wild (Book 1) Midnight ( Book 1) The Sight (Book 1)
• Fire and Ice (Book 2) MoonLight (Book 2) Dark River (Book 2)
• Forest of Secrets (Book 3) Dawn (Book 3) Outcast (book 3)
• Rising Storm (Book 4) Starlight (Book 4) Eclipse (Book 4) 7.02.08
• A Dangerous Path (Book 5) Twilight (Book 5) Unknown
• The Darkest Hour (Book 6) Sunset (Book 6) Unknown
• Warriors Manga:
• Warriors Refuge
• Warriors Return

Other Warrior Books:

• Firestar's Quest
• Secrets of the clans
• Rise of Scourge
• 3rd series coming soon
• Cats of Clans
  

Nineteenth-Century Series Books

Series fiction has been most popular in the United States, where the first continuing-character series for girls began in 1841 with Jacob Abbott's Cousin Lucy stories. Typical of many early- and mid-nineteenth-century series, the Lucy books offered instruction in middle-class mores and Protestant moral virtues; they were also the first example of what became a common form of girls' series-the “tot” story, which focuses on a very young child whose mild adventures are tailored to audiences of the same age. The six Cousin Lucy titles established a pattern of location that was often repeated in girls' series: early volumes, such as Cousin Lucy at Study, show the protagonist(s) in such domestic situations as home and school, whereas later volumes, such as Cousin Lucy Among the Mountains, reflect more public settings and experiences. Although a few girls' series began in the 1850s, it was the 1860s and 1870s that fully established the popularity of the form. More than fifty new series, many linked by theme and published by religious presses, began during these decades. Among the most widely read authors of this period was Rebecca Clarke, who wrote as “Sophie May.” Her first and most successful series, Little Prudy, began in 1863. Intended for elementary-age readers, the episodic stories featured Prudy Parlin, age 3 at the start of the series. Sophie May used characters from the Parlin family to create other successful series, including Dottie Dimple (1868-1869) and Little Prudy's Children (1894-1901). While May's books contained the moral and other lessons typical of juvenile fiction of the time, her characters were often more lively and realistic than those featured in other didactic literature. Series for older girls also gained popularity as the nineteenth century advanced. Two that remained in print into the twentieth century were Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Gypsy Breynton series (1867-1868) and the What Katy Did books (1872-1891) by “Susan Coolidge” (pseudonym of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey). The main characters, Jemima “Gypsy” Breynton and Katy Carr, illustrate some of the gender issues that inform many girls' series. Contrary to modern stereotypes of Victorian-era heroines, neither Gypsy nor Katy is passive or demure. Instead, each represents a common nineteenth-century fictional type: the energetic girl who actively tests out gender codes. In both cases, the characters are ultimately socialized into the prevailing gender roles of the white middle class; that is, they come to accept the public and domestic restraints imposed on “good” girls. Yet importantly, both series insist that part of what it means to be properly “womanly” is to be unafraid and independent, albeit in carefully circumscribed, nonmasculine ways.

Throughout the nineteenth century, Protestant Christianity remained an important thematic influence in most girls' series. One of the longest-lived and best-selling nineteenth-century series was overtly evangelical. Martha Finley's Elsie books (1868-1905) trace the life of Elsie Dinsmore, a saintly, submissive Southern heiress whose faith sustains her during her lonely, half-orphaned childhood on a rich antebellum plantation, through her girlhood, marriage, and widowhood, and into a happy old age as a much loved great-grandmother. Although often criticized for their melodrama, racism,

and parochialism, the Elsie books nonetheless demonstrate the emotional power of sentimental fiction.

Twentieth-Century Series Books

 

By the end of the nineteenth century, explicit religion and moral didacticism were on the wane in girls' series fiction-at the same time that the number of series waxed dramatically. In the 1890s, twenty new girls' series debuted in the United States; between 1900 and 1920, more than 150 new series appeared. The range of periods, themes, and settings was vast. There were historical series, travel series, tot series, school and college series, adventure series, war service series; series about Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Girls; and series set in the West, the South, and New England.

Reflecting both an increasingly mobile society and shifting gender and class roles, more and more books after the turn of the century focused on girls as adventurers who moved far beyond family and domestic settings. There were series titled Motor Girls (1910-1917), Motor Maids (1911-1914), Automobile Girls (1910-1913), Girl Aviators (1911-1912), Ranch Girls (1911-1924), and Outdoor Girls (1913-1933). Characters traveled all over the United States and the world; during World War I, many served in France as nurses and ambulance drivers in series titled Khaki Girls (1918-1920) and Grace Harlowe Overseas (1920). As with earlier books, the series of the early twentieth century reflected, reinforced, challenged, and helped create cultural definitions of gender, class, race, and sexual identity.

Nancy Drew and Series Mysteries

 

Book production overall slowed during the Depression, but even in the 1930s, more than sixty new girls' series began, including some, such as Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books (1932-1943), that would become literary classics. Probably the best-known series from the 1930s featured a character who stands as an icon of the independent, intrepid girl leader: Nancy Drew. The series began in 1930, continued through multiple revisions and spin-offs, and was still being published in 2007. Nancy was the invention of the prolific Edward Stratemeyer, creator of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. He produced many girls' series by preparing character descriptions and plot outlines that were expanded by ghostwriters into finished novels. Although the Nancy Drew series was often disdained by teachers and librarians, it was enormously popular with readers, who liked the predictable plots, intriguing mysteries, and streamlined characters. Nancy herself was a fairly one-dimensional paragon of cleverness, skill, and bravery. Yet instead of making her seem distant and unapproachable, her perfections helped account for the series' success. A more realistic character, one more fully developed and individualized, might not have appealed to as wide a range of readers; girls would have found it more difficult to adapt her traits to themselves.

Another important reason for the success of Nancy Drew is genre: the books are mysteries, a form that dominated girls' series in the 1930s and later. After Nancy Drew became a best seller, the Stratemeyer Syndicate created other mystery series, among them the Dana Girls (1934-1979) and Kay Tracey (1934-1942); additional mysteries included the Judy Bolton books (1932-1967) by Margaret Sutton and the Trixie Belden series (1948-1986), begun by Julie Campbell Tatham and continued by ghostwriters using the pseudonym Kathryn Kenny. Even the career and romance series of the 1950s and later often contained mysteries as well. Their appeal is clear: not only do puzzles provide a ready-made plot structure, but the solutions also offer a comforting sense of order andreason, giving readers a world in which even the most confusing conundrums have answers. Mystery series remained perennially popular, but cultural changes after World War II brought about corresponding changes in girls' fiction. The social and gender conservatism of the 1950s supported a market for domestic series that focused on family and on heterosexual romance; popular authors of such books included Janet Lambert and Anne Emery. When characters had careers, they tended, like nurse Cherry Ames (1943-1968), to hold traditionally female jobs. In general, series remained white and middle class. As in earlier years, the few Jewish, nonwhite, or working-class characters who did appear served primarily as villains, clowns, or grateful recipients of charitable largesse. A few exceptions existed, however. Sydney Taylor's All-of-a-Kind series (1951-1978), for example, is about an urban Jewish family.

Contemporary Series. The popularity of series books as a whole declined in the 1970s but, as the Girls' Series Book Checklist points out, the format underwent a renaissance in the late 1970s, when publishers began increasingly to produce children's books as paperback originals. Hundreds of new series appeared, most linked by character, but also by location, format, or theme. Readers' interest in formulaic stories about romances and friendships continued into the 1980s and 1990s, as demonstrated by the phenomenal success of creator Francine Pascal's Sweet Valley High books (1983-2003) and their many spin-offs. As in the culture at large, sex (at least heterosexual sex) was treated increasingly openly in girls' series after the 1970s, and girls' series tended to follow the same trends prevalent in adult fiction. In the 2000s, for instance, the adult vogue for “chick lit” led to such girls' series as Gossip Girls (2002-), which combined romance and shopping with sex, alcohol, and soap-operatic tales of treachery and jealousy. Literary series such as Louise Fitzhugh's Harriet the Spy trilogy (1964-1978) and Lois Lowry's Anastasia Krupnik (1979-1995) continued to be published, as did series for younger girls. Popular protagonists for younger girls included Beverly Cleary's brash but lovable Ramona Quimby (1968-1999) and Barbara Park's Junie B. Jones (1992-). Ann Martin's best-selling Baby-sitters Club (1986-2000) featured girls of middle-school age.

As the twentieth century neared its close, some series began to include more racial and ethnic diversity, but the characters were usually displaced into the past, and the series themselves often engendered controversy. The American Girls collection of historical fiction for younger girls included series about an African American (“Addy”; 1994), a Hispanic (“Josefina”; 1997-1998), and a Native American (“Kaya”; 2002). Some critics, though, find these books inauthentic. The Dear America stories (1996-2004), linked by the format of historical diaries, featured characters of varied social class and race, with volumes contributed by such significant authors as Newbery Medal-winner Karen Hesse and African American writer Patricia McKissack. The series has been controversial, however, with some Native American critics, for example, objecting to the racial messages of Ann Rinaldi's My Heart Is on the Ground (1999).

The sheer number of series by U.S. authors can obscure the fact that girls' series existed in other Anglo countries, too. In England, the girls' school story, with its lessons about gender and class, dominated the early decades of the twentieth century; series such as Elsie J. Oxenham's Abbey Girls (1914-1949) and Elinor Brent-Dyer's Chalet School (1925-1970) found large readerships. Other genres were popular as well. Canadian writers also produced girls' series; probably the one best known in the United States is Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables (1908-1939). Reflecting the Cinderella plot popular in many girls' books, this series follows the orphaned Anne Shirley from her adoption as a child through her years as a teacher, and on to a happy marriage and motherhood.

For the most part, girls' series fiction both consciously and subconsciously informs readers what it means to be female in Anglo cultures-particularly what it means to be a female who is white, middle class, and Christian. Because much of the series' appeal comes from the comfort of their familiar characters coupled with often exciting adventures, the durability of the form is unsurprising.

Harry potter along with his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley go on a quest to defeat the dark wizard Voldemort who is the most dangerous wizard alive. This wizard had also killed Harry's parents long before Harry went to Hogwarts which is the school of witchcraft and wizardry.

After accomplishing many things and going through dangerous activities they do accomplish the task given. They collect the horcruxes which are objects with the fragments of Voldemort's soul.

Harry Potter along with his trusted friends go through many hardships and they also take help from the great headmaster, Dumbledore. Dumbledore is portrayed as the most powerful wizard alive until obviously he dies after getting killed by Severus Snape.

I really like this book and I also like the movies which are action packed. Great plot was made and the story was told really well. J.K. Rowling has made one of the greatest and the most action packed books in the world. This book would be given an 11/10.

I seen him on an interview and his son makes $85 an hour making cookies. (They must be really good cookies) I gave this book a ten out of ten. Not only was there very great ideas to help your son or daughter become great businesspeople, but really inspiring stories about his one life. Funny ones too.

I'm not sure about the total shelf price of this book but whatever the cost get it. I know after the first few chapters you'd wish you would have done these things in the beginning of your parenthood. I think that Troy Dunn has made more young millionaires then anyone else has.

He also talks about how college isn't the only path to getting a good job and being above average in the money world. He also goes over how you can make a job and or business that is not only highly rewarding but also fun for you to do. You and your kids.

I hope you give this book a chance. I'm sure glad I did. Thank you for reading.

The ending of this book was the only thing I didn't like. Through the whole book I was entertained, but he lost me at the ending. But for anyone under twelve years old I would highly suggest this book.

It's perfect for summer reading. (I wouldn't take this book with you if you were going camping) it was one of those books that you're sad when it's over. Reading this book made me want to buy all of the Goosebumps' collection. That was before I knew there was like eighty of them.

But do not borrow this book from a library or a friend. Buy it! You'll want to read it again and again.

Preface: the food isn't great. The counselors area little strange. And the camp director, Uncle Al, seems sort of demented. Okay, so Billy can handle all that, but then his fellow campers start to disappear. What's going on? Why won't his parents answer his letters? What's lurking out there after dark? Camp Nightmoon is turning into camp nightmare! And Billy might be next…

I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did! Thanks for reading everyone.