First Blog Assignment-Silent Reading Book

{The Riddles Of Epsilon, By: Christine Morton-Shaw}

Christine Morton-Shaw, is from Blackburn, England, and has written many books for young children and two books for teens.
-Children’s Books-
The 'Stringalongs' series
The Pig that Barked
Don't Worry William
Picnic Farm
Run, Rabbit, Run
Itzy Bitzy House
Magoosy
Mr Jack: a little dog in a big hurry
Wake Up, Sleepy Bear
-Teen’s Books-
The Riddles of Epsilon
The Hunt for the Seventh
This book is about Jessica, a girl who moves to a house her mother inherited. On the remote island of Lume, off the coast of England. One day when Jess is in an internet chat room talking to her friend Avril, and someone gatecrashes. Someone who leaves no trace, no IP address. This mysterious being tells Jess that her mother is in danger. He will not tell Jess anything, instead he gives her riddles and clues she has to solve. Soon Jess uncovers a secret society obsessed with a monster in a folklore story.
Jess also begins having dreams about a boy who lived a century ago, and soon she is not sure who to trust to save her mother from her trance like state.
The setting of the book is in the big house on the island Lume. Set in modern times, the settings also include a cave, the beach, Milton house, and a little shack on the property of the big house.
Jess is the protagonist in this story. One trait she has is that she is rebellious. I can tell because no matter what her parents say she got a nose ring and kept it, which caused them to stop talking to her. She also enjoys making their lives difficult when they do something to annoy her, and refuses to do what anyone else tells her. Furthermore Jess is curious, because if she was not she would not have began solving Epsilon's riddles. In addition, when she was sick and could not do anything it bugged her that she could not keep working on the riddles.
I really enjoyed this book; I love how all the facts are presented to the reader. For example, the symbols are projected onto Jess's bedroom wall; they are drawn right into the book along with her mother's estranged drawings. Instead of just being described, the reader can look and see what the author means.