Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp

Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp is about a girl called Amelia who lived in the green house, with the brick side walls built by Solomon J Wieszacker on Marburg Street, with the peacock lamp at the top of the stairs in the hall outside of her room. In her house lived her mother Angeline who was a sculptor and an artist, her father Armand was an inventor, their maid Mrs Ellis and Mr Vishwanath.

Mr Vishwanath was an old man who was a teacher, he had one student (who was an old lady), only one true student, nobody knew what he taught. Many rumours were spread about him and the old lady that went into his room because she carried messages to him they thought he was a crime boss but Amelia didn’t believe all of the rumours. Amelia would see Mr Vishwanath all of the time because he would sit in the chair out the back and stare at her mother’s sculptures or do yoga poses next to them, sometimes Amelia would sit next to Mr Vishwanath, he would never talk to her but she liked the peacefulness and when he did talk to her it would be a long time after she had said something and often she had forgotten what she had said.

One day Amelia decided that she wanted to know what Mr Vishwanath did with the lady so she waited until her old car pulled up and she went into his studio, after a while she crept into his room taking everything in because it was the first time she had ever been in there and then she found the door, she looked in and the old lady was copying Mr Vishwanath with their feet behind their heads and the old lady who usually looked so cruel looked calm and peaceful with her eyes closed, then she opened her eyes and saw Amelia peeking through the crack in the door and her face turned hard and cold as she said ”How dare you!” Amelia ran away as fast as she could before Mr Vishwanath could turn around and see her.

Later on Amelia decided to apologise to Mr Vishwanath but he only replied with riddles as usual, then he asked Amelia if she wanted to meet the old lady and he also told her she was a princess. Amelia told her friends Eguine and Kevin about this and Eguine went completely insane and told Amelia to bring a gift. Amelia wondered what gift she could give and eventually decided she would write a story about the Peacock Lamp as Amelia often wrote stories. When Amelia met the princess she was stern and told Amelia that she must read her story to her.

The princess has a connection to the lamp but will Amelia Dee make the princess colder or will there be a happily ever after? Read the book to find out. I thought that this book was really great because Amelia wrote stories and you got to read some of them within the book and that was really cool because you got her perspective of things from a different angle.

I was a Non-Blonde Cheerleader by Kieran Scott

I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader is about a girl called Annisa Gobrowski who often moves schools, she goes to a new school called Sand Dune High where everyone in the school has blonde hair or has dyed it, even the teachers. As she is a brunette when she walks into her first class she instantly becomes friends with Bethany who has purple hair, black eyeliner and piercings. Annisa is placed into the uncool group by the end of the day because of her brown hair and her New Jersey style from her old town.

Annisa has always been a cheerleader at her previous schools and goes for try outs because two girls got kicked out of the team which the squad thinks she dobbed them in, when she gets to trials she is looked down upon by all of the cheerleaders but one other girl attending trials called Mindy who had been with her when the squad were being mean to her. Soon after Annisa and Mindy get put in the team everyone seems to be breaking up and are arguing, to bring the team back together Annisa decides it would be cool to have a prank war against their rival team but there will be revenge.

From the moment Annisa walks into school she meets the guy of her dreams but then she finds out that the most popular girl in her year and also in her cheerleading squad is his girlfriend. When her brother comes in will he help or make it worse.

This is a great book and is full of surprises good and bad which will make you never want to put the book down. 'I Was A Non-Blonde Cheerleader' is part of a Trilogy also including 'Brunettes Strike Back' and 'A Non-Blonde Cheerleader In Love'

Fierce By Kelly Osbourne

Fierce is an autobiography about Kelly's life and how she has made decisions for the better or worse. It is about her down falls to drugs and her great musical achievements, like playing Mama Morton in the musical Chicago and her radio and music awards and nominations. It also tells you about some of the great jobs she has had and about her family, her child hood and how her parents have influenced her but also how she has followed in some of their tracks in good and bad ways. It also follows her relationships with her parents and her brother and sister and how they have helped get her through the tough times in life, like her drug addiction and having to go into rehab multiple times, being a celebrity in the public eye and having people watching you all the time. It is a great book and I loved reading it, although it is not usually the type of book I read because I usually read fantasy or children's books but I love to read and it is always great to try something new although this book is aimed at an older crowd like teens or older.