Manga Review: One Piece Vol 2

One Piece: Vol. 2 Buggy the Clown 

by: Eiichiro Oda

• • Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (November 19, 2003)
  • ISBN-10: 159116057X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1591160571

Review By: Kendall L. 

*This book is a manga and is rated "T" for teens.

After defeating Captain Morgan and successfully getting Zolo in his pirate crew, Luffy and Zolo went and sailed into the sea, where they find another village in desperate need. There they find a thief named Nami, who hates pirates. Luffy wants her to be on his crew but she refuses. While on another conflict a pirate named Captain Buggy the Clown has seized the village that Luffy was on, and he was destroying anything in his path.

A dog named Chou Chou however guarded a pet food store that his late master owned and would give anything to protect it. As Chou Chou was being beat up by a pirate this stuck with Luffy seeing that the dog was trying to protect the only thing he had left and came to the dog's aid. Nami saw this and thought maybe some pirates are good, but she still didn't like him. After defeating some more enemies Luffy finally came 1 on 1 with Captain Buggy and Buggy told him something that but his brain into shock...

The series keeps on getting better as I read on, and this one had a cliff hanger! So I don't know what's going to happen next (I wish I did know though) but I bet there's going to be lots of drama and fights!!!

Manga Review: One Piece vol 1

One Piece: Vol. 1 Romance Dawn 
story and art by Eiichiro Oda

• Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (July 23, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569319014
• ISBN-13: 978-1569319017
• Review by Kendall L.
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• *This story is a manga book that's rated "T" for teens.
   
  Monkey D. Luffy is a little boy in the beginning of the book who inspires to be a great pirate one day. His older pirate friend, Captain "Red-Haired" Shanks, saves him from a bunch of mountain bandits and a sea monster and Luffy swears to be just like him one day, or greater. But there's a complication, Luffy doesn't know how to swim (which he was going to learn eventually) and then he accidently eats a devil fruit which gives him a special power but takes away the ability to swim. Despite this setback luffy left his home 10 years later in search of a crew to be the "king of pirates". 
   
  But his adventure at sea is cut short when he gets sucked into a huge whirlpool and ends up at a island which he finds other pirates on, and not the good kind. But he eventually gets off that island and travels onto another island, after getting another boat, where the Navy was stationed. Along with the Navy their was a strange vibe to Luffy about the villagers living there that they were scared, and Luffy wanted to find out what. Turns out a infamous swordsman who is also a pirate bounty hunter, named Roronoa Zolo, was being imprisoned there and a evil captain, Captain Morgan, was controlling the village and killing anyone who defied him. 
   
  I thought this was a very funny and action-packed book. It's almost like an anime Pirates of the Caribbean (but of course the adventures are different)!!! 

Review: Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

• Reading level: Ages 12 and up
• Publisher: Scholastic Press; Reprint edition (July 3, 2010)
• ISBN-13: 978-0439023528
• Review by Kendall L.
• The Hunger Games is a book of strategy, suspense, and action starring the main character, Katniss Everdeen. Katniss is an average 16 year-old girl living since birth in District 12. Every year the Capitol (the "control group") has a tournament called the Hunger Games (two children from each district have to compete in an organized fight and must kill to literally save their lives) and this year Katniss has to go. She enters with her opponent, Peeta Mellark, and something happens that no one ever expects...
• I really enjoyed this book. It was full of description, lots of drama, and all that fighting stuff that we teenagers like to see in a book. We crave for these kinds of books because it's appealing to the eye, which is almost like the vampire books everyone reads now, but luckily not vampires this time! There’s a cliff hanger at almost every chapter so it makes you want to read more. For example, the first time I read this book, it literally took me three days to finish it (including school in between)!!! 
• Day and night, this makes for a great escape when you want to get away from something, or just snuggle down with a good book, either way it's truly a fantastic book. In the end, I definitely recommend this book.

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