PENDRAGON:THE MERCHANT OF DEATH

    I won't spoil anything, but this book is just great. It's got a good story, characters, even the way it was told was amazing. Essentially, it's about a boy, Bobby Pendragon, who's about 14-16 years old, and lives a pretty normal life with his parents, his sister, Shannon, and his dog. He also has an awesome Uncle Press, who takes him skydiving, scuba diving, rock climbing, and basically is the best uncle ever. He plays basketball and has his good friend, Mark Dimond, to talk to. Oh yeah, and he has a huge crush on Courtney Chetwynde, an athletic girl who is great at sports.

    That's just the start. First, just before his big basketball game of the season, Courtney Chetwynde (yes, the girl he has a crush on) shows up at his door and tells him that she has a crush on him, too. Then she kisses him. 

   And right in the middle, Uncle Press comes in and says to Bobby; "I need your help, Bobby." or something like that, and they go down to the darkest part of NY (did I mention that's where they live?) into a disused subway station, where they find a crazy-evil guy called Saint Dane, who hypnotizes a random homeless guy into jumping in front of a train. Then they go through a magic portal called a "flume" and they have to save the medieval world of Denduron from complete destruction. From Saint Dane.

   Uncle Press calls the worlds "territories" and all of them as a whole is Halla. Saint Dane wants to end Halla. That's where I'm going to stop talking to you about it and tell you to get off the computer and go buy the book. All in all, 9/10 points for having the story switch between Mark and Courtney reading the journals Bobby writes and Bobby's journals themselves. I love this book.
--Le Facteur