The Bronze King

This book is what every fantasy should be like. It's perfect, exciting, funny and thoroughly wonderful. All fantasy fans and fans of New York City should read this book!

This is one of the books I keep as a treasure. A young girl makes a wish in a river--and gets a surprising answer. Together, three people must work to save NYC from a monstrous kraken that has worn down the protections of the city. This is a heart warming story with plenty of teary-eyed moments. I started this series with the second book, but this is my favorite of the three. It's a coming of age story, with adventure and magic mixed in. For those girls who've read Harry Potter and want something a little older and more female focused, this might be just your thing.

The Bronze King by Suzy Mckee Charnas . The Bronze King did not win an award even though it should have in my opinion. This book is about a fearsome enemy called a kraken who tries to eat New York. Only a wizard named Pavvo and his friends Tina and Joel can stop it. I really think this book should win an award because of descriptive text like"Something reared up out of the water up,up and up.It was huge and glistery wet in the moonlight, black as ink and roaring. Water steamed off it and its eyes were hot red sparks set high in its towering shape".