Harry Potter:
Main character raised by aunt and uncle, miss-treated, suddenly gets a letter to a magical school….

The Silver Kiss:
Main character feels upset, goes walking at night in the dark, sees a beautiful figure in the moonlight and she wishes to know who it is….

Birthmarked:
Midwife teen finds her parents missing, goes where she is not suppose to to save them….

I like stories that give me something familiar to grab onto, but a twist at the same time.

For example, Maximum Ride begins with a dream. A dream that Max (the protagonist) is running from something. And what is it she’s running from? A half-wolf, half-man creation called an Eraser. But she wakes up and it isn’t a dream. This all happens within the first few chapters, and I really got into it.

Harry Potter isn’t my favorite because the first chapter begins with boring things. How the average life works out. Clockwork. But the fun, interesting, and rather quirky way Rowling describes it pulls me in.

{This semester, things are going to be different. This semester, things are going to change…} Bells is turning her life around. No more waiting for things to potter along, she’s going to launch herself at life with a running start. But this time life might not reciprocate those feelings…

And in it Bells is going to Prague for a week for a competition. Here are a few I thought up,

-Bells Abroad
-Bells at Large (but this made it seem as if she spontaneously became obese or something)

And that’s it. So some help from all you at Yahoo! Answers would be much appreciated.

‘The Bell Cow’
The bell cow is the cow in the herd that leads the other cows back to the barn at milking time. The farmer recognizes this cow as a leader and puts a bell around her neck which helps the other cows learn to follow her.
I think it fits her properly. Since Bell is taking charge of her life.
The term is also used in the NFL for RBs that are bruisers, that lead the pack on their team.
Reggie Bush of the Miami Dolphins is a Bell Cow.
He rushed for 9 TDs with 1,086 yds.
He is a Bell Cow.

The Others:

A steady stream of customers had made Alex’s day a long but relatively easy one. The air conditioner had long been broken and the ventilation ducts did nothing but blast hot air and foul smells of burnt burrito’s, and onion rings from the Mexican restaurant next door. “One chicken Supreme”, shouted Alex as he slid his final crudely made burger of the day down the order slide to Anna at the counter. “Thanks Alex”, Anna shouted, “You can be clocking off now; I’ll see you in the morning.”
Alex had worked in the “Go Fast”, burger bar in the food court for around 2 years now. The pay was steady but the work dull and monotonous. Alex was 37, although to anyone else he was 35. After his father’s death, when Alex was 16, his mother had bribed a doctor on the base to change his birth certificate to make him two years younger, so that his mother could continue getting benefit credits for two more years in order to sustain Alex’s two younger siblings; Shaun now 22, and Malia now 28. Ever since then, upon job applications, medical forms, licences, and work permits, Alex has put down his age at 35, for if he were to change it to his actual age; now that his mother no longer needs or would receive benefit credits, someone in the Buerea would notice and smell a rat. So for safeties sake he always put down that he was 35.
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Alex lived in Base Conor, Latin for “venture”, on the planet Rodishia; a small and fertile planet (albeit a wet one) around 3 billion light years from Earth. The planet was colonised in 2056 by the three largest superpowers of earth at the time. China, India, and The Russian Federation. After a successful yet small colonisation of The Moon in 2036 by a collaboration between China and India, plans were made to colonise another planet; the newly discovered Rodishia. To the human race it was perfect for colonisation; fertile, with large traces of water, a cool yet comfortable atmosphere, a nearby sun and moon as well as a relatively level terrain. Within a year of its discovery by a Russian astrologist, a probe was sent to the planet in which it found evolved plant life, water with a high mineral count and oxygen. The problem was though that the oxygen was thin, to thin for human life to breath, yet enough for evolved plants to respire and to grow. By 2039, a collaborated launch of rocket “Rodishia” funded by China, engineered by Russia, and built and launched by India took off. The rocket was the largest and most expensive ever built, a 5 stage, 308 meter tall, fossil fuelled, “space vehicle”, in which carried nine men, three from each country, into space. The journey was plagued by technical difficulties and mishaps but after 3 months, 27 days, 12 hours and 5 minutes of flight, the crew had landed there module safely, but bumpily, down upon the surface of Rodishia.
The “Module” consisted of an oblong shaped container in which sat the first pre-fabricated pieces of the small base in which would be constructed upon the surface, and the dome shaped command pod, in which the 9 strong crew sat and controlled the Module during its flight. The construction of the “surface base” took only a day and contained sleeping and living quarters for the 9 men, as well as a control console with communication with earth. On 12th August 2039 extraterrestrial life was first discovered. On a routine material gathering exercise, 3 of the crew discovered a primitive, almost medieval like village beside the T junction of a small stream and a large fast flowing river. It is reported that the crew were met by a “Flock of evolved human like people, a crowd 30-40 strong, men, women and children.” Within 100 days, 3 more rockets were launched up to Rodishia, all containing more pieces of prefabricated structure to expand the Surface Base, in which the newly named “Human like creatures”, began helping to build. Interest back on earth increased to an astounding amount, as did the interest of other countries on earth, especially the United States, Great Britain, and France. By August 2040 both the “Collaboration” consisting of India, Russia and China, and the newly formed “Western Alliance”, consisting of The United States of America, Great Britain, and France” were both sending rockets to Rodishia at an astounding pace of 2 per month. Plans were soon formed to build a “Mega colony” in which both the “Collaboration” and “Western Alliance” activities would be based. It was planned to be built across the river from the Human Likes village, so that the Human Likes could assist in the construction. However communication and language barriers meant that time needed to be taken in educating the Human Likes to speak a universal language. (((((CANT FIT ANYMORE ON!)))))

Hey! I really like that! It is interesting and makes you want to read more and more!
oh and i never knew that you could spell this word differently colonisation, i was always taught colonization, but i googled it and it is not a mistake! ah good to learn something new today! haha!

Good luck to you

Are you a die hard fan or is it the book that really matters to you?

I wouldn’t even care if they where the ugliest people alive, the thing is that the inside of them is beautiful. they wrote a page turner or something beautiful so readers will enjoy to ‘read’ not to judge that he/she is ugly. i would be very surprised in a good way if some mental disabilities person would make a story. its awesome and wonderful. the more people open their ideas if they are ugly or not, it doesn’t matter i hope this helps ♥

Harry Potter Freak

Btw, the chants are in Basque.

Also, this school is almost EXACTLY like my school. The security and metal detectors are pieces of crap, so its easy to sneak weapons in.

I thought it was pretty good, but personally, I prefer books that start out a little slower, and give some background to the novel. Overall, I kept wanting to read it, it didn’t bore me. It definitely got my attention, though, when the girls started to take out weapons. I was thinking "Wait, what kind of school is this? Where survival of the fittest turns to survival of the fittest with most weapons?"

I would like to read more though. It seems interesting.

"Anthem Press is a leading independent publisher of innovative academic research, educational material and reference works in established and emerging fields."

First thing on the front page of their website. You’re going to have to do better research than this.