Inkheart

I just finished an exellent story called Inkheart. It's a really good book, with 534 pages! It's about this little girl Meggie who is 12 years old. Her father loves reading but never reads aloud because when he does, things come out of the book he's reading. One night, Meggie's father got another crate of books and Meggie's mother wanted her husbund (Mo) to read aloud to her from Inkheart. When he did, an evil ruler named Capricorn and his evil companion, Basta, came out of the book. So did a person called Dustfinger. But when Mo reads things out of books, things must take their place. So Meggie's mother and the two cats sitting on her lap disappeared into the story. Meggie, who was only 3 at the time, asked where her mother was and Mo said she went on a vacation and never came back. Nine years later Capricorn captured Meggie and Mo. He wanted all the books of Inkheart to burn so that it was never possible to go back into his own world. Mo had the last copy that Capricorn wanted so Mo hid it at his aunt's house. She was a real book worm and had thousands of books at her house. Mo thought that Capricorn would never find it there but he did. He took Mo, Meggie and Elinor (the aunt) and locked them up at Capricorn's village. But they Dustfinger got the key from Basta and let them go. Then Capricorn hid the last Inkheart.

Meggie soon discovered that she had the gift that her father had. She was reading Peter Pan aloud to herself when all of a sudden Tinkerbell came out! When Capricorn found out that Meggie could read things out of books, he forgot about trying to get hold of Mo. He made Meggie read aloud from the Inkheart that he had saved to bring out an evil villian to kill the prisoners. But one of the prisoners was Meggies mother! Meggie couldn't read it and let that person kill her mother. So the author of Inkheart, Fenglio, changed the words of the book so that when Meggie read it, the Shadow (the villian) wouldn't do what Capricorn ordered it to do. So this is what the book said after he changed it:

" Capricorn had many men. And every one of them was feared by the surrounding towns and villages. They stank of cold smoke, they stank of sulfer and everything that reminds you of fire. Whenever one of them passed by people hid under the stairs with their children. They called them Firefingers and Bloodhounds-Capricorn's men had many names. They were feared by day, and by night the made their way into dreames and poisoned them. But there was one who was feared even more than Capricorn's villians. Folk called him the Shadow.

He came only when Capricorn called him. Sometimes he was red as fire, sometimes gray as the ash to which fire turns all it devours. He darted out of the earth as fast as flames lick their way up wood. His fingers and even his breath brought death. He rose before his master's feet, soundless, facless, scenting his way like the hound on the trail and waiting for his master to point to the victom. It was said that Capricorn had ordered one of the trolls who understand the whole art of fire and smoke to create the Shadow from the ashes of his victoms. No one was sure, for it was also said that Capricorn had ordered those who called the Shadow to life to be killed. All that everyone knew was that he was immortal, invulnerable, and pitiless, like his master.

Yet one night, a mild and starlit night, the Shadow heard not Capricorn's voice when it was called forth, but the voice of a girl, and when she called his name he remembered; he remembered all those from whose ashes we was made, all the pain and all the greif. He remembered , and he was determined to be avenged-avenged upon those whowere the cause of all this misfortune, whoses cruelty poisoned the whole world. Indeed he wanted revenge. So the Shadow went to his master and reached out to hime with ashen hands. And Capricorn fell down on his face, and his black heart stopped beating, and all those who hadd gone burning and murdering with him disappeared-blown away like ashes in the wind."

So Capricorn did die. And the book was really good. I think that you should read it!!!