Avalon High

Reader reviewed by Natalie

Avalon High is mostly centered around romance.The characters Ellie and Will have a really good connection but Will has a girlfriend named Jennifer, who is cheating on Will with his best friend Lance. This can be confusing at first but it is the same thing that happened with King Arthur.Also Will's brother wants to kill him.The main thing in this story is that everyone in the school are the desendants of king Arthur.
 This book was intresting but the plot was really hard to understand.the romances were really intresting. although jennifer was doing something bad you still like her.The book was overall okay.

Reader reviewed by Natalie

Ellie (Elianor) is named after the Lady of the Lake. Of course that is what you get when you parents are Medivalist. Her parents are on a sabbatical which mean she has to move to a different state for a year so her parents could study the medival times.

She soon meets A. William Wagner along with his girlfirend, Jennifer and best friend Lance. Will is a straight A popular jock who is liked by everyone. He soon starts talking to her telling her that he has this feeling that they have met before like in some other lifetime.

Ellie finds out that Will's girlfriend is cheating on him with his best friend. But wait this seems too similar to the legend of King Arthur.

Will's first name is Arthur. He has a boat called Pride Winn and a dog named Cavalier, a father who sent his best friend on a mission and died soon to marry his wife. A step brother named Marco. His girfriend, jennifer, her name is derived from Guinivier and his best friend's name is Lance who comes from the name Lancelot.

Will's life seems to have too much in common with King Arthur. Can it be that Will was right, Ellie and Will have met each other in a previous life. Is Ellie really the Lady of the Lake?

Everyone should read it, the ending has a shocking twist!!

Reader reviewed by Elise

This book is absolutely wonderful.

Well, when I was looking for a book, the two genres I had in mind where chick flick and fantasy. What do you know, when I found Avalon High, by Meg Cabot, I got exactly what I wanted.

What really attracted me to the book was a sentence that goes something like this: "My dad has never been a nature person. He can hardly stand my cat, Tig. Which of course means Tig is crazy about him."

And for anyone who has ever had a cat, you know how much like a cat that is.

The first 180 pages in the book are very lovey-dovey. Elaine Harrison is in love with a boy named A. William Wagner, but he already has a girlfriend. Kind of a Romeo and Juliet story, I guess you could say. Elaine falls love with the wrong guy.

But then, after that, a strange fantasy takes place. Mr. Morton, a teacher, is in the Order of the Bear, which is a group of people who belive that one day KIng Arthur will be reincarnated. Elaine finds her self winding into a weird and unusual situation. What role will she play in this?

Read the book to find out!!!

P.S.
Right now I am reading the first book in the Princess Diaries, series, also by Meg Cabot. I hope it will be just as great!

Reader reviewed by Katrina

Not only does this book include a lot of romance, but it also teaches you about the great legend of King Arthur. This book is hands-down, one of Meg Cabot's finest. It includes love triangles and a bunch of other drama that makes this book exciting. This book won't dissapoint and you'll love every page from front to back.

Reader reviewed by Gabby

Elaine "Ellie" Harrison is fuming over her parents choice to take a sabbatical from their professor duties at the beginning of the school year, just in time to make Ellie's life take a complete 360. Not only is she forced to move to Washington, DC, but she has to leave behind her closest friends, and create a new identity for herself. Hopefully one that will leave an impression on her new classmates. But Avalon High is an exact replica of every other high school in America. It's students are classified in the same way: jocks, cheerleaders, class president...But suddenly Ellie finds herself mixed up with the cool crowd. Now she's hanging with Lance the jock, Jennifer the cheerleader, and Will, quarterback and senior class president. But the more Ellie spends time with her newfound friends, the more she realizes that their lives are mimicking history. History from centuries ago. Like the time when King Arthur ruled. Now, Ellie must figure out how to stop a chain of events that is destined to leave everyone around her in tears, or worse...dead.

I have read every book by Meg Cabot, and have never come across one that didn't spark an interest in me, but I must say that AVALON HIGH could very well be her best contribution to the publishing world thus far. Being a fan of the story of King Arthur, I loved how Cabot incorporated her modern, present day characters, into the story of the Round Table, and pulled it off without a hitch. Cabot has an insurmountable amount of talent and imagination, and it is showcased more in AVALON HIGH than in any of her previous novels. A delightful romp with mysteries on every page that will leave readers begging to hear more of Ellie's story.

Erika Sorocco
Book Review Columnist for The Community Bugle Newspaper

Reader reviewed by michaela

i have always been a fan of meg cabot....but this one is one of my favorites.it includes great characters,humor ,true love,and mythology.what could be better.i always read mythologyand i love it when a book takes the old mythology and makes it relavent.the book also has a big twist towards the end....one on one would expect.

Reader reviewed by Tiffany

Wow! This book is awsome. Elle an average girl who has no luck what so ever with boys, moves because her dad has to research a sword (her parents are both authors and research Middle Ages things). Love at first sight! Elle falls head over heels in love with Will, who may be a reincarnation of King Arthur. Jennifer, Will's popular,cheerleading, girlfreind is having an affair with Lance! Marco, Will's brother is trying to kill him though. This book has a twisted plot and has a wonderful CLIMAX!! It's filled with humor, plus is romantic, and adventerous.

Reader reviewed by Lianne

Ellie is the daughter of two professors who decide to take a sabbatical in Annapolis Maryland to work on their books. At first Ellie is very much against spending her year in Annapolis but, then strange things begin to occur. Ellie meets Will Wagner who is the star of the school's football team and is very popular. Will keeps thinking how he feels like he knows Ellie but, can't quite explain why. Ellie and Will soon become friends but, things soon become difficult as stories of King Arther begin to become extremely similar to events that begin to occur.

"Reprinted with author's permission"

Reader reviewed by Jocelyn

Meg Cabot's Avalon High, is not, as it seems at first, your typical high school story. The book starts out with Ellie's summer floating in her pool, at the house where she and her professor parents have moved for the year. Ellie is not exactly thrilled to be starting her junior year at a new high school across the country from her friends on the West Coast, but what can she do? At least she's still in the United States. Her parents' last sabbatical took them to Germany.

Everything seems to be going, if not great, as planned. Then, one day, Ellie and her father go for a run in the nearby park. Normal, right? Yeah, until Ellie sees someone at the bottom of a ravine. Not just any someone-he's sort of cute, too, and they have a weird instant connection. It's like they've known each other before...But that's impossible, right?

It's not long before Ellie starts to see that maybe things at Avalon High aren't exactly as they appear. There are some rather interesting coincidences. Ellie, being the daughter of professors of medieval history, recognizes some of these that others might not. Such as the 'A' in the cute guy from the park, A. William Wagner. That stands for Arthur. Yeah, as in, King Arthur. And he has a scarily violent stepbrother...But King Arthur's brother, Mordred, was a half-brother, not a stepbrother, so Marco couldn't be Mordred reincarnated! Only crazy people, like her history teacher, Mr. Morton, think like that. Right?

This is a funny story that, while still managing to be something teenagers can relate to, is a lot more than that. With a supernatural twist, this book is great. Also great are the references to real-life history and the Order Of The Bear, a group that believes King Arthur will someday rise again to lead the world out of the Dark Ages. I myself had heard this theory before reading the book, which makes it even more believable.

Avalon High is definitely worth the time it takes to read it, and I reccomend it to anyone who loves any sort of teen fiction or fantasy. You won't regret reading it!

Reader reviewed by Hatice

Meg Cabot never disappoints. 

Ellie Harrison has just entered Avalon High, and there she
meets new people like Will, the boy she'll eventually fall in love with. But
things are a little weird around there. For one thing, the story has a lot to
do with King Arthur's legend. Ellie, Will, Jennifer, Lance, Marco, and Mr.
Morton are all reincarnations corresponding to the ancient legend. At first
everyone thinks Ellie represents the Lady of Shalott, but it becomes clear at the
end that she was anything but. What makes this book all the more better are the
short lines from the famous poem about Elaine the Lady of Shalott. 

This book is a great read anytime in the year, whether its
on the beach or tucked in your warm blankets during a snowstorm.