Priscilla The Great

A fun tween book

What an engaging main character! Pricilla isn't like a normal tweenage girl. She has special powers. What kid wouldn't want super powers? Well, they contribute to mishaps and dangers, but the unique situations keep the reader glued.

Pricilla's friends and family develop nicely throughout this story. The author did a fine job of introducing each one. I feel I know them, and I care about their outcomes. I'm especially drawn to her best friend Tai. She's a brainiac girl who can easily relate to Pricilla's idiosyncrasies. I also liked Pricilla's twin little brothers. They are mischievous little demons who are annoying, yet fun and entertaining.

This is a fast read, filled with adventure. It dipped me back into my middle school years when imagination, coming of age, and first loves are at their peak. I'm not crazy about cliff-hanger endings (the only reason I rated a 5 rather than a 4), but thankfully I have book #2 to delve into without delay.

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Reviewed by Sally Kruger aka Readingjunky for TeensReadToo

PRISCILLA THE GREAT is filled with enough action to satisfy even a hard-to-please middle grade reader. It's a Fantastic Four-type adventure but with a middle school twist. Priscilla isn't particularly popular. She is into video games and comic book heroes. Her best friend, Kyle, offers her some competition, but most of the time he is afraid she'll beat him to a pulp. She beats him in video games and basketball, but amazingly he keeps coming back for more. When Priscilla begins developing some strange abilities, even her extremely intelligent friend, Tai, can't figure out what is going on. The first unusual characteristic Priscilla seems to be exhibiting is the ability to set things on fire. It is an overheated feeling that accelerates to the point that Priscilla's fingertips become like flame throwers. Next, she notices a dramatic increase in her strength. These powers are accompanied by other strange feelings, and keeping them under control is a challenge. At the same time Priscilla is struggling to understand the odd changes in her body, her father is being his usual over-protective self - requiring her to check in multiple times a day and not allowing any sort of after school activities or social life. Not having a cell phone is bad enough, but not being allowed to join in on the traditional festivities of middle school life is taking its toll. Priscilla has taken a sudden interest in one particular boy. She would love nothing more than to have a woman-to-woman talk with her mother, but that's impossible. Her mom is always away on business. That woman's job is at the top of her priority list, with her family way down on the bottom. There is just something weird about hardly seeing her mom and having her father eyeing her every move and monitoring her every breath. Imagine living in a house your entire life and never being allowed to set foot in the basement! That's what Priscilla faces, and she vows to finally get to the bottom of all the strangeness. Author Sybil Nelson keeps readers turning the pages with plenty of fast-paced adventure, including superhuman powers, mysterious corporations, and shady scientific experiments. Her endearing characters will capture readers and have them believing every wild and impossible situation that unfolds.

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Fabulous sequel

They're ba-a-a-ck! Pricilla and her family and friends continue their mysterious, super power ways. When the president's daughter is kidnapped, Pricilla and the crew hop on board to rescue her, as well as protect the secrets they've kept hidden about their abilities. New problems, new (fabulous) characters, and new feelings arise in this sequel. I feel sequels are usually a slight let down, but The Kiss of Life is as strong (if not stronger) than the first installment. The characters come to life, and the adventures keep you turning the page. A quick and fun read that will stay with you after you finish the last page.which, by the way, is another cliff hanger! I LOVE Pricilla and her fabulous adventures. The ONLY reason I rated this four out of five stars is because it ends in a cliff hanger. I do look forward to reading the next installment though.

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Pricilla the grer Pricilla the gret Pricilla the great the kiss of life

I think that it is rediculas that when you read a sample you can only read twenty pages or less

Alexa

Awesome book

love Priscilla

4 STARS
This is the third book in the series about a girl who one day shoots fire out of her finger tips. I enjoy Priscilla and her friends and can't wait till the next book comes out.
This story picks up after the last one when Priscilla mom's stabbed her father in chest and kidnapped two other people that she had rescued before. Dr. Witherall and Colonel Selliwood have activated a chip in her brain and now controlling her.
Priscilla and her brother are searching for their mom, Katya and Peter. Then how to unprogram tham.
Dr. Witherall and Colonel Selliwood have been trying to creat super soldiers by messing with DNA. Quin was the first too survive and for years after she escaped from them was trying to rescue the other children they had made and were controlling them. They all had different talents.
Quinn was strong,fast and smart. Priscilla was fast ,strong and shoot fire from her fingertips. Josh can read minds, know the future sometimes. Marco could turn all metal,
They have the same problems normal teens have plus a lot more. I like the relationships. I admit I cried in reading this book. looking forward to the next one.

FANTASTIC SERIES FOR MIDDLE-GRADE GIRLS!

SYBIL NELSON'S "PRISCILLA THE GREAT" SERIES (REVIEW)

These books are absolutely wonderful. The heroine, Priscilla is spunky, spirited, and completely what you'd expect a 12 year old super girl to be. The message of 'girl power' in these books is one thing that I really loved. This is a series that every young girl should read from ages 9 and up. While I was reading I'd give my own daughter an idea of what the books were about and now she's dying to get her hands on them. I feel that Sybil Nelson has definitely found her niche in the writing world and these books are destined to become huge! I can't wait for more in the series!

The story is one that catches you in its grasp and doesn't let go, if you read only one middle-grade series this year you must make it "Priscilla the Great"!

-Kitty Bullard / Great Minds Think Aloud Book Club

FANTASTIC SERIES FOR MIDDLE-GRADE GIRLS!

SYBIL NELSON'S "PRISCILLA THE GREAT" SERIES (REVIEW)

These books are absolutely wonderful. The heroine, Priscilla is spunky, spirited, and completely what you'd expect a 12 year old super girl to be. The message of 'girl power' in these books is one thing that I really loved. This is a series that every young girl should read from ages 9 and up. While I was reading I'd give my own daughter an idea of what the books were about and now she's dying to get her hands on them. I feel that Sybil Nelson has definitely found her niche in the writing world and these books are destined to become huge! I can't wait for more in the series!

The story is one that catches you in its grasp and doesn't let go, if you read only one middle-grade series this year you must make it "Priscilla the Great"!

-Kitty Bullard / Great Minds Think Aloud Book Club

Fantastic Book!! MUST READ

Fire flinging fingertips, making armored, killer guards rock out to some pop music, and an invisible jet. Man, the lifestyles of the not-so-rich and super-powered.

Priscilla is just like any other 7th grade girl. She's got a mop of red hair, a overprotective father, a football playing brother, and a set of twin brothers. She and her best friend, Tai, have been plotting ways to get Priss' crush to finally crush back on her. Then, one day, Priss isn't so normal anymore. Right before school at the coolest pool party, her extremely hot crush makes her feel REALLY hot, hotter than she has ever felt before, her face is red and her body is definitely feeling 'off'. Pass it off as hormones, stress, or nerves, but when you can set fire to a bathroom towel by touching it, something has changed.

Priscilla learns at this point that she may never be normal again, and this fire thing? Is she going to scorch something every time she sees her favorite guy? This cannot be happening, and who is she going to tell? Who will believe her? The answer to that: more people than she realized, and it's an awful lot for her to understand. Oh yea - she is kidnapped and about to be killed now, did I forget to mention that? And her so-called super powers decide to take a vacation, not too super after all, huh?

I flew through this book! I loved the whole journey. It was fun, it was funny, it was exciting. I can't wait to keep going with this series. The way the author ended it was a cliffhanger I am too weak to resist.

We get to see a real family in this story. With all of the ups and downs of sibling relationships and parent/child drama. It all feels very real, even with the super powers thrown in. You can tell the family has a real dynamic to it. Who hasn't loved and hated their siblings all at the same time. The same is true in this family. One of my favorite parts is when a booger war is invoked to help the older brother out, even if he didn't realize it at the time. (Every family needs to experience a good booger war!)

Young adults and some of us not-so-young adults will rush to end of the book, when my Kindle said that I had hit the 100% mark...I was not a happy girl. I couldn't believe I finished it that quickly. I WILL be joining the gang for round two of Priscilla the Great!

must read!

Priscilla is a typical teenage girl, except for the small thing of being able to shoot fire from her fingers. When Priscilla discovers she has superpowers no one is more surprised than her. This is a fantastic story of the adventures of a teenaged supergirl and her family. I enjoyed each and every page...a must read in my opinion!

priscilla the great returns

More adventures await Priscilla, her family and friends in their effort to stop Colonel Selliwood Dr. Witherall. After moving from their home in Pennsylvania Priscilla and her family try to keep a low profile, but somehow trouble continues to find them. A great sequal to Priscilla the Great, I enjoyed this one as much as the previous and I am excited to see what adventures come next for Priscilla!

cute action pack

Priscilla is a 12 year old girl her best friend Tai lives across the street. She has fighting with her mom for the past 3 years after she missed her 10th birthday party because of work. She is gone quite a bit. Priscilla is at a party which she talks to a guy she has a crush on and gets hot. she ends up lighting a towel on fire with her hands. Thats her first hint that something weird is happening to her. Her Father is over protective. So she realizes it has to do with her hormones that she developed powers. Her older brother is josh who helps her when she needs it. and 5 yr. old twin brothers. Its a cute book and a fast read. I won the sequale of this book in exchange of a review and sent me the first one to read. I am looking forward too the second book. I did not want the first to end especially how it ended so I will read the second tonight.

look forward to more priscilla the great books

priscilla and family are back for more adventures. The President of the United States teen daughter gets kidnapped by priscilla or so it looks like. Priscilla was on a date at the time with kyle at a movie theater so thier date got cancelled. Priscilla does more missions with Marco. Her plain gets almost shot down. She gets even with the 8th grade class at her old school because they have been given tia a hard time this year. Priscilla gets in fights with other mutants trying to kill her. Fun action makes it seem real like. I am not a fan of cliffenders so I hope the next book comes out right away. I enjoyed the book think kids and adults can enjoy Priscill the Great books.

Such a fun read!

I honestly thought that Priscilla the Great was going to be totally goofy and I would enjoy it but it would be just a side read.NO WAY! Well yes it was goofy, but in the best and funniest way possible! Once I started it there was no stopping me. It was an awesome book!

Priscilla was a fun character! I loved that she's that shy kind of girl that thinks she's probably an outcast and add in that she's hotter than Hades - literally - and assassins are out to kill her doesn't help the situation. Priscilla is a kick-butt 7th grader who's got the best sense of humor and wits, which she uses to get out of any situation.

Priscilla has one older brother who sings Christina Aguilera all the time and two crazy little twin brothers. Her dad is a stay-at-home dad and her mom has an 'important' job which causes her to always be away from home and Priscilla is so angry at her. But, when Priscilla finds out what she is and her best friend Tai can't find answers or explain what's happening, things seem to go downhill and Priscilla is captured by creepy doctors! Her family comes together and she finds out secrets that she didn't think were possible.

I couldn't stop reading, it was definitely a page turner! I couldn't help but to connect to Priscilla, because I was wishing I was as awesome as she was when I was in 7th grade! I also laughed out loud multiple times. This books was witty and fun and I recommend it to all ages!

"Great" indeed!

I really enjoyed this book. I thought Priscilla was such an engaging heroine, because she was funny, clever, and adventerous. I loved how she had a very tomboy-ish personality, but she still wore skirts and dresses, and wasn't afraid to acknowledge her crushes on boys.

Priscilla wasn't the only engaging character; they all had something going for them. I especially liked the way her relationship with her mother evolved, and how her best friend never hesitated to help her out. Everything about this book was well thought out, and Nelson leaves us with a cliff-hanger that will want the reader wanting more. I would recomend this to anyone who enjoys middle grade fiction; especially if they're looking for a book that can make them laugh out loud.

Superpowered heroine + humor = excellent read

Priscilla wakes up tied to a chair. She's been kidnapped and the people who are holding her captive plan to kill her, but given whose daughter she is, this really isn't surprising. The story backtracks from this point to tell us what the normal side of Priscilla's 7th-grade life has been like. It's an excellent hook of a beginning--it lets us know we're in a high-stakes action story, then steps back to let us meet the heroine on her own turf. Priscilla is a smart kid who's just dealing with average problems until her hands burst into flames while she's at a party. Her dad is notoriously overprotective and her absentee mother spends all her time overseas, so Priscilla's reluctant to tell them about her new power. But when more powers manifest themselves, Priscilla has trouble keeping them a secret, and she starts to wonder what secrets her own parents might be keeping.

Oh, this one's hilarious. It's like a Percy Jackson and the Olympians book crossed with a Marvel comic and a really funny episode of iCarly. Priscilla's dialogue is funny, and her internal monologues are equally great. She's a serious comic book fan, so her familiarity with crazy fictional scenarious helps her understand her new gifts, and she gets to use some great geek-references, like when she compares her best friend's perceived misbehavior to Lando Calrissian's betrayal of Han Solo. Her family initially seems like a standard larger-than-life cast of characters: a world-traveling mother, musclebound genius father, girlfriend-crazy teen brother and bratty 5-year-old twin brothers, but they all get some depth. The dad is overprotective in a completely sympathetic way, her older brother Josh has some true sensitivity, and her mother's ongoing abscences are totally justified. They're a very compelling group.

Priscilla's a clever girl, but she's still got a 7th-grade perspective where youthful inexperience leads to some cute problems, particularly relating to her preppy friend, Kyle. Priscilla and Kyle have a fun "adversarial buddies" vibe going on, where they're always challenging each other to various competitions. The two of them even share custody of a dog, but Priscilla still remains oblivious to his feelings. Their interaction is very sweetly and nicely portrayed, and Kyle gets one of the best "I like you" scenes I've ever read in middle grade fiction.

This book has everything--fantastic action scenes, a cool family, strong best friends, junior-high appropriate romance, superpowers, comedy, and a heroine to root for and adore. Great is definitely the appropriate word for Priscilla.

great characters and story

You really want to know how this turns out. She paints herself into a corner, then works herself out. I don't usually relate to young adult stories, but this works. I hope the series continues soon.

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