What the River Knows by Isobel Ibanez

What the River Knows is a historical fantasy book that is set in Egypt in 1884. It follows a girl named Inez and a guy named Whit. The two paths intertwine when Inez arrives in Egypt after the untimely deaths of her mother and father. Right when Inez arrives she is met with conflict when she first meets her uncle and Whit because they keep trying to send her back to her home, Argentina.
But Inez stays in Egypt, and while there she goes head to head with the anger of her uncle, a mysterious person named Mr. Fincastle, and her own emotions as she is faced with difficult choices between believing her currently dead mother, or believing in her uncle.

This book is a great read for readers who both love magic and history, with its enticing magic spin on the story of Cleopatra and her untimely death. It tells a tale that makes the readers want more of Inez and her struggles.

Where the Library Hides by Isobel Ibanez

Where the library hides is the second tale in the enticing story of Inez and Whit. In this second installment Whit and Inez get married and after the events of the first book Inez is both traumatized and emotionally scarred. After watching what her mother was capable of, she decides right then and there that she would bring her mother to justice.
Soon after their marriage Inez is left heartbroken and torn in two after Whit takes all of her inheritance and sends it to his sister to save her from a forced marriage. Whit and Inez then tolerate each other as they go on the long and grueling journey of finding her mother with a special guest that Whit does not trust.
This book is a great second installment in the what the nile knows series and wraps the readers into an impossible-to-put-down story where the two characters go back and forth on whether or not they care about each other or not as they search for Inez’s mother while also finding another secret about her father.

Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

This book is not in the same series as the others, but it is still based twenty-one years in the past and is about a girl Meggie who loves books just like her father, but everything in her nice, pleasant life changes when she sees a stranger outside her window in her yard. This stranger brings a secret her father long ago hid back into the light and Meggie spends her time figuring out what it is.
She realizes that her father and her both have magical abilities to read things out of books. That’s how the stranger got into their world. Then Meggie, because of her and her fathers powers, get kidnapped by a man named Capricorn who is also from a book named Inkheart. She is held captive until her father kills Capricorn and saves his daughter from his wrath.

This book is great for young readers and older ones alike. Its distinct details and great plot draw readers in to read the next installments in the story. Also the characters are written in a great way that makes the readers easily decide whether or not they are for a good cause in the story or not.