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Saturday, December 11, 2010

Thirteen Reasons Why



Author: Jay Asher
Title: Thirteen Reasons why
Main characters: Clay Jensen And Hannah Baker
Fiction

Clay Jensen returns home one day to find a mysterious parcel sitting on the doorstep. As he looks inside he dosen't realize what hes getting into, there are seven cassette tapes with a very familiar voice recorded on them. Hannah Baker, his first love who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Her voice explains there were thriteen reasons why, thirteen reasons on her side of the story. Clay is one of them , and the deeper he goes the more he knows there is no turning back now. What Hannah tells him and the other twelve people will change their lives forever!


I recommend this book because of the way it is written. The topic choosen by the author may not appeal to all readers, but the author has written each detail, you can feel every emotion of each and every character. But I also issue a warning...

Diary of a football freak

=Author: Massarella Louise
Joe Flyn is fourteen and his favourite player is David Beckham.
He said he was the best soccer player in the world. Sometimes he is cool said Joe. Joe started playing soccer when he was fourteen Joe's position is striker. He is in Dynamic team. His
favourite team was Manchester United and England. When he started playing soccer he bought his new boots and kit.Joe can't stop practising everyday. David Beckham was born 2 May 1975. His nickname was Becks. Football is Joe's life and he watches or plays football whenever it is possible. He is excited when the season is going. If he can't stop playing he seeks inspiration in magazines they had finished school in summer. They said thanks to summer because I can't play football until it gets dark. Last winter we had all played all weather. There was mud all over our clothes. On Saturday I went to the town to get some new boots for soccer. The boots have got screws in studs for better grip.

The Keepers Daugther

Author: Gill Arbuthnott

425 medium pages

23 chapters

Language:
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10     I give the language a 4 because it didn't have very hard words.

How complex is it ? I give the book a 9.  It is very complicated.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910


Nyssa never knew who she was or where she came from, until she discoverd that the tattoo on her shoulder means she belongs to a clan. The clan of the keepers are the smartest people to walk the earth until ...

the White Wolf (Arlic)and his shadow men came. They destroyed the keepers city and killed every one except one small boy. They took him back to the White Wolf as a slave. 

Friday, December 10, 2010

Then

Author:Morris Gleitzman
183 page
This book is a tragic story about life for Jews in 1940. The suffering and forcing from the German army called Nazis. This story is about a boy and a girl called Felix and Zelda trying to escape from the Nazis and Jew Haters to start a new life to be safe forever and have people caring for them. But in their journey alot of unexpected people get in their way.

I would recommend this book to people aged 11 to 14 and for people who want to see what happens to Felix and Zelda maybe they die maybe they live or they start a new life... well there only one way to find out.

Anne Frank


Author:Jim Pipe

Non-fiction comic

I recomend this book because it has history about world war 1 and 2.

How Anne lived when Hitler was in power.And she was born when hitler was in power. Her family moved to amstordam to hide from the Nazis found them...
TITLE: ROMAN MYTHS
BY: David West and illustrated by Ross Watton.
TIP: FICTION

This book is the perfect example of showing ancient myths in vibrant colour and detail, since these story's weren't exactly published in books. These story's are presented in comic book style or picture strip. There are actually four myths in this book. The Wanderings Of Aeneas (Ancestor Of The Romans) Well in this story it start's with action with a mother and son being shot by bow and arrows, the story is about the son of Aeneas as he escapes his defeated village and with a group of people he must sail away and find a new land. He will visit different areas survive creatures, visit the dead and battle for the love of his life. Will he make it and create a new home for his people. If you like that short review of this story Im sure the other three stories will be good for you to.

The Chestnut Soldier

Author:Jenny Nimmo

Pages:168 pages

Main Characters: Gwydion Gwyn, Nia, Emily, Evan & Catrin

Fiction/Non-Fiction Chapter Book

The Chestnut Soldier is the second part of a book called 'Spider Snow'. In this book, Gwyn likes a girl named Catrin. Catrin is really beautiful, she has corn-flower blue eyes and an abundant yellow-gold hair.

A man named Evan l'yr came from the army-house. When Gwyn saw him, he already knew something is bad. The next day, one of his friend suddenly drop the wooden-horse into the river. Gwyn said thjat everyuthing is in danger. After that day, every single wooden horse-toy was all destroyed by someone the didn't know. Evan l'yr isn tall handsome-young man, Gwyn knew that he's a dangerous person, because that time when the wooden horse-toy was lost, the spirit inside it was been attached to Evan's body so that he can make everything dangerous.

I recommend this book for the people who love reading adventurous books and sort of love story. This way you can escape all the chores in your house and you can realax while reading this //('o')//

C-cool book
H-hillariousm parts
E-every one can read it
S-story of FAMILY!!
T-terrific adventures
N-nobody can escape
U-united
T-tough enemies

S-sweet moments
O-one decision
L-let the battle begin
D-dark plans
I-introducing all the great authors..
E-everything is so fun
R-recommended by EXPORTS!!

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

RobOT rIOT

Author: ANDY GRIFFITHS
CHARACTORS: HENRY,JACK, JENNY, NEWTON, GRANT, MR BRIGHNFRIGHT, MR GREENBEARD, MR SHUSH.
FICTION: CHAPTER BOOK, 158 PAGES.
PUBLISHED: 2009.
ABOUT THE BOOK:THIS STORY IS HAPPENING IN SOUTH EAST CENTRAL SCHOOL.ROBOT RIOT IS A BOOK FOR UNDER 13 YEARS OLD. IT'S EASY TO READ AND IT'S KIND OF FUNNY.
THIS BOOK IS ABOUT A FIFTH GRADE BOY CALLED HENRY MICTHROTTLE  WHO LIKED TELLING STORIES  AND THIS IS ONE OF HIS STORIES:THERE WAS A NEW GIRL IN HIS CLASS AND HER NAME WAS ROBERTA. WHEN HE FOUND HER DIARY ON THE GROUND AND READ IT, HE KNEW THAT SHE WAS A ROBOT. THEN HE TOLD HIS FRIENDS ABOUT IT BUT NO-ONE BELIEVED HIM. WHEN SHE HAD OUT DRAWN JACK, BEATEN GRETTLE AT ARM WRESTLING AND WROTE A BETTER STORY THAN HENRY'S... THEN THEY ALL BELIEVED HIM. THEY MADE A PLAN TO ASK GRANT TO MAKE A FIGHTING ROBOT TO DEFEAT ROBERTA AND STOP HER FROM TAKING OVER THE EARTH. WHEN GRANT BROUGHT THE ROBOT TO SCHOOL THEY HAD A LITTLE PROBLEM... THE ROBOT DIDN'T WORK AND HENRY HAD A GOOD IDEA. HIS IDEA WAS TO DRESS UP LIKE A ROBOT USING HIMSELF, A FRIENDS' DUCT TAPE, CARDBOARD BOXES, SILVER FOIL, A PLASTIC TRAY AND BOTTLE TOPS. WHEN HE FINISHED DRESSING UP, HENRY STARTED WALKING TO THE ASSEMBLY HALL.  WHEN HE GOT THERE HE SAW ROBERTA STANDING ON THE STAGE...

FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS NEXT IN ROBOT RIOT!

Lord Loss




Author:Darren Shan
Pages:264
Fiction
Horror

Grubbs Grady's life will change forever.His family is murdered by a pair of demons named Vein and Artery and their master Lord Loss.Having to move house, he goes and lives with his uncle Dervish only to find out that he has a brother named Bill-E and the Grady Family has a curse. His brother transforms into a werewolf and is slowly losing his mind.The only way to save him is to summon the demon lord of suffering, Lord Loss.Grubbs Grady must challenge Lord Loss at 5 games of chess while Devish must fight Vein and Artery.Grubbs Gradys life and his brother's life is on the line, if he loses all five games, he will lose his soul.

Lord loss is a fantastic book, it is very descriptive but slow moving. This book is seriously scary and very gruesome and ridiculously funny. I recommend this book to all over the age of 10 who love horrors. Rating: 7 out of 10.

Friday, December 3, 2010

king Arthur and the knights of the round table.


Author: M.G Hall
Characters: King Arthur, Lancelot, Guinevere, Merlin, Galahad, Mordred.
Non-Fiction, Ancient Legend.

In the beginning Uther Pendragons (King of Britain) army fought against Gorloises army, but couldn't win so he asked a favour for merlin to destroy gorloises army ut to do so he had to give his first born baby to merlin. They won the battle! Later on Uther Pendragon died then gave his baby Arthur to merlin. Then merlin gave it to another family to look after. Twelve years later merlin came back to thier home village. On the chosen day a sword apperead in front of the church. It said whoever pulled the sword from the magic stone would become King of Britain. Many people far and wide tried to pull out the sword but then Arthur needed a sword so he took it from, then went back to his family. Without notice they told Arthur he was ruler of britian because he took the speical sword from the stone.

I like this book because it's interesting and it's got a good story line.The pictures in this book were alrite but could be better, I like the swords the best because they"re detailed. I would reccomend this book for ages 9-14. Out of 1-10 i would rate this a 9.

i hate sport

Author: pure storer
Characters: karen, dad dave, mum sharon, brother Darryl, best friend winnie.
Fiction chapter book.
98 pages 8 chapters.

karen hates sport and the only thing her family ever talk about is sport. Her dad dave and her mum Sharon gave her a deal if you play a sport well buy you a brand new computer. karen really wants a computer so she can e mail winnie her best friend. So she tries tennis but doesnt like it. She tries cricket and almost broke her leg. So she tried netball and thought it was to rough for her. She asked for her mums advise. Her mum said join a aerobics team. Mum dressed karen in a leotard karen hates leotards. She quickly races out the front door before Darryl her brother sees her. Karen found winnie there they did ll the exercises together and got kicked out of the team. Karens mum said she buying Karen a new computer because Karen tried o hard to look for a sport. In the end she got a new computer.

The Dragonfly Pool

Author: Eva Ibbotson
Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 6 (7) 8 9 10
Fiction
Pages: 398

Review:
This book is set in 1939, just before the war about a girl named Tally. She is sent to boarding school by her father so she doesn't get sent away if they get bombed.

Once at Delderton hall she loves that there are no uniforms, fun classes and making new friends like Julia Barney, Tod, Kit and even teachers like Magda and Matteo. But now she has never missed her dad and aunts more.

The adventure begins when some Delderton students are invited to a folk dancing festival on Bergania, a foreign country.

Things go wrong when the King of Bergania is assassinated by some German soldiers in order to seize Bergania. these soldiers are now after the rightful heir to the Berganian throne. Prince Karil. Prince Karil has befriended Tally and the Delderton gang, who are now trying to smuggle Karil out of Bergania across 2 countries, across the English Channel and into England. To Delderton.

Recommendation:
I recommend this book for girls and boys between the ages of 10-12 years old who love adventure books that have twists around every corner.

I enjoyed this book because it was an adventurous book with an excellent plot and great language.

Beowulf Monster Slayer



Title: Beowulf Monster Slayer
Author: Paul.D.Storrie
Illustrator: Ron Randall
Legend
Type: Graphic
Rating: 9/10Add Image
Age: 9-12
Pages: 48

Action,fighting,violence, these are all things that are in this book. Beowulf is a man with the strength of 30 men and is a very good book to anyone who likes good graphic novels. Beowulf is the main character and comes to a town called Geatland to slay a enchanted monster called Grendal. After succeeding in his mission he faces another evil threat... Grendals mother!!! After killing Grendals mother Beowulf becomes king and no other threats to Geatland for 50 long winters untill....

Beowulf
enormous strength
outstandingly strong
withstanding attacks
ultimate power
living as king
freakishly powerful

Monsters are what Beowulf slays
outrages might
never giving up
super brave
tank
earth saver
really good man

Slaying monsters
large monsters Beowulf kills
at the end Beowulf dies
young to old he becomes
endless killing
ready to read this book yet?

Title: Sticky burr - Adventures in Burrwood forest
Author: John Lechner Fiction - comic
Characters:
sticky bur, mossy burr, scurvy burr, spiny burr, drafle, lightning bugs, wild dogs.
Sticky burr is a small, peaceful burr who likes painting and playing the ukulele. But Scurvy burr is the complete opposite - he tramples flowers, sets nasty traps, and even steals candy from baby burrs!
Now he's had enough of the goody-goody sticky burr, and trys to chase him out of the village.
so when he is chased out, sticky burr's adventure begins in Burrwood forest. But he soon gets stuck on a bird, flys into a wasps nest,and is trapped inside a maze tree, along with his best friend Draffle. But back at the village sticky burr is needed when a pack of wild dogs attack!
But can sticky burr, Draffle, and the lightning bugs find their way out of the twisting turning maze tree, in time to save the village from being destroyed?

When I saw this book in the library I automaticly wanted to read it. It had such a bright orange cover, with a cute picture of sticky burr on it, that I just had to take it home and read it.

sticky burr looked so friendly I just couldn't resist.

I would recomend this book to anyone who loves ordinary day heros that always save the day by just being themselves, and just happen to be in the right place at the time, just helping friends and not wanting anything in return.

Rating: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (10)

I give this book at rating of 10/10, as sticky burr is always ready for adventure even when he least expects it. He is also very happy, and determined to have a good time,do the right thing, as well as escaping whatever nasty thing that Scurvy Burr is trying to plan to get rid of him.

The author is also the illistrator and has done a very good job of creating the story plot and paints wonderful and exciting pictures of the characters and what they are doing. It is also quite easy to tell which character is saying what, as there is always a speech bubble close to the character, and their mouth is always open when speaking.

Recomended reading age: 7 and up.

Demon Thief


Author: Darren Shan

Pages: 275

Genre: Horror


Fiction

Age Reccommendation: 12+





The story talks about a boy called Kernel Fleck whose baby brother, Art is kidnapped by a demon called Cadaver who leaves a trail of chaos. Kernel then meets Beranabus and the Disciples. Kernel soon finds out Beranabus is searching for a weapon called the Kah-gash. Kernel makes a deal to help Beranabus find the Kah-Gash in return for Beranabuse's service in searching for his brother. They travel through different dimensions full of blood thirsty demons in search of Cadaver. Their search leads them to Demon lord, Lord Loss. That's when Kernel finds out a terrible truth...


I enjoyed this book so much I couldn't put it down. I would recommend this book to people who enjoy a good horror with descriptive, gruesome bits.
(WARNING: SERIOUSLY SCARY, MAY CAUSE NIGHTMARES AND SCREAMING)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The book our class is sharing at the moment...

Title:            Frindle
Author:        Andrew Clements
Illustrator:   Brian Selznick
Fiction

What will happen next in the battle between Nick and his teacher... The Lone Granger? We have just found out that he has hatched a plan to challenge his dictionary loving teacher with a secret weapon. A new word he has made up himself! Is a 'frindle' mightier than a sword? We will find out soon!!!

I am really enjoying reading this book. Feel free to post any comments on the book or predictions about what might happen next?

Ms D. 

Friday, November 26, 2010

Jane Blonde spies trouble


Title: Jane Blonde spies trouble Fiction - chapter book
Author: Jill Marshall
Characters:
Janey Brown/Jane Blonde, G-mamma, Trouble,Water rats, Sun King,
Alfie/Al Halo, Mrs.Halliday/Halo, Jean Brown, Abe Rownigan, Paulette,


Jane Brown goes undercover as Jane Blonde whenever there is a mission at hand.
This time, on her seccond mission as Jane Bonde, sensational spylet, she is determined to stop five evil water rats from kitty-napping her spy cat Trouble, and prevent them from using him as a guinea pig for their evil experiment tests.
Their master, the Sun King, thinks he has the secret to a cats nine lives, but he wants Trouble for the experiments.

Throughout the mission, along with her best friend Alfie, codename: Al Halo, and her SPI:KE, G-mamma Janey discoveres some deadly secrets: The water rats are evil spies with nine lives that were turned into rats by her super-spy father: Boz, 'Brilliance' Brown.
Now he is undercover as 'Abe Rownigan', and the Sun King wants his reversal secret, to turn his rats back into evil spies.
Janey covers for her dad, and decides to tell the Sun King the reversal progress, but only if he stops tormenting her friends and family, and would leave poor Trouble alone.
But instead Janey tells the Sun King a clever lie.
But could this lie get Janey in more trouble than out?

I first decided I wanted to read this book when I had seen it advetised in the back of the first one: Jane Blonde-Sensational Spylet.
All the books have very bright, eye-catching covers. Each have a colourful backround with a pattern, and a smart picture of Jane Blonde, alert, and ready for action.

I would reccomend this book to people who love action packed stories, about adventurous spies, who get to use awsome gadgets to fight of the baddies who are always up to no good.
I would not reccomend this book to anyone who has Musophobia-the fear of rats, as this book has evil water rats that pop up in the book quite often, trying to harm Janey and her friends.

Rating:
I give this book a rating of 9/10, as it is jam-packed full of action. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (9) 10

The book is very well written, as the author describes how the characters are feeling, and what they're doing. The writing is pretty easy to read, as long as you can remember and understand the fancy names for all the SPI gadgets.

Recommended Reading Age:
I would reccomend this book for ages 8 and up.