Running Wild - Michael Morpurgo.

Running wild is a book about a boy named Will who's dad dies in Iraq. After the loss of his dad his mum and him are very sad and finding it hard to cope so their grandparents buy them a holiday in Indonesia to clear their minds and let them relax.
The trip was all going to plan until one morning when will is having an elephant ride on an elephant named Oona, a tsunami comes in. The elephant sensed it coming early and stamped with William on his back, but unfortunately wills mother is not so lucky because she was in a hotel near the beach.
The elephant takes Will into the rain forest for safety, but it is not all safe in the Rainforest and there are many adventures. 
I would rate it 8/10 
LA

the fear

the fear is a good and exciting book and it has twists and every page and is defenetly 10/10
in the story you think are they going to find them and it always keeps you alert

h.w

The Enemy by Charlie Higson

The adults, all zombified with disease. The kids are on their own trying to survive. There base is Waitrose where they store supply's and use it as shelter, everything wont last for ever, will they survive? But there is a glimmer of hope. I boy finds them and says he lives at a very safe Buckinham palace, will they get there safe without encountering any grown ups of will they be eaten by them, read and find out.

The enemy is a horror/action book which I highly recommend, mostly to boys.
I really liked and woul rate it 8.5 out of 10

JH

The Pegasus Diaries

The Pegasus diaries is a private account of Major John Howard DSO and his daughter Penny Bates, these two tell you about the ground assault on Pegasus bridge in the second world war. This assault was led by John Howard. John was a major in the Oxford an Bucks Light Infantry regiment.The account also tells you what the regiment and John had done before the assault, this included his family life. Unfortunatly John Howard died in 1999. I thought that this book was very interresting and factual, although you need quite a lot of patience to read it because the text is tiny. But I would give it 8/10.

CJC

The Uncommon Reader, Alan Bennett

The Uncommon  Reader is a fictional book written about the queen and her secret loving for books.
It starts off when she discovers a travelling library visiting the local area and so in curiosity she goes to have a look. To be polite she decides to take out a book and then finds herself hooked to reading. The next week when the library returned she rented out another book and loves that equally. She ends up entirely distracted from her job because she is reading the whole time. In the end she decides that she is going to write a book making an interesting finish to the book.
6/10




H.H

Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief is all about Percy Jackson a dyslexic boy with ADHD who finds out one day that his best friend is part human and part goat and that your Latin teacher is a centaur and that he is a demi-god son of Poseidon. What he doesn’t know is that somebody he stolen Zeus's master bolt and he is the main suspect. So after just a few days of training at Half-Blood hill he sets off to rescue his mother from the clutches of Hades.
And to find the real  lightning thief and save the worl from one of the biggest God wars in history.

I really liked this book  I would give it a 8.5/10

Apache by Ed Macy

In this book elite pilot Ed Macy and his Apache squadron, codename UGLY, are on a mission to rescue a British soldier that has been wounded inside Jugroom Fort, a Taliban held stronghold in Helmand province in Afganistan that is of crucial importance to the British attack force, who need to get past it in order to strike at the heart of the Taliban.

The Apaches, normally only used for attack strikes and air support are now drafted in to help rescue the soldier. A high risk mission that the generals said 'could never be done' is carried out, with a battle amongst the smoke and the buildings of the fort and a new record set, action and adrenaline are never far away.

10/10 L.B

Revolver

this book is based just north of the artic circle and is an extremley interesting read because as the story progresses in 1910 every so often it goes back to the past and reveales more to you .The book is based on the gold rush and about the use of guns which makes it interesting cause in the book there are little hints about whether guns are right or not. the bookstarts off with sig in his cabin with his dead dad and then a bit later in the story after some flashback moments to where sig had found his dads body and to 1899 a man called wolf arrives claiming that his dad owes gold to him from 1900 when they lived in nome a small town. eventualy anna (sig's sister) arives back home but none f them no where it is what will happen to sig and anna you will have to read the book to find out.

i would give it a 9/10 because it is a brilliant read and very diverse but at times it got slightly confusing.
author: Marcus Sedgwick

S.H.

Class A

Class A is a great book about a boy called james. he is a part of a secret infiltration unit called Cherub which change young orfan youths into young, intelligent and lethal spys.this is the 2nd out of a series called cherub
         The story starts of in the cherub hq where james and his girlfreind kerry are just about to find out about there knew mission. there mission is to get into one of the biggest drug organiseations in the world and not only do they have to befrind kieth moore,s sun junior(kieth moore is the boss of the drug organiseation.)
As they embark on there bigest mission yet


this book has some explict content and not for young kids. I would rate this book a 9.999 reoccuring. Even though this is a great book I have read better ones.















By piers G

Gone is a book about kids under the age of 15 that have been trapped in a bubble thing that is impossible to Get out off. The main character of this book is called Sam.
Some of the people in this book such as Sam have developed strange powers due to nuclear exposure.Sam has the ability to shoot a lift beam out of his palms. After a couple of days of mayhem a few kids come from a boarding school forbad children to the tow called period beach and say they have a system to keep period beach from burning down or murder. So this boy Caine takes over and has a ration system for food. Caine is also a freak as they are called but he has the power o telekinesis but he wants to be the most powerful freak in perido beach. So he gets all the freaks and works out that most of there powers are focused through there palms so cements there hands in a big block. Then Sam decides that caine is being unfair and that the law enforcer drake Mersin is out of control so he fights Caine and his people and wins.

driven to distraction

driven to distraction is a book about cars and veracious other subjects like one thinking about Stephen Fry as prime minster and other useless facts. this book is very open minded and has many different subjects.

I would rate this book 9/10 but it is very confudderling and very funny.

HW   

Web by John Wyndham

This is John Wyndhams last book. It was only discovered ten years after he died.

In Web a rich aristocrat Sir Fox, has bought an island and has made a program to establish a Utopian society on it. However, when they explore the island, they find it is ruled by vast colonies of ultra-evolved spiders, who hunt in intelligent packs and are capable of killing humans. They try to fight them off, but when the local tribe who live on a nearby island break through their defences and let the spidres in, there are only two survivors. Theygo on a mission to discover where these spidres came from, who the tribe is and how they can survive.

This is an excellent book, and i recommend it to anyone who likes gore, mystery and other john Wyndham books. 10/10   L.B

War Horse

War Horse is a very moving book about a  horse called Joey and a boy called Albert.The book is written as if you were the horse. Joey is bought at the market by Alberts drunk father. At this stage Joey is only about 6 months old.They take Joey home and put him in the Stable next to Zoey who is a very old horse. Albert is given the task of looking after Joey and does so. He tells Joey he will never leave him. Joey and Zoey learn to plough. The war starts and Albert is told by his father that Joey must be sold to a Captain. Captain Nicholls buys Joey to take to war. Joey is taken to France to be riden into battle by Captain Nicholls. Joey is riden into war but Captain Nicholls gets blown of the horse but Joey is ok. Captain Nicholls was accompanied by Captain Jamie Stewart who was riding Topthorn was ok  but Topthorn and Joey got captured by the Germans.

Joey and Topthorn are put to work taking Germanss back from the front line who are injured and were led by a German officer who had before been a butcher called Friedrich who was a nice man. They stayed on a farm owned by a old frenchman and his grand-daughter Emily. Emily loved Joey and Topthorn and looked after them. Eventually the German soldiers had to move away as the front line moved and gave Topthorn and Joey to her Grandfather.  The two horses lived happily for a whole summer before the front moved back and they were taken against Emily and her Grandfathers will to help pull the guns. This was extremely hard work and many of the horses pulling the guns died.
Eventually even the very strong Topthorn fell ill and died.

During a bombardment Joey was frightened by an explosion and ran away but got caught in no-mans land and stuck in barbed wire. Both the German and the English front line's heard him whinny and one man from each trench holding a white flag crawled out of the trench and met by Joey. The two men spoke, one a tiny little welshman and the other an old German. The men exchanged conversation and finally came to a conclusion. They would flip a coin. The German tossed it up in the air and as it came down the welshman called "HEADS". Heads it was. The two men shook hands told each other good luck then Joey got led back to the English trench whilst the German walked slowly back to his.

Joey is then taken to the vetinary where Albert and Joey were reunited. Albert was holding Joey's head whilst him and his friend David were talking about how one day a horse would turn up with a white mark on both legs and as David is hosing him down he realises that this horse has just that and Albert realises that its Joey. They feed Joey and he gets back to full health but soon after Joey gets LockJaw. David and Albert persuade the Major not to kill Joey adn once more Albert and David get him back to full health. Joey, Albert and  David get sent back to war, Joey once more pulling carts of the wounded but  David on the other hand gets killed just a few days before the end of the war. Albert survives.

With the end of the war the regiment is told it must return to England but there is no room for the Horses and therefore the Major in charge of the vetinary has to organise and auction. Despite all the regiment pleading including the saergant major pleading to the major Joey must be put up on auction. Although they are not allowed to the regiment collect as much money as they can afford and the saergant major bids for Joey, but he is out bid by one of the the frenchman at the auction who is buying the horses for meat. At the last minute an old man at the back of the crowd outbids the butcher from Cambray.

No one knows who the old man is who has won Joey but the saergant thunder and major martin go and speak to him, the old man is Emilie's grandfather and he tells of how Emilie had died of a broken heart once Joey and Topthorn had left. The old man sells back Joey to Albert for just one English penny but makes him promise to love and care for Joey forever. Joey and Albert return to there village and parade through the streets, Albert marries his sweetheart and Joehy goes back to working on the land with his old friend Zoey.

I think this is an outstanding book and i would recommend reading. It is an extremely moving book epecially as it was based on a true story. I dont think it matters who you are but this is a great read.This book also shows how awful the war was and it was not only the men who got treated badly but the animals aswell. Even in the worst conditions some people show extraordinary kindness.

I wopuld give it a 10/10

F.A

Animal Farm

animal farm is about a farmer who is really mean to his animals and the animals had enough of him and they plot against him and they call for a meeting to get rid of him and the farmer dies and the pigs called snowball and nopolian asume control because they are smater than the other animals are upset and they revolt against the pigs and
 i wont tell you the rest
overall that book wasnt my cup of tea and i would rate it a 3/10.

Double Cross

Double Cross is the fourth book of the Noughts and Crosses sequence. You wouldn't really understand the book unless you read the first, second and third book in order, but I didn't read the third book (Checkmate) and I understood it. This is a brilliant book about two people called Callie and Toby, who have both lived in the same neighbourhood and in the same street all their lives. The area they live in is called Meadowview and is a very dangerous place to live in, but both Callie and Tobys' parents cannot afford to live anywhere else. Callies' dad was hanged for kidnapping Callies' mum Sephy before she was born, so Callie lives with her mum and grandmother. In Meadowview there are two gangs or sides, one of the gangs is called the Dowds and the other gang is called McAuleys. The two sides do not get along at all.

When Toby is asked to work for The McAuleys he says no, becasue he knows it would be a very bad idea to work for either the McAusleys or the Dowds. When Callie gets shot by one of the McAuleys he changes his mind and takes the offer of delivering packages for Mr McAuley. He knows this is the biggest mistake of his life but he wants to kill McAuley, so he must work for him and step by step get closer to McAuley. On top of all this Tobys sister is taking drugs, so he has troubles at home as well as with all the bad gangs that rule the world he lives in. Callie also has troubles, she does not know if her uncle Jude is alive or not, her uncle Jude was responsible for her grandmothers death and she hates him but is also terrified of him.
This was an amazing book, I really enjoyed it. I would give it a  8/10

Otty

The Escape, Henderson Boys Robert Muchamore

The escape is a great action book set with a family and an orphan boy.
The family are the Clarks there is the father and his two children Rose and Paul . The orphans boy is called Marc.
The escape is set in World War 2 and the orphanige gets bombed and Marc escapes on the orphaniges leader bike and steals some money and food. Marc is alone to wonder to the South of France.
Theres soo many important stuff i could say but it would be revieling it.
I will say a few things. Mr.Clarke is a spy that his kids dont know about and its a big change suddenly for the kids.
Germany are taking over Paris and thats why everyone goes South.
Will Marc and the Clarkes get to Soth-end France or will they get crushed by the Germans
There is alot of twists and turns which makes this book so good.
Its the first of the series.

I rate it 9/10 i recommend it mostly to boys.

JH

The Confession.

In 1998, Travis Boyette brutally assaulted and murdered Nicole Yarber, a high school cheerleader. He then watched open-mouthed as Donte Drumm, a black american football player, is arrested and convicted of murder, and is put on the death row.

Nine years on, and Travis is suffering from a brain tumor. With his health deteriorating, he decides to do the right thing, and confess. Travis meets a Keith Schroeder, a reverend living in Kansas, one week before Donte Drumms' execution.

Keith Schroeder now has a week to save Donte Drumms life.

This was my book of the summer. Its got suspense, twists and turns, I really enjoyed it. Its a very dark read, and quite controversal. Although its not a horror story, it isn't for the light hearted either.

Kiwi

Lord Loss by Darren Shan

Lord Loss is based around one family the Gradys the main character is called Grubbs Grady all the Gradys are addicted to playing chess to Grubbs this is just a hobby but he soon learns all about what chess really means in this family. He comes home one day to find the house in a mess and his parents and older sister Gret dead and in the house three demons who want him as well because I don,t want to spoil the book i'm not going to tell you much more.

I thought it was really good and don't be put of if you don't like horror books its children horror I really liked it  8.5/10

The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkein

The Hobbit is the prequel to one of the most well-known book trilogies of the whole writing world.
The story follows the life of the most important hobbit in the Shire (the living area of the hobbits - also known as Hobbiton), his name is Bilbo Baggins. He is disrupted one evening by 12 dwarves and a famous wizard - Gandalf. They all are charged with a mission to recover the stolen treasure from a Dragon called Smaug.

It is an eventful and captivating story when they are captured by Goblin's in the tunnels of the Misty Mountains, Bilbo has a nasty encounter with Gollum where Bilbo changes the story completely, they are almost roasted by Goblin fires and Wargs. They are rescued by Eagles and meet a friendly giant who can transform into other animals and things and is extremely good at taming animals. They are put on their way and meet Mirkwood but the Dwarves and Bilbo are given a nasty shock at the edge of Mirkwood. They almost starve through the wood and are locked up by Elves but escape to the smart thinking of Bilbo and are washed up at the Woodmen of the Long Lake. Thorin (one of the dwarves and was once heir to this land) bcomes King of the Long Lake while they are resting there. After a few days they begin their journey to the Desolation of Smaug which has been in their sights from the Long Lake.

There is a massive battle called the Battle of the Five Armies - the goblins and Wargs against the woodmen, elves, Gandalf and the dwarves, and Bilbo and his companions take lots of the treasure but many of them die.

This book was very good. I would rate it 8.5/10.






J.F

The Sound Of Laughter By Peter Kay

Peter Kay's autobigraphy is a hilarious book about the growing up and life of Peter Kay before he became famous and his journey to get there. He talks about how he got on at school and then how he went on to work at a factory driving fork lift trucks all day.He talks about how from an early age he was always known as the class clown and the work you have to put in to become as famous as he is now.

Overall I think this book is really, really funny and tells a great story about his life in a way that will keep you reading just because of the humour.i'd give it 8/10

An Idiot Abroad

An idiot abroad is a hilarious book about a very boring man called Karl Pilkington. He doesn't like travelling. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant force him to go to all the seven wonders of the world for and 'epic adventure'. Karl has to do dangerous activities, eat wierd foods and more. Ricky is costantly sending Karl texts purposly trying to use up his credit.

It was a very funny book i would rate it 9.5/10





MG

Michael McIntyre Life and Laughing

This book is a very honest and very funny autobiography about Michael's life. His Dad was a comedian and when his Mum was pregnant a fortune teller told her that she was going to have a very successful son and that she felt like she was the virgin Mary, carrying a special son. His Dad was Canadian and his Mum was Hungarian. Michael's Granny has a really funny accent and threatens people with cutting them out of her will, or as she says 'vill'. Michael's Mum and Dad knew Kenny Everett (who was a big TV star in the eighties). And everyone at his primary school thought that Kenny Everett was his Dad, until it came to the parents sports day, Michael went form the most popular kid in school to the most unpopular kid in school. But when Michael was 12 his parents go a divorce and his Mum married a bulider and his Dad married an Amercian girl. On the whole I thought that this book was very fun to read and would recommend it to people who like comedy and autobioghraphys, I would give this 9/10.

CJC

I Am The Messenger

I Am The Messenger Is a book about an average guy called Ed Sullivan (Who I think lives in Australia, but it never tells us in the book) who one day is in a bank with his argumentative friend Marv, and a terrible gunman attempts a robbery. He forces Marv to give him his keys to his awful car. but when he runs out the building he drops his gun and carry's on running to the car. Ed has an adrenaline rush runs outside picks up the gun and shoots the attempted robber, but doesn't kill him. After the trial Ed receives an Ace of Diamonds with 3 addresses on it. He doesn't know what he has got himself into but seems to find his way to solve the problem, He then gets an ace of clubs with another three address's on it and then he gets an Ace of spades with three writers names on it and he has to work out the code, which turns out to be that each of the writers had one book which had the name of a street in the town. and then he gets an Ace of Hearts which has the address's of his three best friends Ritchie, Marv, and Audrey.(who he is madly in love with.) Ed's life turns around and so do all the people who he had on the address's of the cards.


 I really liked I am The Messenger because there are always lots of things happening and you are always trying to work out who is sending Ed the playing card. I would rate it 9/10!!

Noughts & crosses-Malorie Blackman

Noughts and crosses it a book about racism, Sephy is black (cross) and Callum is white (nought) and they live in a world where crosses rule over noughts and noughts are lower class citizens.

Callums dad and brother keep going off from early in the morning to late at night, his sister is mad and eventually commits suicide and his mother cant cope with it all.

Sephys dad is one of the most important men in the country, her mother has a major drinking problem and her sister keeps telling her she never wants her to grow up.

the both think it cant get any worse and then the bomb explodes…

i thought this was a good book and i gave it 7/10 SS

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies
William Golding
A bunch of school boys end up stranded on an island after a catastrophic plane crash in which killing every adult and a few kids. These boys at first run around thinking it was all so good without anybody telling them what to do and what not to do. But they soon discovered this was not the case. A boy named Ralph was soon elected leader of the group of boys and everyone had there individual jobs and chores. During the night something came down from the top of the mountain to inspect what and who had landed on his or hers island. It must of been careless and was seen by a member of the group, a younger member of the group who told all the others and non of them believed him. Thing started to break up amongst the group and split into two groups, most in one and not many in the other.

Will the groups stay apart and orderly?
Will they mind each others business?
Will they ever be found???

   O.s

Boys don't cry

Boys don't cry is a good book about a boy called Dante who is waiting for his exam results. But then his ex girlfriend turns up and she has a baby. Then she goes out to get some things but never comes back.
Dante is left with the baby and his brother and dad are out and are coming back soon. Dante is not sure if he should put the baby up for adoption or maybe give the baby to some foster parents. Then Dantes dad gets back and tells Dante he has no choice he will have to keep it. Dante has a hard decision to make.


I think his was a good book, i would rate it 7.5/10 C.H

Life & Laughter-by Michael McIntyre (his autobiography)

I thougt his storys were incredibly funny, especially the one about his grandmothers accent. His autobiography is, obviously, just his life told in a funny way. He also add how his parents broke up but he tells in a funny way. Also i like how he talks about other comedians and the DNA of a good gag. I liked the part when he couldn't wait to tell everyone that he hit the only volvo limousine and blame it on a guy who was having lunch.


I thought this was a very funny and slitly interesting. 8.5/10

MM

Checkmate

Checkmate is a sequel to Knife Edge and Noughts and Crosses.
This book is basically about Callie Rose's life. ( who is Sephy and Callum's daughter). She has quite a hard life because her Mum is black and her Dad was white. Sephy ( Callie's Mum) hasn't told Callie Rose anything about her father , just that he was killed in a car accident ( which isn't true ). When Callie Rose gets a lot older, she unexpectedly learns the truth about her father. She realises what kind of a world they lived in and what history her father created. Sephy then meets her Uncle, Jude McGregor. He is still angry about Callum's death and wants revenge. So Jude gets Callie Rose to do it for him ( this ends up, causing about 5 deaths , and a bomb)
Suddenly Callie Rose becomes caught up in everything, and she doesn't realise how hard it is to get out of it....

I gave this book an 8/10 because it is a really good sequel and it has a good storyline.

Daisy

A Puppy Called Aero by Liam Creed.(Autobiography)

A Puppy called Aero is an Autobiography about Liam(The Author) When he was a young boy of about 4 years old his mother saw him in the garden pulling up all of the flowers in the flower bed. Since then he has been a troubled littly boy. He did not do as he was told, he would bully his older brother Matt, he would want all the attention and could not sit still. His mother tried so hard to find out what was wrong with him, because normally young boys will grow out of the naughty stage. All the doctors would not listen to him and he could not explain what he was going through.
His mum was doing some research on the computer to see if she could find something that matched Liam's problems and she came across ADHD. All the symtoms were the same, She took him to a doctor. This doctor was different from all the rest, he actually listened to Liam and asked his questions. He knew straight away that it was ADHD. Liam was then diagnosed with ADHD. That gave him some pills that would calm him down.And it worked. One thing that his mum noticed when she was looking on the internet it said that all the people with ADHD had a WOW FACTOR! When Liam's younger sister was born they realized what it was.He loved baby's and pets. He was so calm around them and so gentle. He especially likes changing her nappies and later on in the book you will see that he likes clearing dog poo.
At School he was a nuisance  and wanted all the attention. he never made friends because he would be so rude to them. But one day the headmaster asked Liam to his office which normally means a telling off but when he got in there he had something else to say.He wants to tell Liam about a project that Canine Partners was doing to help children with problems. They were to train dogs to help people in a wheelchair. Liam was 15 at the time and was not very sociable with other kids his age, especially girls.
When he got on the bus for the first day at Canine Partners . On the bus was 3 girls and a boy at the back on the bus. The boy is called Rob and was very interested to know everything about Liam. Liam did not know what was the problem with him. By the end of the bus journey through the country side he realized that Robs nickname is the volcano and Liam experience it at the end of the journey.
The leader of the project was called Nina from Australia. All the kids were introduced  to the dogs and Liam's dog is called Aero, a Labrodor Retriever . Their first task was to try to put the lead on the dog, This was harder then they all thought.The next task was to make the dog open the washing Machine and to answer the phone etc.... All the children didn't understand how this will effect them and how important it is to the disabled they are helping .
They all found it hard to socialise with each other, all the girls teased Liam about he moustache and Liam could not cope.
Liam's WOW FACTOR is pets and babies so he made a special bond with Aero. Aero started to trust and listen to Liam. They started to do the tasks very well. Nina was very impressed with Liam as they made great progress.
One day Rob and Liam were sent to London to see a Lady called Eileen who is in a wheelchair and has a dog from Canine Partners to help her. Liam was very excited to go to London because he had never been before.
When they got there they were overwhelmed by the tricks the dog 'Sailor' was doing. After this trip to London Liam was determined that he was going to make Aero the best dog for the person he was going to help. Aero and Liam were making even more progress.
The other problem with Liam was that he could not talk to girls, there was a girl in the corner shop on the way to school that Liam really likes. One day he plucked up the courage to talk to her.The start did not go well but he was not going to give up. They did end up going out with each other. Her name is Leanne and she loved dogs.They were perfect for each other.
Everyone could see a massive change in Liam, he was polite, listens to people and respects other people.

The big day has arrived, they have to show everyone all the tricks they have learnt it in the time at Canine Partners . Liam was so scared, he did not want to let anyone down especially Areo. (I won't tell you what happened)
Now the day came to say goodbye to Aero. Liam could not cope, they had made a special bond and Aero had saved him.
The end of the book made me cry, This book I would give a 10/10
Mairi Donaldson.

The Painted Man

The painted man is a great book about three characters Arlen,Leisha and Rojer . The book is set in medieval times.They are in a time were daemons rule the night slaying anything and everything and people believe there is no defence against these creatures. So, at night, people hide in the houses which are protect by magical Wards. These are a combination of symbols that stop daemons.
The story commences with Arlen as a 12 year old child. His father is weak and frightened by daemons. He's left with a choice of either saving his wife or seeking refuge back at a farm and he chose to seek refuge and that resulted in Arlen's mum dieing. Arlen is angry with his Dad and runs off into forest.
Leisha is a 13 year old at the start of the book and has inherited her mothers good looks. Her mother is a pretty lady but she is also rather mean horrible especially to her husband because she sleeps with other men. She does not deserve the kind and loving husband, a man called Arney. The daemaons attach the village where Leisha lives and many die. An old herb gatherer in the village needs help healing the wounderd and Leisha accidently volunteers.
Rojer, at the start he is a small boy of 3 who has bright red hair. His parents die and a jongler who is also a Coward, is with them when daemons attach. The Jongler runs away when the daemons brake in and kill his parents, just before his Mother dies, she hand Rojer over to the Jongler who is hiding in a cellar.Some of Rojers fingers are severed at that time.
They all set off on adventures of their own, but I'm not going to read it to you so read it yourself!!!

                                                                My thoughts

This is one of my favorite books, it is a must read. This book is quite long and is quite advanced. I love this book but if there was something I could change it would be...
To spend more time on Rojer.
To make the characters not grow up so fast.
And to make a movie of it!!!

                                                            
If you get into this book there is a sequal called The Dessert Spear



I would rate this book 100%

by Piersie giltinan

The Fear

this book is mainly about zombies and the basic storyline is if you were over 14 when the virus struck you would either die or turn into a zombie if you were under 14 then you would be fine.

this story starts off 5 days before the first book which makes it complicated and it does mix with the first book so it means you need to read the first book. this book starts with a weird intro of a zombie called the collector he is included in the other story's so again your going to need to go back. The basic storyline of this book is that Dognut,Marco,Al,Felix, Olivia, Finn and Courtney a couple of kids from a group of kids who are held up in the tower of London are going to try and find some friends who got split up from them when the side of London that they were on first got burned by a fire and so lots of kids were  trying to get across at the bridge and so they got split up. the first people they find are in the house of parliament this is because they travel by the river in a boat. they don't find any of their friends their so they move on to Buckingham palace where they find a guy called David in charge he tells them that one of their friends is here and he dosent know where the rest of there friends are whoever they do not realise that David is lieing to them to use them as his soldiers whowever one of the kids tell them there friends are at the museum. whoever on the way over to the museum they meet a certain zombie called the Collector he manages to kill one of their group a little girl called Olivia. they reach the museum finally and find out that more of their friends are here. when the group set out home they do not realise there being watched by the zombies what will happen you will have to read to find out.

I would rate this 9/10 it was a bit confusing at times but overall it is a good book.

S.H.

Phosphorescence

Lola lives on the Norfolk coast. She has all her life. Her embarrassing dad is part of a wildlife conservation team. Very embarrassing when he chases them off the land and gives boring lectures to tourists. Lola knows Norfolk upside down so when her parents get divorced, and she has to go and live in London her whole world is turned upside down. She does not fit in at her new school. No one must know about her old life. So when a fieldtrip to Norfolk Coast is arranged, Lola has to find a way to make her old and new life work together.

It was a good read. It was probably more a girl's book but did not weigh too heavy on the subject  so a boy could read it.

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time (first impressions)

First impressions of this book was mixed. The opening paragraph or so was action packed and then it slowed dramatically. for me it was way to slow and after a while I was starting to get a bit fed up but from past reviews it sounds like it picks up to the pace it started at. sorry for short review this is due to minimum amount read hense the mass of bordem

saving violet park

Saving violet park is a book by Jenny Valentine.It is a book about a teenage boy called lucas who's father died he finds an ern one night in a minicabs office. The lady name in the ern is violet park. Lucas feels sorry for her and wants to put the ern in a more peaceful place. Lucas finds out some very intresting infomation about Violet, and in the end he sees a connection betwenn his father and her.

hj

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 - Sue Townsend

The Secret Dairy of Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4 is about a boy called Adrian Mole. The book is a dairy of his life everyday. It includes all his feelings and him talking about how he is an unidentified interlectual. He has a normal teenage life but somehow the author manages somehow to make it a bit more exciting than a everyday normal teenager. The main stories are his parents fighting, the new girl at school Pandora and the old man he helps Bert Baxter. I would reccomend it to anyone from age 12 and up.
T.W

Escape

Escape is a book written by Paul Dowswell and is about prison escapes from all over the world.This book is very gripping and took me by storm. It is in grave detail and is written as if Paul was there himself.

The book starts off with Escape from Alcatraz and this in my opinion is my favourite story mostly because I watched the movie the night before, and it is about a man called Frank Morris and from his first looks at the prison he knew he could escape.So he starts exploring and finds that the air duct at the floor of his cell is surrounded by old and brittle concrete.So then he tells some of his "prison friends" and they start doing the same so when they are big enough to get thorugh........

I loved this book and would recomend it to ANYONE as its SO good

Here is an interview with Paul about his book http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9x9wFa3ZvQ Its the best I could find

I would give this book a straight 10/10 for its gripping detail and great description.

Please give it a read and i'm looking forward to the next in the series.

Special Mention to Seb Harwood!!!! for letting me use his copy of Escape

This review was written by Charlie Newman 

Kids Book Review Writer

Hana's Suitsase

Hana's suitcase by Karen Levine
This is a true story

Hana's suitcase is about a young girl who was Jewish who had her parents taken away by the Natzi's into a concentration camp. Then it was her and her brother, george were taken somewhere else.
A woman called Fumiko Ishioka owned a small Holocaust museum in Japan, Fumiko had been asking all the large museums if she could have any belongings, like socks, suitcases,tops etc...
Fumiko had asked everyone she tried one more museum soon after they sent her a suitcase so her and some children who were interesded could find out more.

This is what the suitcase looked like...



Fumiko trys to find out about the girl who owned the suitcse, to solve the mystery. And for the next year, she becomes a detective, scouring the world for clues to the story of Hana Brady.

Fumiko went to the Terezin Ghetto Museum were she found a woman with the list of almost 90,000 men, women and children. Fumiko and the women sat down searching for a Brady they found a name, George Brady. By all the names they had a tick apart from Georges this means he survived Aushwitz, but is he still alive and does he know what happened to her little sister...

H.B 

  

The battle of britain

Harry woods is a young lad who has just joined the RAF in the 1940's, the late world war two.
At the start of this book the boy cmes home to see his parents are all of him training.
Harry thinks it is fantasic and his dad is asking about all the planes and are they as good as they say they are and all that and then there mother tells them both not to talk about war, so they have a sivilised convosation.
Later in this book the boy finds it quite dramatic and blinded by the fact that all these people are getting killed.
I would recommend this book to 8 to 14 year olds so maybe jade.
Urquy

The Declaration by Gemma Malley

This book is about a 15 year old girl called Anna, a new drug has been created called longeivety this drug means you can never die of old age or diseases but you can die for example if you were shot, if you take the drugs you are not allowed to have any children, you can choose to 'opt out' which means you do not take the drugs and you are allowed to have children, if you do not 'opt out' and have children those children are illegal and will be put in a surplus hall and made to work for the duration of there lives, the parents go to jail and the illegal child is a called a surplus. Anna is a surplus and she has been in the surplus hall for years, in these halls the surplus's are taught that mother nature hates them and that they have to repay mother nature for being illegal by working. Anna does not know her parents but they are in a group called the underground movement and they fight against these drugs saying it is wrong to live forever.
A new surplus has joined the surplus hall recently called Peter, Peter claims to know Anna's parents and they start planning an escape plan to get out of the makeshift prisons called 'surplus halls', they know of a tunnel out and escape but they are not free yet and Peter finds out who his parents really are...

I really enjoyed this book because although the cover is a butterfly i think that boys and girls will enjoy it i reccomend this book to all and i will definetley be reading the sequel 'The Resistance'. By Harry Smith

Noughts and Crosses

Noughts and Crosses is written by Malorie Blackman. It is in a world where black ad white are right and wrong. The white are called noughts and the blacks are called crosses. There are two main characters called Callum and Sephy. Callum is a nought and Sephy is a Cross. Callum and Sephy love each other but it is very hard to show and have that because of their diffrence in colour. The Book is about Callum and Sephy trying to find a way to ovecome this. For Years Callum and Sephy have always met at the same beach when they wanted to see each other. The Government had recenty changed the fact that Noughts werent allowed into schools. So Sephy started helping Callum prepare for the exams on the beach. Callum had got into the school and had said that nothing would ever get him out of it. One way that the Noughts were trying to turn the table was the liberation Militia.The Liberation Militia is a very large group of Noughts using violence to try and win over the Crosses. Callum got into the school and said that nothing would ever make him give up is place. Callum does end up leaving the school in the end after a few things happen at the school and he realises that everyone is against him. Callums family have been having a few problems. the first one is that lynette callus sister was killed. lynette acted like the glue between the family and kept them together. also callums dad and callums brother, jude have joined the liberation militia so callums mum is very annoyed the jude and callums dad part of the liberation militia are ordered to plant a bomb in a huge shopping centre and he is found guilty and gets a life scentence but kills himsef trying to escape on the electric fence. Sephys family have also been hvaing some problems so sephy decides to go to a boarding school but before she leaves she sends a letter to callum which says "if you want to be together and spend the rest of our lives together then run and stop me from leaving". callum rads the letter and runs as fast as he can to try and stop her but is just to late. Their lives depart from each other and start to forget each other but then.......................................................................

Sam C

PIGEON ENGLISH BY STEPHEN KELMAN

PIGEON ENGLISH is about a boy called Harrison Opoku, more commonly known as Harri, who is 11 years old and newly arrived from Ghana and now living in an inner city housing estate. He is blissfully unaware of the danger he faces when he and his friend Dean start to investigate the stabbing of a teenager outside Chicken Joe's fast food restaurant. 
What will happen to naive Harri on his maiden voyage through life in his personalised trainers with the adidas stripes drawn on with a marker pen . . . . . ? Well, you'll just have to read the book to find out!
10/10 a great read.
Please check with your parents before reading due to bad language.

The Bad Tuesdays

The Bad Tuesdays is set in present day and is about Splinter, Box and Chess, who live on the Wharf. They know nothing of they past and so begin the journey that will turn their life upside down.
             Children everywhere are disappearing, Jacks and Street Rats. They call them the hunters and they are coming for the Street rats.
             One day the Wharf is attacked by Hunters and all of the children are rounded up and taken away. But the Tuesdays manage to escape and are shocked to discover that they have a bigger part to play in the kidnappings than they thought. The Symmetry want Chess and the Commitee need her too. Which side should she take, or should they just stay out of it all together?
              This book was good once you got into it but the blurb did sound awful. I would recommend it to 10 and up,and for boys and girls.

Tamar-Mal Peet

In 1943 a man code name Tamar is dropped into Nazi occupied Holland. Decades later in the mid 1990s his granddaughter (called Tamar) is trying to find out more about her dead grandfather when she comes across a box with her name on it it contains money, some odd bits, and a map of the Tamar Valley. Is this linked to her fathers dissaperance 3 years ago?  What do these clues mean ? Why did her grandfather leave her this? What will she find when she goes to Devon? What was her Grandfathers role in the war? Is there some bigger mystery forgotten in the intervening decades? I would recommend this book to anyone over the age of 12 because the plot is quite complicated. My advice to anyone reading this is to keep reading as the story takes a while to get going.   
CH

Michael Morpurgo The sleeping sword

This book is about a boy called Bun who is 10 and is in love with this girl called Anna who is 14. One day when Anna is swimming, Bun sees her and jumps into the quay with her, and dives straight onto the rocks and has to be taken to hospital, when he wakes up he has lost his memory and his sight. when he gets back from hospital he falls in a hole, when he is working the fields. He finds a sword and a shield. That night when he goes to sleep, he has a dream that he and Anna must return the shield back to king Auther. I found this book very sad at the start, when he cant see and when he has no memory, but towards the end the book got a bit happier.
By Hugo bungey

Escape

Escape by Paul Dowswell is a collection of true stories about people escaping from various prisons, some are about prisoners of war and some are about proper convicts. There are about 7 stories in the book. My favourite is about 4 men escaping from Alcatraz. What I really like is that in the stories of the convicts, the main characters haven't been seen since as if they were, they would be reimprisoned. All the stories start withthe characters backround and end with an after the story thing.

Stephen Hawking and Black Holes

I read this book at the beginning of the Easter Holidays (really)! It is a short fact book about Stephen Hawking and his life. There are 11 more books in this series about other scientists. It ranges from when he was born to present day. I think that it is a very accurate book as most of the evidence has been backed up by my genral nknowledge and the start of Hawking's own book 'A Brief History of Time'

NOW

Now is the last book of the triology. It is set in Australia in the present day. Felix is an old man and he has a grandaughter called Zelda named after his best friend by his daughter who is helping in Africa with her husband. Felix is left to look after Zelda.
In the other two books Felix is the one telling the story, but in this one his grandaughter is.
This boojk describes the forest fires in Australia and the drama it causes. If you have read the other two books you will become attached to the charachters. Its a good book but not as good as THEN in my opinion.

Lance Armstrong - By John Wilcockson

This book is a great book I think because you dont have to have a great intrest in Cycling to enjoy the book.  As some of you may know Lance Armstrong is not only the most successful cyclist ever (Winning the Tour de France 7 times!!!) but he also is a testiculqar cancer survivor.  He survived testicular cancer when doctors thought he had 1% chance of living, and then went on to win the toughest sporting event in the world.  I think that this book is right for ages 8/9 years up simply because it is quite a tough read, i think that every one in this room would enjoy it. 

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is written by Mark Haddon and is about a boy called Christopher and his father. It all starts out one night when Christopher looks out of his window one night and see's the neighbours doglying outside. He goes outside and discovers that the dog has been stabbed with a pitch fork and is lying on the floor dead. Christophers neighbour called Mrs Sheers comes running out and calls the police. When the police turn up one of them comes up and touches Christopher who proceeds to hit the police officer because he highly dislikes being touched by people. he gets arrested however he is let of with a warning. After Christophers encounter with the dead dog he becomes intiqued to discover who the murderer was. When he mentions to his Father after doing some investigating that he thinks that the murderer might have been Mr Sheers his father gets extremelly angry and tells him to never say Mr Sheers in the house ever again and to stop the detective cherade. Despit this Christopher finds loop holes in the agreement and continues to ask questions and gets himself into a bit of a muddle.

The book is written from the point of view of Christopher as if he is writing the book wich i think is a very clever style. Because Christopher isnt quite right he doesnt understand emotions so at the end it gets very sad but Christopher just stays blank wich i found highly frustrating.Despit this i found the book very enjoyable and would recommend to anyone looking for a good read. 10/10!

By George Hawkins.

H.I.V.E

 It is about an orphan called Otto, who after completing his most cunning scheme yet, wakes up in a helicopter, bound for H.I.V.E, Higher Institute of Villainous Education. H.I.V.E seems an amazing place, full of oppurtunities for Otto, who has nothing back at the orphanage, one problem. The thought of studying at a school for six years with no leave and no contact with the outside world seems a little irratating for Otto. Why would he want to learn  about  something he is already a professional at? Otto, and his friends,Wing, Laura and American, " I need designer clothes" Shelby hatch a plan to break out of H.I.V.E.But is there more to the Headmaster than meets the eye?  And is Shelby who she claims to be? Find  out in Otto's attempt to leave H.I.V.E once and for all.

I really enjoyed this book. I would recommend it  to all ages and both boys and girls.

Clash of The Sky Galleons

'Clash of The Sky Galleons' is a book written by Chris Riddel and Paul Stewart. I read this book over the Christmas holidays. It is the ninth book in the series. It is about a 14 year old boy named Quint. It is set in a seperate world name 'The Edge'. I thought that this book could have been a lot better than it was since I don't think that it compared to the rest of the series. The book tended to drag on quite a bit about irrelevant things that have nothing to do with the plot. I thought that when I got to the main part of the book, I thought that it was another irrelevant bit and rushed through it meaning that I didn't enjoy it quite as much as I could have. Thank you for reading.
By Joe Ingram

Once

it's about a 10yr old called felix who lives in and orphanage in poland. he finds a carrot in his soup which he interprets as a sign from his parents. he runs away and does lots of things whilst looking for his parents. such as saving a girl named zelda from a burning bhouse and other suimilar things. every chapter starts with once.e.g once i saved a girl called zelda from a house.
i thought that for its type of book it was very good. i just don't like that genre of reading. 


seb harwood

Gone

gone is about a boy called Sam, one day everyone over the age of 14 disapears in Perido Beach all the kids are left confused. They then realise that there is a wall going all around them about 20 miles in diameter they then come up with lots of crazy ideas about what happened, and in the centre there is the power plant . Then they realise that some of the children have been developing 'mutant' powers Sam for example can shoot light out of his hands, there is a school called Coates academy and a boy called Caine comes down to Perido beach and he tries to restore order and create laws etc.. but he turns bad and then a war starts Perido beach against Coates academy.
 


Harry Smith

A Gathering Light

A Gathering Light, by Jennifer Donnelly, is set at the begining of the twentiest century and is based partially on a true story. The main character is a girl called Mattie and she is seventeen, she is a farming girl who's mother died a few years ago and her brother has left them for reasons that are unclear. She has to cook meals for her younger sisters and father and has to help with farming work like ploughing which is a man's job. What she really wants to do is go to colledge and become a writer which she is encouraged to do by her teacher and  closest friends. At the beginning of the book she wants to get a job at the Glenmore hotel in the north woods not far from where she lives, her father says no, she gets a job there for other reasons in the end and that's where the story begins. A couple of weeks after she gets a job a woman who is staying at the hotel drowns in the lake by the hotel while out boating with a man. Before this happens the woman had given Mattie some letters with instructions to burns them and Mattie discovers the truth about her death. The book flits between the one night in which Mattie is reading her letters and the year's worth of backstory about why Mattie is there and her other problems. I thought that it wasn't a bad book but it is more of a girls book than a boys. It is quite grown up and so I would recommend it to 12 year olds and over.

By Kit Livsey

The curious incident of the dog in the night time

By Mark Haddon. the book is about a boy called christopher, he is 15 and he has Aspergers syndrome, his mother died about 1or 2 years ago and thinks that she died of a heart attack. He knows alot about math and physics and very little about humans. he hates colours yellow and brown, and people touching him. one day he findes a dog in a garde , with a pitch fork in it. christopher the goes on a journey to find out who killed the dog, but on his way he findes out some very strange things witch you would not expect. I like this book very much because it is different from all the other books, I also think it is a good book because you can never tell what is going to happen.

Then by Morris Gleitzman

Then is the sequel of Once, which is about a Jewish boy, Felix and a girl named Zelda.
Then is a story of relationships and conflict, a child's book and a horrific tale. Then is very strange as a result of this. Morris Gleitzman has captured the terrible picture of war whilst also writing a tale of families and friends.
It is amazing how it can be the most light hearted children's book at one moment but in an instant it can change to
a book of revenge and horror.
Felix and Zelda are taken in to hiding by a women named Genia who is a very kind person.
I think that the Guardians review, " Haunting...dangerous and desperate but also full of courage and hope" really says it all. This book is not really an action book but it is a must read book. I usually read action books but I think this book has changed the way I will read.Quite simply it is my favorite book and everyone must read it.

Across The Nightingale Floor

Across the nightingale floor is a book by Lian Hearn.It is about a child called Tomasu.It does not directly refer to the time but it seems asthough it is set during the 1500's in Japan.The book starts with Tomasu going out to the forest looking for food etc and when he comes back he finds his whole clan(The Hidden) has been slaughtered by the Tohan .When he enters the village Lord Iida approaches him and lunges at tomasu with his sword.Tomasu Dives awayu and Lord Iida falls to the ground.Infuriated he orders two of his men to chase and kill tomasu.When he gets into the forest he is grabbed by a man. He thinks that he is about to be killed The man defends him killing one and taking the arm of the other. Tomasu finds out the man is called Lord Otori.He takes tomasu home and renames him Takeo because it is not a Hidden name.Takeo does not speak for a while because of shock but in this time he finds out a lot of things about himself,such as the fact that he is a member of a clan of assasins.Near the end of the book lord Otori goes with takeo on a quest of some sort to take revenge on lord Iida.During this time there are twists that you don't expect wich makes it an exciting read.It is a long book and it took me a while to get into it but when you do get far in the book is a very exciting powerful book and I would give it 9/10

Nothing but the truth - by AVI

Nothing but the truth is a novel about a boy called Philip Malloy, is a ninth-grader at Harrison High School in Harrison, New Hampshire who is obsessed by the Track.  He has a long-standing grudge with his english teacher Miss Narwin (Margaret Narwin to her friends).  His grades are average generally, when he gets a D in english for rude and obnoxious behaviour, he cannot make the track team, but he decides not to tell his parents as he thinks they may be angry.  Shortly after this he gets moved to Miss Narwin's homeroom, where at the start of the day when the national anthem is being played he hums along, upon this he is asked to stop, and when he does not he is sent to the Principal's office, the same thing happens for a number of days before Philip is suspended.  His parents only hearing about the situation when Philip is suspended,  Philips father takes this very seriously and talks to their neighbour Ted Griffin, who is on the school board, when they go over there is a journalist there who asks if she can print the story and does.  From this point the situation escalates and escalates until it becomes a national issue.
I really liked this book because although a very simple plot was actually quite detailed and gave lots of opinions, but can show how by you doing something wrong and telling someone it  can get out of hand.

JH

Not the end of the world by grenadine McCaughrean

This book recreates the story telling of Noah's ark, it also explains some of the probLlems that they could of had and tells it in a way that they do have these problems and how they solve they.one of these examples were how the boat was made of wood sO how and where did the keep termites.
I found this book very confusing and I didn't understand it at first. One of of the things I ask myself is where did Noah keep the woodpecker on the wooden boat??
Couple of odd thing happen like weirdos hanging on to the back of the boat or in another small boat getting pulled by the big one.
With in the family there are problems like how some people like other people and they hide the people who the think are there friends.

W.U

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The Morning Gift

The Morning Gift is written by Eva Ibbotson and is about a girl called Ruth Berger who lives with her family in Austria. Her family is partly Jewish and decide to flee Austria, and escape to England. They send Ruth on ahead, but leave her behind when they flee and do not realise that she has not been allowed out of Austria.
       Her only hope rests in an old family friend, Quinton Somerville. Her only way of earning a visa to escape Austria and be reunited with her fiance Heini, is to marry Quin and earn a joint passport and divorce as soon as she gains British Citizenship. But when the annulment takes longer than expected, and Ruth ends up at the university with Quin as her lecturer, her feelings for him take her by surprise and she begins to think that maybe Heini isn't her beloved one afterall.
       I did not enjoy this book as it wasn't my type of thing and all of her books are the same. I would recommend it to older girls, who are girly girls.


By Matilda Martin

Bloodline

Bloodline is a good book based in the years when England was still in seperate Kingdoms and is about a boy who is the son of a travler. When the kingdom they live in is unxder attact and Essa has to stop it!

  It is good for ages above 5 I would say and for both genders.

The Resistance by Gemma Malley

     If you are planning to read The Declaration do not read this post.

     After the death of Anna's parents she and her baby Ben become legal, through the life for a life law, soon after that they discover that Anna's rescuer, Peter mother has killed his Farther. They are now all no longer surpluses but Legals, Anna and Peter immediately join the Underground who fight the use of Longevity saying it's unnatural. The Underground is led by a mysterious man named Pip who is very paranoid about being found by the Authorities.

2140 Britain is not a democracy, it is run by the Civil Service, called "The Authorities".

Peter's Grandfather as they soon dicover is the head of the worlds biggest Longetivity company called Pincet Pharma. The Underground learning this tell Peter to accept the job that is offerd to him, to get an inside view of Pincet Pharma. Peter discovers that somthing dark is going on in the heart of Pincet Pharma, can he find it and stop it before it's too late?

CH

Finding Violet Park

The main character is 15,he has a single mum called Nick and his Dad has ran away and nobodys has seen him since.He has a younger brother Jed and an older sister Mercy.
He need a cab and he meets a lady called Violet Park, she is dead in an urn.The boy thought she was trying to talk to him.
He brings her back to his Grannys house and finds out some stuff about her, he thinks his dad and Violet have a sort of similarity.
I think it is a mysterious book that is good when you know whats going on.
I recommend this book to boys and girls from ages 10+

hj

Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham

The Day of the Triffids' main characters are a man called Bill, a woman named Josella and a girl called Susan.  The story is set in London.  There is a meteor strike which the whole world steps out of their house to watch which turns these triffids (a normal plant) into man eaters and the entire world blind.  There were a few people who did not see the meteor shower and they retained their sight; some of these were Bill, Josella and Susan.
The story is about how these three individuals try to eliminate the triffids as well as getting on with their lives.
I think that the book is a reasonably good read.  I felt it was slow to get going but by the end all the pieces seem to come back together.  I am not usually a science-fiction reader and I felt it hard to picture the scene.  Most people of my age would like this book and as it is a unique idea I can see why it has sold so many copies over the years.
JH

hatchet by Gary Paulsen

The survival adventures of  Brian Robeson who is 13-years-old and he has to survive the Canadian wilderness alone with just a hatchet to start with. It all started when he is travelling to Canada from New York on a small plane as he was visiting his father since his parents have spilt up. something then happens to the pilot and he goes badly off course.
Through out this book it is just him, the hatchet and the Canadian Wilderness, you would be suprised with all the things you could do wirth a hatchet and a mother natures trash
I would recomend this book to anyone who likes survival.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWMfhEQsOsI&feature=related
:) wu

1984

1984, by George Orwell was published in 1948 and is about what Orwell thought the world would be like in 1984, thwe world is split into three continents. The main charachter lives in Oceana, where there is a dictatorship ruled by this worshipped figure called Big Brother, the head of the english socialism party usually just reffered to as the party. There is Doublethink, which is the ability to hold two contradicting thoughts, newspeak which is the language that the world uses which is basically a much more limeted version of english, which the party gives out to limit the thoughts of the proles which are the poor people that make up 80% of the population. There is also the thought police, which can read peoples thoughts by their faces and if any one has any thoughts against the party, they make them falsely confess and then brutally murder them. The whole world lives in fear. Winston is in his late thirties and works fore nthe party editing documents that say the wrong thing and make the party look wrong. He is using doublethink and loivers and hates the party. He then fi0nds a woman thsatc agrees with him and they love eachother and have an interesting relationship.

It is written really well and i would recomend it to someone like maybe kit.

The Decleration-Gemma Malley

Imagine a world where people live for ever, sounds good? Well its not, people can't have children and any children who are born are called Surpluses, they are taken to Surplus Halls they are like a cross between a prison and a orphanage. The story follows a surplus called Anna who was taken by the Surplus catchers at the age of two. The story takes up when Anna is fourteen and a Prefect at her Surplus Hall. A boy called Peter arrives who is the same age as her but he had grown up on the outside he had been taught to question longetivity (the drug that enables people to live forever). Soon peter hatches a plan to escape. Will they Escape or will they get caught by the Catchers?
CH

Bog Child

Bog child is a great book. I think that it conveys a great message of dealing with things and strength in human character and how everyone can get through anything if they keep their head high and carry on. Fergus (the main character) finds a dead body in the bog and it turns out that the body dates back to AD 80. Fergus keeps having dreams about this 'bog child' and the mystery of her death slowly unfolds to him. Her life corresponded very much with his in the hard time he has endured. This reminds me very much of 'Kit's Wilderness' in which Kit keeps having dreams ad illusions about a historic Ice Age character named 'Lak'.
This book is written with amazing skill and I could not re-write it if I tried. In my eyes, Bog Child is the best example of the saying 'Don't judge a book by it's cover'. When I first picked up bog child, I was quite
dis-hearted due to the boring, David Almond style of cover. ( A writer who I am not particulary fond of but can understand how one might enjoy his books). I would recommend this book to Charlie Henderson of all the people in year 8 but think that it is a classic and everyone, however old, should read it. I really enjoyed this book and hope you will too!


By Joe Ingram

The Hitch Hikers Guide to the galaxy

one day the earth is blown up to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and arthur dent survives he gets taken away by a man called ford they hitch hike on a space ship and they get discovered. They get thrown out the ship into space and just before they die another ship picks them up they visit a planet called Margarethean which has supposadley been dead for 5 million years, on this planet the make other planets and they made the original earth but they are not dead they are just sleeping and that they are planning to build a second earth.
i liked this book because there are scenes of suspenseand some scenes of action.
H.S
this book is written by Douglas Adams.

BLADE Playing Dead by Tim bowler

BLADE Playing Dead is about a 14 year old kid and as far as you know has no family.He speaks of how he has a dark past and wss known as blade.Blade has tried to escape his past by moving to the city where he lives in peoples houses when there away and stays in the shadows to stay out of trouble.At the beginning of the book he is aware of being followed and ends being beat up by a group of 16 year old girls.After this event he ends up being taken in by a simpathetic old woman. Blade notices things wrong about the house and eventualy the house is raided by a group of thugs.He runs of after hearing gunshots and hides in a house who's owners where o holiday.the next day he goes back to the hows fearful of discovering the worst buts finds something else. After this he is on the run from the thugs who where chasing him from his past with the girl who along with him had been accused of killing the dead girl found at the house.Blade decides to come out of hiding from his past (playing Dead) and to fight.The book is a sort of story set up and ends on a cliff hangar to leave the plots of the next books open.

The day of the triffids by john wyndham

This book is about a meteor strike that happens and turns triffids evil and man eaters.  also if that wasnty bad enough the meteor strike turned everyone who saw the meteors blind.  the story is about two people who were either sleeping (josella) or has his eyes wrapped in bandages due to a triffid sting (bill).
I thought that this book was quite good but i thought that it was quite slow. 

jh 

The Road of Bones

Anne Fine


This is a book for ages 11 up, boys and girls.
The book takes place during the Russian Revolution, a misarable time in their history.
The book is about a 12 year old boy named Yuri. Yuri lives with his Mum, Dad and Grandmother in a city.
It describes the unfairness and the brutality of Dictatorship. People are sat at home fearing that anything they say against the leaders will be heard by a neighbour and they will DISAPPEAR.
Yuri's school closes and he is forced to work at a building site, supllying bricks to a worker, it is a dangerous job and one day his best friend is killed by bricks falling on his head. Later when he is on a break they are joking about their leaders but Yuri took it too far he is fored to run away from the City and catches a train away. He stops at a cottage after stumbling across a man and pretends he was sent by the Commisar to fix the roof. He finds out there that people are treated just as badly in their province than he was in his. The old pairs grandson's village had been evcuated but he was left their whilst having a fit.
Yuri works on a farm afterwards, where there is lots of food but is caught by the police and is sentenced too 10 years hard labour. Yuri gets out of working in the mines (which are deadly) by telling a guard that he is a woodcutter. Yuri works as a woodsman for about two years, in which he longs to escape and taste freedom, however the prison is in the middle of knowhere and the watchtowers can see for miles.

Turbulence By Jan Mark

Turbulence is about a life of a typical teenage girl, but the said cannot be said for her family and friends. Clare, the main character is telling the story from her own view. She has watched a lot of Western with her Dad and a lot of Zombie Films with her Gran. her brother is just getting to the age where he just doesn't want to be around, taking drugs, and partying. Her little sister Rosie has had a reputation for stirring things up, and now she's really getting into it. When a new couple move in down the road, Mum invites them to diner and then very Lady on the block is charmed by this new man - Sandor. Then things get twisted, everybody is involved with the inevitable divorce of the new couple. Clare life is turned around, and Dad, her favourite person ever, gets cranky, well, it's like going the movies!!!

I would rate this book about 5/10 because the plot and story line doesn't really have any twists in it. at times it got a bit boring, but at times it was still a bit funny! I wouldn't recommend this as a casual book because it didn't really get me wanting to turn the page!

WOLF CRY

Wolf Cry by Julia Golding is a book about different tribes.

It is a book about The Vikings who live on Bjarkoy island and The Vikings who are planning to rebel against Harald. Sulke, the leader of the viking rebels has planned to attack Bjarkoy island while Othere, the leader of The Vikings of Bjarkoy island is away and has left his son Toki in command. The book is all about this fight between then which lasts a very long time and includes a few mishaps along the way.

I would definitely reccomend this book to everyone within the ages of 10-14.

Sam Crossman