The Sisters Brothers

It is 1851 in the Oregon territory, and Charlie and Eli Sisters, two mercenaries in the American Old West, are charged by a mysterious Commodore to find and kill a man called Herman Kermit Warm, for a secret formulae that allows one to find gold without digging. They travel all a cross the country, meeting dentists, witchs and other bizarre characters.

This book is a differing blend: alchemy, gunplay and cowboys. Sometimes it is a derivation of the old West, sometimes it is a parody of it. It is not always serious, but not always funny either.

Kiwi

Howls moving castle M.M

This book is interesting and odd, just like its chapter names. The story is about a young woman who works at a hat store, she recieved some disturbing news from the wrong sister, when she went back to the

Percy Jackson and Titans Curse by Rick Riordan

This is the third in the Percy Jackson series. In this book Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and Grover are sent to find two more demigod to bring them back to Camp Half Blood but in this mission the two demigods have already been found by Mr Thorn the Vice Principal of the school were the two new demigods are located. Unfortunately Mr Thorn manticore which is  a half scorpion, lion and human monster who  finds the demigods as they try to escape from the school and they wouldn't of escaped if it wasn't for the hunters, a group of girls let by the Goddess of the Moon and Hunting, Artemis.
Unfortunately during the battle with the manticore Annabeth is knocked of down a large cliff edge and thy all believe her to be dead.
So they return to Camp Half Blood with the hunters and the to new demigods, later the hunters reveal that they must go find Artemis and she is captured they chose a team of hunters, Thalia and Grover but they won't let Percy go as the Hunter believe that males are weaker that females. 
So Percy sneaks out at night to go catch up with those on the quest after having a dream where he sees Annabeth alive but in lots of pain. Percy uses a pegasus called Blackjack to fly and catch up with truck with those going on the quest.
As I don't want to give to much away and ruin the reading experience I won't tell you any more




















I really enjoyed this book I would rate it 7/10

Chris W

Exposure by Mal Peet

Exposure is a book about a football player called Ottelo who moves to south American club Rialto.
He meets the owner of the club Nestor Brabanta and in turn, meets the owners daughter, Desmerelda Brabanta, a pop-star, who he ends up marrying.Bush a young street kid, who cleans cars at the buisiness area, becomes good friends with Paul Faustino, a sports journalist, who often writes good things about Ottelo.Life isn't easy for Bush living in urban areas looking after his sister and Felicia, and trouble is never far away.
Its a great story line and it makes you realise how being famous isn't always easy, and being a poor homeless kid is no better. It also makes you realise how lucky we are to have a nice home and a mostly trouble-free ish life. I really liked the book and would give it an 8/10.
This wonderful book blog was written by Master Luke Arrowsmith.
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The Memory Keepers Daughter

The Memory Keepers Daughter, by Kim Edwards is a really good book. The book begins on a winters night in 1964. David Henry and his wife Norah are expecting a baby. But on this winters night, a blizzard strikes the town and David is forced to deliver his own twins ( he is a doctor). The first baby, a boy is born healthy and fine- but the second baby, a girl isnt. Leaving Norah in the room with her son David takes the baby girl and diagnoses her with Downs Syndrome. David grew up with a sister having this illness and she died aged 11. David doesn't want Norah to have to go through what he went through as a child, so gives the baby to the nearby nurse called Caroline Gill.  David tells her to take his daughter to this institution down the road, but when Caroline see's how horrible it is - she takes the baby and leaves. Meanwhile, David tells his wife that their daughter (Phoebe) has died.

Caroline has now taken Phoebe into her care. David has to live with this lie about their daughter, that she is alive and as well as she can be. Norah is confused and depressed for a while- she even has a funeral for Phoebe.
The rest of the book tells the story's of both Paul and Phoebe, and how they both lead such different lifestyles, not knowing anything about each other - or the real truth about their mother and father.
Phoebe believes Caroline to be her mum - and Paul lives his life knowing that his twin sister died at birth.
Caroline keeps in touch with David, telling him how she had to fight for Phoebe's education and other difficulties she's had to cope with caring for a handicapped child.

But one day, an unexpected death happens, and all the truth is uncovered........

I would give this book a 9/10
DH

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

This book is about black maids that raise white children, but are not trusted by their owners. It is set in Jackson,Mississippi, in 1962. A black maid- Aibileen is  raising her seventeenth white child called Mae Mobley . Aibileen had lost her son in a tragic death, he was crushed by a truck at his work.The hospital could do nothing for him, he died on the sofa at home. Aibileen worked for Elizabeth Leefolt who was expecting her second baby! Aibileen loved Mae Mobley, the one thing she kept telling Mae Mobley 'you is smart, you is kind, you is important.'  She says this to her because her mum does not think much of Mae Mobley. 
Minnie is another black maid. She is Aibileen's best friend. Minnie is a real character! At first she worked for Miss Hilly, who was president of the Jackson Junior League. Hilly was not kind to her black maids.She made all the white people build a separate toilet for their black maids.Hilly fired Minnie because she used the toilet that the white people use. Hilly loved Minnie's chocolate pie. So when Hilly fired Minnie, she  wanted to say sorry for what she had done, so she made Hilly a chocolate pie. The difference was that in this pie was Minnie's own poo! The reason Minnie did this was because she was mad at Hilly for firing her, and the whole point about the poo was because of the business about the black maids using a separate loo. This plays a significant part in the story. 
Miss Skeeter returns for college wanting to be a writer, she gets a job writing a cleaning advice column. But she asks Aibileen what the answers are because she has never cleaned before because she is white! Skeeter longs to be a proper writer. She decides to write a book about what it is like to be a black maid working for a white home. She asks for Aibileen's and Minnie's help, this is very dangerous because if they get caught they could be but in prison!
After Minnie gets fired she goes to work for Miss Celia, Miss Celia is from a poorer white family and therefore is rejected by the other white families. Minnie went to work for her because no other white woman would take her after what she did! Celia has had many miscarriages and has no children. 
Between them and the help of the other black maids, Skeeter publishes a book called 'The Help'. After this Skeeter gets a job writing in New York and she decides to go. Aibileen gets fired from her job because it was thought that she had stolen some sliver, which she hadn't! But Aibileen gets the job writing the cleaning column that Skeeter used to do. Skeeter writing this book really changed the way white people treated their black maids.


Great book and film. 10/10!! 


By M Donaldson

Life and Laughing - Micheal Mcintyre

Micheal Mcintyre's autobiography is really funny and made me laugh out loud, describing his life with its twists and turns, talking about how he came from a slightly poor family not being able to pay the bills and his ceiling falling down to selling just one ticket at the Edinbrough festival to becoming the funniest English comedian selling half a million tickets for his tour .
this is a really funny book, where he uses real life situations and makes them  really funny.
8/10  SS

Wonder

This book is about a boy named August, who is nick named Augie. He has a problem with his face which he was born with and it is largely disfigured. He has lived his whole life as someone who kids stare at and  think of him as a freak. Auggie for the first time in his life is being sent to school, he doesn't look forward to it because he knows that he will be bullied at school. He lives with his very loving parents and older sister Via. August knows everyone stares at him and talks about him behind his back but he pretends not to notice so they dont feel bad about him noticing. The time he experiences at school is tough, especially with a boy in the year called Julian, who decides to turn the year group against him and the other boy Jack who hangs out with Auggie, including making a game called the Plague. The Plague is if  you touch August you have 10 seconds to wash your hands before you catch it. In the end August makes really good friends and loves his school. This is a very sad book as well as being happy. Don't judge a boy by his face just like you don't judge a book by its cover.             9/10    Otty M   

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

This story portrays the tale of two men who have lived, worked and travelled together for the best part of their lifetimes attempting to find work in an unforgiving work environment.

The two main characters are George, a skinny black man and Lennie, a large and strong, dim-witted, man. George has been looking after Lennie for as long as he can remember and they both have the dream house that they will (want to) get one day.

Unfortunately due to circumstances caused by Lennie and his craze to pet beautiful things they were kicked out of their last job and were being searched for for a while but they eventually escaped.

So, they go to a new ranch to find work to "buck barley" and find themselves in favour of the men at the ranch. Although, the Boss' son, Curley, sees a weakness on Lennie and thinks that he can take him on. As this conflict progresses through the book Curley bites off more than he can chew with Lennie.

Lennie's extreme strength becomes more and more of a leading role in the storyline and by the end it causes a series of unfortunate events.




Excellent read 9/10 !!
JF

The Killing - Robert Muchamore

Another stunning Cherub book. Containing violance and a tuck load of action. This time, James goes on a mission with an ex cherub member called Dave. Dave is acting as his older brother going by the surname of 'Holmes'. Their mission is to befriend Leon Tarasov's children. Tarasov has been suspected of stealing cars and selling them second hand to earn money. Everyone was surprised when he earned money to pay off loans and tax because he was poor.

Will James and Dave find the secret to Leon's helping of money or will their mission be a failour. Read it too find out.


I liked this book and would give it a 8/10
Defiantly worth the read though

JH

Dead Ball

Dead ball is the second book in the foul play series by Tom palmer. It's about q boy called Danny who is a very fanatic football supporter, the England football team are Playing a world cup qualifier against Russia in moscow. England's star goalkeeper has a weird and suspicious accident. Danny knows that something far more interesting is about to kick-off. A determined russsian billionaire has a close eye on the match, his country will win the qualifier, no matter what the cost. In order to stop this Danny has to go to
Moscow to do it.
I found this book very fast-paced and exiting to read.
I would rate it 9/10.

CJC

The Prisoner

The prisoner is the fifth book in the Henderson's Boys series it is about an agent called Marc Kilgour who works for Henderson's boys aka cherub. The book starts with mark in a labour camp deep in Germany around Frankfurt after him being caught on his last mission. Marc enlists the help of his other prisoners to escape from the camp. Marc meticulously  plans his escape and is finally ready but will all that detail get him safe home and if he does make it to France a daring mission essential to the war effort awaits him there. Will Marc make it home to his friends or will he die trying.

I would give this book a 10/10 this is a white knuckle roller coaster ride and every moment of the book is filled with apprehension or bloody scenes of action.
S.H.