The secret life of bees

The secret life of bees by Sue Monk Kidd.
This book is about a teenager called Lily who is fourteen believing she had killed her mother. She is trying to figure out what happened she thought she killed her mother in a car accident then her father(T-Ray) tells her, that her mother left them she just dosen't know what to belive. When her father went outside she ran upstairs, went into the attic and found this old shoe box inside was two pictures and a pair of glovees, they were her mothers. She took them, knowing her father would realise they were gone so she dicided to hide them out in the woods so late on night she ran into the woods, dug a hole shallow enough so she could go out every night after her father went to bed and jusst think of her mother. One night when she went outside she fell asleep and her father found her, he took her back inside and her father was so angery he smashed up glass, put it on the floor and made Lily neel on it for hours.
Lily only has two friends a black servant called Rosaleen who her father hates and a bunch of bees. The reasonwhy the books called what it is, is because she is the only one who gets to see the bees, at night they are their and in the morning they are gone.

It was Lilys Birthday so Rosaleen dicided to take her to the shops, soon later Rosaleen gets caught for shoplifting and they both get ended up in a cell. Lily's fatherbails her out and leaves Rosaleen knowing whats going to happen to her.

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Soon later Rosaleen gets on but her father dies. She and
Rosaleen start traveling to virgina but the can't afford a train ticket,
they end living with a living famity when something terrible happens.

On the cover it says its a 'Number One Bestseller' and I can see why.

H. Browne

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The 39 steps

The 39 steps is a thrilling detective plot based around a man called Hannay who gets sucked into a plot to steal top sectret miltary tactics to help the germans when war breaks out and attemps to stop it. It starts of with an american begging for help. Who has a pocket book with lots of mysteries in which help him end the plot for the infomation.It also envolves high speed races which just increases the drama. This book can be good for all ages above 7 and for boys and girls

Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines is set several millennia in the future in a time called the "Traction Era".The world was ripped apart after something called the "Sixty Minute War" which was some sort of nuclear war. All settlements are moving but they do more than that, villages are eaten by towns, towns are eaten by larger towns and the larger towns are eaten by cities. The main character, Tom, is a third class apprentice for the Historians of London, and his life is about to change completely. Onee day, after London has made it's first catch in decades he has to go on gut duty to find any Historical artifacts from the eaten town, for example "Old Tech" meaning our technology because as far as I can tell all our technology was lost after the "Sixty Minute War",And his supervisor is his hero Valentine, the head historian of London who is said to have been on many adventures and found many wonderful things.When they are looking for artifacts they run into some people who lived on the town and one of them attempts to stab Valentine, She only fails because Tom stops her just in time. She flees and Tom chases her through the gut and in the end she faces him and Tom finds out her name is Hester Shaw, and then she jumps off London into the "Out Country" (which is the dried up bed of the North Sea. When Valentine catches up and learns that Tom knows who the girl was he pushes him off too. But Neither Tom nor Hester die and the book is about them trying to get back to London and Tom helping Hester with her problems. Meanwhile the Mayor of London has big plans, very big, which in an ancient "Sixty Minute War" weapon called MEDUSA and the last static settlements on earth. It is an absolute MUST READ and is impossible to find boring due to the fast plot development. I would recommend it to ages 10 and think it is one of the most ingenius story lines ever.

By Kit Livsey

GUANTANAMO BOY Book review

Amazing. I was glued to this book although a bit slow getting going it soon picked up the pace. Very interesting in that it makes you think about the goings on described in the book.  It could be true or a pack of lies. I say this because Guantanamo Bay is real and was used as a prison. The things that they did to the prisoners could be true or false. The book's blurb is very powerful - "Innocent until proven guilty? Not here you're not".  This again could be true or false. Khalid is the main character and is brilliantly described by the author, so much so you feel like you are there with him. The book describes everything very well. So you really get a sense of the people and the place. I found it really interesting because he grows up during the course of the book. His description of the soldiers is sometimes comical. This book is a great read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I would reccomend to 11+ because of  the content. It left me feeling quite humble.





                                                                       

The Lost World - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Lost World is quite an old fashioned book, written in the 1900's. The story starts with Edward Malone trying to charm his friend Gladys in to dating him, but she tells him that he's a very decent chap but lacks any excitement.
Edward works for the "Daily Gazette" newspaper as a journalist and his boss, Mr. McArdle, asks him to find out about Professor Challenger, a zoologist, known for his violence and lying. Edward rises to the challenge. He attends one of Prof. Challengers lectures and ends up being selected to go on a trip with him to the Amazon along with Lord John Roxton, a very athletic man.
After a number of meetings, Prof.Challenger, Prof.Summerlee, Lord Roxton and Edward set off on a liner to Brazil. They travel by canoe through the jungle and have many adventures. Their aim is to reach the plateau, which is difficult but they manage to do so by climing a pinnacle and felling a tree. However, one of the helpers then dislodges the tree and they are stranded!
They have many adventures on the plateau, running away from enormous Iguanadoms(dinosaurs), attacked by pterodactyls and chased by half humans! The plateau is also home to a volcano. They all find this very exciting because they are explorers, but they come close to death on many occasions.They discover a number of new animals and Edward keeps a diary. Their aim now is to escape from the plateau alive and show the evidence of the creatures they have found to the other Professors. They ape men help them escape from one of their caves.
They return as heroes and Professor Challenger gives a lecture on their findings. At first no one is convinced of their findings but then Edward produces a pterodactyl which he captured from the Lost World and everyone cheers!

Edward rushes to see Gladys, but she is now married to a boring man. The story ends with the four explorers having dinner and Lord Roxton produces a valuable diamond which he found in the volcano. They have dicovered a massive fortune, which only the four of them know about.
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Once - Morris Gleitzman

Once is about an orphan who gets given a whole carrot and thinks that its sign that his parents are coming back because aren't dead just Jews. Its not so he leaves to try and find his parents.
He saves a girl called Zelda from a burning house on his way.
They -Felix and Zelda- see a big group of people walking to the city and they get captured and told to walk with them.
when they get to the city they escape with a man called Barney.
They get to a cellar where there are them and about six oter kids.
One day Felix sees Barney going out of the cellar and asks to go to so he can try and find his parents.
It turns out Barney is a dentist.
Zelda gets ill and so Felix g to find asprin. When the Germans find the cellar.
They get taken to a train station to go to a death camp do they escape or not??????