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Counting by Sevens (Front Cover)

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Book Review: Counting by Sevens

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Hitler's Daughter

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Looking for Alibrandi

The book Looking for Alibrandi is about 17-year-old Josephine Alibrandi. Josie lives with her mother in the outer suburbs of Sydeny, and it is her last year of high school.

I really enjoyed the book. The way the book finishes it is a bit sudden.  After I had read it I had so many questions. Like reality some times there isn’t a happy ever after and this time there wasn’t one.

There are moments in the book that are sad and happy Josie goes though so much that leaves her frustrated and sad that in the end leaves her wondering.

The book is also a children’s classic.

I give this book 5 stars!!

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Shani Siregar

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This is my book review for WONDER!!

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This is my review on Uglies

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This is the 6th book from one of my favorite authors.

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Stonebird by Mike Revell (:

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Once ~ A good book. An easy read but still good 😀

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You will love this book

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The Illuminae Files _01 by Grace Foa 7C2. This is the best book I have ever read! :-)

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B

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The Witch in the Lake
by Anna Fienberg

In this book many different emotions were portrayed through the actions of Leo and Merilee, the main actors. The main plot happened around a lake and Leo was the saviour. he was born with what was called the twin signs and was a pure wizard. His fate was destined for him because of his past, and his fiery desire for peace and justice. I won't spoil it but Leo took a dangerous path and fought with the evil witch who fed on sorrow and despair. His caring heart and brave nature helped him and he lived to have a joyful marriage with Merilee. Though his and Merilee's past were very topsy-turvy and sorrowful, the couple promised to set justice and continue there lives in peace. This story moved me emotionally because of its clever use of language and the way the actors\characters portrayed emotions.

Throughout my read I could not put the book down and (I'm speaking to the teachers) I probably read throughout the session irrespectively! Anna Fienberg can portray feelings very well through the actions of characters that are main or just fill in. She can also describe scenes that relate to people and make them emotional. I really liked the book prom the prospect that it had an enjoyable storyline and kept you on your toes.
reading this book made me wonder what eara the story was in and if there was gender equality a
I rate this book 4.5 stars!!!!

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Charlotte Cavagna

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Title- paper towns

Author-john green

Illustrator- not needed

The text was about this 17 year old teenage boy named Quentin, who immersed himself in his studies at all times, until one night. When his long time crush had chosen him as the company she would have while doing bad deeds. The young girl’s name was Margo Roth Spiegelman.

They day after the wrongdoing Margo went missing,her parents were not worried at all for Margo Roth Spiegelman had run away to circuses and had tea with a rock and roll band. Quinten was the complete opposite of the parents, he search for clues in her room, door, hiding places and even in the suntrust building. After finding out she was in a paper town called Agloe, he used his mum’s minivan and went on a road trip with his two best friends Rader, whose parents owned the largest collection of black santas, Ben starling, the little one of the group who is kind of a weirdo and obsessed with Prom [formal] and finally Lacey Pemberton,  Margo's best friend since 1st grade.When they have reached agloe Margo is not there so they wait and wait and wait and wait, after about 8 hours the three friends are tired and want to leave, but Quentin is certain that Margo will come. The friend leave and Quinten catches a ride to the nearest town, he buys a ticket for the bus back to Orlando when suddenly he sees and fast moving image. With his last bit of hope he follows the object, unsure he shouts out the name, the object stops and turns around, it is her, all of his hope and dreams had been refilled. After an explanation of why she left, Quentin asked if she wanted to come home, Margo had rejected to the reason of “ i need to live in a paper town for a paper girl.” After that he leaves and joins his friends back Orlando.

I loved the mystery and hope that the characters betrayed, there was love and humour in the story. I laughed at time and i felf grief t times but that is what the book is supposed to do because Humans read book to go to other worlds, and puts ou into other peoples shoes.that is what this book has done to me, it made me imagine.

Reading this book made me wonder why any one is silly enough to run away rom home, i know John Green used it as a symbol of rebellion and misbehaviour, but incase anybody idolises this fictional character, it teaches them wrong.

My Overall thought on the book was that it was a typical John Green book, false teenage love. I can’t say that i didn’t like but i cannot say that i loved it either, compared to other books that i have read it is in the midrange, if going in the order of 10-awesome and 1-blah.

This book gets 2 and a half stars out of five.

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TKAM REVIEW

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Thea Rozsa

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Book Review

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Title: The fault in our stars.
Author: John Green

The book was about?

A girl, Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16 year old with thyroid cancer, that she has had since she was 13, has spread to her lungs, and a boy by the name of Augustus Waters who has Osteosarcoma, which caused him to loose his right leg which was replaced with a prosthetic.

Reading this book made me wonder about?

What it would be like to have cancer, how hard it must be to deal with it all especially with Hazel’s thyroid cancer to do with how sometimes her lungs fill up with water and she can’t breathe, and with Gus’s Osteosarcoma what it would be like to have a prosthetic leg and would be harder to move around with it.

I loved?

I loved the story of Hazel and Gus it gets sad at some points but I still think its a great book. Hazel and Gus’s journey to Amsterdam was one of my favourite part of the book mostly at Hazel’s favourite authors house where she meets Peter Van Houten and his assistant Lidewij.

Overall this book was?

Overall it was amazing, I thought every part was great like how they all go to support group and share their stories to each other. I thought when they went to the Ann Frank house it was really sad because of Hazel’s struggle climbing up.

I give this book 4 stars

Book review by…
Issey 7C3

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My book report on Girl on the train

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TITLE: The Hunger Games
AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins
THIS BOOK WAS ABOUT: This book was about a 16 year old girl called Katniss Everdeen. Each year there was a thing called The Hunger Games where 1 girl and 1 boy from 12 year olds to 18 year olds represent each district to go into the games. In each district, they choose the people by putting names of girls into a glass ball and the boys in another. There were 12 districts and Katniss was in district 12. One year, Katniss’ 12 year old sister, Prim got picked out of the ball. Katniss volunteered to go instead of her.
The Hunger Games is where there are 24 tributes, who fight to live. They kill each other until there is only one person alive, and that’s the winner. Katniss met Peeta, the boy from her district that got picked, and in one of the interviews Peeta tells everyone he likes Katniss.
When they go into the games, a first they’re on their own when an announcement says that this year 2 people from the same district can win, so Katniss went to find Peeta to protect him. They help each other through everything but at the very end when there was only the two of them left, the announcement said that there could only be one winner and they had tricked them. They decided to get a few poisonous berries that could kill them immediately. They were about to eat it when the announcement told them to stop and then they were the winners!
There are 2 more books in the series after this one. Read them too because they’re all really good.
I LOVED: I loved how there were lots of twists in the book like where for a second Peeta and Katniss didn’t know each other and the next second they’re heling each other like they’re best friends. The book is really exciting and you never know what’s going to happen next.
READING THIS BOOK MADE ME WONDER ABOUT: Reading this book made me wonder about why there was such things as The Hunger Games: killing children and making their families really miserable. It’s really evil how 23 kids get killed every year (Apart from that year where 22 kids died instead). I wouldn’t want to live in that world.
OVERALL: I really enjoyed this book and recommend it to everyone. If you do read it, I recommend the next two books of the series as well. They’re all really good.
I GIVE THE BOOK: I give the book 4 stars, and maybe even 4 ½ stars. It’s a really interesting and great book that I think you should all read.

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Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer…

‘I was sent here because of a boy, his name was Reeve Maxfield, I loved him and then he died. Almost a year passed and no one knew what to do with me.’

An emotionally fragile girl named Jamaica is sent to a therapeutic boarding school named The Wooden Barn where she is mysteriously chosen to be in a class named special topics in English. Here they study Sylvie Plath’s The Bell Jar and are given a journal which they must write in each night.

Each time Jamaica and her classmates write in their journals they are immersed in their memories and are transported to a miraculous world named Belzhar. Here they are no longer haunted by their past memories but they begin to tell their own stories. Not knowing what is going on Jamaica and her peers have weekly meetings about what is going on, eventually admitting their misfortunes to each other and acknowledging their grief. But there are many complications to these kids dreams. You can only experience things that have already happened, reliving your past until you can make the most of the situation. Along the way she makes great friends who have interesting stories that will intrigue you and leave you wanting to know more. Every time you turn the page your will be left with excitement, sadness and curiosity.

Overall this book was an exciting journey that left you wanting more, I fell in love with it as soon as I had read the first page. If you want to feel totally immersed by the complexity of a book you should definitely read Belzhar. I would give this book a 100% 5/5. This book will leave you speechless…

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Title: The Fault In Our Stars
Author: John Green
Book Review By: Lana Stajcic

“I fell in love the way you fall asleep, slowly, then all at once.”

The novel takes you on a rollercoaster, you laugh and then cry, question and then wonder.
Despite the cancer killing Hazel day by day, she manages to live her life like any other human being. Every day she goes to Cancer Kid Support Group, to make friends and hear other stories. Until mysterious Augustus comes along, Hazel’s story is rewritten.
Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and life will define her.

I’m truly in love with this story as it makes me fall in love with both Augustus and Hazel. It makes millions and millions of questions pop up in my head as I’m crying while reading. I’m asked to come up with one thing I love about the book, but I cant possibly do that. Every second is a new theme and thing to love. From when they get together to where they are just sitting on a plane looking at each other, there is too much to love.

Reading this book made me think about how important it is to love and enjoy what you've got. People should be grateful of their life. If you just take a moment and think about how hard it would be going through something like both Hazel and Augustus were, you would realise how perfect and amazing your life is. Enjoy what you have because there are people lacking all of that.

What will happen next? The book is very mysterious, yet funny and sad all at once. it is very hard to determine what will happen next as so much has happened already.

Overall the book is amazing and it was the first to make me cry. It gives me so many emotions and feelings. I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. It is my favourite and I will definitely read it a couple more times.

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Twilight – The first part of the twilight saga

Author: Stephenie Meyer

This book is about a girl named Bella who falls in love with a vampire and the problems she faces throughout. The thing is, vampires in twilight aren’t like the vampires we know. They don’t burn in sunlight, instead they shimmer like diamonds and they don’t sleep in coffins! They don’t sleep at all. Guess what? They don’t even have fangs!  I don’t know about you, but it’s surprising for me. There is a family of vampires called the Cullens. They don’t drink human blood, instead they drink animal blood and most of them have special powers. Bella loves Edward Cullen, a 17-year-old boy (vampire- about 100+ years old) who can read minds, except Bella’s. Bella has almost finished high school now, and she’s 18, which bothers her a lot since she’s older than Edward, in a way. So, she asks Edward to change her into a vampire so that they could live together forever, but Edward wants her to marry him first. I have given you an introduction, read on to find out if Bella ends up being a vampire or not! And why Edward can’t read her mind. By the way, read the book, it has way more information than the movie. I loved this book because the vampires are introduced in a different way and you can understand what Bella is thinking. When I read this book, I sometimes think what I would do if I was in Bella’s place. Overall I find this book very exciting and adventurous, so I give this book 4.5 stars!

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Harry Potter and the philosophers stone
author is J.K Rowling  illustrator: no need no pictures in the book

The novel Harry Potter and the philosophers stone, was based about a boy living with his uncle and aunt and his selfish cousin he was sent to them by a wizard from the wizard world Albus Dumbeldore the greatest wizard of all time. After Harry's parents died (in a car crash) he was moved to be taken care of THE DURSLEYS.......... ( aunt, uncle and cousin) but when Harry turned 11 he was told he was a wizard and that his aunt and uncle was lying about the death of his parents and his whole life his parents was actually killed by YOU-KNOW-WHO.  ( YOU will find out who he is if YOU READ THE BOOK don't you dare say you will just watch the movie to find out who killed them. I know you were thinking that, you have to READ the book first beforeyou watch the movie.) Harry has to defeat this person to save the wizard/witches world but first he has to find out who the person is by the help of his new friends Ron and Hermione. I loved the part when Harry found out who you- know-who is it was a really fun and interesting adventure.

While reading this book made me wonder what would have happened if you-know-who got the stone, and why you-know-who turned in to a evil wizard. And the other adventures  waiting to be read. I give this book a 5/5 because it was a fantastic and interesting book and I felt like I was with Harry the whole way through, it was one amazing book.