Description: It is about a boy called Jack McKliney who has a problem, He is going to die in a few months. Jack needs to find seven magic loculi that, when combined, will have the power to cure him. The loculi's are hidden in the seven wonder's of the ancient world.

My favorite part: Was when he said
"I couldn't look at her, my blood was running cold." Because it really got me interested into what was going to happen next and putting me on a hook

I would tell the author to keep a better description to the characters.

Recommend: I would recommend this book to people who enjoy fantasy and mysterious books. Also to people who are fans of the author (Peter Lerangis)

The Hobbit is about a hobbit called Bilbo Baggins that is forced to leave on an adventure with 13 dwarves to reclaim their treasure and their homeland Erebor. Gandalf the Grey (he’s a wizard) chose Bilbo to go with the 13 dwarves because 13 is an unlucky number. The mere 14 of them were supposed to remove the vast and scary dragon, Smaug from under the mountain in order to get the Arkenstone (jewel of the dwarf king).

At this point I felt sorry for Bilbo to be forced to go with them because Bilbo is a home-loving Baggins who doesn’t like adventures at all! It takes Bilbo a long time to get use to the dwarves (Thorin, Dwalin, Balin, Gloin, Oin, Filli, Killi, Dori, Nori, Ori, Bifur, Bomfur, Bofur), the scary monsters (goblins, orcs, worgs, and trolls) and the elves. At the start all Bilbo did was getting them all nearly killed, but towards the end he began to be the one who saved all of them.

The journey was difficult and dangerous but somehow or other, the dwarves and Bilbo always seemed to wriggle out of all the dire situations. Bilbo is rather quick thinking, for instance, he told everyone to squeeze into barrels and float out of the elves’ dungeon. Through the adventures, Bilbo obtained two precious items – a special gold ring and a brilliant elven sword named Sting. The ring turns the wearer invisible while Sting turns blue when orgs and goblins are near. 

The near-death adventures, including the death of Smaug, led them to the final battle. The terrible Battle of the Five Armies, where five armies (orgs and goblins on one side while elves, dwarves and men are on the other) fought for three days. A most treacherous battle between the good and evil.

My favorite part was the Battle of the Five Armies because it was very descriptive. My favorite character from the book is Gandalf because he’s really funny. I would rate the book 4 and a half out of five. I would recommend this book highly to people who have good imagination or people who enjoys Percy Jackson’s series.  

(The movie)

The movie is different in some ways to the book but all in all I think that the movie is much better. It is also a lot longer because there are three three-hour ­­­movies. I rate all three equally awesome. There are super amazing characters like Legolas and Galadriel in the movie (although they did not appear in the book). It is also interesting how Bilbo in the movie is not ‘rotund’ (fat, round in the stomach). 

The movie is funnier because the way the director (Peter Jackson) did the movie, it made the dangerous situations quite funny but not overly funny like when the orgs threatened to rip Bilbo’s arms off. Another reason I like the movie better was that the Elves in Mirkwood was really cool at fighting and made the elf characters really clear just enough to make you wonder about them and suspect things. 

My favorite elf and character by far is Legolas Greenleaf (my sister and I had a big argument about his last name) because he is sooooo awesome like he can take out an entire row of orcs by hanging on to a hawk and running his double knives through them (a bit disgusting) and sacrificing his own sword for a dwarf. The Battle of the five Armies scene is also a lot bigger and makes you more on edge. My favourite part was from the part they (the dwarves) met the elves. I would rate the three movies 5 out of 5. Something else I would recommend is to read the book before watching the movies. Enjoy!

This is the last book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. The last Olympian is tragic but very captivating and intriguing. It is chock full of dramatic scenes like a roller coaster ride. All the battles rounded up to the Great War where the Titian Lord Kronos is attacking New York with the aid of a former friend Luke and a sea of mosters, in order to destroy Olympus. This is to avenge the Gods for having chopped him up and thrown him into the tartans pit of internal agony in the underworld. 

 

Early on, Luke had reluctantly gone on a repeated quest to steal a golden apple and ended with a scar thanks to the dragon in the garden. He felt resentful and angry towards all the Gods especially his father Hermes who was the one who assigned him his pitiful quest. Kronos then started appearing in his dreams and convinced Luke that the Gods where only using the half bloods to do their biddings. Luke was persuaded to help Kronos come back to life. Kronos took over Luke body and lead a sea of monsters to attack New York. Kronos then bathed Luke in the River Styx to make him immortal (except for his hand that remained mortal). 

 

Percy and Annabeth fought Kronos (who controlled Luke’s body) and were close to losing. Annabeth, who used to be Luke’s good friend, was able to convince Luke that Kronos was bad. It was too late for them. Luke knew the only way he could defeat Kronos was to kill himself by stabbing his hand and killing himself. It is so sad but Kronos was forced back in his pit of eternal agony and defeated (for the moment, monsters can’t die). However more than half the people were killed and most of the Empire State Building were destroyed. I felt really sorry for Luke because he made the wrong decision and he had to give his own life to the right thing.

 

My favorite part was when Percy was fighting Kronos in the building because the scenes were very creative and the author was able to make them most exciting. Rick Riordan writes in an interesting and exciting manner though he tends to over dramatize. I would recommend this series to people who like funny and adventurous stories. Someone who likes The Hobbit or Harry Potter should read this series if she wants a faster pace and lighter fun read. 

( I read it on the kindle)

This book is about a boy called Nolan who has a secret identity called Shredderman who saves the world from injustice. In this book there is someone that has been spraying dumb baby faces all over the city with red, purple, and blue spray paint. Shredderman and his sidekick, bouncer have to try to stop stop this person. He tries to keep his identity hidden. This book is about Shredderman trying to find out who the tagger is, and trying tp stop him with his massive trap. 

My favorite part is when He has to try to escape from the gardeners truck because it is really cool and funny at the same time.

Try to put more tension because it wasn't as tense as I thought it would be but it was still an OK amount of tenseness.

 I would recommend this book for kids 8-10 years old and also people that like a lot of action.

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This is a book which have lot's of different stories in it. My favourite one is about a girl who really wants to get a puppy, but her parents won't let her have one. When she goes to school she finds out that their is a pet club

Kathi Appelt

 Brilliant review because it really makes me want to read this book. I bet I would cry if I read it!

The story starts with a lonely calico cat left abandoned on the side of a road, with no food or water. This calico cat had wandered through trees, her swollen belly full of unborn kittens. At this point, I was already feeling rather sad. So if you’re like me, I would strongly suggest that you find a tissue, or a box, before you continue reading. Yes, this is a sad book that will definitely tug on your emotions. It will also make you think about love, courage and hard choices. Rather like the Harry Potter series but sadder. 

 

As the cat came to a clearing, she saw a house with a narrow gap underneath, and this is how she met Ranger the hound dog. Most cats hate dogs but the two most unlikely pair became very good friends. His owner chained Ranger to the house. The calico cat would bring food for Ranger every day. Though it wasn't quite enough, Ranger was very grateful.  

 

Ranger’s owner, Gar Face, was a cruel man. When he was young, he laced his mother’s birdbath with rat poison. For this his father out of rage slapped him of the cheek and then forth he could never again open and shut his mouth properly for his left cheek was misshaped and horrifying. People were wary of him. That’s why he was known as Gar Face. I find it nice how the author provided explanation of how Gar Face grew up to be so mean. His backstory made me slightly more sympathetic towards him. 

 

The calico cat gave birth to two kittens that they named Puck and Sabine. They live ‘underneath’ the house. Their mother and ‘father’, Ranger, always warned them - “Don’t go out of the underneath. You will be safe in the underneath.” But Puck is a very curious cat andhe leapt out of the underneath and pranced around.

 

At this point, I predicted that Puck would be caught and sure enough as he turned to go back in Gar Face snatched him up. With a furious screech, the calico cat threw herself at Gar Face and she and Puck was thrown in to a bag and then thrown in to the river. I think this is one of the most tragic part in this book. Puck survived but his mother died while trying to save her son. This is when your box of tissue will come in handy. 

 

The author has a sidetrack story running where Gar Face found a super massive, vast, humongous alligator, never been seen but known as the King Alligator. He was very determined to capture the infamous King Alligator and used Ranger as a bait. Puck and Sabine tracked Ranger down to save him. This is the most exciting scene. In short, this scene involved all of the above as well as a mystical Grandmother Moccasin who has lived for over a thousand years. This is a major turning point in the story where the path of Grandmother Moccasin crossed our three remaining heroes.

 

The story ended well because Grandmother Moccasin made a decision after her internal struggle and chose love over survival. She could see the strong love so clearly between the Ranger and the kittens. Grandmother Moccasin bit off the chain with her jaws and sacrificed herself to a worthy cause with the help of King Alligator. The three heroes survived but the story still ended on a sad note. Gar Face ironically, ended being lunch for the King Alligator instead of Ranger in the lake.

 

My favorite part was when Grandmother Moccasin chose to save Ranger because I think it was really good of her. And I like Sabine the most because she is really determined cat. It’s a really sad story but extremely well written. I enjoyed reading the book immensely, and I think Kathi Appelt was great at the heart-wrenching bits. She made you feel strongly for each of the character.  The lesson learnt was that love is more powerful than hunger, anger, and resentment. 

 

When I finished this book, I felt a mixture of strong emotions. I wondered whether Gar Face deserved his death. I have varying opinions on his death. On one hand I think that many animals and people would have benefitted from his death. On the other hand, however I think no one deserves that terrible death.

 

Love is an important theme in this book. It made most of the characters in ‘The Underneath’ do the brave things they did, and risk everything they had for it.

 

A must read for all. I would especially recommend this book to people who like unique and moving stories. I would rate the book 4.5 out of 5. 

He finds an old newspaper article in the attic about a girl called Susan James drowning at a place at Martha's Vineyard. When Derek finds it he keeps on asking his mom until his mom tells him and it was about a girl called Susan James who was babysitting Derek at the age of 2, and she brought Derek to the sea. But Derek walked towards the sea, and Susan James died saving Derek. But that was what mom was told. The actual reason comes up later in the story and I won't write it because it will spoil the book. He goes to Martha's vineyard later on in the story.

My favorite part was when Derek and his parents go to a restaurant and the chef is cooking and there is fire and Derek yells "FIRE!"

I don't have a least favourite part. 

I also don't have any advice to the author seeing that this is a pretty book.

I recommend this book to everybody/nobody specific

The story is set in America in the middle 1900’s, and the main character is a adventureous, mischevious and smart boy called Tom Sawyer. He is around ten or eleven, I’m guessing judging by his behaviour. 

The story opens by Tom’s aunt, Aunt Polly, asking Tom about some missing jam. Other than that, Tom Sawyer’s adventures include tricking his friends to trade things with him so that he let them do his whitewashing, which is basically putting a layer of paint on a fence.

The main part of the story is about Tom and his friends witnessing a murder that Injun Joe commited to Dr Robinson, then blamed it on Huff Potter. At that point, Tom and his friend, Huckleberry Finn, whose nickname is Huck, were horrified. They then made a blood oath to tell nobody then decided to go ‘pirating’ with another one of Tom’s friends, Joe Harper. When they finally decide to come back, they’re just in time for their own funeral! Soon after, they decide to tell everybody about who actually commited the murder. 

Not to spoil the story, the outline of all the other stories are going into a cave with Tom’s girlfriend, Becky Thatcher and going for a tresuare hunt, and the tresuare is in the hands on Injun Joe.

 

I like this book because it feels like to me that I have travelled to a totally, completely different time and place, and then I can find out what people are like and what they do at that place and time.

 

I recommend this book to naughty teenagers, because Tom does lots of thing that I think they will like, because it’s so ‘cool’, ‘rad’, and ‘bad’ (those are words I hear A LOT from teenagers). I also think it’s okay for adults, because it might give a memory of their own childhood.

 

My favourite part of the book is where they go “pirating” because there is lots of action and description on that part, and it’s very exciting.

 

I rate this book four out of five.

This is probably my favorite book that I have ever read because it is a very exciting and action packed book! I also like it because it has a lot of humor and the plot is incredible! it starts of with Jason not knowing who he is and is on a bus ride with his so called "best friend" and his so called "girl friend"  but Jason knows nothing about them and who they are. my favorite character is probably Leo because he is extremely funny and sarcastic, his powers are also really cool. The stories about these three characters trying to save Hera and defeat the earth goddess GAIA. But piper has her own secret mission to save her dad but to save him she has to give her friends in return.

(SPOILER ALERT!)
My favorite part of the book is probably when they are fighting the least powerful giant who is actually extremely strong! The part is really intense especially when Jason is going against him with no weapons and is able to summon a huge lightning bolt.

Maybe the author could work on his grammar and punctuation because I found around 4-5 mistakes but otherwise it is amazing!

I would recommend this book to kids 8-15 because it is not only a kiddy story it has a lot of action and adventure in it.

The first part explains how to make a flamethrower. To make it, the materials needed are: a pair of bellows, rope, a stick, a small container, a bamboo stick and very, very hot coal. To make, it, you first hollow out the insides of the bamboo stick and attach it with rope onto the pair of bellows, the wind-blowing bit of the bellow in the middle hollow part of the bamboo. Then, tie the regular stick onto the bamboo stick with rope and make sure that the regular stick is longer than the bamboo. Then, tie more rope to the far end of the regular stick, and tie the container onto more rope. Now, the container should be close up front to the bamboo. The last step is to put the very, very hot coal in the container. The container has to be open for the flamethrower to work. When you’ve done all that, pump the bellows. The air will go to the very, very hot coal and fire will come out!

The second part tells the story about the horse of Troy. In the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, the Greeks were making a plan to ambush Troy. They couldn’t think of anything until Odysseus thought of an idea. They built a massive wooden horse and loaded the inside with soldiers. They pushed the horse (which had wheels, of course) to the outside of the Greek walls. The Greeks thought it was a present, so they brought it into the city. When inside, the soldiers poured out of the wooden horse at night and attacked the Greeks. 

The last part is the story about Cronos, the head god and his babies. At the start, Mrs. Cronos had a baby. Cronos was afraid that the baby would overthrow him, so he ate the baby. After that he ate baby after baby until the last one, Zeus. Mrs. Cronos wrapped a rock in Zeus’ cot. When Cronos ate the rock, he puked out all the babies he’d eaten (including the rock) and the babies overthrew him. The three main babies (now adults) were Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. Zeus ruled the sky, shooting lightning and flying on clouds. Poseidon ruled the oceans, whipping up massive waves and causing tsunamis. Hades ruled the underworld, casting zombies from the dead and poking live humans with his two-pronged fork (like a demon’s weapon, but with two horns, not three). 

A suggestions I would give to the author is to add more information about the other states, like the Romans and Trojans and Athenians. I recommend this book to people who liked history from a long time ago. I rate this book four and a quarter out of five.

This book is about a curious boy you wants to do everything in the world, when he was on the Ferris wheel in California,  he stared at the big black building. If you want to know how the story goes, you have to read to the end of this book.

My favorite part of this book is when the two boys dress up weirdly, so their mums and dads don't spot them, walking around places by them selves.

I would like the author to wright more in this book because, I think it is really interesting how the boy likes to go around the world.

I would recommend this book on people who love mystery books.

 

My favourite part of the book is when Jack, Goldilocks, the Huntsman and the Huntswoman are all fighting in the Evil Queens castle. I like that part because it puts everything so interesting and detailed it seems almost real.

 

I like this book because of the realistic-fantasy, which is like a fantasy, but if you look deeper it has some realistic elements, for example in the part Alex had to climb Rapunzel’s tower. It means that Alex is accomplishing something she never did before. I also like it because it’s funny and I like the characters.

 

The advice I give to the author is to give more description about the non-main characters. 

 

I recommend this book to people who like fantasy or fairy tales.

 

I rate this book five out of five.

 

 The main characters in this book are: Alice, the Queen of Hearts, the King of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat, the White Rabbit and Gryphon. All of them are crazy except for Alice. 

I liked this story because I found out that the book is very linked with the game of chess, for example the Queen of Hearts and the Queen in chess: the Queen of Hearts is the queen and can go anywhere, same for the Queen in chess, she can go anywhere on the board. The Queen of Hearts is the most powerful character in the story, and the Queen is the strongest piece in chess. The King of Hearts and the King: The King of Hearts isn’t as powerful as the Queen of Hearts, but is also kind of strong. Although he isn’t the strongest, he is the most important out of them all, same for the King in Chess and so on.

I liked all the parts of this book except the end, because I don’t like when I read a whole book and realize all the adventures and excitements are all fake, and just a dream. I think it makes the book more boring, knowing everything that happened isn’t real and therefore never actually happened. 

I recommend this book to people whom like crazy worlds and talking animals.

I rate this book four out of five.

 

My favorite part of the story was the cross-country race, because there was a lot of dialogue and emotions (e.g. hesitation) and I liked that.

 

I like this book because it relates to a rich kid’s real life, and explains all the details of being a rich kid in the modern days. 

 

I recommend this book for people who like exciting and realistic-fiction stories or for people who like stories about rich people’s lives.

 

I rate this book four and a half.