Title: Who Let the Gods Out Author: Maz Evans This book is about a boy called Elliot and his mum Josie; together they live at Home Farm. This story begins when Josie starts to lose her memory. One night a big ball crashes into their shed. Elliot goes to their shed to find a girl who calls herself Virgo and says she is immortal. He invites her into his house. The next day he tries to bring Virgo to the police station as he thinks she is ...
Title: The Dragon with a Chocolate Heart Author: Stephanie Burgis Aventurine is a dragon but she is not any old dragon, she is a ferocious and fearless dragon. In fact, the fiercest dragon ever but she is not old enough to leave her cave. One day, she decides to leave her cave in secret to try to prove her family wrong but it doesn’t go to plan! First, she can’t find any humans to eat and then when she does, the human gives her some...
Title: Radio Boy Author: Christian O'Connell This book is about a boy called Spike who gets sacked from his favourite job, a radio presenter at his local hospital’s radio station, which is also the place where his mum works! Spike is 11 years old and he is really dejected about losing his job, so he goes to see his best friends, Artie and Holly, who make him feel better with some old skool music and out of date buns from A...
Title: Hilo: The Boy Who Crashed to Earth Author: Judd Winick This comic book is about a boy called Daniel but people call him DJ. One day, when he is in his garden, something falls down from the sky. He approaches it, he realises that it is a boy in silver underpants. DJ looks after the boy, who says his name is Hilo. Hilo can’t remember ANYTHING!! A few days later when Hilo and DJ are playing, they get attacked by a GIANT rob...
Title: The 78-Storey Treehouse Author: Andy Griffiths This book is about two boys called Andy and Terry who live in a treehouse and who write books together. This story starts when they want to make a film about a book they wrote, so, they hire Mr Bigshot to direct their movie. He thinks the movie is EXTREMELY bad! Later that day, Terry comes running past with his bum alight and jumps into their shark pool and electrocutes a sh...
Once upon a time, there was a man called Czar. The Czar was a great conqueror and everyone feared him. One day, when he was eating his breakfast, one of the people from his War Council came into the room to tell him the terrible news… that his son Prince Alexander had become a cat!!! This happened because of two people, Pieter Abadabacus, the tally master (the Czar’s mathmagician) and Teresa Gust, the Spice Monkey (the person who co...
Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Double Down Author: Jeff Kinney This book is about Greg. This story starts in Greg’s school. The school have a Talented and Gifted program for the clever kids. Greg’s mum wants him to join it but he didn’t do very well! So, she complained and then he was put in a group called Champ who had secret meetings on a Tuesday and Thursday. When he got there, he realised it was for people who can’t say their...
Title: Spy Toys Author: Mark Powers This book is about a toy called Dan. This story starts in the Snaztacular Ultrafun factory which is where toys with brains are made. On this particular day, the faulty alarm suddenly goes off and the big grabber picks Dan up and puts him in the Test Room. In the Test Room, there is a man in a white cloak who finds that Dan has a bad snuggle chip (brain) which means that Dan will become spare parts! Th...
Title: Good Dog McTavish Author: Meg Rosoff This book is about a dog and his family, the Peachys. It starts when Ma Peachy (who does ALL the jobs) goes on strike to do YOGA! So, the rest of the family have a family meeting and decide to get a dog from Cuddles Home for Unwanted Mutts (C.H.U.M). They look around the home and find McTavish and they decide to get him. This dog changes their life forever. But it is in a good way or a bad way...
Alexander’s review for Bubble Boy can found in the 2nd edition of Scoop Magazine. Scoop Magazine is a fantastic new magazine for children – check out their webpage here: http://www.scoopthemag.co.uk ...