Title: The Tapper Twins go to war Author: Geoff Rodkey This book is about twins called Reece and Claudia who go to war with each other. It all starts off with Claudia eating Reece’s toaster pastry so at school Reece gets her back by saying she farted! The war escalates from here and they do horrible things to each other. The book is made up of emails, texts and side notes written by Claudia, her brother, her family, her friends and he...
Title: Atticus Claw breaks the law Author: Jennifer Gray Atticus is the greatest cat burglar in the continent, maybe even the world and he lives in Monte Carlo. He is hired by Jimmy Magpie, a malevolent magpie, to come to England and steal all the jewels in Littleton-On-Sea at the antiques fair. So Atticus goes over to Littleton-On-Sea and this is where his mission starts. When he gets there, he meets a family called the Cheddar family ...
Title: Timmy Failure – Now Look what you’ve done Author: Stephen Pastis This book is about a boy called Timmy Failure who is a detective and is about to solve the biggest case in the world! It is a competition to find a globe. Timmy’s motto is that he is the “president of the greatest detective agency in the state, perhaps the nation!” You can only find out if he is the best detective by reading the book to find out if he crac...
Title: Listen to the Moon Author: Michael Morpurgo “A very good factual, emotional and exciting book” said The Alexander Times. “The best book I have ever read” said Alexander himself. The story is set in the middle of WW1. Merry, a 12 year old girl from America receives a letter from her father who is fighting in it. In the letter he said that he was injured so Merry and her Mum get on the deadly Lusitania to Britain. When they...
Title: Secrets according to Humphrey Author: Betty G. Birney ‘Sometimes you have to look-look-look to find the perfect book’ and this definitely was! Humphrey is a hamster who lives in room 26 of Longfellow School. He is a mischievous and adventurous hamster who has ‘a lock-that-doesn’t lock’ on his cage which is how he goes on his adventures around the school. In this book we learn all about Egypt and lots of secrets likes cl...
Title: Woozy the Wizard Author: Elli Woolard & Al Murphy This book is about a wizard called Woozy. All the village are ill because they have a bug and Woozy needs to help. So, Woozy helps by: Making them socks Making them stew And tucking them up in bed Furthermore as his magic never works, he thought he didn’t help! But why didn’t the magic work? You need to read to find out! I like the book because it’s hilarious, easy to re...
Title: Precious and the Monkeys Author: Alexander McCall Smith Alexander McCall Smith is one of my favourite authors and I have read quite a few books written by him. Out of all his books this is my favourite. This is the first book in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency and is all about Precious’s first case and it was at her school. Somebody had broken rule number 1 – “Don’t help yourself to other people’s things!” Preciou...
Title: Timmy Failure – We meet again by Stephen Pastis This is the third book in the series. The main character is Failure, Timmy FAILURE! He is a detective but because he knows absolutely nothing he is a very bad detective. Timmy has a case to solve, a case from Angel de Manzana Naranja which is to find… THE MIRACLE REPORT! The miracle report was written by Tracy Miracle and had an A+++++ (mainly because her parents had a safari pa...
Title: The Grunts in Trouble Author: Philip Ardagh The main characters are Mr and Mrs Grunt and Sunny. Mr and Mrs Grunt are not ordinary people; they don’t live in a house, they live in an unordinary caravan! They have a son called Sunny (who is not really their son because they stole him from a washing line!). His ears are wonky because he had been on the washing line for so long! In the story, Mimi the boot boy (who is really a girl...
Title: Stig of the Dump Author: Clive King There was a boy who was told not to go near the chalk pit (the dump) but it was a grey day where you couldn’t go anywhere and you couldn’t do anything but go to the chalk pit. So Barney went to play near the chalk pit. He was told not to go near it because at the edge of the chalk pit the ground crumbles when you stand on it and you fall. Well, Barney did just that, fell, summersaulted, got...