Review by Daniel: This book is about a girl called Moll, a mysterious person called Skull and Moll’s wild cat Gruff. Moll woke up one night in her camp as she heard drums and rattles and calling. The dream snatch had started… Moll was the most important person in the Ancientwood even though she didn’t know it! One night she was caught by Skull’s henchmen and was locked in a cage because she couldn’t give them dark magic. She tried to es...

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SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this book review until you have read all the other Alex Riders Books! Alex Rider has moved to San Francisco following the death of his guardian Jack Starbright. But is she really dead? When one day he received a three word long email, he realises that Jack is alive. The email is: ‘Alexx I’m Al’ Alex is due to go on holiday soon but he tells his new guardians (his best friend’s parents) that he is going to stay a...

This book is about a girl called Meg. Even though the title of the books makes it sound like a non-fiction book, it is a wonderfully written, emotional story. Meg has a big problem in this book! Her mum disappears on a ten day holiday to Mayanmar and Meg is left with her Granddad, to look after her baby sister Elsa and her smelly dog Pongo. However, it’s more like she has to look after Granddad, rather than him looking after her! Her mum’s di...

  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his job, so he goes to see his best friends, Artie and Holly, who make him feel better with some old skool music and out of date buns from Artie’s dad’s bakery. When Spike gets home, he tells his ...

This book is about a boy called William and his dad, Bob Trundle and a very special Christmas dinosaur. William LOVES dinosaurs – he has dinosaur pyjamas, dinosaur socks, a dinosaur toothbrush, dinosaur wallpaper, two dinosaur posters, a dinosaur lampshade and lots and lots of dinosaur toys. However, all William wants for Christmas is a REAL dinosaur, even though he knows that it is impossible! Meanwhile in the North Pole, something magical is ...

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Bubble boy is an emotional debut novel about a boy called Joe. He is 11 years old and lives in an isolated room on the 12th floor of a hospital. This is because he has a disease called SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency) which means he can’t fight off diseases as well as other people. This is because he doesn’t have enough white blood cells or a strong immune system. This makes his life miserable until someone new enters it… I really li...

This book is about a boy called Jatinder, who likes football. At the beginning, he is on a camp and is playing a match. He gets a penalty but misses and is really angry with himself. On his way home he sees a man who is a Sikh like him and then he disappears. He tells Esther, one of the owners of the house he is in, about him and she shows him a book about the first Sikh pilot. That night, whilst reading the book, he sees the man in his room. The...

Albert Chaudhury is 12 and has received a letter from his dad; his dead dad. He has to break into his old house to get a second letter. This letter tells him how to time travel back to 1984 to prevent his father’s tragic death in a go-kart accident. He has to do all of this whilst trying not to lose his precious hamster Alan Shearer and keeping it a secret from his granddad Byron, his mum, step-dad Steve and step-sister Carly. Can he time trave...

This book is about a boy called Joe, his mum and his best friend Ajay. Joe’s mum was the park warden and one day when Ajay came round for breakfast, some post came through the door saying…  THE PARK WAS CLOSING DOWN! So when the Prime Minister came to Joe’s town, Joe gave him a piece of his mind as his mum was going to lose her job. However, the press recorded his whole argument and put it on TV and Joe became very famous; sooooooooooo...

This is the abridged version of my book review! 🙂 In the far future there is an alien called Humphree and his best friend Cosmoe the Earth-Boy. Humphree and Cosmoe are making a mega weiner which is the size of a jeep. They have made it for the Intragalactic Food Truck Cook-OFF which is a festival where everyone makes something to eat the QUEEN will judge it. It is a large competition but Cosmoe thinks he will still win it with his wiener…...

The Tapper Twins go to war
Uncategorised / 17th November 2014

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...

Atticus Claw Breaks the Law
Uncategorised / 3rd November 2014

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 ...

Timmy Failure – Now Look what you’ve done
Uncategorised / 3rd November 2014

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...

Listen to the Moon
Alexander's Top 10 , Uncategorised / 14th October 2014

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...

Secrets according to Humphrey
Uncategorised / 2nd October 2014

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...

Woozy the Wizard
Daniel's Top 10 , Uncategorised / 19th August 2014

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...

Precious and the Monkeys
Uncategorised / 8th August 2014

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...

Timmy Failure – We meet again by Stephen Pastis
Uncategorised / 4th August 2014

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...

The Grunts in Trouble
Uncategorised / 17th July 2014

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...

Stig of the Dump
Uncategorised / 17th July 2014

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...