Title: Jumblecat Author: Archie Kimpton I liked this book as it was very exciting and funny! The story is about a boy called Billy Slipper who finds a cat called Jumblecat. Jumblecat isn’t an ordinary cat, he’s a jumbled up cat and has legs where his arms should be and arms where his head should be and he is really rude! Billy’s family isn’t a normal family: his mum is mean like his sister and she has very bad OCD and she also h...
Title: Algy’s Amazing Adventure in the Jungle Author: Kaye Umansky This book is about a boy called Alegernon (Algy). One day he was moving house and he kept on getting in the way of the removal men. Algy met a girl called Cherry. They went to play in Algy’s new shed. The door was shut so Algy kicked it open and when they got in they found a box. Algy tried to open the box but Algy broke the shed wall when he fell backwards. On the o...
Title: Saving Sophia Author: Fleur Hitchcock Even though I enjoy Fleur Hitchcock books, I just don’t think this book was right for me. I read half of it but found it was quite hard for me to understand. Perhaps if you are a bit older, (10-11 years of age) you might understand it a bit more than me. Don’t be put off by my review if you like Fleur Hitchcock books because you might enjoy it....
Title: The Yoghurt Plot Author: Fleur Hitchcock This book is about a boy called Bugg who has just moved house. He and his brother, Dilan have discovered a time travelling fridge!!!! It makes yoghurts which make you time travel when you eat them. They need to learn the rules of time travel because the first time they did it, they left gerbils behind (the gerbils belonged to a girl called Lorna who was with them) and then they left a plas...
Title: Boy in Tights Author: Kate Scott This book is about a boy (Joe) and his parents who are spies! One day they were spying and then they were in BIG DANGER! So Joe has to leave his old school and go to a new school and house. He has to be disguised as a girl so they don’t get caught by the person they were spying on. He made friends with a girl called Sam and they make a spy team. Using Joe’s parents spy gadgets they spy on thei...
Title: Nathalia Buttface Author: Nigel Smith This book is about a girl who has an embarrassing dad. I bet your dad is even more embarrassing than hers! NOT! Her name is Nathalia Bumole (pronounced bew-mow-lay). On the first day at her new secondary school she hoped it would be a fresh start as in her last school her dad had embarrassed her too much! She was wrong because he embarrassed her from the minute she got there! Dad left the A...
Title: How Harry Riddles Made a Mega-amazing Zombie Movie Author: Simon Mayle This book is about a boy called Harry who writes e-mails to his family. He would use Facebook but his mum stopped him! He also writes letters to famous people, like the Queen, Harry Styles and Sam Mendes! He is a very good gamer and he plays a game called World of Zombies where you shoot zombies and he is so good he gets 6 elite gaming prestiges (the MAX) on i...
Title: The Extincts Author: Veronica Cossanteli The book is about a boy called George who goes to the sweetshop one day and loses his bike. He ends up finding that it was a new girl in his class who stole it. George needed money and that’s when he saw a notice in the shop window for a job at Wormestall Farm. That’s how his adventure began! His adventure included an evil taxidermist called Diamond Pye (the new girl’s stepmother) an...
Title: Pigsticks & Harold Author: Alex Milway This Book is about a hamster {Harold} and a pig {Pigsticks}. THEY GO ON AN ADVENTURE TO THE END OF THE EARTH! Pigsticks needs an assistant and he interviews the town but he doesn’t find his assistant. Then, a hamster comes along and gives him an exciting parcel with his adventure kit in it: a bow tie, kettle and flask, travel pillow, thermal underwear and a corked hat and other things ...
Title: The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon Author: The Jolley-Rogers and the Ghostly Galleon by Jonny Duddle, This book is all about a girl who has pirates in her town. She is called Matilda. She has a friend called Jim Lad who is a good pirate so she sends him a letter saying that she needs him to come and help as she has pirates in town and that they had burgled the museum. So her friend comes over and thinks that the pirates mi...