Book Reviews
July23
Ever heard someone say… “I have nothing to read!” This section of our blog is a great way to share the wonderful books we have read, and hopefully get to hear about some books you haven’t read.
As part of the ‘Real Life’ task for the homework, you can post your Book Review to this section of our blog.
The Hunger Games was fantastic it was so entertaining, the endings were so un-predictable and that is what made me turn the page. It was so exciting, some of the adventures in the book were nail biting and so intense it nearly brought me to tears. I was feeling all of the same emotions that the main character was, because I felt like I was in the book. Know book that I have ever read has been so thrilling and had such amazing description in just one sentence, which made the book so interesting. From the first chapter I was pulled in and could not put the book down. When I finished the first book I forgot that there was a second and third which made me even more eager to read it. I recommend this book to anyone who likes exciting, thrilling and un-expected adventures. I never knew words could give so much feeling.
Beneath My Mother’s Feet
Beneath My Mother’s Feet is a great book. This book is for ages 11 and up. Beneath My Mother’s Feet is about a fourteen year old girl named Nazia who lives in Karachi. She is a very good daughter, dutifully obeys her parents and excels at school. But all that is ever expected from her, comes crashing down when she gets pulled out of school to work as a house servant. As fourteen year old Nazia goes through hardships that are unbearable, they turn out to be more liberating than she had ever imagined.
‘Her destiny changed her, and then she changed her destiny’
Beneath My Mother’s Feet
Author: Amjed Qamar
Conspiracy 365
For the past 3-4 months I have been reading the Conspiracy 365 code black explosive edition. There are 12 books in the series and I have read 10 and I’m almost finished the 10th one, the series is about a 15 year old boy named Callum Ormond who is convicted of murder and is forced to live on the streets. Some of the other main characters are Boges Cal’s best friend and winter who Cal meets in one of the weirdest ways you could think of, in an oil tank! While Cal is on the run he is searching for the Ormond Singularity, a mystery that his father had left for him to solve after Cal’s dad Tom Ormond’s mysterious death.
Day of Doom Cahills vs. Vespers The 39 Clues
David Baldacci
For many months I had been anticipating the release of this book and when it finally came out I had to wait for it in the local library but that wait was long and futile. So when I went on my holiday I went to Indigo (their big name bookshop) and I bought this book. The cover pulled me in as it was terrifying and interesting at the same time and immediately after I bought it I opened the book and started reading it. After I read the first few pages I knew that I had to get to the end of this book and find out what happens and in the day I bought it I finished three quarters of the book! This book is the last book in the series (but follows on into another new series) and is about how seven kidnappings by a shadowy group named the Vespers brought two teenagers and their relatives (the Cahills) to steal the most precious artifacts in the world just to save their friends and family. But what they didn’t know is that the items of history that they stole will enable Vesper One to bring the world to their knees and now what the two teenagers need to do is the stop the world from ending. In the most fast paced and action packed book that these group of authors have written, Day of Doom is for readers that enjoy twist and turns, need spice in their lives and also a few betrayals, kidnappings and sad and heavy deaths.
Day of Doom Cahills vs. Vespers The 39 Clues
David Baldacci
“One more piece. Archimedes’ precious gear. And then it all could begin. And end. Truly spectacularly.”
For many months I had been anticipating the release of this book and when it finally came out I had to wait for it in the local library but that wait was long and futile. So when I went on my holiday I went to Indigo (their big name bookshop) and I bought this book. The cover pulled me in as it was terrifying and interesting at the same time and immediately after I bought it I opened the book and started reading it. After I read the first few pages I knew that I had to get to the end of this book and find out what happens and in the day I bought it I finished three quarters of the book! This book is the last book in the series (but follows on into another new series) and is about how seven kidnappings by a shadowy group named the Vespers brought two teenagers and their relatives (the Cahills) to steal the most precious artifacts in the world just to save their friends and family. But what they didn’t know is that the items of history that they stole will enable Vesper One to bring the world to their knees and now what the two teenagers need to do is the stop the world from ending. In the most fast paced and action packed book that these group of authors have written, Day of Doom is for readers that enjoy twist and turns, need spice in their lives and also a few betrayals, kidnappings and sad and heavy deaths.
The Airhead Trilogy- This Amazing trilogy takes you on a journey through the life of a girl named Emerson Watts (A nerdy gamer girl) who has had her whole life turned upside down when she discovers that she has switched places with the most famous model in all of New York, Nikki Howard! Now, you’re probably thinking that this is going to be another one of those predictable stories where two people switch places and go on all sorts of wacky adventures. There’s a small twist. A scary accident causes a giant television to come crashing down on Emerson, at the same time Nikki Howard mysteriously faints. The only way to save Emerson was for her parents to sign a 2 million dollar contract to have Emerson’s brain transferred into Nikki Howard’s body! The contract also said that Emerson would have to now fulfill the role of Nikki Howard, who (Emerson is lead into believing) had an aneurysm, but as Emerson dwells deeper and deeper into the mystery, might not even be true. This book is an exciting story that shows the fun, pain and confusion Emerson had to suffer. This unpredictable book had wrapped its fingers around me and pulled me into a long and endless line of chapters. Each chapter unlocked new and juicy plot twists and secrets that had me going and going until the end of each and every book!
Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, have just started the greatest journey of their life. When their grandmother, Grace, Cahill died and left a will towards all the branches of the Cahill family. Either to take 1 million dollars or to take the challenge of the 39 clues that would lead to infinite power. All branches chose the 39 clues. So from there all have been against each other, family against family, and brother against brother just to find all of the 39 clues.
In book 6, In too Deep, Amy and Dan follow their parent’s footsteps to Australia where they meet up with their long last uncle Alistair. But they don’t trust him yet; he was there when their parents died in a fire that their evil relative Isabel Kabra lit. They are now confused, they don’t know who to trust; they don’t know who is a friend or who is an enemy. Their blindness leads to a death of Irina Spasky, a worker of Isabel Kabra.
A Series of Unfortunate Events-The Bad Beginning
The Bad Beginning is a drama about unfortunate and miserable events. The book was made in 1999, by a man called Lemony Snicket. This book is not true, therefore it is fiction. In this book 3 kids called Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire receive bad news from their parent’s friend Mr Poe and the kids unfortunately become orphans. The kids don’t know whats coming for them when they get adopted by their nasty uncle. This book is one of the best books I have ever read. It makes you never want to stop reading it, its not like any other book, and its very interesting. The book makes me wonder about how kids that are adopted get treated. It also makes me think about how kids would feel if they got separated from their siblings. This book has affected me in a good way. I have now realised that if life can get hard, you will always find a way to get through it. The Bad Beginning is a book that you will never want to put down. It’s easy to get into and you’ll love it!
‘Once’ follows the lonely path of a young Jewish boy and story writer ‘Felix’ desperately in search for his parents during the Holocaust. His Mother and Father enroll him in a Catholic Church orphanage in desperate hope of protecting their son from Hitler and his army. But he cannot stand being in the orphanage and secretly escapes at night in to the hills. He continues his long tough journey for many days and rescues a young girl Zelda. But his hope of being reunited with his parents is not a reality…yet.
I found this series of 4 books really amazing and eye opening towards what many children went through in the Holocaust. It was a personally touching book and I really enjoyed the series. This book is recommended for a teenage-mature reader.
‘This book is for all the children’s stories that have not been told’.
Title: Once
Author: Morris Gleitzman
The book I read was called Planet Dinosaur. I’m a huge fan of dinosaurs so I chose this book, its based on a TV show called Planet Dinosaur, inside the book it tells you about the dinosaurs that were in the book, ones like Tyrannosaurs Rex, Edmontasaurs and more dinosaurs. I’m also trying to find the TV show on DVD but I don’t think its out yet so ill just have to wait, I really enjoyed this book and it is my favourite book out of all the other dinosaur books.
House of Secrets is an action packed, fictional, adventure novel by the writers Chris Columbus and Ned Vizzini, that will knock your socks off. It was first published in Britain, England by Harper Collins Children’s Books in 2013.
The 549 paged book stars three children, Cordelia Walker, who loves books and is aged fifteen, Brenden Walker, who loves his computer games and is eleven years old, and last one, who is eight and sadly is dyslexic, Eleanor Walker.
The first place that the story was set was in the city of San Francisco on Sea Cliff Avenue, on the Walker family’s new street. The complication was that the Walker’s new house previously belonged to Dahlia Kristoff, also known as the Wind Witch who wanted to rule the world using her father, Denver Kristoff’s magic book, the Doom and Desire.
The book can make any wish come true and holds devastating power. The Wind Witch keeps coming after the three Walker Children, wanting them to find the book while trapped in a world of Denver Kristoff’s novels. In the end Eleanor was the one who destroyed the Wind Witch by ripping out a page from the Doom and Desire and writing the following wishes on it: That Eleanor and her siblings would return back to the real world and that her family had exactly 10 million dollars.
After that everything went back to normal and the Walker family was happy. I really enjoyed the book and I hope that a second one continuing on from the first one will be published.