Friday, October 17, 2014

Queenie by Jacqueline Wilson


It's 1953,the year Elizabeth is to be crowned Queen of England. Elise Kettle can't wait to go to London with her nan to see the Coronation Day celebrations. Unfortunately, they both got tuberculosis and each of them went to different hospitals . Who will take care of Elise when she's alone in the hospital?

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Give Peas A Chance by Morris Gleitzman

This story has many different characters from Misery Guts, Blabber Mouth, Second Childhood, Belly Flop, Adults Only, Teacher's Pet, Worm Story and Aristotle's Nostril, all written by Morris Gleitzman.  It includes different stories, including a story about a boy called Macques who feels sad because of his name.

The main story is about a boy named Ben who goes on strike and, because of this, he refuses to eat vegetables, which he used to enjoy. The reason is because he saw innocent children being killed.

Soon, all of the world's children were going on strike, and immediately countries began destroying their weapons. The USA was last, and they broke promises, but finally decided they had to because their culture would be ruined if kids continued to not eat McDonald's.

Soon after all weapons were removed, though, the USA used vegetables to invade a country. Since Ben's parents declared that if Ben didn't eat his vegetables, he would receive his old vegetables for the next day's dinner, they immediately began taking a chunk of Ben's vegetables and eating them because they thought it was disgusting that the USA were using veggies to invade a country. 














Monday, October 6, 2014

Gangsta Granny by David Walliams, Reviewed by Samuel Tsang

      I really enjoyed reading Gangsta Granny.  It is the fourth book that I read from the David Walliams collection.  It tells a story of a boy called Ben who loved plumbing and was forced to stay to stay with his boring Granny every Friday while his parents were away to ballroom dancing shows.  Granny always cooks cabbage foods which Ben hated and played scrabble all the time.

One day, Ben was shocked to see his Grandma smash through a window of a jewel shop and steal some jewels!  Ben tailed her to reveal that his boring granny was in fact  a real Gangsta.  His relation with his Grandma started to improve as he learned the secrets of her other life.

Read the book to find out how they venture to steal the crowns jewels.   A very funny and hilarious story.





Emerald Star

                                                                   Emerald Star

A book from the best-selling author. The final book of Hetty Feather's trilogy. Hetty found her father, Bobbie Waters, in Monksby, but it is not as easy as she thought. Katherine,, Bobbie's wife, and his children Mina and Ezra hate Hetty very much, they are jealous but soon Ezra and Hetty's relationship is better than before because Hetty saved Ezra from drowning. One day, Hetty's foster home sends her a letter. It said that her foster father had passed away all of a sudden. Hetty goes back to her foster home. She visited her foster family . At last, Hetty has her own way of her life.


I like this book because it is very touching and it tells me how poor a foundling girl is.

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

The Penderwicks


                                                      The Penderwicks

The Penderwicks is a book about 4 sisters who are Batty, Jane,  Skye and Rosalind and a dog who go on holiday and meet a boy, together they go on lots of adventures through the mean ladys gardens and have lots of fun playing with rabbits and hound the dog. On their journey they meet the tomatoe man, the gardener, the cook, the mean ladys son and two rabbits. Then Skye loses her temper at the mean old lady. But then something horrible happens to Batty.