Friday, 31 March 2017

S.T 19/30 finding serendipity

Sarah Tong 
19/30
Finding Serendipity
Angelica Banks
Fantasy

When Tuesday's mum goes missing and her dad wont tell her where she is, she goes up to her mums type writer and starts a story on it. The words started to turn silver and rise up, wrapping themselves around her. she holds onto her dog, Baxterr with a double r, and keeps writing. the words keep rising up off the page, wrapping around her, until they lift her up. She floats out the open window, just as her dad comes, too late to grab her. She goes on an adventure of a true writer, travelling into her mother's world which is now hers. finishing off with blueberry pancakes for breakfast with her mum and dad.

i would rate this book a 7/10 because it was packed full of drama, action, and family love.


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LINDA
3/20
Naked bunyip dancing
Steven Herrick
poems
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 this book is a collection of short poems and I did not enjoy this book this book  has many poems in it but they kind of seemed like short story's then I realised that they were actually poems because miss startup said  so I guess that it is a collection of  poems and if any one wants a book of poems read this but you will be board I give this book a 3/10 
                                      



Thursday, 30 March 2017

The boy who cried wolf

The boy who cried wolf
Book: 4\20
Genre: collection of short stories


This story is about A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains.
     The Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror Pray, do come and help me the Wolf is killing the sheep  but no one paid any heed to his cries, nor rendered any assistance. The Wolf, having no cause of fear, at his leisure lacerated or destroyed the whole flock.
I rate this a 7/10 (I couldn't find the book cover online)

just a dog

Just A Dog
Book 3/20
Genre: Realistic Fiction   Author: Michael Gerard Bauer





















Mr Mosley wasn't just a dog he was special. He had paticence, Big ears to listen and had a "6th sence." He was a big dog with a big heart. This book is his story told by his owner the one who picked from all the other pups. there is highs and lows and some really really sad parts.

If you dont like sad books this is probably not the book for you                
I rate this a 9/10


Wednesday, 29 March 2017

wolves of the beyond-lone-wolf                                                                                                                                                                     author-kathryn Lasky                                                                                                                                                                                      03/20                                                                                                                                                                                                           by Michaela pistorius                                                                                                                                                                                      Image result for wolves of the beyond lone wolf                                                                                            Foalan is a baby wolf in his mothers belly, but his mother feels something is not right so she ran     away from her clan to give birth and problem raise them if the obea does not find her, but when she gives birth she knows from the start that Foalan has a deformed front paw,but just when she was going to feed her new born pups the obea found her in a foxes den had just given birth to 3 pups, 2 girls and 1 deformed boy pup but when the obea see the deformed pups he immediate takes him to the tummfraw to died but at the bottom of the river there was a grizzly that had just suffered the death of her club that has beaning took by a cougar and been killed for food but the grizzly thought that she could died and be with her clubs in bear haven but then she felt something on her leg and it would not come off of her but when she looked down she saw s baby wolf club and she thought that she could raise him to be a grizzly.So she took Foalan to her cave and feed him her milk for him to survive but the weeks went by and Foalan the name by the grizzly gave to the little wolf that she found in the river when he was just a baby and Foalan gave the name Thunderheart  because he could always could hear her heart bet when she feed him her milk but when winter came Thunderheat said to Foalan "you can go out and hunt for your self" but what about you "i am going into hibernation for 2 month OK so you can go out on your own to get food" but when the month went by Foalan went to go and get so food but Thunderheart did not rember  when she said that foalan can go out and eat.So Thunderheart wen out but that time of the year is the most dangerous time of the year for a grizzly to can out of hibernation but when she went out to look for foalan there was an earthquake and a bolder hit Thunderheart for the back for her ,when Foalan came back he look in side by there was no grizzly to be found so he went for a search for Thunderheart but there was no Thunderheart to be found any where .

What was the march on Washington?





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3/20
Author-Kathleen krull
This book is a great "historical fiction" which i would recommend for a high reader for history.

This book is about the march in Washington DC in 1941.The Washington march had over a quarter million people fighting for freedom and the black colored people and white colored people to come together as one.


Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Wonder

Book 4
Rate:9/10
This book has a good saying connected to it and I recommend for all types of readers.
Wonder is all about a kid called august who has a medical condition where there face is deformed. August has been home schooled for a very long time. But august will now be going to a public middle school to try fit in. In the end august makes new friends who like him for him. "don't judge a book by its cover"

The maze runner

Book 3
Author:James dashner
Rate:10/10
Genre:fiction
I definitely recommend this book for lovers of the hunger games.

This book has great adventure and activity happening at all times.
Thomas along with others are in a maze not knowing anything about there past and or even knowing what's in the outside world. They can either risk their life and find out or stay held in captivity.

Molly the goldfish fairy- Ashley pakoti

Book 2
Rate: 10/10
Author: Linda chapman
This book is great "fairy tale" which I highly recommend for a reader who likes a quick story.

This book is all about a fairy named Molly and 2 girls called Rachel & kristy.
Molly has some fish who have been stolen by Jake frost. I'm the end they end up with the right owners left in peace. 

Sunday, 26 March 2017

Edmund Hillary -Maera Tahau

Edmund Hillary-Maera Tahau
5/20
Illustrated :Kevin Boon
Genre : N.z literature

This book is about the history of Edmund Hillary. Hillary was born in Auckland on 20th July 1919 it explains his passion for climbing and how he climbs the biggest mountain in the world. Being the first person to to hike mount everest with tenzing grey news of his success spread throughout the world. I really enjoyed this book because of the history in it I rate this book 7/10.

Billionaire boy

Rory McKay
Billionaire boy
4/20
free choice 1/2        

This book is about a boy called Joe whose dad invented a product called "fresh bum" and became a billionaire over it Joe had everything he could ever ask for... but a friend joe went to a private school called st Cuthbert's school for boys and people will call him nick name so he moved to a public school and made a friend.

I rate this book a 9/10 it was a very funny book in parts of it and it used descriptive language I recommend this book for people 9 and over.
    

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Harry Potter and the philosophers stone

Rory McKay
3/20
Harry Potter and the philosophers stone
Fantasy 1/1

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In this book Harry Potter who is 11 years old finds out that he is a wizard and he has been accepted in to Hogwarts school of wizardry and witchcraft.Harry has big adventures at hogwarts and is all so part of school quidditch team.

i would give this book a 10/10 as it is a very good and very interesting book ans i cant wait to read the rest of the series

I would also rate this book for people 10 and over as it does have some hard words in it

Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Kuroko No Basketball - Julia Lee 3/20

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20 Book Challenge
Julia 
3/20

Kuroko No Basketball
By: Tadatoshi Fujimaki
Genre: Graphic Novel

The basketball team in Teiko middle school was destroying all of their competitions. The regulars are known as "Generation of Miracles" and after graduating from middle they all went to separate high schools but there was another member in "Generation of Miracles". A invisible sixth man, the mysteries person is now a freshman at Serin, a school with a powerful, if little known now Kuroko Tetsuya and Kagami Taiga, a natural player, spent most of his middle school in the US, aim to make Serin the number 1, and teamed up with Kuroko to take Kuroko's former teammates down one by one
The rest of the "Generation of Miracles" include: Ryota Kise, Shintaro Midorima, Daiki Aomine, Atsushi Murasakibara and Seijuro Akashi.

I would recommend this graphic novel to people that love basketball and love playing sport plus it is a really good book for people to read plus you can watch this as an Anime

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - Julia Lee 2/20

20 Book Challenge
Julia
2/10

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By: J.K Rowling
Genre: Mystery      

The third book of the Harry Potter series is about how Harry found out that his godfather is apparently the one and only Sirius Black. Sirius Black is accused of betraying James & Lily Potter (who are Harry's parents) and lead Voldemort to them but actually it was Peter Pettigrew (the only Gryffindor that is a Deatheater) that betrayed James & Lily. After Sirius Black escaped the Prison of Azkaban everyone in Hogwarts had to sleep inside the hall (not the professor of course) but I do not want to spoil anything so either read the book or watch the movie.

I would recommend this book to age 5+ because it's sort of scary but not and this story has lots of words that some children won't know but this book is really good if your reading this to your family. So hopefully you enjoy reading this story and I would rate this a 9.5/10

Monday, 20 March 2017

S.T 18/30 cloud busting

Sarah Tong
18/30
Cloud Busting
Malorie Blackman
poetry anthologies

Most chapters in this book are a different type of poem e.g haiku, limerick, etc. at the end of the book it told you about the poems and how to write them. The story was about Sam who doesn't want to admit that he is friends with the new boy, Davey. At school he pretends he doesn't like him and is mean to him. One day Sam lets Davey's secret out. His friends did just what he feared with an incident close to death. after this Sam realises how important friendship is but Davey was never the same after this.


i would rate this book an 8/10.
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The story of New Zealand -Maera Tahau

The story of New Zealand
Genre:N.Z literature or histrocal fiction.
Illustrated:Marie mansfield
4/20

The story of New Zealand
It is belived that New zealand was apart of the southern content which was given a name Gondwanaland.The forest of Aotearoa included land mammals,birds,trees and much more. Maori came in canoes from Hawaiki the canoes made its way through the pasific island. The Maoris slowley setteld in adapting to the tropical lifestyle and temprture. It is known for Able Tasman to see the south island but making it impossible to land. On 6th October 1769 a British ship called the endevour captain james cook sighted the east coast of the North island. Captain james vook made  contact with the Maoris. Later on the traders and settlers arived in N.Z as well as the whalers and sealers. Maori would trade flax,food for musskets (guns) around 1830 -40 British and Maori decided to make a treaty. On February 6th 1840 they signed the treaty with lots of disagreements and wrong translation cause wars between maori and the settlers. Around the early 1900s things started to settle. N.Z had their first goverment one of them was called governer Grey. The Maori lifestyle had changed from there on.
This book is very enjoyable but very long aswell. It explains about N.Z history and their lifestyle. I recommend this book for the ages between 11-16.

Sunday, 19 March 2017

The Long Haul



Name: Maxine Mita
Book: The Long Haul
Author: Jeff Kinney
Genre: Graphic Novel
3/20

This book is about a boy called Greg Heffley who went on the worst family road trip of his life. When they were on there road trip there family van ended up getting ruined, they got robbed by a family called the Beardo's and Gregs dad nearly lost his job. But at the end of there road trip they replaced there belongings and fixed all there problems. But one thing Greg noticed when he got home was the beardo's never stole there stuff in the first place.




Wednesday, 15 March 2017

S.T 17/30 Ugly

Sarah Tong
17/30
Ugly
Robert Hoge 
Autobiography

Robert was born ugly and with only one and a half legs. He gets the half leg amputated. His whole leg points straight down so he could never get his heel touching the ground. They amputated that one as well so he could actually walk, although not very good to start with. His face had a massive bulge (massive tumour) from the top of his forehead all the way down to where his nose was meant to be. When Robert was born he was the fifth child. His mother's first question was 'Is my baby okay?'. His mother didn't want to have him. She had her first look at her son about a week after he was born. She decided it should be a family decision whether to take him home. Roberts Mum and Dad explained all the problems with Robert and then let them all decide. They all said yes. A month and five days after Robert was born he was finally going home. He starts school very excited. He was still a little bit wobbly on his legs when he started school. When he was going down the stairs to his class Robert saw a boy coming straight towards him. He could either quickly wobble over to the other handrail or just wait for him to knock him over. Robert decided to stay where he was because to get to the other rail it would mean letting go of the first one. The boy came right up to him and linked arms with him. David was friends with Robert right through his school years and probably still is. He got teased for having no 'proper' legs, having a nose made out of his toe and basically just being different.
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I rate this book a 8/10 because it is really inspirational