Hello Class 4!
This is the Class 4 Reading Blog! Here we can share and discuss all of the exciting books we have read in school or at home. You can post as many book reviews as you like! Lets see who can post the most reviews!
Anytime you have finished reading a book tell us on this blog.
Your comment will need to include:
-Title
-Author
-Book Review (short summary of the story and introduce the characters)
-Rating out of 10 (What did you enjoy most?)
Make sure you also read each other’s comments too as you may want to write a question to someone about their book to find out more. Or you might find inspiration for your next read!
Hi Mr Kersys
Title: Tandy’s Tantrums which is a short story in ‘The Worlds Worst Children’.
Author: David Walliams
Book Review: Tantrums are something toddlers have but not for Tandy. She was eleven and was still having tantrums, people always gave in to her. One day on her father’s way to work he realised that on the building site they all wore noise cancelling headphones so he bought a pair.
When Tandy came home and screamed, the parents didn’t hear so she hatched a plan to steal an amplifier from a nearby concert so that her parents would hear her extra loudly. When she got it home, it was so loud that the sound wave propelled her into the dump. When her parents found her they left her and ran away to Australia.
Rating: This book is really funny and I would give it a 10/10. If you like this you should also read all of the other David Walliams stories.
Title : Stranger at the Gates
Author : David Hunt
Book Review : This book is about a girl and a boy named Biff and Chip. They find themselves in a big battle zone with Vikings and Saxons that are fighting in the battle. Before they could stop the battle they were stuck in the Dark Forest and they are trying to get out. However they couldn’t because the Saxons were nearby. Luckily two Vikings from the Viking camp came to save them from almost being caught by one of the Saxons. there is a man named Wulfgar who has caused this battle to have begun. So they are trying to stop the battle , capture Wulfgar and put peace between the Vikings and the Saxons.
Rating: For my opinion I would rate it 5 stars but if you like adventure stories this would be a good book for you.
Hello Mr Kersys
Title: Georges marvellous medicine
Author: Roald Dahl
Book review: This book is based on a child who has a grandma witch.
She lives in the same house as the family and never does any thing when the parents are out. But she asks her grandson to do everything!
George had a bright idea. To make a new medicin so that she will explode but instead…….. she became taller than the house and thin like a paper and when the parents came it was a disaster!!!!!
I like this book because it is funny and a little bit scary.
I prefare when George invented the medicin.
I would give this book a 10/10
Hello Mr Kersys
Title: Charlie and the chocolate factory
Author: Roald Dahl
Book review: This book is about a boy who’s name is Charlie. He was from a poor family. They live in a small house that is a little dirty. When they heard the news that Mr Willy Wonka was selling chocolate bars inside which are five golden tickets to go to Willy Wonka’s factory. Charlie had lots of hopes that he will get the golden ticket.
This book is full of secrets, magic, sweets and candies.
I like this book because it is funny, interesting and we can learn a lot from it.
I would give this book 10/10
Title: Ottoline goes to school
Author: Chris Riddell
Review:
This book is about a little girl called Ottoline. Her best friend is called Mr Munroe. He is a hairy creature, found in a bog in Norway by Ottoline’s parents who are explorers.
Then Ottoline makes a new friend, Cecily and she heard that Cecily goes to a school called Alice B Smith School for the Differently Gifted.
Ottoline wants to attend that school too. Soon she finds out that a ghost haunts the school.
I would give this book 10*
Well done Emi! It sounds like a superb book
Title:The Worlds Worst Teachers
Author:David Walliams
This book is about very bad teachers.Every chapter is about a school in which there is one horrible teacher of whom all the children are horrified, scared or who they hate. But at the end of every little story the children always get their revenge on the teacher.
I liked this book because it was very funny.
It was so funny that I would give it a 10/10.
How interesting Samuel! Fantastic review!
Book title : Patrick and the Fox.
Book review : It’s very exciting. About a fox that meets Patrick and isn’t scared of Humans. After loads of adventure the fox is really a king.
The book was ok I give it a 5/10.
Hello Mr Kersys
This is my book.
Title: Rent a bridesmaid
Author: Jacqueline Wilson
Book Review: This is a story about a girl aged nine called Tilly. Her best friend Matty is going to be a bridesmaid for her Aunt’s wedding, and Tilly desperately wants to be one too. Tilly’s dream came true as her best friend Matty gave her the dress to wear at a wedding. The only problem was Tilly didn’t know anyone who was going to get married. So in a newsagent’s window she advertises herself as a bridesmaid. Tilly had now been asked to three weddings. She becomes very well known and is very happy, though her mum left when she was in Year Two. Then Matty’s new friend called Marty, daughter of the dressmaker, began worrying Tilly. As Matty kept going out with Marty, Tilly worried Marty would become Matty’s new best friend. But when Tilly meets Marty she is not at all as how she expected. They became friends and they play for a few hours. Tilly’s dad starts dating with Miss Hope her teacher at the second wedding. Tilly is happy and she loves playing with Matty and Marty together.
Rating: I think this book should get 9/10 because I loved it and it made me laugh very much.
An amazing review, it sounds like a great book!
Hi Mr kersys
Title: Stanley manners
Author: Joanna Nadin Marcus Culter
Book review: This book is based on a boy called Stanley and he lies alot to his friends and parents. It was Stanley’s birthday and he wanted a Golden robot that walks ,talks and plays tennis. He also wanted two conjurors ,a dragon and a cake that is two metres tall. Stanley’s grandma said (think very hard and it will come true.) When it was Stanley’s birthday party the two conjurors came to the party and wished for all the things Stanley wanted. But when they wished for it things all went wrong. The golden robot and the cake was fine, but the dragon went wrong. The dragon breathed fire out of it’s mouth and stepped on the cake,then smashed the robot into smithereens and ruined Stanley’s party. The two conjurors tried to stop the dragon but instead of stopping the dragon it showered Stanley and his friend with popcorn. Then Stanley thought of something, he wished for the dragon,the golden robot and the cake to go away. He wished for all of the things he wanted and they all went away. When it was school Stanley stopped lying and started telling the truth.
Overall I rate this book 10/10 because it was fun to read and very interested. Also the story was very imaginary. I’m very impressed with the authors description of the story.
What a detailed review Gabriella! Thank you
Hello Mr Kersys
Title: Mr Stink
Author: David Walliams
Book review:
Book tells about a girl called Chloe who meets a tramp. They soon
become friends, but there is a secret behind Mr Stink …
Rating: 10/10
Hi Mr Kersys
Title: The Contest
Author: James Noble Jonatronix
Book review: There are six friend’s that are called Max,Cat,Ant,Tiger,Nok and seven. They are on a mission, they had to collect four fragments. When they tried to get the last fragment they got in trouble by monsters called the Moxorian
The Moxorian said( let’s have a race on a dangerous sea.)
Max said he will race on his holo-board and the Moxorian said he will race on his speed boat. If the Moxorians win they get the fragment if max and his friend win they will get the fragment. Max and the Moxorian were racing on the sea when Max was in the lead. The Moxorian tried to stop Max with a energy rope but max teleported to small and the Moxorian hit him self and fell in the water Max saw that the Moxorian needed help so Max saved him and made it back to the finnish line in time before the sea crashed together. Max and his friends won and got the last fragment.
The story tells us that we should be good to each other even if someone is doing bad to you.
I rate this book 10\10 because I like storys that are on missions and it was fun to read.
Title: Claws of the Crocodile
Author: Bear Grylls
In this book there is a boy called Beck whose parents were killed in a plane crash. He gets a messsage from some people who tell him that the company Lumos were responsible for plane crash. They believed that Lumos killed them because they had some evidence against them.
So Beck goes to Australia to find his friend Pindari who knows where the evidence is but when he gets there two men arrive and kill Pindari – they were hired by Lumos. Luckily before they kill him he tells Beck that the evidence can be found on a usb stick and where it is hidden. Both the killers and Beck are now in a race to find the usb stick.
It is a really exciting book. I would give this book 10/10 and there is a whole series.
That sounds like a really exciting book Orla! I really enjoy reading your reviews.
Hi Mr Kersys
Title: Sports is fun
Aurthor: David Clayton
Book review: This book is about different sports and it is about different people that make world records and win medals. Also it tells us about the different types of sports that at presents.
Running:
Merlene Ottey Jamaica.
Twenty Olympic and world medals,three gold. 100 m in 10.74 secs- over 35 years old.
Horse riding:
Zara Philips is a famous horse rider, her and her mother are both champion riders.
Edgar Davids, Holland’s midfield star who has glaucoma an eye condition and is a famous footballer.
In 1846 Colleges who played football met at Cambridge to sort out the rules. In 1863 another meeting took place in London to finalise them.
I rate this book a 10/10 because it gives you lots of facts about famous people. And I like this book because it give you more information about spots.
Double Cross
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Author: Tony Bradman
This book is about 4 kids Max, Tiger, Ant, Cat and the robot named Eight. They are flying in space with their oval shaped space ship and they suddenly drift to the storm the ship catches on fire but Eight the robot comes in and extinguishes the fire then everyone was safe. Then Ant checked and he said ” it isn’t that bad as it actually looks”. But when Ant looked he had a strange felling about the hold. Max went to the hold and looked around he saw a strange light on the control panel so he investigated but then the door shut he tried to open it but it wouldn’t budge the machine scanned Max. He fell down and opened his eyes and saw his double. He told his friends and they were surprised he had a double, Eight said he would scan the both of them and would see if they were actually identical but their brains were different they act different and so since the double was part of the team now they had to give him chores but the double refused to do any chores and went to play video games. They suddenly got in contact with their enemy Badclaw, he then went onto their line and told them that he had a deal and a trade they all refused but the double said they should have agreed to the deal. Later on the double went to Badclaw and they were heading to earth since the double was there . They then had a fight and they won they exploded Badclaws ship and they won the fight.
Rating : I would think this isn’t a great book but anyone who does actually like space and fighting this book is great for you but in my perspective I would think its only 3 stars.
This sounds like a book I would like to read, thank you very much for sharing it with us Chloe.
Title- Mission victory
Author- Roderick Hunt, Alex Bruchta and David Hunt
Basically there is a boy called Tyler and he had four friends, they were in the library, Tyler touched the time web and told them info about virens that attacked the past (virens are aliens that attack the last to effect the future).
Rating- 5/10
It was interesting in parts but not enough action for me!
Very honest review Ethan!
Title: The Cauldron of Darkness
Author : David Hunt
Book Review: Two kids save the day … One kid named Wilma the other Wilf. They are trying to find the Viran who is trying to capture children to reveal their Viran future. They go back in time to the wonderful Caribbean’s but it wasn’t that wonderful at all the life there was sad, but which would be even more sad was that Virans were capturing children so Wilma and Wilf took action. Instead they were in front of a whole load of sugar cane. It was a PLANTATION. Suddenly two ships came and one of them was on fire and one was fine, the two ships were different, one was an English ship and the other a pirate ship. They then came across a nice girl who thought they were in the plantation community so Wilf and Wilma started to work. It was getting dark so she took them to her house. She then introduced them to her family except her mother because she was giving birth. Whiles this happened a lady just walked in and said ” The overseers have sent for me. My name is Mercy Smith. I’m on the Williams Plantation. I was sent here to deliver the baby. A few moments later Wilf and Wilma was wondering who the Viran was ,but they figured it was Mercy Smith. They then went to where Mercy was carrying the infant and saw Mercy hypnotising the baby and she had scary bright yellow eyes like a cat… BANG ! One of their friends named Tyler came in with a round device which captured the evil Viran. “Hooray” they shouted ” we saved the day”
The End.
Rating: I would give this a 6 because it didn’t excite me that much but it was pretty good.
Cows In Action
Steven Cole
This book is about evil time bulls from the future who are trying to ruin the past but the CIA (Cows In Action) are going to stop them. The members of the CIA are: Bo who likes quarreling and fighting, Professor McMoo who loves science, hates poor quality tea bags and Pat who is an ordinary cow but likes everything professor McMoo does.
Rating: 10/10
I love this book because it is funny and I like how they play with the words .
Hi Mr Kersys
My Mum has bought me the mystery series by Enid Blyton. There’s about 15 books all together and I would really recommend them to anyone who likes The Secret Seven.
The main characters are called Fatty, Pip, Daisy, Bets and Larry and they are the children who solve all the mysteries.
I would score these books 10 out of 10.
The case of the smiling shark
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Author : Tessa Krailing
This story begins with 4 kids nicknamed foxy, Jam Pot ,Wesley and Marietta, they all were asked to clean up a pond in there nearby park. This pond was really filthy and it was full of different objects. When everyone was bored Marietta came up with an idea to look for sharks and at that moments a grinning face appeared in the water, Marietta exclaimed ” a shark a shark there’s a shark grinning .” Suddenly a deep voice came out, but it didn’t come from the pond it came behind of Marietta. Then they found out that the grinning shark was a guy with sharp teeth who had his reflection on the water. A little while later the guy disappeared and Wesley fell into the water. Then an old lady appeared it was a friend of Wesley’s grandmother she came and saw that Wesley fell and came to pick him to clean him up. Later on after the old lady cleaned Wesley she told him about something that she thought he could help with. She told him that someone had stolen her teapot which had money in it ,she described that he had sharp teeth ” I think I may know him ” Wesley said. After all of that finally the shark guy came back and he had the old lady’s teapot. Then he apologised to the old lady.
Rating: I’m not a 100 percent sure if I like this book or not but it kind of would be a solid 6 and a half I guess.
Title: Mr Stink.
Author: David Williams.
Book review:
The book is about a girl called Chloe ,who one day stopped to talk to a tramp. His name was Mr Stink and wow he really did stink! They soon became friends but Chloe knew something wasn’t right…
Rating:10/10 because it was very funny!
Title: worlds worst parents
Author:David Walliams
Book review:
Like worlds worst teachers, this book has has small stories. But this book is about parents… every little story is about a horrible parent who’s kid is totally ashamed of. But at the end , like The Worlds Worst Parents the children get their revenge on the teacher, the children get their revenge on the parent.
Title: George’s Marvelous Medicine
Author: Roald Dahl
Book Review (short summary of the story and introduce the characters): It was about a boy called George who made a medicine which makes his grandma (who he doesn’t like) grow very tall. She crashes through the rooftop of their house. Finally he makes her a another medicine which makes her shrink to nothing.
Rating out of 10: 8/10 because it was funny and exciting with good detail.
Title: Stormbreaker
Author: Anthony Horowitz
Book Review: It is about a boy called Alex Rider whose uncle dies and he gets recruited as a spy for MI6 to stop Darrius Sayle from using Stormbreaker (a computer virus) to kill all the schoolchildren and teachers in the UK.
Rating out of 10: 7/10 because it was exciting.
Title: Esio Trot
Author: Roald Dahl
Book Review: It is about an old man called Mr Hoppy who likes a woman called Miss Silver who likes a tortoise that she wants to get bigger. So, when she goes to work he switches Alfie, her tortoise, with a bigger one. He keeps on switching the tortoise until it can no longer fit in its little house. Miss Silver is upset about this so he changes it for a slightly smaller tortoise.
Rating out of 10: 7.5/10 because it was funny but I didnt like the charcters as much as in George’s Marvelous Medicine.
Title: Born to Run
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Book Review: It’s about a racing dog who was found in a river abandoned. A kid called Patrick jumps in to the river to save the dog. After a while, the dog gets lost after running down a hill. The dog gets put in a racing show where his fellow dog friend gets put down after twisting his angle in a race. The dog has a series of adventures where he meets an old man. After running away from the old man he is reunited with Patrick.
Rating out of 10: 9/10 because it is has an adventurous plot with lots of interesting characters and a happy emotional ending.
Title: Kid Normal and the final five Book 4
Author: Chris Smith and Greg James
The story is about 5 children who are at a school for children who are born with special powers.
Murph has no powers, which is his super power- he is Kid Normal.
Mary can fly , Billy who can inflate things, Nelly can make thunder clouds and Hilda who can conjure horses.
The bad guy is called Nicholas, he can make mind control helmets. He builds a giant robot which the 5 have to try and destroy.
I think this is a very good book because it has lots of action and it is full of superheros and super villains.
It is very funny.
It is definitely worth reading.
I have read the whole series of Kid Normal but this one was my favourite.
Tittle: Case Of The Smiling Shark
Author: Tessa Krailing
Summary:
There are three boys and their teacher wants then to help her clean 🧼 up a pond so they did but then they found a pound coin and thought they were rich but then a man took it that has teeth like a shark!
One of the boys named Weasly fell into the pond a got dried up by one of his grandmas friends he found out that the pound coin belongs to his grandmas friend. She also lost the teapot that the man stole that she kept her savings in to pay the bills 💵 so in the end they caught the man and he got sent to jail and the grandmas friend got her savings back
Title: The Well At The Worlds End
Author: Jane Feaver
Book Review: This story book is about a beautiful girl who unfortunately lost her mother and well right came along a nasty old woman who married her father. The woman was a snob and was jealous of the young beautiful girl. As such that’s why the nasty woman made the girl work day and night until her hands were all blistered up. One day the Woman was fed up of how good she worked and how she had no complication with doing these jobs. So she told the girl to go to The well at the worlds end. However she told her to get a whole lot of water in a sieve and well however would she do that because a sieve has holes in it. Well anyways the girl didn’t refuse and ended up looking for the well for a week but luckily this old beggar woman knew what she wanted to find the well and so she told her how to get there. The girl followed the rout to the well and finally found it. But she then wondered how to get the water and suddenly a retched voice came out of nowhere but instead you wouldn’t expect this it was a frog which was talking, it told the girl to put moss on it but it had one request to listen to it until morning. The frog then followed the girl and alas the frog was a prince but the nasty woman finally found out and grabbed the girl and did this…
Title: stranger at the gates
Author: Rodrick Hunt,Alex Brychta and David Hunt.
Book review:
The story is about chip getting kidnapped by the viran. Tyler and biff tryed to get chip out but they got caught by the viran and vikings. Biff and Tyler met a friendly viran called Inga. Inga helped Biff and Tyler but also got caught. Biff,Tyler and Inga met king alfred and said that they would have a battle and Biff,Tyler,Inga and king alfred had won the battle and got chip out. Chip said thank you for saving me if I wouldn’t of been saved I would be dead.
I rate this book a 10/10 because it is an adventure sorry and I love adventure storys. I also rate this book 10/10 because it is funny and they showed recilance.
Title: Pit-Stop Peril
Author : James Noble
Book Review: This book is about the 4 kids and a robot who try to fight off the enemy Badlaw and they succeeded. So it all started when Badlaw tracked them down with a robot type of spaceship. The crew knew what was going on so they straight away went to the controllers to move the Excelsa ( their spaceship ) for the tracker to not chase them anymore. Instead the tracker chased them however way they tried to move the tracker away. They finally burned the tracker by using their lasers behind the Excelsa. It wasn’t over yet because Badlaw made an army and tried to blow up the Excelsa with the crew inside it. It was really cruel but luckily all of the crew were in their home galaxy. Unfortunately they saw their ship blow up but they came out of their portal and fought Badlaw. They succeeded to do so and so they won.
Rating: I would give this this 5 stars because I don’t like this book as much as other books but I didn’t hate it.
Title: Flat Stanley The Great Egyptian Grave Robbery
Author: Jeff Brown
Book Review: It’s about a boy who becomes flat and his family post him in an envelope to Egypt where some people are trying to steal treasure from a tomb. Stanley camouflages himself by sticking himself to a wall of drawings so he can watch the thieves without being discovered. He then alerts the police about the robbers. Finally, Stanley gets mailed back home to his family where his younger brother pumps him back up.
Rating out of 10: 7/10 because it didn’t have that many adjectives although it did have a good story line.
Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Double Down
Author: Jeff Kinney
Book Review: This book is about a teenager called Greg who makes a film to get rich. The film is about a man coming back from work who takes a shower and instead of water, worms come out of the shower head and eat him. He gets rid of the shower worms but there is an ambush of worms in his house. He phones 999 but the worms eat him before the police arrive. In the end Greg’s friend Rowley gets all the credit for the film because he takes the film to the judges while Greg is at school. The film is a success and the judges like it.
Rating out of 10: 8/10 because it was funny when to read about the movie idea and Greg would make funny jokes.
Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
Book Review: It is about a boy called Charlie who is very poor and lives with his grandparents who tell him stories about the great Willy Wonka. One day he finds a money which he uses to buy two chocolate bars. Inside one of them is a golden ticket which means he gets to go to Willy Wonka’s factory and see all of his amazing creations. The other children are silly and mess with his inventions and so they have to be taken care of so that he is the last of the children meaning he will now own the factory as Willy Wonka wants to retire.
Rating out of 10: I enjoyed discovering all of Willy Wonkas different super inventions so I would rate this book 8.7/10.
Author: Steve Cole
Title: The Rust Monster
Book Review:
The 5 kids and the amazing robot are on the move again trying to defeat the almighty RUST MONSTER. They meet up with the Rust Monster on the way to the black hole. The Rust Monster then uses it’s power to ruin their space ship and turn it into scrap so they had to go to the planet Mechoi which was the closest planet to where they were. When they got there they asked the Mechio’s to fix their space ship. They said yes and told the Mechio’s ruler to help. After a few hours they find themselves in a difficult situation THE RUST MONSTER CAME TO THE MECHIO. They decided to fight of the Rust Monster using a magnet gun ( it makes the object that touches it be magnetic to anywhere further from where the laser is ) . They won and the Rust Monster went away for good . : )
Hi everyone
I have just finished reading Five Children on the Western Front. The author is Kate Saunders.
The book is about 5 children called Anthea, Edie, Cyril, Robert and Jane. They are all brothers and sisters and they have lots of adventures. They have a friendship with a psammead which is a sand fairy and he normally grants them wishes but in his past life he was very mean and so he has to redeem himself.
I think that people would like this book as it is really funny. There are two other books about the psammead but by different authors.
Title: Fantastic Mr Fox
Author: Roald Dahl
Book Review: It is about a fox who steals food for his family from rich farmers. One day the three rich farmers get their guns and tractors ready to shoot the fox for dinner. However, Mr Fox digs a hole that leads into their house and takes the dead chickens that the farmers were planning to have for their meal. Mr Fox and his family have a massive feast. They continue to use this tunnel to play and get food.
Rating out of 10: 9/10 because I found it funny when the Rat was being mean and then he later slipped and got caught in the mousetrap where the woman later found him and threw him in the bin.
Title: BFG
Author:
Book Review: It is about a girl in an orphanage who sees a giant dream catcher. The giant has to take the girl with him to stop her from telling other humans. There are 9 other giants who go off to eat 7 humans a day each. The girl and the BFG report this to the Queen of England and they come up with a plan to drop the mean giants into a very deep hole where they cannot eat any more humans. In the end, the girl (Sophie) returns to the orphanage.
Rating out of 10: 8/10 because the BFG uses strange language like ‘gizzardgulper’.
Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Author: Jeff Kinney
Book Review: It is about a boy called Greg who has to hand in a science project but he struggles to complete this so he goes to a place where people sell science projects. They weren’t very good so he made a run for it. The teachers find out that students are buying their projects and are placed in detention for the rest of the year. Greg luckily escaped this fate because his mum did his science project for him instead.
Rating out of 10: 9/10 because the character Greg is funny in that he doesn’t like doing his homework and he wants other people to do it for him.
Title: Gangsta Granny
Author: David Walliams
Book Review: It is about a boy called Ben, who doesn’t like visiting his granny because he finds her very boring. However, when he goes looking in her kitchen he finds a box of stolen gems. Then, they try to steal the crown jewels from the Queen. They are caught. But the Queen decides to let them go and the Granny donates all of her stolen jewels to charity.
Rating out of 10: 7/10 because it is not as descriptive as the other books but it was still exciting reading about their adventure.
Title: The Ultimate Trainers
Author: Paul Shipton
Book Review: This story begins with a boy who finds these wonderful sneakers in the bin. When he finds it, he finds out that they are magical. The following day was his school sports tournament and so, he wore the sneakers that he found. When he was racing his classmates he ran as fast as lightning. When he realised that he could do this, he thought to himself that he was unstoppable. Then soon came the time when he needed his magical sneakers again, it was when his friend Sarah found out that her special backpack was gone. He then thought of raising money for the children in his school including Sarah. Then he uses his sneakers to race a one-hundred metre run. All of the school was watching him on the starting line getting ready. It took him an hour to reach the finish line but he made it to the end.
He raised enough money to buy each student in the school their own backpack including one for Sarah. She now has a new and improved backpack.
Title: Why the Sea is Salty
Author: David Calcutt
Book Review:
This story is about a girl named Sedna who was beautiful and always loved the ocean and the scenery. One day her father took her for a little ride on their boat out into the ocean but, something terrible happened to Sedna she fell into the water. When she did her father couldn’t save her and so she thought she would drown but instead something magical and unexpected happened to her she turned into a beautiful MERMAID. All the fishes admired her and sang to her like their Queen even the sharks didn’t dare hurt Sedna. Finally Sedna settled into her new home and adored each and every creature in the sea.
Rating: I would give this 6 stars for suspense and imagination but not full marks because it wasn’t as exciting.
Title: The Red Cutlass
Author: Elen Caldecott
Book Review:
There are 3 ghost pirates on the run to fight and spy on the 5 kids and the robot again but this time badlaw hypnotised these poor pirates but they were in the shape of 3 of the kid’s enemy’s they met on their fights with badlaw. did they defeat them again lets find out. So it all started when the pirates were on their way to find them but instead they didn’t know that they were being tracked down by the children and when they found out they fell into a black hole TOGETHER! They ended up in a pirates ship and they fought until badlaw called and something terrible happened…
Rating :
I didn’t quite like it but it was interesting to read so i give it 4 stars.
Title: Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Book review: It is about a man called Robinson Crusoe, who goes travelling on a ship. However, all of the crew drown apart from him. He gets washed up ashore an island where he makes a home for himself. There are cannibals on this island and Robinson sees a person running away from the cannibals. They become friends and they capture the crew of the cannibal’s ship and sail home to London.
Rating out of 10: 9/10 because it was exciting with an adventurous plot about an island.
Title: Farm Boy
Author: Michael Morpurgo
Book review: This is a story about a horse called Joey who is bought by a farmer to help plant seeds in the field. Joey and the farm boy do a race with a mean man because he thinks his tractor is faster than the horses. The horses win and the man has to give his to the farmer. The mean man falls over in his tractor and the horses have to pull it upright again. This means farm boy’s grandpa can ride the tractor. Finally, farm boy and his grandad ride the horses into the sunset.
Rating out of 10: 8/10 because the race was exciting and had a cool ending!
Title: Witches
Author: Roald Dahl
Book review: This is a story about witches, a boy who loses both his parents, so his grandma looks after him. When he goes on holiday to a fancy hotel, he finds out there is a massive meeting of witches that plan to turn all of the kids into mice. They turn him into a mouse for being extra smelly. His grandmother and him sneak into the Grand High Witches house to make a potion. They pour into the stew of the witches’ feast and all the witches turn into rats. The staff of the hotel get traps to trap them.
Rating out of 10: 9/10 because it had an exciting plot, and I didn’t know what was going to happen next. It was full of suspense.
Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the getaway
Author: Jeff Kinney
Book review: Greg goes on holiday with his family for Christmas and finds out the sites he wanted to visit are not how the brochures had said. His family and him get in trouble for stealing and clothes because they had run out of money and they didn’t want to use their credit card. They ran to the airport and rushed home. There was an advert online saying that they were wanted people.
Rating out of 10: 8/10 because it was hilarious with lots of sharp comments. However, the book does not have a lot of adjectives.
Title: King Arthur needs you !
Author: Chris Baker
Book Review:
I really liked this book because you could be in the story and have a little adventure I chose to be the wizards apprentice and I ended up doing a challenge to make tea for the wizards guest. I had to pick shapes and see what it leads me to. Luckily I chose the correct shape and got the job of being the wizards apprentice and so that was my adventure.
Rating: I would give this a 10 because of how fun it is and people of any age I think would enjoy this book very much just like I did.
Title: The Witness
Author: Joanna Nadin
Book Review:
The Witness is a book about a little boy named Edward being a witness of bullying. Edward saw Shaun getting hurt whiles he was playing football and it was the Parry twins who were bullying Shaun but Edward made a big mistake of not telling anyone about what happened. Soon enough he went into the bullying gang. He started to feel sick every single day until one day he had enough of it. He finally told his dad and so his dad contacted the school to tell off the Parry twins. Edward was called by the head teacher Mr. Rose to explain what happened. After the talk Edward felt happy again.
Title: The missing statue
Author:Alex Lane
Book review:
One day four children were walking in the park and talking about a celebration called Gladstone day they were excitedly walking to see the statue of Gladstone. Instead they found no statue. The police were standing next to the remains of the statue and said that the statue had been stolen. The children then looked at each other and didn’t know what to do instead they asked the whole neighbourhood if they knew who stole it but one person seemed fishy their principle. The next day the children followed the principle and it lead them to a man standing next to the principle saying that he had given money to the principle since the principle brought the statue to that guy. Immediately one of the children went to the police station and lead the police man to the man and the principle and so they were handcuffed and they lived happily again.
Title: its your call
author: Hayden Midleton
Book review :
This book is basically just about how to take care of the environment and how to for example we could start walking more so that there is less pollution.
Hi Sir,
I would just like to say that I have been reading a lot throughout lock down but I forgot to update the reading blog.
Title: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Author: J.K. Rowling
Book review: It is about a boy called Harry, who goes to a magic school for witches and wizards. He has a teacher called Professor Quirrell who has is bad and works with Voldemort a dead evil wizard. Voldemort wants to get the Philosopher’s Stone so that he can live forever but Harry stops him.
Rating out of 10: 10/10 this is book is extremely adventurous with an incredible story line that I don’t to end.
Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Author: J.K. Rowling
Book review: Harry returns to Hogwarts with Ron on a magic flying car because the gateway to platform 9 and 3/4s is sealed. They almost get expelled. Harry finds a diary which belonged to Tom Riddle and through which Tom Riddle communicates with him. The Chamber of Secrets is opened by the power of the diary and the snake, a basilisk starts harming students. Harry and Ron together manage to get into the chamber, save Jinny and stop Tom (Voldemort) from killing people and coming back to life.
Rating out of 10: 10/10 because i enjoyed discovering the Chamber of Secrets and also I was interested by Tom Riddle, the young Voldemort.
Title: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Author: J.K. Rowling
Book review: It is about Harry’s third year at Hogwarts. Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is after Harry, so there are loads of dementors at Hogwarts searching for Sirius. Later on in the book, he finds out that Sirius is his godfather and is actually good and the bad guy who wants to hurt Harry to bring back Voldemort is Peter Pettigrew who disguised himself as Scabbers – Ron’s rat.
Rating: 10/10, I liked reading about the different broomsticks and the new characters like Sirius Black.
Title: The boy at the back of the class
Author: Onjali Q. Rauf
Book Review:
This book is about an ordinary boy and his friends trying to be friends with a Refugee kid who’s name was Ahmet. Ahmet was a very strange kid he never smiled, never looked up at others and never talks but one day they had a plan…
Title The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
Author Liz Pichon
Book review: It is about a boy called Tom and he likes the band Dude 3 and his parents say, “I will get the tickets if you do this” and then his friends dog eats it. Now he can’t see them but his teacher was friends with them and then they allow him and Mr Fullerman in to see Dude 3.
Title Great adventure sort of,Tom Gates
Author Liz Pichon
Book review It is about a boy called Tom who has a Grandad and Grandmother who give him lots of presents. One day they go to this castle and they’re late so they can’t come. This book is a tragedy like Shakespeare’s plays.
Rating 9/10 because It was super funny