Survival guide to Camp Green Lake

by Louis Sachar

I recommend this book because it shows you what to do and how to survive in Camp Green Lake. For example what happens if a scorpion bites you, the different types of scorpions, etc... It also says this about the rattle snakes and the yellow spotted lizards. It shows you how the system works and how the camp is separated: Boy scout camp and Girl scout camp. Stanley went to the boy scout where he made lots of friends:X-Ray, Zigzag, Magnet, Armpit and Zero. All of the boys had a personal item for example Zigzag has a TV guide from the 22nd of March, 1998. This book tells you about the suggestion box of Mr. Pendanski where you put a suggestion to do a great camp but it was not always a good idea, for example the one of Armpit. The book tells you why the campers are there. E.g. X-Ray is there because he sold sugar saying that it whas a drug .

I think if you want to read this book you need to read Holes first.

If you want to know more about this book read it or go to webpage:http://www.louissachar.com/

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Refugee Boy

by Benjamin Zephaniah
Alem is an African boy which faces a very difficult situation. At the time there are internal conflicts in Africa. One of them involves Eritrea and Ethiopia and curiously (or unfortunately) his father is from Ethiopia and his mother from Eritrea. This will make them face a stunning adventure; they are not safe in either of the countries yet they used to live happily alterning from one to the other. Knowing that war has exploited harder than ever Alem`s father goes with him to have some unsuspected holidays in London. They book in a comftarble room in a hotel. They visit the city and everything seems fine when suddenly, next morning, Alem wakes up alone…
A note is left for him. The note explains the reasons of this crazy event. It’s for his own safety…
Some social agents go and see him immediately, what am I doing here? Was the most common question he asked himself.

The social helpers find him a place to stay with kids of his age until they can manage to get him political asylum in the country.
Eventually Alem gets to hate this place and is taken to some foster parents, which are great and very nice to him. Some days after a letter get to him; it’s his father!
He is very relieved about this but days after one of the letters didn’t please him as much ; her mother had been hacked to death…

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Across the nightingale floor

by Lian Hearn

In 'Across the nightingale floor, Takeo is a member of the Hidden, one of the clans of the Three Countries. They are attacked by the Tohan and their villian leader Lord Iida Sadamu. He's the only survivor because a strange man, Lord Otori Shigeru, from the clan of the Otori, saves him. He goes with him to Hagi, Lord Shigeru's castle. There, he tells Takeo his intention of adopting him. Another man, Muto Kenji, tells him he's a member of the Tribe, a clan that has special powers. Kenji starts teaching him his powers, as he was also from the Tribe. Takeo discovers that he can turn invisible, divide into two, has very acute hearing and can turn human to sleep.
As he's from the Tribe, Lord Shigeru tells him that his mission is to kill Iida, who both of the hate him. During his journey he meets with Kaede, a girl from his age. Meanwhile, the Tribe have the intention of relucting him because he has great powers, and his death would be very negative.
During his journey, Takeo learns about love, destiny, implication, friendship and solidarity.

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Harry and the wrinklies

by Alan Temperley

Harry is a boy whose parents are rich.
He is used t o live alone in huge house for is own and his babysitter. However things change when Harry’s parents die in an accident when they are travelling around the world as they usually do. Harry must leave the house where he has live all his life, and move with his two old aunts.
Harry notice strange things in his aunts usual day and he is starting thinking they are both banks robbers, and he is right Harry must chose between a home and a family and doing the right thing.

THIS IS A GREAT BOOK, REALLY FUNNY.IT IS FOR BOTH GIRLS AND BOYS AND IT USES A REALLY EASY LANGUGE. I RECOMEND THIS BOOK TO ANYONE WHO LIKES GOOD READING AND FUNNY BOOKS WHITH ADVENTURE

Read another interesting reviw about it in Reading Matters

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The witches

by Roald Dahl

Yesterday I finished reading ‘The Witches’ by Roald Dahl, with Quentin Blake’s fantastic illustrations. It was a marvellous book which I would recommend.
If you really want to enjoy reading a book, read this one: Reading these 200 pages, made me feel lots of emotions; tension, anguish, sadness, and happiness at the same time...... I’m sure you are going to like it; I'm 100% sure of it.
I recommend it, above all, for people that like all those emotions with the emotion of mixing real life situations (the boy and his grandma) with fantasy (the witches).
Conclusion = Reading it = Enjoying a book

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Warriors into the Wild

by Erin Hunter

This book is about a cat named Rusty who lives with humans until, one day, he ventures into the woods and finds a clan of cats who live there. He soon joins them, and finds out that there are four clans in the forest: ThunderClan (his clan), RiverClan, WindClan and ShadowClan. They defend their borders and catch their own prey. He is made an apprentice, and named Firepaw, and learns everything one needs to know to survive in a clan and in the forest.
I’d recommend this book to cat-lovers, and to those who enjoy action, adventure and mystery. This book will make you go on reading the rest of the series! There are three series with six books each, plus extra books such as six Manga volumes, the Super Edition “Firestar’s Quest”, and two guides. I’ve read all of the books and look forward to reading the forthcoming ones! You will surely get hooked!
Make sure you visit the official website (http://www.%20warriorcats.%20com/)
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H. I. Larry’s deep waters book.

….Zac was with all his class in the West Sea Aquarium when the tour guide said: “We are going to see how two divers feed the sharks.” The sharks went directly towards the divers, they circled them and… “Shark attack!” screamed the tour guide. “Zac Power?” asked a voice behind him in the middle of all the screaming and shouting. “Come with me, you are entering your first solo mission.”….
Read the book if you want to find out more!
I liked this book a lot because it is short and enjoyable. It has a bit of intrigue that keeps you reading it. It is very well written and it is very imaginative.
I would recommend this book to people that like action stories.

Click here to open Zac Power's Portal.

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Another curse by Louis Sachar

Do you like curses? Yes? Well, then you like Louis Sachar. If you like humorous books and you want to have a good time you will surely like THE BOY WHO LOST HIS FACE. It was written in 1987 and it is about a boy called David which helps the cool guys steal an old woman’s cane and when she realizes what they are doing she angrily shouts "Your Doppelgänger will regurgitate on your soul!"After this, David finds out he is repeating every thing he and his “friends” did to the old woman so he thinks that he is cursed and you can’t imagine what he does to take the curse away. But I can’t tell you you’ll have to read the book yourself.
I think that this book is very good in all of the aspects. I liked it because it includes a little bit of everything: humor, suspense, love… and it can make you feel opposite feelings at the same time.

MA 7Y

AWESOME BOOK BY MICHELLE PAVER

Outcast by Michelle Paver

This story is the fourth book of the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness and, the best one. I have enjoyed this book because it’s very imaginative and well described. You can imagine the places and even the feelings of the characters. Michelle Paver uses so good language you can imagine the places and even the feelings of the characters, and you can also touch the objects that are described. It is also enjoyable because it creates suspense by doing a lot of action instead of stopping to describe everything very slowly. The author uses fiction and non-fiction from the prehistory, where the story is set.
It is about a boy who has to live on his own, only with the help of his pack-brother, a wolf and, some hunters want to kill him.
So, Outcast is an awesome and wonderful book by Michelle Paver.IG 7Y

Flora Segunda of Crackpot Hall

by Ysabeau Swilce

In magical Crackpot Hall, stairs and hallways disappear, and rooms never stay in the same place.
This book is filled with mysteries and adventures; you enter an amusing and strange world like you’ve never seen before.
I recommend this book to people that like creepy things .This book is not a very happy book or sad book, but a very strange story.
You would be asking yourself “Why is it a strange and amusing story?” but that you’ll have to find out for yourself.

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The recruit by Robert Muchamore

James is a very peculiar boy. He is eleven years old, he does not know

where his father is or what does he work at. He lives with his mother

and sister Lauren, but sometimes uncle Ron, the father of Lauren comes

and stays with them but he is not very nice. James is a very smart boy,

he is one of the best students in his school, he gets bored nearly all the time.

One day he gets in trouble and cuts one girl because the girl was insulting

his mother by telling him that his mother was so fat that she did not fit in

the toilet. When he arrives home he sees his mother leaning in the sofa

until he notice she is dead, he calls an ambulance. The next day James and Lauren are in a boarding school a lady tells James that uncle Ron was picking Lauren in a few minutes and maybe that was going to be one of the last moments he was going to be with her. James and Lauren said each other goodbye. James is sent to a room where a boy was leaning in one bed he is called Kyle he is going to be James room mate, James starts hanging with some guys older than him so he starts getting again in problems until the police notice. James is sent to the police station were one man in his thirties starts asking him questions but James did not answer. James goes back to the boarding school, he sleeps for three or four hours when he wakes up he is in another boarding school or at least that is what it looks like...

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Hatchet

by Gary Paulsen

This story is about a city boy called Brian Robeson and his parents are divorced.
Brian is with his mother, but he has to get a plane to the Canadian forest where his father is working.
Brian was very upset because he already new the SECRET before his parents had divorced. The SECRET was a thing that only his mother and him new.
Brian was only thinking of the SECRET when he got in the plane.
The pilot didn’t talk a lot but Brian didn’t mind.
There was a thing that was going to happen that Brian would never imagine.
The plane crashed.
Through the rest of the book Brian has to survive in the middle of the Canadian wilderness with only a hatchet. He has to live good adventures and bad ones.
He has to learn to live the hard way , or die.

I think this book was a very good one, because it has some points of intrigue and of fear. This book can be read by boys or girls and it is not very long so you can read it in a few days.
This is a extract of the book that I liked:
"There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and the plane rolled to the right and blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam into the lake, skip once on water as hard as concrete, water that tore the windscreen out and shattered the side windows, water that drove him back into the seat". (Hatchet, page 23)
There is a page that I found that talks about other adventures of Brian Robeson, and I would like to read them:
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/garypaulsen/library/briansaga.html

Noughts and crosses

by Marjorie Blackman
This is a gripping and totally absorbing novel were blacks, in the story called crosses, and whites, called noughts, don’t mix together. The account is based on what two children, Sephy and Callum live. Although Sephy is a cross and Callum a nought, they’re friends because Callum’s mother worked for Sephy’s family.


Everyone was happy until when four nought children were accepted into a cross’ school. Callum was one of those noughts and it was Sephy’s school. Both of them were very excited about going to the same classroom and talking about their homeworks, their teachers, etc... But when the first day of school started, all the crosses were waiting the noughts to pass to the school, looking at them menacingly and throwing them stones. The police couldn’t stop them. A nought girl was injured in her head, but it wasn’t important and the noughts entered the school.
In school, the four nought children were marginated and the black teachers didn’t like them too much. Sephy didn’t like these attitudes towards the noughts, so one day she sat down with the noughts to eat. The crosses didn’t like these so they marginated her aswell. Callum didn’t want the people to know that Sephy and him were friends because that will ruin their friendship and he got very angry when Sephy started to talk with him during school-time.
Then things got worse, Callum’s daughter, who had been attack because of kissing a nought, remembered what happen, she had been in shock since then, so, she decide to commit suicide by throwing herself in front of a bus. After that things got worse, there was a lot of violence between the nought and crosses that lead into bombs, persecution, etc... Will Sephy and Callum be together??
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And then there were none

by

Ten people….
Anthony Marston, Mrs. Rogers, General Macarthur, Mr. Rogers, Miss. Brent Mr. Justice Wargrave, Mr. Armstrong, Mr. Blore, Philip Lombard, Vera Claythorne.
Soldier Island, is their destiny, they all seem to have different people or different things to do there, the two servants Mr and Mrs Rogers have had previous instructions as to what to do by letter informing them that the mysterious owner of the house Mr Owen had told them that he would only delay a day or so and that they were to receive some guests and give them everything they needed. The incomers were confused by this explanation they had expected something else or someone else.
A strange tape is put on and reveals that each one of the present people have committed murderer.
Nine people, suddenly one of them chokes and dies in the instant, it is found that he had been poisoned, there seems to be a murderer between the assistants, but who?
Suddenly a whole lot of homicide cases take place following a nursery rhyme:

Ten Little Soldier Boys

Ten little soldier boys went out to dine;

One choked his little self and then there were Nine.

Nine little soldier boys sat up very late;

One overslept himself and then there was Eight.

Eight little soldier boys travelling to Devon;

One said he stayed there and then there were Seven.

Seven little soldier boys chopping up sticks;

One chopped himself in halves and then there were Six.

Six little soldier boys playing with a hive;

A bumble bee stung one and then there were Five.

Five little soldier boys going in for law;

One got in Chancery and then there were Four.

Four little soldier boys going out to sea;

A red herring swallowed one and then there were Three.

Three little soldier boys walking in the Zoo;

A big bear hugged one and then there were Two.

Two little soldier boys sitting in the sun;

One got frizzled up and then there was One.

One little soldier boy left all alone;

He went and hanged himselfAnd then there were None.

Each of the soldiers represents a person of the ten that have gone to the house.
They search everywhere for a possible extra person there and find, nothing.
So we have a question:Who is the Murderer?

TDRC 9Y

The phone goes dead

by Anthony Horowitz

This book has two stories in it. The first one is called The Phone Goes Dead and the second one Bath Night.
The Phone Goes Dead is about a girl who was walking, and it started to rain.Well it was actually a storm.There are two things you should never do when there’s a storm 1.get under a tree 2.get out your mobile phone.Well going back to the story.The girl was walking until the storm started.She shelterd under a big, tall tree, and called her husband.As she was talking a lightning reached her and she died .The phone landed a few meters away from her.The day after the body is removed the phone ends up in a second-hand shop.In there David Adams’ Dad buys the phone to give it to his son, for his birthday.
The phone was very old fashioned but David didn’t mind.One day David got a call from someone ...
Bath Night: Bath Night is about a family,the Martin family.The parents Susan and Jeremy liked to buy antiques.One day they go to buy a bath.The bath they get is quite old with a yellowish thing on the bottom.But it’s quite nice.
Their daughter is called Isabel.Isabel didnt quite like the bath.One day she was going to have a bath.She turned the tap on and a red thing came out of it.Well you probably all know what the red thing is...If you dont i’ll tell you it was BLOOD.Or at least thats what Isabel thought
She had been 3 or 4 days without having a shower and she wanted to have one because washing herself in the sink it wasn’t very confortable.She wanted to face that horrible bath and so she did.She turned the tap on.

If you want to know more about this book well just read it!!

POB 8Y

Twilight saga

TWILIGHT by Stephanie Meyer

Isabella Swan is seventeen years old. She has white skin and is too small for her age. She is not to sociable and doesn’t like talking.

Her parents are divorced and her mother has decided to go and live with her new husband so Bella decides to go with his father Charlie. Charlie has always loved Bella and Bella likes him because he leaves her alone not like her mother, Renée.

When she had moved to a little town called Forks she meets a very irresistible but strange boy called Edward Cullen. Her new friends, Eric, Jessica and Mike, tell Bella he never talks to anyone that is not from his family. This encourages Bella to talk with him. In class, his teacher, Mr. Banner, decides to sit Bella and Edward together. Bella notices Edward gets too nervous when they are together. Edward doesn’t appear at school for some days after that day.

When he comes back to school, Bella and Edward start talking, they get to be friends. Once, when Bella was going to be killed with a car, Edward saves her. She recognizes he was too fast and strong to save her. Then she starts seeing his eye color changes and his supernatural gifts. But Bella does not want to notice it is not a good idea to be near Edward for a long time. This will make her life take a terrifying turn.

Then Bella tries to discover his secret, she searches in Internet and discovers it. She really isn’t scared but doesn’t want to loose him. Edward loves her too.

After, Edward invites Bella to meet his family. They play baseball but then three inconveniences get on their way. Once again, Edward saves Bella.

¿What is Edward Cullen’s secret?

AC 9Y

The book I have read was written by Stephanie Meyer and is called Twilight. It is about two teenagers who fall in love, but he turns out to be a vampire. Her name is Bella, she moves form Phoenix to Forks to live with his father so that her mother can travel around the world with his new husband.
As soon as Bella joined the new school, she adapted extremely well, she got on well with teachers and made lots of new friends, but there was a student in particular which caught her eye, his name was Edward Cullen and had fame for being very weird, and he seems to be repulsed by her. After doing a bit of research, Bella finds out Edward and his family are vampires and had lived for several centuries, they drink blood , after some time Edward reveals he initially avoided Bella because the scent of her blood was so desirable to him it was dangerous.
After some time, and several events which are tremendously romantic, Bella and Edward fall in love, and everything is marvellous till a new vampire called James turns up, and he wants to hunt Bella as a sport. She is in a very dangerous situation and to prevent damages is sent to a hotel in Phoenix whilst Edward remains in Forks. James then phones Bella saying he has her mother and that the only way to save her is giving herself up. She does so, and is attacked by James, the whole Cullen family manages to save her just in time, but James had bit her hand, Edward hurries to suck the venom out before she is turned into a vampire. Bella and Edward return home, and attend the prom in which Bella tells him she wants to be turned into a vampire, because she wants to stay with him forever. They are seriously the best couple of all times.

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Stephanie Meyer talks about Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse

NEW MOON by Stephanie Meyer

Bella Swan is all the time with Edward Cullen, a vampire, her boyfriend.
Bella’s birthday came soon, and Bella was sad about it because that meant she would be 18, older than Edward.
The Cullen’s made a great party at their house, and Bella got cut in the finger with the wrapping paper of a present, Jasper tried to kill her, but Edward saved her.
Soon after, Edward told Bella he had to go and everything was going to be as if he never had existed.
Months passed and Bella was mysterious, she had nightmares all nights and her friends long ago stop calling her to go to places.
But one day she found 2 broken bikes and thought about learning how to ride them... She went down to La push where Jacob Black and his father lived so Jake could mend them.
After some weeks they were great friends… just friends… and Jacob knew that, even thought he wanted to be something more, Bella and him told between each other all their secrets.
One day Bella decided to go hiking and she appeared in a place she already knew, because she had been with Edward. At that moment Laurent a vampire appeared and tried to kill her, but before nothing could happen, 5 enormous wolves appeared and ran after Laurent, Bella got worried because she could hear Edwards voice inside it when she was in danger.
A few days passed and Jacob didn’t call her at all, and soon after it Bella got sick of it and went to talk with him. After that, Jacob and her were friends again because now Bella knew that Jacob was a werewolf (that was Jacobs’s secret) and she didn’t care, but she knew that the werewolves were the vampire’s enemies.
One evening when Jake had gone after a Victoria, the vampire which was after Bella, Bella decided to do cliff diving and nearly got drowned.
Then that evening Alice (Edward sister) came and told Bella that Edward was heading to Italy because he though Bella was dead.
Bella and Alice ran to save Edward from suicide, and in the last minute they reached him, then, the most powerful vampire family took them into their home glad to have Edward save, because they wanted him and Alice, because of their “special powers” of reading peoples mind and seeing the future.
Will they escape without being killed on the try? Will Alice and Edward join that family? Will Jacob be still friends with Bella even though she has gone with Edward, Jacobs’s enemy?
If you want to find a book review about this book click in the hyperlink: http://www.dearauthor.com/ (this one is for the author) http://www.clareswindlehurst.com/ (this page is also with the book review)
Elena Ruiz-Orfila

BREAKING DAWN

Stephenie Meyer talks about it

Breaking dawn is the last book from the Twilight saga, written by Stephenie Meyer.
In this book, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen finally marry, as that was the condition that would make Edward change his mind and transform Bella into a vampire. After the wedding, where everything went just perfect, they go to their honeymoon. As Edward didn’t tell her where they were going, Bella was surprised by their destiny: Isle Esme. This Island was Edwards parent’s property, but they had decided to let them spend their honeymoon there.
Firstly, everything was going as they had planned. But then, Edward can’t control his strength and hurts her. Everything starts to go wrong, and, when Bella gets sick, they have to return home. But, Bella wasn’t really sick. She was pregnant. After many discussions, she decides to have the baby, who will be half human and half vampire.
The baby develops very fast. In a few weeks, the baby is big enough to get out of the womb, but it is too big. During the birth, Bells loses a lot of blood, and, just in the last moment, Edward is able to transform her, saving her life.
When she wakes up, everyone realizes she isn’t a normal newborn. She is able to resist the scent of human blood and control herself, which is impossible for a newborn to do.
But, one day, when Renesmee (Bella and Edward’s child), Jacob and Bella are playing, another vampire sees them. That vampire thinks Renesmee is an immortal child, which is against the law the Vultui imposed upon every vampire.
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Stargirl by Jerry Spinelly

"Everybody takes decisions in life but do you know how difficult love can be? Well, this novel tells the story of falling in love and losing love. The author takes us into a different world into a boy's mind: Leo's. Leo was just a normal teenager, until one day a girl appeared at school, a girl who had been home-schooled until now, she was called: Stargirl. Everybody thought her strange; as if she were from another world it seemed as if she was never there but really she was there. She didn't wear jeans, she wore long pioneer dresses, she was always playing the ukulele around hallways, and she carried her pet rat Cinnamon everywhere. She always made people happy, or that was what she tried to because not everybody loved her; people also hated her. She sang to everybody the happy birthday song and she went to funerals of people she didn't know. As several weeks passed by she began to be really popular and she was chosen to become part of the cheerleaders but one day a match was played and her team was winning. She started to cheer for the other team and that was when everything began, when she turned from being the most popular girl to the most hated girl throughout the whole school. But one day Leo fell in love, deeply in love with the worst girl he could have fallen in love: Stargirl. One night he follows her and he declares his love to Stargirl. As he spends more and more time with her he notices his friends stop talking to him and start to ignore him as if he wasn't there. He tries to change Stargirl convincing her to be "normal" so that his friends admit her into the group again but nothing works, so now he has to take the hardest decision in his life: he has to choose between Stargirl or his friends. What will he do?"

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