Hang in there Bozo : a Ruby Redfort book by Lauren Child - reviewed by Lily
Really, really funny and that’s basically all you can say
about it. There are two other Ruby Redfort books - she is a 13 year old spy who
works for an agency called Spectrum. She has an undercover agent babysitter
called Hitch and a good friend called Clancy. There are really weird tips in
the book, like how to start a fire and how to get away from someone dangerously
dull.
Rated: 4 reallys - Lily also recommends the Inside a Dog website (you can find it and other book site links on our Online resources page).
The hunger games trilogy by Suzanne Collins - reviewed by Zoe
It’s about a girl named Catniss Everdeen. There’s a capital
and there are 13 districts. There was a war before she was alive. 12 districts
survived and one district was blown up. The whole thing is Catniss goes into an
arena and has to fight 23 kids to the death. Catniss volunteered to go
instead of her sister. She ended up falling in love with a boy called Peter.
After the first arena she gets thrown into a 'ticktock' arena. She survives that
and then a war breaks out… What happens next?
Rated: 5 reallys
Monsieur Cadichon: memoirs of a donkey by Countess de Ségur - reviewed by Lola
It’s about a donkey and his life. The author pretends that
the donkey wrote it. It was written over 150 years ago. Every chapter is a
different story. It’s about a quick-witted, harmless donkey who’s fat. He has a
lot of different masters and mistresses as he’s naughty and gets kicked out of
home a lot. He ends up living with a boy called Jacques. There’s more of him in
the Fleurville trilogy by the same author.
Rated: 4.2 reallys
The adventures of Nanny Piggins by R.A.Spratt - reviewed by Olivia
It’s about a nanny who’s a pig and looks after Derek,
Samantha & Michael. She LOVES cakes and thinks that vegetables shouldn’t be
allowed within 10m of them. She’s an acrobat who ran away from the circus. The
person who hired her is Mr Green who is a tax lawyer and he hates his
children. Nanny Piggins works for 11 cents an hour. She was a headmistress for
a day and she has twelve identical sisters and one brother. She also has an
adopted brother called Boris who is a Russian ballet dancing bear. Boris’s
house is the shed. Wendy, Deidre & Beatrice are some of her evil sisters.
Deidre was Mr Green’s fiancé and she only wanted to marry him for his
car. She was going into a demolition derby and she took his vomit-yellow Rolls
Royce. Nanny Piggins got him a new vomit-brown Rolls Royce to replace the one
Deidre stole.
Rated: 5 reallys
Eragon by Christopher Paolini (who is in the Guinness book
of records as the youngest living best-selling author) - reviewed by Jack
It’s about a boy called Eragon who finds a polished blue
stone in the forest that’s really a dragon egg. He takes it home, thinking that
it would buy his family meat over winter. It hatches overnight. The creepy old
storyteller had this dragon who died and came back to be Eragon’s dragon. They
go on a quest to kill his uncle’s murderers. At the end of the book they find
the rebel’s hideout and there’s a big battle.
Rated: 4 reallys
