August reviews from Albert Park

Flitterwig by Edrei Cullen - reviewed by Tiana

I’ve just started reading this book so I can’t tell you that much except that the main character's name is Ella and she is part human and part a sort of fairy type creature. She has these special glasses that can see into the fairy world.

Rated: 5/5 – "So far I like it because I like enchantment and interesting stories."

Unreal! by Paul Jennings - reviewed by Zoe

Has different short stories in it. 'Lighthouse blues' is one of my favourites. It is full of weird, funny, disgusting and inappropriate stories. 'Skeletons on the dunny' is scary!

Rated: 5/5 – "I like spooky, funny and weird stories."

Undone! by Paul Jennings - reviewed by Alex

Some stories are freaky, some are funny, some are just really weird! 'Nosebleed' is one of the weird ones, it’s about a boy whose grandfather makes him eat food he doesn’t like – so he decides to grow an apple-tree out of his nose. 'Another freaky story' is about the discovery of a new bug which, when it bites you, turns you see-through.

Rated: 5/5 - "All the books in his series are really good."

The search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizzi - reviewed by Emma

Eva the main character lives underground with a robot.  She has never seen another living person.  She lives on a planet called Orbona – she is in hiding from the Queen's hunter.  She is captured and then escapes with her robot.

Rated: 5/5 – "It’s a really good book and I enjoyed it."

Eragon by Christopher Paolini - reviewed by Ben

This is the first book in the series. The boy, Eragon, finds a dragon egg – this means he is able to become a dragon rider. The book just follows his adventures with the dragon and how he raises him.

Rated: 5/5 – "I like dragons and adventure, this book has both of these."

Christian: behind barres by Sebastian Scott - reviewed by Henry

I needed a book to read, I saw the cover and thought it would be about a cool skater dude – but freaked out because it’s part of the Dance Academy series! Yuuuk! He is a cool skater dude – but he does ballet so that cancels out everything!

Rated: 0/5 – "I don’t understand …"

The serpent's shadow by Rick Riordan - reviewed by Vincent

Brother and sister Carter and Sadie are the two main characters in the series and are out to stop the evil snake Apophis. They need the help of Ra the ancient Egyptian sun god to defeat Apophis. The book is the third and last book in the Kane Chronicles series.

Rated: 3½/5 - "It was good, but not perfect but better than the Percy Jackson series. I liked the first book from this series, it was the best one."

Give peas a chance by Morris Gleitzman - reviewed by Annabelle

It is a collection of short stories. My favourite one is 'Give peas a chance.' It’s about a boy who goes on strike and won’t eat his veggies until there is world peace – the strike spreads until all the kids in the world won’t eat their veggies.

Rated: 4.9/5 - "I didn’t like all of the stories in it – but I really loved ‘Give peas a chance’!"