Thursday, March 17, 2016

St Kilda reviews for March

The very bad book by Andy Griffiths - reviewed by Jack

The very bad book is filled with extremely bad stories. Like "Killer Koalas from outer space" and "The old woman who lived in a poo". My favourite was "Mary had a very bad lamb". It’s funny. There are poems in it too.

Rated:  4/5 reallys - "I recommend it to people who enjoy stupid, unsophisticated books."

Coding games in Scratch by John Woodcock - reviewed by Ruth

I got this book for my birthday, two days after I finished reading a book by the same author. It’s not only an instruction book, it’s funny as well with lots of jokes including a cat and dog.

Rated:  4/5 reallys - "It’s really good but it’s not that good because the pictures aren’t the real ones, probably because of copyright."

The dreaming : volumes 1, 2 & 3 by Queenie Chan - reviewed by Louise and Olivia

We are reviewing the TokyoPop comic trilogy called The Dreaming. It’s about this pair of twins Amber and Jeanie Malkin. They go to live at this boarding school where their aunt is the principal. One doesn’t want to go, she wants to stay with her friends. She’s very nostalgic.

Not long after they arrive they notice that girls are disappearing. The school is an old, spooky Victorian mansion, set in the middle of the Australian bush. So it’s very isolated. Then their friend Millie goes missing. They find her but she has changed. It’s as if she were possessed.

The vice principal is this old lady who has a lot of power because she owns the school. She hates twins, so the girls pretend they are regular sisters set a year-and-a-half apart. There are all these paintings by the vice principal’s twin who also disappeared. They are of Quinkans, mythological Aboriginal beings. While the principal is away at a funeral, the missing girls return…

Rated:  4.9/5 reallys - "It's messed up... we wouldn't recommend it for younger readers."

Jedi Academy trilogy by Jeffrey Brown - reviewed by Fergus

This series is based on the main character named Roan. He dreams of becoming a pilot and attending the Pilot Academy. But he isn’t accepted. Instead he goes to Jedi Academy even though he never applied to go there…

Rated:  4.3/5 reallys - "It’s quite a book. It’s quite attractive, it draws you in."

Matilda by Roald Dahl - reviewed by Jaxon

So I’m reading Matilda. So the main characters are the Wormwoods, Matilda, Ms Trunchball and Miss Honey. Matilda is going to a new school. A girl tells her about the chokey. It’s a cupboard studded with nails and broken shards of glass. If you get into trouble Ms Trunchball will put you in there and if you wobble even a little bit you will get hurt. The girl who tells Matilda about it knows because she has been in there a few times because of covering Trunchball’s chair in maple syrup and an itching powder in her underwear!

Matilda is really smart - at three she could read and at four she could read mathematics and knew all her 2 times tables. But her dad thinks she’s an idiot. Her mum says to Miss Honey "You chose books and I chose looks" which is actually very mean. I'm only up to page 101. It has about 200 pages.

Rated:  5/5 reallys - "I'm reading everything Roald Dahl has written."

The worst witch and the wishing star by Jill Murphy - reviewed by Gabriel

One day Mildred saw a wishing star. Her friends say to make a wish. It comes true! The next day she gets a dog. But she’s not allowed to have it at Miss Cackle's Academy. So she hides the dog everywhere she can think of. She calls him Star. He can do lots of tricks. Then a mean girl tells the teacher. But the teacher is nice and tells her she should enter the talent competition with Star. They could win the school a swimming pool…

Rated:  5/5 reallys - "I like this book because the dog can do back flips. It's hilarious!"

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - reviewed by Emese

It’s about this boy called Huck. He doesn't have a mum, just a dad. His dad is always getting drunk. He decides to run away so he fakes his own death and makes a raft. He sails away to an island. He meets a boy and they sail down the Mississippi.

Rated:  4.9/5 reallys - "It’s really hard to read because of the slang. And it’s part of a bigger world. Tom Sawyer is in it halfway through as Huck's friend and I didn't know who he was. I am reading it with my dad. I do the accents."

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