Reviews for June from the St Kilda club

Blood fever by Charlie Higson - reviewed by Sam

It’s part of the Young Bond series (book 2). I thought it was really good. I just really liked it. It has action and adventure.

4 reallys

The adventures of Ook & Gluk : Kung-fu cavemen from the future by Dav Pilkey - reviewed by Noah

It’s a comic about 2 cavemen who go on adventures together. They are best friends and they live in Caveland, Ohio. The chief of Caveland is called Gobnopper. He is an ancestor of an evil mastermind.

The mastermind Gobnopper has a time machine and he is coming back to Caveland time to take all the natural resources to the future. The future becomes like caveman time and caveman time becomes like the future.

“I loved it!” 5 reallys – it was really funny, it has romance, action, comedy and cruddy jokes – at the end it teaches you how to speak caveman.

Rubies in the snow by Kate Hubbard - reviewed by Oliver

I read it for the literary circle at school. It’s about a Russian royal family – it’s supposed to be the diary of Anastasia. She is talking about her life, from being famous and rich until the war begins and they have to hide.

It was a bit slow to start with but it gets interesting.

3 ½ reallys

Ally has reviewed 2 Marcus Sedgwick books:

Lunatics and luck

It’s about 2 children who don’t get teachers or anything. One day a teacher comes to the door who says he wants to work for them. The children thought he was a werewolf because he was really hairy. He had a dog with him.

4 reallys

Ghosts and gadgets

This is more interesting because you really want to turn the next page. One of the children has a crow who usually saves the day. They  live in a castle called Castle Otherhand and there are ghosts that they think that they have. Their mum calls the ghost Buster

5 reallys

These two books are connected by characters.

Hurricane Gold by Charlie Higson - reviewed by Charlie

Another of the Young Bond series (book 4). Young James Bond goes to Mexico for a holiday where there is a bad guy called El Hurricane and Mrs Glass. Other characters there are called Whatzat, Manny, Stritaker, Strabo.

He gets captured with a girl called Precious and a boy called JJ by Mrs Glass.

It’s exciting, adventurous, cool but only gets 3 reallys because it is too predictable. Not as good as the others.

Squire by Tamora Pierce - reviewed by Oriana

The main character is a girl called Kel, whose full name is Keladry of Mindelan. She became a squire to the most famous person in Tortall. The story is about her quest to become a squire.