St Kilda reviews for November

The enemy; The dead; The fear by Charlie Higson - reviewed by Finola

Kind of a horror book where everyone over 14-15 have turned into mindless kind of zombies. The kids under 14 don’t know how to survive and are running out of food. The first one (The enemy) looks at kids hanging out in the supermarket and then they go to Buckingham palace where it is even worse. The royal family have turned into zombies and are being kept as pets. 

Rated: 3½  reallys

Finola is also reading lots of hardy boys which are very easy to read. She is reading about 6 or 7 a day. The ones that are trilogies are the best.

Watership down by Richard Adams - reviewed by Georgia

She’s liking it, but not quite finished yet. It’s about these rabbits, one of them, Fiver, predicts something bad will happen to their home (which is called a warren). A lot of “snapshots” really describe the place well.

“Snapshots” are descriptive pieces that bring a place to life!

Rated: 4 reallys

Georgia’s mum recommended it because it was her favourite book when she was about 11.

Silverfin – bk. 1 Young Bond  series – by Charlie higson

It’s about a guy called James, and there is an evil guy trying to capture him. James falls in a deep hole where he knows there are eels. He has to swim around for ages and when he comes up he holds his breath for 5 mins.

Rated: 4.5 reallys

Now Liam is reading "Heroes of Olympus".

The power of one by Bryce Courteney - reviewed by Max 

It’s about a boy who gets bullied. He meets a friend who’s mum got into a concentration camp in wartime with Hitler. His friend, a man, is put into prison because the military suspect him of being a spy because he is German. He’s only up to this part – not finished yet.

Rated: 5 reallys – Max’s mum recommended it to him.

The golden day by Ursula Dubosarsky - reviewed by Lily

There are these girls in Australia, there are 11 of them, and their teacher is called Miss Renshaw. One day they hear a man has been hanged in Melbourne – it is 1967. Miss Renshaw takes them to the Enid Thomas Memorial Garden to think about death. There they meet a man called Morgan. He takes them to a cave to see Aboriginal drawings on the walls. Miss Renshaw doesn’t come back. She goes missing for months, then the story skips 8 years – it is 1975 and Miss Renshaw has not been found. In the paper they find out that Morgan has been in jail and people suspect him of killing her. The girls have just finished their last day of school and they go to a café. Bethany starts coughing and screaming because Miss Renshaw is coming towards them and she looks exactly the same as when she went missing and she is in the same dress. Her necklace, which had been found broken, is on her neck unbroken. They notice it is Remembrance day.

Rated:  5 reallys

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J. K. Rowling - reviewed by Max

Max is reading this for the third time (in Borneo!). It's about how Voldemort has returned the previous summer and there is a group called the Order of the Phoenix trying to stop Voldemort and Harry, so Hermione, Harry and the Weasleys are trying to find out what’s happening, but the ministry don’t believe that Voldemort is back. They later believe it and think Voldemort is possessing Harry’s mind.

Oliver is just back from Borneo yesterday where he had a fantastic time!

and ... Finola just wanted to mention a book she's reading at school which is very complicated and intriguing, and one that makes you really have to pay attention to understand what’s going on, called Abyssinia.