It’s about a girl called Anne. At the start she has a pretty normal life. Then she starts to hear people talking about the war, but life still seems pretty normal. But then she and her family and some others have to live in rooms where the entrance is a hole hidden behind a bookcase. They hang out there for three months.
She writes about her future. She wants to be a writer and a poet. While she’s there she forms a friendship with a boy named Peter. They get scared one day when their hiding place is discovered and Anne stops writing.
The story is continued by her Dad, who survives.
"It was really sad, which made it hard to read, but good to know about, because you learn about the intensity of that era."
It’s about a guy living in this really controlled country. There are TVs everywhere that watch you. The show Big Brother is from this book, there are posters everywhere which say “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”.
Rated: 5/5 reallys - "It was pretty hardcore. I really liked it because it was so descriptive."
It’s about this zoo, with all the animals you’d probably expect to see at a normal zoo – except they can talk!
Two brothers, Tomas and Andrej run away from army intruders and end up hiding at the zoo as the war continues outside.
Rated: 2½/5 reallys - "There was too much thinking and not enough action. There were only a couple of bombs."
Alyzon was in a coma for one month. When she wakes up her senses are all extended. Everyone has a different smell and when she touches you she can see glimpses of your life. But there’s this sickness that goes along with her new senses.
She meets a man who works for charity named Aryn who is putting on a charity concert with her dad. The weird thing is that Aryn has no smell. Alyzon isn’t sure whether he is good or bad.
She also has a mysterious sister named Serenity who goes to the library every Monday. Alyzon’s friends Billy and Harrison help her to figure out what’s going on which involves disguises.
Rated: 5/5 reallys
Basically it’s a comic story based on the life of the girl who wrote it.
Cece finds out she is deaf so she needed this thing in her ear which is fine. But, when she goes to school, she has to wear a special hearing unit on her tummy, called a Phonic Ear.
She meets and becomes friends with some girls named Emma and Laura, but something happens and in the end she gets a new friend Ginnie. Cece gets upset when Ginnie plays music and comments on it when she knows she can’t hear.
Also when she goes to a sleepover, she can’t hear the TV and feels left out. But she finds out something strange and powerful – through her Phonic Ear she can spy on her teacher! For Cece this is like having a super power. She thinks she’s a superhero!
Rated: 5/5 reallys
It’s about a girl named Stella Montgomery who lives on top of a hill surrounded by ocean with her aunts. They live at The Hotel Majestic. Her aunts are very strict and don’t approve of possessions. Stella’s favourite object in the world is an atlas.
One day Stella is in the hotel garden with her atlas and sees a suspicious looking man put a package into a giant urn. Stella leaves, forgetting her Atlas. Later, she returns to get her atlas, but can’t resist taking the package too. But just as she starts to leave strangers come through the garden wearing masks. She sees a writhing hand candle come alight on each of its five fingers – then everyone except Stella falls asleep…
Rated: 4/5 reallys - "It was a bit young for me, but really good."
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