It is about a family who needs to move away from the town they live in to the country in Yorkshire. It is because their father, who works for the government, is sent to jail.
It is about their adventures in the country. Usually they play near the railway tracks (that's why the book is called the railway children!). One time they find a stump in the middle of the rail line and they need to stop the train. The girls decide to tear up their red petticoats to flag down the train. One of the girls faints because the train stops so close to them.
It also turns out that their father, who is in jail for spying, is innocent.
Rated: 5.75/5! - "I've read the book a few times, it would be nicer if the book had a bit more about how poor they were after their father went to jail."
I like this book because it is very good and funny. The old dentist in town has been murdered and a new dentist appears who is mean. She makes horrible toothpaste which burns through stone and wants to give it to the children. Also when children put a tooth out for the tooth fairy they wake up to find things like spiders and slugs under their pillow. The new dentist's hand gets chopped off and runs around chasing children.
Rated: 3/5 - "I liked it."
The book is about Pollyanna who goes to live with her auntie after her parents die. The town that she moves to is a very sad place and her auntie isn't very nice. Pollyanna is always very positive and looking for the good in everything and to make it good again. She meets a rich man who doesn't want to talk to people but she still tries to. Something bad happens towards the end of the book which Pollyanna can't make better. I can't tell you what it is.
Rated: 5/5 - "I like the main character Pollyanna."
It is about a boy, Miles Halter, whose nickname is Pudge because he's so skinny. He has to go to boarding school and makes some new friends there including a girl named Alaska. Alaska is very popular but also has really big mood swings. She ponders the question 'How do you get out of the labyrinth?' a lot, and Miles tries to find out what this means for her (which is life and suffering). Miles has a special gift for remembering people's last words before they die.
Miles and Alaska play pranks on other students, in the meantime Miles is trying to figure her out.
Rated: 5/5 - "Really good!! Very, very, very, very deep and emotional. It has a lot of swear words, alcohol and other stuff. If it was a movie it would be rated M!"
It is about kids who have to go to orphanages because their parents are dead. The orphanages are used as a place to recruit and train young people as spies because no one would suspect them of being one. One of these kids is James and his sister Lauren who are in the orphanage after their mother dies. Their mum was really fat and had an operation and wasn't allowed to drink, but her boyfriend keeps bringing her alcohol and she dies.
James is taken by the Cherubs and trained as a spy while his sister is taken away by his mother's boyfriend. James is sent on a mission but he is also looking for his sister.
Rated: 4/5 - "The story suddenly stops and doesn't continue, the second book has the same characters and different story."
Augie is a boy who has a deformed face and his parents have always been too scared to send him to school because he would be picked on. He starts school at 12 years old because he has been home-schooled. He meets some nice friends, Summer and Jack, but everyone else is mean.
When Augie was little he went to a shop and another child pointed out his face ... this boy turns out to be Jack his new friend.
Rated: 5/5 - "There are ups and downs in the story."
Everyone thinks that Sirius killed Peter Pettigrew (because all that was left was his finger) and also told Voldemort where Harry Potter's parents were hiding so was responsible for their deaths. In this book Sirius escapes from Azkaban and everyone is concerned. But it turns out that Pettigrew was the one who gave Harry's parents away and then faked his own death. He then turned himself into a rat and became Ron Weasley's pet rat. At the end of the book Pettigrew escapes and Sirius turns out to be Harry Potter's godfather and is working for good and not for Voldemort.
Rated: 5/5 - "J.K. Rowling is very good at describing things and it felt like I was there."
This is the fourth book in the Divergent Trilogy but it is an extra book. It's about a character Tobias who appears in other books but is not the main character. It is about his life before he met Tris. It's little stories about life with his mum and dad.
Before his life in the Factions (there are five) he moves to Dauntless to get away from his dad. It's about the way his life changes and how he got the nickname Four. His life is a series of sad tragedies but that eventually leads to good things.
Rated: 4/5 - "It has a very good story line - I think that maybe it should have focused on his mum too and some good memories not just the bad ones."
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