My cousin recommended this and I agree with him – not only great writing, it has good pictures too. It’s part of a trilogy. It’s about four kids, their last name is Kid. Their parents are famous treasure hunters. They don’t go to school, instead they are home schooled on an old, abandoned ship by their parents. They get to go exploring ship wrecks in the ocean.
The two twin Kids Bic and Bec have a nickname: The Twin Tirades 'cos they fight a lot. Bec wears 3D glasses that her mum gave her. The oldest is Tommy, he’s like a teenager/grownup. He’s really good with the ship. The second oldest is Storm. Her real name is Stephanie but she hates it, if anyone calls her Stephanie her eyes go all stormy. She has a photographic memory and is really smart. One day their mum gets kidnapped by pirates. Then in a big storm their super famous dad goes missing too. They think he drowned but no one knows for sure…
Rated: 5/5 reallys - "6/5 if that was possible - best book ever!!"
Ben doesn’t like going to his grandma’s house. She smells of cabbage, her TV doesn’t work, they have to play scrabble and she farts without knowing it. His parents leave him there every week so they can go ballroom dancing. One night he complains over the phone about how bored he is and his grandma overhears. Then while his grandma is reading a book, Ben goes to get a cookie out of the cookie jar. The jar is full of jewels! The his grandma tells him she’s actually an international jewel thief! She tells him all about the jewel heists of her past. She says that it’s every jewel thief’s dream to steal the crown jewels. Later she has to go to hospital so Ben plans to steal the crown jewels on his own…
Rated: 5/5 reallys - "Very good."
It’s about a guy named Winston. In this world there are screens everywhere that record your every move. There are posters everywhere declaring that: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING. People who think or act against big brother, have committed “thought crimes”. They tend to disappear. Winston is part of the Outer Party. He works in an office where people go through and censor all the material. There are proles who are hard labourers, coal miners and then there is the Inner Party, the mayors and governors who rule. Winston begins to have an affair with a woman. They meet in secret places and talk. They join an underground group of people who are rebelling against Big Brother. These people are very good at masking their expressions. They read a book written by the rebel leader which is all about breaking down what society is and what it should be.
Rated: 3.5/5 reallys - "It’s hard to read because it’s very heavy and the style of the writing is difficult. I haven’t finished it yet. I would recommend it to teen readers. It’s a really disturbing book but I like the way George Orwell asks: 'What if?'”
So what’s happening is that the Samurai kids are on a journey around Asia. Most of them are from Japan, some of them are from China.
Each Samurai has a spirit animal:
- Yoshi has the brave spirit of a tiger but doesn’t want to fight.
- Niya only has one leg and is a white crane.
- Kyoko is a girl who has white hair and six fingers and six toes. She is a snow monkey.
- Mikko is a striped gecko, he’s lazy but quick when he needs to be.
- Taji is a golden bat with an excellent sense of smell.
- Nezume is loyal. His animal is the long tailed rat.
- Chen’s spirit animal is the red fox.
My favourites are Kyoko and Chen.
Their teacher Sensei was once a famous shanghai master.
In a Korean jungle they get attacked by a tiger. Yoshi scares it away. Sensei tries to find a secret village. While searching they find a stick man who at first they think is just a stick. The stick man warns them that they better look out for the tiger. They say they already dealt with him. The stick man is amazed and calls Yoshi the chosen one. He kneels down and swears to protect him. They say with what? You have no weapons. Then the stick man reveals a muscat. Then Sensei realizes he is the guard of the hidden village. He shows them the way up the mountain, to where the village is hidden, right in the middle down below.
My favourite part is where everyone is down the inner part of the mountain except Niya who is scared. Kyoko starts climbing up the mountain to help and stick man exclaims “none of the Kuwong warriors climb this path”.
When they arrive in the village they sleep until dinner because they haven’t slept for months. That’s how their quest begins…
Rated: 5/5 reallys - “Really awesome.”
It’s about a girl called Tessa who is a Variant. Variants are people who have a power that allows them to take a part of other people’s DNA when they touch them and become like them. She is trained by a secret unit of the FBI. There is a serial killer who has killed three people and attempts to kill a fourth. All the victims have an “A” mark on their ribcages. Madeleine, the one who got away goes to hospital. Tessa visits her, and when Madeleine dies she takes on her identity, not telling her family and friends that the real Madeleine has died. Tessa is going to try and out who the killer is…
Rated: 5/5 reallys - "Really well written."
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