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Blogger of the Month
Congratulations to the pupils below who were winners and runners-up in October's Blogger of the Month competition!
S1 Winner
Molly Gladman (1Y)
S1 Runner-up
Kelsey Caldow (1B)
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Cassie Wright (2R)
S2 Runner-up
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32 comments:
ghost stories
this book was amazing it has all different spooky stories in it and i loved it i could read it over and opver again.
my book was called byccle blues it was areslly good book it was about a boy caled jamie his mum and dad saved up for a bike for jamie but his bike gets stolen.he sees a bike that looked just like his but when he had took it he realised it wasn`t his.he made a freind called greg they both went to a boarded up garage there they found rats,rubbish and lots of bikes he saw his own one.jamie went to the police station and told them.
the bike theives were caught and they never stole another bike again
Under The Flag
By Edward Arnold
This book was alright but it was a bit short for me.It was'nt the best book i have ever read but it was no bad.
It was about a man who was a little girls dream and there was a sheet of paper with a mans face on it and it looked younger than the one she had seen in her dream and that is accualy quite intersting and exciting that beat but it also quite a weird book and i did'nt get parts of it.
One thing is the Author was'nt that descriptive he was'nt that good of an author he did'nt go into detail about the drawing and he did'nt go into detail about her dream.
This book is called Seeing Red it is about fights in football.This was written by Phil Thompson.
The most brutal match would be "The game that started war".It was accused that meny of the El Salvador fans soon after the game bombeed their rivals.The fights started earlier on in the day when the Argentina fans marched up the streets with burning Elsalvador flags During the game many abusive things happened: bottles were being thrown, also flares, fights were happening and when leaving the stadium it was set on fire by Argentinian fans. After a few days many people were realesed and El Salvador's fans decided to bomb Argentina over 15,000 died with bad injuries.
I really liked this book and will recommened it to all my friends.
by book is called knot again by mike smit
robertt and lisa have been toled to stay out of trouble but then they spot a tall stranger trying to break their caravan and he bears a distinct resemblance to the masked warrior the wrestler theyve just seen in a show.
Superbikes of dreams
This was a good book it hads lots of pictures a information and fast bikes the book was good it to much infomation i was a bit board but it was good my dads two motor bike are in it they are fast 160mph .
OUT OF MY DEPTH BY HELEN BAILEY
About This Book
This book is a about a girl called Electra Brown. She has many problems to deal with such as:
1~ She is trying to get her mum and dad back together but only by breaking her mum and her mums new boyfriend up.
2~ Freak boys dad is giving her the 3rd degree to find out if freak boy's being bullied
3~ and sorrel is interrogating me about Lucy's stroppy moods.
MY OPINION
I personally didn't like this book because.......
1~ It was boring
2~ It wasn't my type of book
3~ It wasn't that funny
and in the words from the book
' These are the real-life, Messed up rants of of me,Electra Brown.
Molly Gladman
my book is called
game boy reloaded
it is about a boy
and a girl called
mia and zak they
find a game boy
game so when
they get home
mia and zak play
the game but when
they start playing
the game it takes
them into the game
and they have to
dodge all sorts
of obsticles like
giant octopusses
and sharks all
sort of animal
sealife then later
on they get attacked by monkeys and choose a lane to go out of the game but they choose the wrong one and get attacked by monkeyssssssssssss
Funky Chickens benjamen zephaniah
I love this book and all my friends thought it was really freally funny and there were quite alot of funny stories and i would read this all over again nothing else to say about this book
Brigands MC
By Robert Muchamore
This book is about an eight year old boy called Dante Scott, who's father is a member of the South Devon Brigands, a motorcycle gang. The gang's leader the Fuhrer, tries to make Dante's father sign his wife into the gang, but he says no, so the Fuhrer shoots all of Dante's family except himself and his baby sister Holly. Dante and Holly get recruited to CHERUB, a secret organization in the English countryside that uses children as spies with one advantage, no one will suspect them.
I really enjoyed this book because I like books about spies and crime, and its the perfect book for teenagers.
20 stars ********************
I would recommend this to all teenagers who like spys.
Molly Moon
by Georgia Byng
This book is about an orphan called Molly Moon. She can make anyone do anything because you see she is a hypontist.
This book is the sequel to Molly Moons Incredible Book of Hypnotism.
In this book Molly has to stop the best hypontist in the world. She does this at the oscars and discovers a anstonishing secret.
Molly Gladman **** ( four stars)
Class A by Robert Muchamore
This is the second book in the CHERUB series. James gets sent on a mission in London to try and infiltrate a world class drug dealer's business, KMG, which stands for Keith Moore's Gang. His main aim is to try and befriend Keith's youngest son Keith Jr. and plant recording equipment in Keith's house. Keith grows to like James and invites him to the holiday home in Miami, where James shoots a KMG rival.
I liked this book because it helped me understand the dangers of a Class A drug and it was quite funny as well. I would recommend it to all crime lovers.
********************** 20 stars.
Mates,Dates&&Great Escapes by Cathy Hopkins
This book is about a school trip to Florence in Italy. It is the perfect escape for Lucy as she has just broke up with her boyfriend Tony her bestfriends brother!
She and her 3 bestfriends Nesta,TJ and Izzie go oan the school trip but her bestfriends are left out because she meets an American boy called Teddy and they really like each other. Lucy has to leave though because the trip is over and at the airport waiting for her with flowers is ... Tony!
I enjoyed this book because it was fun and exciting.
5stars(*****)
The Killing
By Robert Muchamore
Leon is a small time crook who has been pushing his luck for over three decades. The British Intelligence call in CHERUB, a secret organisation with one essential advantage, even the best spies don't suspect children are spying on them. James and Dave are the agents used. The plot they begin to unravel is not what they expected, and only one boy can help them. There's just one problem, the boy fell to his death a year ago.
This book is gripping and funny from the first time you open it. Read it if you can but if you don't you won't know wot you're missing.
******************** 20 stars
Mates,Dates&& Sole Survivors by Cathy Hopkins.
This book is about when 4 girls and there school finishes for the summer holidays. Lucy and her friend Izzie go on a spa weekend but its not as good as they hoped because at the "supposed" to be spa they find out that it is a health class. They also heve to share a room with 4 old ladies. All her other friends have a boyfriend but she doesn't then she meets Daniel she really likes him at first and so does she. But she starts to feel smotherd and thinks the single life is way better than this because he starts to tell her not to see her friends who she can and can't hang out with. One day he sees her with her ex boyfriend Tony and goes crazy but Lucy still wants to be with Tony and he feels the same way but they don't tell each other that. In the end she she dups Daniel and tells her true love how she feels!!
Thiss was a really good book I really enjoyed it .
5satrs(*****)
Maximum Security
by Robert Muchamore
About the Book
James is saved from the recruitment mission when he is offered a position in an upcoming mission. James is joined on the mission by Dave Moss and his sister Lauren Adams, on her first mission. The mission is about Jane Oxford,who is an international arms dealer and has been untraceable for 20 years. But then the CIA come across a breakthrough: Jane's 14 year old son Curtis Oxford has been jailed for murdering three innocent people.
He is being held at Arizona Maximum Security Prison. They ask James, Lauren and Dave to go and befriend him. However, after a prison fight Dave is injured and taken to hospital leaving only James to break out Curtis because he may lead the Cherubs to Jane Oxford, his mother. James becomes friends with Curtis and they break out of the prison after injuring some guards. Met by Lauren, they force a woman to drive them thousands of kilometres until they reach Los Angeles.
MY OPINION
The books is one of the best i have ever read. I loved it because:
1. It was cool
2. It was really funny
3. I loved the bit with the biro
Molly Gladman
4 Star
The Recruit
Robert Muchamore
About The Recruit
James Adams is a 11 year old boy . He has a 9 year old half-sister, Lauren. Their obese mother, Gwen, runs a shoplifting gang. James returns home to watch his mother die after overdose in drugs and alcohol, partly due to Ron, his stepfather, who gave her the alcohol with her medicine. James is sent to a children's care home. James is admitted into CHERUB and following CHERUB requirements changes his last name to James Anthony Adams.James first mission is with Amy Collins and Ewart Asker (Mission Controller).They play as brother and sister at a hippie settlement called 'Fort Harmony' in Wales.In a hut at Fort Harmony, James finds equipment and believes that Fire, World and Bungle are making a bomb. He investigates the hut, sticking his hand inside various boxes.
Later it is revealed that James inadvertedly put his hand inside a box containing anthrax spores, meaning he had a high chance of being infected.James is taken to a hospital where an anthrax expert examines him, and after a few days discovers that the anthrax in James's system is harmless. The harmless anthrax had been in the airconditioning, vaccinating the workers there, so only the politicians would be killed when the real anthrax was used.
What I Thought
I think this book was good to read.
The bits I liked best where:
1. James finding the safe
2. James and Kerry on basic training
3. James getting his navy shirt
4. The gang not believing he had got it
Rating
***** (5 stars)
New Moon by Stephanie Meyer.
New Moon is about a vampire called Edward Cullen and his family are a family of seven vampires, they are extraordinary they don't kill humans they kill animals. Edward is 109 years old and he can read peoples minds and he is amazingly strong and fast. He meets this girl called Bella Swan she is 17 years old. He met Bella in the first book. Edward has waited 90 years for Bella, he is so attracted to her scent it is hard for him to resit biting her, but Edward can't read Bella's mind. At the beginning it is Bella's birthday , she is turning 18. Edwards family organise a party just with them there. Bella opens her presents but gets a paper cut from the wrapping paper. The blood drops on the floor and Jasper, Edwards brother pounces at Bella as he is the new memeber to the family. He still finds it hard to control himself against human blood. Edward pushed him back he crashed into Edwards piano. He also pushes Bella back she smashes a vase and all the glass goes into her arm. Blood is everywhere. All the seven vampires Edward, Jasper, Emmett, Rosalie, Alice and Esme all have to leave the room because of the smell of blood. Apart from Carlise Edwards step dad. He is a doctor and doesn't mind the smell of blood. He takes Bella into his office and cleans up her arm. She needed stitches. After the disastrous evening Edward drives her home. Bella asks him to stay but theres something wrong. She stands and watches him walk off into darkness. The next day the go to school and Edward is waiting for Bella at his car. They are both in most of the same classes. In english they are doing Romeo and Juliett. Bella and Edward sit together. He knows all the words to Romeo and Juliett. After school Edward asks to go for a walk. They go into the forest where she first found out he was a vampire. He tells her he is leaving Forks. Also that he doesn't want her anymore but he is lying. Bella believes every word. He tells her to promise him one thing 'Don't do anything stupid or reckless'
Bella is really upset when he leaves and does lots of things to see him again. She needs to get adreniline to see him so she rides motorbikes and jumps off of high cliffs. Then there is Jacob he turns into a werewolf when he gets angry. He loves Bella very much and wants to be with her. She loves him too but not in that way she thinks of him as her Bestfriend. It will always be Edward that she Loves
I thought this book was brilliant. I have seen all the films that are out so far so I really enjoyed it!!.
10Stars(**********) .
"Kick Boxing"
This book is about:
1.History of Boxing
2.Good health food what boxers need
3.How they started doing their moves ( Most in that book )
4.About injuries
(****) 4 Stars
Digital Fortress
by Dan Brown
This book is about a senior cryptographer at the National security alliance who's codebreaking machine finds a code it can't break. The story transfers to Sevilla, Spain where Susan, the cryptographer's fiance David is trying to find the ring that has the passkey to break the code, but he has to go through Hulohot, a trained assassin also sent after the ring, a Spanish female escort and a British punk.
But the mystery is far more advanced than it seems.
I loved this book because it taught me slightly about viruses and how to destroy them and it was also a great thriller.
I'd recommend this book to those who love computers.
10 stars **********
TheSavage by David Almond
This book is about a boy what have no family, friends and he was alone. Only in his hand he was having old kichen nives and forks.
For me this book is ***/***** stars
The Sound of Laughter
by Peter Kay
This book is about the life to date of critically acclaimed comedian Peter Kay, who shares some of his fondest and funniest memories, and some of his ugly school pictures!
I laughed almost to death when I read this book, it's definetely a great example of an autobiogrsphy and I'd recommend it to any future comedians in school.
******************* 15 stars
Pop Princess By Cathy Hopkins.
This book is about a girl called Becca she missed all the fun at the school production of grease, and she has a bad reputation of being fickle, a dreamer, and not seeing things through. But the pop princess challenge made her determined to try harder than she has ever tried before. She has the voice to do it but she is really shy and needs a lot if support from her best friend.
I didn't enjoy this book it was boring. 2stars(**).
Ghosting by Keith Gray
This book is about magic and ghosts. This book have 9 chapters what have different stories but with same characters.
I like this book because is scary.
The only thing that I don't like is that this book have only 69 pages and the chapters are not very long enought to live in a horror life.
For me this book is (****)stars out of 5
This is a very good book for me.
Macbeth
by Shakespear
Macbeth is play written shakespeare. It is about a man called Macbeth. He is a villian but is the hero. The play is set in scotland. Macbeth murders a lot of people to become the king. Macbeth dies at the end.
I likes this book but not as good as hamlet or Romeo and Juilette.
(** 2 Stars)
Venom by MARVEL
This book is about:
1.Dead Woman
2.Spider-Man's best friend
3.Terrorists
4.Cyclops from X-Men
5.Dead Guy from Goverment
6.Good Spider-Man turning into Bad Spider-Man/Venom
7.Fight between Black Spider-Man and Venom
8.Peter's girlfriend
9.Battle between Big Guy and Spider-Man
For me the best part of the book was 4.Cyclops from X-Men because they were friends and then they start to fight because Peter turn into the Evil.
Fantastic Four by MARVEL
This book is about Fantastic 4 and evil and good characters like x-men
and other. In this book there are some parts from the film what this make it exciting.
This book is OK
3 stars out of 5
Breathe~A Ghost Story by Cliff McNish.
This book is about a boy called Jack. He is used to danger. His asthma has nearly killed him more than once, but his new home has a danger he has never known before- the spirits od the dead. Its only Jack that can see them, only he can hear them, and only he can learn their secrets in time to save his moter- and himself . .
I thought this book was good. I would recommend this to people who like scary ghost stories.
(*****) 5 stars.
Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater.
In this book a local boy is killed by wolves. There is a girl called Grace. Grace's small town becomes a place of fear and suspicion, but Grace can't help being fascinated by the pack of wolves. There's one yellow-eyed wolf in particular. There's something about him- something almost human!.
A while later she then meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away...
I thought this book was good. I enjoyed it because it was exciting!. 3stars(***) .
"Fantastic Funny Stories" by Michael Rosen
This book is full of funny stories. Short stories like just a page. In this book have more than 25 stories thats for sure. But that book is just for kids. 3 years kids would like it for sure. But also there are SOME good very funny stories. ** stars out of *****
The book i had reade was called Two Words it was about to friends that go on a hiking trip and it changes all of there lives the boys in the story were teenagers.
The book was by Tanya Landman she is quite a good writer i exspecially enjoyed this book it was fun to read at night and day i would rate this book 8/10 because of its Fun and good story line it is sad when everything changes because of they go on the hiking trip and i wished they never went on it. In chapter 3 they had set off to go to the hiking trip the two Friends when they go on the hiking trip one of them falls of the hill bit and i think the other slips abit at the edge but he doesent achually completely fall down the hill and at that bit was quit a relief that the other one didnt fall but it was bad that one had fallen but he is safe one of the boys go in hspital while the other sits by his bed side if only he would have jumped if only he would of not of thrown my rucksack to him this wouldnt of happened.
The two boys are best friends in this book it is like a majical book and it is good that the boy doesent die he just goes in hospital but the other boy does not get hurt when the boys mum had arrived she was gazing at him like why him why not you she had straed at him with a horrible look. the two best friends were called jack and matt so i would Say this book was really really reaally fun to read.
By Tanya Landman
The book i read this week was called the Final Cut the book was really cool and it was groosem there was a boy called billy. In the story a mad person try's to kill billy.The person who is trying to kill Billy is called Jck The Ripper he is a very evil or you could say evil or scary man This is my blog.
By Tony Bradman&Martin Chatterman
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