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Islam
Sue Penney
This book is about Islam religion, arabic god Allah.This book present you live of this people and about B.C and A.C years for example Muhammad born after "William the Conqueror" life.I like it because I have a graph of when the Romans Empire begin and end.This book is for someone who like RE or Their god.If you want more about Islam Look in wwe.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/index or www.yahooligans.com for more information.
Jamie Oliver the naked chef
michal joseph
the book has his jamies resepes like pork and crackling and others . the book is for pepel that love cooking by nathan mc naughton 04.09.09
Kilmarnock Football Club Fifty Of The Finest Macthes
Gordon Allison
This book is about Kilmarnock Football clubs history and it tells you about 50 of their best matches.I particularly enjoyed reading the Kilmarnock vs Real Madrid game in 1966 at Rugby Park.The overall score was 2-2.Something neither of the Old firm could do.I would recommend this book for all Killie fans
By Martin McKelvie
Horrible Histories
Horrible Christmas
by Terry Deary
This book is about horrible histories on chrismas.For example:
first chapter is about "Christmas Carol and his christmas stories.
If you want to see :
- a very rude pantomime song?
--why making Christmas Pudding used to be a crime?
or how to get rid of carol singers you have to take it.
History was never to horrible ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Scrary creatures, spiders and minibeasts by penny clarke.
This book is for people with guts. Some of the pictures are REALLY scary,and if you forget you've got arachnaphobia, it's even more of a nightmare!Spiders eatting flys,scorpions eatting lizards,can this get any worse! Like i said this book is for people with guts and who don't have arachnaphobia.Over all this book is good with facts about spider,scorpions,beetles,wasps and loads more.
By Megan Nicol
All You Need To Know About The Olympics
This book is suitible for anyone who likes the olympics.It will tell you from about when it started to when it got stopped years ard years ago.I throughly enjoyed this book as I enjoy the olympics.I felt it would have been better for the school to have a more updated version of the book that tells you about recent olympics.
by Martin McKelvie
THE ROUGH GUIDE TO CULT FOOTBALL
The rough guide to cult football
is a good book that has lots of facts like ghost of football stadiums.It has like games like in scotand world cup campain in 1978 when they lost to Peru 3-1 and lots of otther facts
BY SCOTT SUTTON
Wicked 1 The Slobberers
I thging this book is for children!
It's very not very much fun for me.
It's about bloody trail Someone left behind.
Skateboarding
This book is great for trying to start out on skateboarding , from buying your first board to some of the easiest moves in skate history.
I thought it was quite good because it shows step by step moves.If your a quick learner you may become a pro in days.
By Finn Gibson
William Wallace
This book is about Scotland's greatest HERO Mr.Wallace
Wallace led a Scottish army to a crushing victory over the English in 1297!!!
In this book was:
* Scottish History
* Robert Burns
* WILLIAM WALLACE
* The Jacobites
* and others
You must check this out!!!
By Adrian Romanski
All the things you need to know about world war ii
This book is mainly for people who want to know all the basic facts about world war 2?It tells you just about anything from rationing to evacuees to winston churchill.The only bad thing about the book is that they don't tell you a thing about the war itself it doesen't tell you about the fighting
by Martin McKelvie
Miley Cyrus
I read a book called 'Miley Cyrus'.I thought the book was really really good. It was about MIley Cyrus, her dad. she is a singer who comes from Tenisea. Her dad is called Billy Ray Cyrus her dad sings the song Don't Break My Heart . Miley Cyrus night name is Hannah Montannah. She has loads of top singles.
My book this week was how to improve at karate.By Asyhley Martin.
The belts format is not the same as the karate i go to.Their belts go white orange red yellow green purple purple and white brown brown and white brown and 2 white stripes and finnaly black.My belts go like white yellow stripe yellow orange stripe orange green stripe green purple stripe purple brown stripe brown 3rd kyu brown 2 kyu brown 1st kyu and black.It also teaches you the basics and slightly advanced stuff but i would reccomend this book for anyone halfway through karate or higher.
By Martin McKelvie
wild predators! deadly insects.
this booke tels about deadly insects like wasps mantids larvey ants bees ajin bugs lady birds ets it tells the life sikle of an insekt
Marines
This book about marines is very interest ing it shows you what jobs there is available in the army you half to be really really good to get in to the marines and the sas.there is alot of really intense trainning to get fit to face the challenges in the marines and sas.
Sabrina the teenage witch, It's a miserable life:-/.
Cathy East Dubowski:D
This book is about a girl caklle Sabrina but she is not an ordinary girl she is a witch:o, I really enjoyed this book it is a really good hbook for children to read when they are young to find out a lot more things:DD, The best thing about this book is when you start reading it you cant stop it is that good(8), I really like reading books like this and i like them more when they are true stories:*, There is a channel on tv that you can watch tv i really like watching the tv series but i this the book is more amusing:-|, I think the book is more sutable for older children but younger children could read it too if they like reading stuff like this:D, I would give this book 5stars(*****), i reallyt realkly liked this book and i think it was a good story i would much like to read more books like this.
Yes i know this is the wrong section but i wasnt having any luck with the computer.
MOSSFLOWER by Brian Jacques.
Mossflower is a fiction book about a mouse called Martain who goes on a journey to free Mossflower from the king of a thousand eyes and he meets new friends and foes on the way.He teams up with the warrior creatures and he finds out new things on the way and well i wont say any more. It is an adventure book to remember.I would advise you to read it.
Horrible Histories
Terry Deary
horrible histories is a book about history it`s also funny. The book that I read was about the ROTTEN ROMANS. that book especialy gory. If you like history or a laugh I`d get this book.23.9.10
How To Be Brilliant At Ballet
Craig Dodd
This book is a really good book. I thought it was really good cause I love dancing and Ballet. this book show you all the first steps, how to dress, rules of ballet and how to improve. I would only recommend this book to people that are interested in dancing.
This week i read how cool stuff works
the book has a lot of information it tells you how laptops, dj decks work and thers lods more that it tells you.
Morgan Clark 1P3
The novel im blogging is DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON by George Orwell. Orwell read the people of the abyss. wrtten in 1902 by Jack London about his life in the london slums. Orwell copyed the ex periment first in paris and later in london. The story is 100% true but has been rearanged. It starts off as orwell in the paris slum of the coq dor quarter he lived there for about half a year. The filth in the slum was terible as an example the .Roujeas a old dwarfish couple and the filth in there room was so terible that you could smell it on the floor below.
acording to the patron Madame F she said they hadnt took there colthes off in four years. Or there was R the only englishman in the quartre he drunk four liters of wine a day and six litres on sturday. he sokede in teh bistro and he talked in a whominish voices about antiqe furniture.Its a very good book and i would strongly recomend it
Diary of a mototcross by freak
Matt slater was a boy how started motocross when he was fourteen his dad stared and thats how matt stared motocross he wrote this diary rember his time as a motocorser he rote basic notes about riding techniques.
skateboairding
It tells you how to do triks and how to fix your board . You need to whair nee pads and elbo padsand gluves so you do not hurt your self . Theis is a good book if you like skaneboarding .
This Week I Read How to gide on Body Percing And Tattoing
By Paul Mason
This book is very interesting if you would like to learn more about tattoes and pecings
The book tells you about how important it is to think about tattoes before you get them and that its a risk to get body percings because it can get infected. i would give ths book 3 stars (***).
Morgan Clark 1P3 Alpha
how cool stuff works by chris woodford and luke collins
I chose this book because it looked good but it wasnt as good as I thought it was. I liked some of it like the robot and the the games the robot is for the future and dose every thing for you exept the most important thing HOMEWORK !!! .the games part shows you how halo robots work and how older games work like pacman .
iwould recomend this book to any one at colage how is studeing tecnolagy.
by simon mcewan
The Fire Game by R.L Stine
This amazing book is about three girls (Jill , Andrea and Diana) and three boys (Max , Nick and Gabe).It starts of with a fire at the school that was a folder getting burnt but when Gabe came everthing got too out of hand from a car getting set on fire to house with a person inside getting burnt to the ground will they found out who keeps setting the fires or will it keep going that is the question.I liked this book it was entertaining
The Fire Game by R.L Stine
This amazing book is about three girls (Jill , Andrea and Diana) and three boys (Max , Nick and Gabe).It starts of with a fire at the school that was a folder getting burnt but when Gabe came everthing got too out of hand from a car getting set on fire to house with a person inside getting burnt to the ground will they found out who keeps setting the fires or will it keep going that is the question.I liked this book it was entertaining
Bram Stoker`s dracula the graphic novel by micheal burgan.
In a carridge carrying 3 passengers
on the way to transylvania.The passengers are,Jhonathan Harker[a lawyer from loundon]The 2 other passengers are a man and whoman.
When Jhonothan is asked why he is in the country. He tells them that he is going to castle duarcula!! There Reaction is of terror. The man tells him strange things happen at the castle. The whoman gives him a crucifix and tells hiom ti will keep him safe. When Jhonathan arrives a castle dracula he is met by none other than count dracula. He givees him a room and bed for the night. When Harker is shaving the count accidently touches the crucifix on his neck and it seems to burn him. Dracula tells harker not to disturb any locked rooms. Harker finds out all the doors even the ones leading out side. when he gets back to his room the counts climbing down the wall. He later finds the count sleeping in a coffin. he tries to destroy dracula but falis.
In the srecond chapter Jhonathan`s Girlfreind meets up with her old freind lucy westenra in whitby. later that night a ship from translvania comes into port.The ships sails are shredded Out of nowhare a wolf runs of the ship. This is dracula.Mina murry finds her freind sleepwalking she followed her and a creature is looming over her shes still alive but with strange marks on her neck. Mina gets news that jhonathan has been found and is in hospital.With the aid of dr van helsing dr jhon seward,arthur holmwood,jhonathan and mina they hunt down draculoa and destroy him forever.
it is a brillinant read and i would advise it to anyone who likes graphic novels
Bram Stoker`s dracula the graphic novel by micheal burgan.
In a carridge carrying 3 passengers
on the way to transylvania.The passengers are,Jhonathan Harker[a lawyer from loundon]The 2 other passengers are a man and whoman.
When Jhonothan is asked why he is in the country. He tells them that he is going to castle duarcula!! There Reaction is of terror. The man tells him strange things happen at the castle. The whoman gives him a crucifix and tells hiom ti will keep him safe. When Jhonathan arrives a castle dracula he is met by none other than count dracula. He givees him a room and bed for the night. When Harker is shaving the count accidently touches the crucifix on his neck and it seems to burn him. Dracula tells harker not to disturb any locked rooms. Harker finds out all the doors even the ones leading out side. when he gets back to his room the counts climbing down the wall. He later finds the count sleeping in a coffin. he tries to destroy dracula but falis.
In the srecond chapter Jhonathan`s Girlfreind meets up with her old freind lucy westenra in whitby. later that night a ship from translvania comes into port.The ships sails are shredded Out of nowhare a wolf runs of the ship. This is dracula.Mina murry finds her freind sleepwalking she followed her and a creature is looming over her shes still alive but with strange marks on her neck. Mina gets news that jhonathan has been found and is in hospital.With the aid of dr van helsing dr jhon seward,arthur holmwood,jhonathan and mina they hunt down draculoa and destroy him forever.
it is a brillinant read and i would advise it to anyone who likes graphic novels
Cakes And Muffins
By Hazel King
This book i read i really enjoyed reading it because it tells you the recipie for cakes and muffins and shows u how factorys make 1000 of them every day i would rate this 3 out of 5 stars (***)
Morgan Clark 1P3 Alpha xx
The FIFA world cup is the biggest football competition on earth every four years 32 national teams take part in the world cup finals. At the 1950 world cup England was a top team but the USA beat them 1-0.The USA's goal scorer had a day job. He did the washing up up at a restaurant.The most yellow cards at one world cup in 2006 was 346 and the most red cards was 142.The number of seconds Jose Batista of Uruguay was on the pitch before he was sent off in 1986 was 56.in 2006 a English referee graham poll gave two yello cards out in stead of one yellow and a red card. Dylan Hunter :D
This book is about football world cups and teams that won.The fifa world cup is the biggest football competition on earth evry four years 32 national teams take part in the worald cup finals.Being a refree is hard.Being a Worald Cup referee is the toughest.The whole world is watching.You don't want to make a mistake like English referee Graham Poll did in 2006.He showed the yellow care to Josip Simunic of Croatia three times.You should be sent off if u get two yellow cards.Dylan Hunter
World Book Milenium 2000
(Dancing)
This book is a study book so you are unable to take it home but it is an amazing book with loads of facts!! It really is great!:D I read the dancing part in this book because I have been dancing since I was 2. So I decided to learn a bit about how dancing started etc.. there is loads of parts to this book and I would definately recomend it to anyone that was wasnting to learn about any pecific subject!
Hello a book i have read lately and that i have enjoyed is called Furnace Solitary this book is an action book with agents that have a whole lot of tech like different types of guns Heres a part from the book Enjoy We thought we'd made it,we thought we were free But we should of known that there was no way out of Furnace. We did slip deeper into the guts of the prison: into solitary confinment, where the real nightmares live-the warden, the wheezers, and something muh much worse.
The clock's ticking.
Because if we dont Escape soon they will turn us into freaks-like them FOREVER.....
This is a story i really enjoyed By Liam Reilly
I was reading a book called down load behind the scenes special effects by jillian powell IT IS ABOUT effects in movie it was a good book.
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