Book Four: easter holidays

The book I read was the second life of bree tanner by Stephenie Meyer, I thought that it was a good read and a sad ending. My favourite character of course is Bree, the book includes the other side of what it was like to be in the 'army' preparing to fight the cullens and bella. at first it was a bit dragged out untill I got to the part when the newborn vampires clash with the Cullen family in Eclipse and I loved it, loved seeing how the stories interspersed and loved seeing it from Bree's perspective.

It was really interesting to read about the newborn vampires. You look at the Cullen family, civilized with the humans and in many ways flawless. But then, you look at this newborn army of vampires and they're wild and fierce, merciless when getting to what they desire most, which is human blood. It is incredible about how much is kept from the newborn vampires. They live in fear of human's stereotypes on vampires - burning in sunlight, getting staked and recoiling from garlic. They have not mastered what skills they've been given and all they feel is getting to what they want and doing it in such reckless ways, that the Volturi are required to come around.  I absolutely love Bree. She did not choose to be a newborn vampire. She was "born" into a place where she was required to be on the bad side, against her better judgement and it was really sad. To know that she had so much potential in her, and so much willingness to be good, that she couldv'e been something. Yet the Volturi don't give chances :( It's absolutely heartbreaking (if you read Eclipse) to know what her tragic fate is long before you begin the book. I thank Stephenie Meyer that she at least wrote this book to give us a chance to delve into the action of the newborn vampires.

I would rate this book a 4/5 stars **** because although i loved this book i think the beginning dragged on a bit but still a fantastic book.

If you're a big Twilight fan then what are you waiting for? You gotta read this book. If you're not so up for it, maybe it wouldn't be the best book for you.

If you have read and love this book too or if you just want to look you can look at this website:

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/breetanner.html

Book Three: half term

The book i have read was Cookie by Jacqueline wilson. The main character in cookie is Beauty Cookson, she goes to a posh girls school and hates it.The girls are spoilt and selfish who tease beauty (as she is rather plain,and very timid) and her name, they call her hurtful words which Beauty thinks is true. Her Mum, Dilly is her Dad’s third wife and very young. Beauty's Dad's a bully which probably why he has been married three times. He terrifies his wife Dilly and little Beauty and has several moodswings each day depending on how well his work went and how much he managed to sell at happy homes. He has very strict house rules for examole 'no pets what so ever !' and is constantly criticising Beauty for her lack of looks. Mum and daughter live in fear of him and his temper. Beauty sees an oppertunity when a sweet girl invites her to her party and they become good friends but the girl is best friends with her main bully. For her birthday her Dad arranges a 'fabulous' birthday party and so Beauty invites her whole class to her party to make her look popular which unfortunatly she is really not. After an awful birthday party with the girls in her class that have bullied her all year Dad does something unforgivable which persuades Dilly (Mum) and Beauty to run away.

In starting their new life away in peace together Dilly and Beauty grow strong as a team and within themselves. Mum’s new hobby gives them an income and Beauty finds happiness and a new nickname. A lovely warm hearted story of a girl finding her confidence and strength in herself and her surroundings.

I would give this book a **** 4 stars out of ***** 5 stars because of its happy ending where her and her mum live in peace without having to be worried of doing anything but because of all the bullying from Dad and bullies at school i felt i could not give it a five star.

From the Back Cover:-



link to her website including the cookie book review and video :-

http://www.jacquelinewilson.co.uk/the-books/books-9-11/cookie/

Beauty Cookson is plain and timid, and all the super-confident and snooty girls at school think her name is ridiculous and tease her horribly.

 

Worse than the taunting in the playground, though, in her father's constant, hurtful criticism. Beauty and her Mum live in fear of Dad's fierce rages - sparked off when they break one of his fussy house rules or suggest something 'silly' like getting a pet. But Beauty's Mum adores her, and does her best to keep Beauty happy despite all the tension and shouting.

 

After Beauty's disastrous birthday party, Dad's temper seems to be out od control. Are Mum and Beauty brave enough to leave and start a sweeter new life? 

Book Two: autumn term - spring term

the book i have read is ' harry potter and the philospher's stone ' (the first book) by J. K. Rowling, This is a story about Harry Potterand his two new friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley settling down for their first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry only to discover that they have a part to play in the downfall of the evil You-Know-Who.


Harry Potter is a shy, self-doubting person who has had to put up with a lot by his only family,  his awful aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon and his big cousin Dudley. Poor Harry lost his parents, supposedly in a car crash, when he was a baby and that was when he received the strange lightning-shaped scar across his forehead.Ever since then he has slept in the cupboard under the stairs at the Dursleys' perfectly normal house in Privet Drive and the best thing he has to look forward to is starting at the local secondary school next term - well away from Dudley who bullied Harry at his old school. He will be going to his father's old, expensive school, Smeltings. 


other people in the wizardery world know a lot more about Harry than Harry does himself. That lightning-shaped scar is a matter of enormous interest and Harry is about to discover that he has a lot of friends, and enemies, in a rather different kind of world from the one he was brought up in.


This is a book about magic, but there's plenty of reality. Settling into a new school, making friends, learning who to trust and who not to trust and when to obey school rules and when to overlook them. There's a great deal of humour in the book. You might find the magic funny - visit Diagon Alley to purchase all your Hogwart's kit - but there is strong evil magic too and you won't doubt the courage that Harry has to show in the final chapter.


a good part of this book is: chapter two, the vanishing glass, page 27


Harry lay in his dark room much later, wishing he had a watch. he didn't know he didn't know what time it was and he couldn't be sure the dursleys were asleep yet. Untill they were, he couldn't risk sneaking to the kitchen for some food.
he'd lived with the dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years, as long as he could remember, ever scince he'd been a baby and his parents had died in a car crash. He couldn't remember being in the car when his parents died. Sometimes when he strained his memory during the long hours in his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision: a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain on his forehead. this, he supposed, was the crash, though he couldn't imagine where all the green light came from. He couldn't remember his parents at all. His aunt and uncle never spoke about them, and of course he was forbidden to ask questions. There were no photographs of them in the house.
When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened; the Dursleys were his only family. Yet sometimes he thought (or maybe hoped) that strangers in the street seemed to know him. Very strange strangers they were, too. A tiny man in a violet top hat had bowed to him once while out shopping with Aunt Petunia and Dudley. After asking Harry furiously if he knew the man, Aunt Petunia had rushed them out of the shop without buying anything. A wild-looking old woman dressed all in green had waved merrily at him once on a bus. A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word. The weirdest thing about all these people was the way they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look.
At school, Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang.

I think this page is very useful as it sums up and reveals what has happened to him the past ten years. 
Overall this is a fantastic book and sets your imagination wild i would rate this book a 4/5 because of it's vocabulary and it sets your imagination wild.


publishers write up: Harry potter is an ordinary boy- untill he is rescused by a beetled-eyed giant of a man, enrols at hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry, learns to play Quidditch and does a battle in a deadly duel. the reason: HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!

Book One: half term

The book i have read is Millions by Frank Cotrell Boyce is the story of a young boy called Damian Cunningham who finds a bag filled with money (£229, 370,) that has seemingly fallen from the sky. His discovery comes at a time when England is about to change its currency and join the Euro, and so Damian must find a way to spend the money as quickly as possible, before it becomes worthless. Aiding him in this quest is his older brother and only confidant, Anthony; however, unlike Anthony, Damian is a boy of great conscience and sensitivity, and is frequently troubled over the question of "the right thing to do"...

summery - In Millions there are numerous questions raised within this story - some of them obvious, some of them less so. e.g., what is the true value of money?  It also addresses issues such as trust (in the book, there are various incidents and one or two characters that cause Damian to question people's their true motives) and grief (Damian's story begins not long after the death of his mother, and his efforts at being "excellent" are a means of coping with this loss).

I would rate this book 5/5 Millions is funny, thought-provoking and moving - as well as being a fairly swift read.