We hope you are all enjoying your holidays and Santa brought you loads of goodies!
Will Solvit strikes again in five new fantastic adventures in the Will Solvit mystery series.
Will Solvit is a regular ten year old – or so he thought. With the help of his dad’s crazy inventions, Will finds himself with loads of puzzles to solve and mysteries to unravel! The whole series starts with Will Solvit and the T-rex terror! Fans of mystery and adventure stories won’t want to miss out on this series.
Star style by Sienna Mercer – from the My sister the vampire series.
I like the way she describes the characters as some of them are vampires. It is fun and exciting to read.
Review by Athena
5/5 stars
Gangsta Granny is the latest very funny book by David Walliams. The last thing Ben wants to do is go to his Granny’s house, but he has to do it every Friday night. She only ever wants to play scrabble and eat cabbage soup (Yuk!). But what Ben doesn’t know, but is soon to find out, is that his dear old boring granny used to be an international jewel thief! The one heist she always wanted to do but never did, was steal the crown jewels from the Tower of London. When Ben finds out he makes a plan to sneak into the Tower of London with his Gangsta Granny. Do they or don’t they get caught? You will have to read this really funny book to find out.
Little plum by Rumer Godden
It is full of tricks and pranks that will just make you laugh, like when Belinda goes flying like a hurricane into Ms. Tiffany Jones. But it’s a really great read and an awesome book!
Review by Rewa
5/5 stars
The Lily Pond by Annika Thor
It is a book filled with mixed emotions and passions. It experiences what it is to be a refugee during World War II
Review by Salem
5/5 stars
If you love cooking or you enjoy watching the cooking programmes on TV especially Junior Master Chef then this book will be just right for you.
The AWW Cooking School for kids is a great book to get you started on learning how to cook. There are great instructions for each recipe with step-by-step pictures for you to follow plus a picture of the finished dish so you will know what it will look like.
But the best thing about this book is it has all the food that kids like to eat. Things like pizza, pasta, eggs, pies, desserts, cakes and snacks. YUM
So what are you waiting for – Get cooking!
Newsflash – do you need some stupid information about your body, then take a look at What Body Part is That?
This book is full of funny, stupid, explosive and disgusting things about your body.
Take for instance your lips:
Lips are made of 100% lip meat and are generally found on the outside of your mouth. Lips are one of the most important parts of your body because without lips you wouldn’t be able to talk properly, use straws, wear lipstick, get lip-piercings or make pretend farting noises
Or what about Legs:
Your legs start at the top of the ground and go all the way up until they reach the bottom of your bottom and then they go all the way back down until they reach the top of the ground again. You can use your legs to walk from the bottom of a hill to the top and from the top of the hill to the bottom. Legs are also useful if you need to run away from anything or anyone – especially if someone asks you a difficult questions.
Or even your Face
Faces are a handy place on the front of the head to keep stuff like eyes, eyebrows, noses, mouths, cheeks, forehead, and chins right where you need them. Faces are not a good place to keep dirty socks and underpants, sporting equipment, apple cores, lolly wrappers and other bits of rubbish. (The proper place to keep this stuff is on your bedroom floor.)
One of the biggest science experiments of all time is about to take place in George and the Big Bang with George and Annie having front row seats. Annie’s dad is a scientist and they are heading to the Large Hadron Collider to explore the earliest moments of the Universe.
Are you wondering what the Large Hadron Collider is – well that’s what is so great about this book. As well as the exciting story you will also learn lots of interesting things to do with the universe. Just so you know the Large Hadron Collider is the world’s largest particle accelerator or it could be described as a huge electromagnetic racetrack.
So follow George and Annie on their terrifying adventure through wormholes, into far-flung galaxies and to the edge of knowledge itself.
The Star of Kazan by Eva Ibbotson
I listened to this on CD and, as with most of the stories I listen to, I really enjoyed it. Enjoying a story on CD often depends on the reader and Patricia Connolly reads this well.
The Star of Kazan is the story of a baby girl found abandoned in a church outside Vienna. Her rescuers are a cook and a house maid and they take her to live with them and the family of three professors where they work.
Annika learns to cook and clean alongside her ‘mothers’ and on her ‘found day’ the professors take them all out for a treat. When she is 12 they take her to see the famous Lippizana stallions at the show they put on for the Emperor.
Annika is always dreaming of the day when her ‘real’ mother will knock on the professors’ door and want her back. And then one day, just that happens, but all is not as she thought it would be, and an adventure soon starts.
