Books that I read on holiday and a few more.

Hiya,
These are the books that I read on my holiday in Coolum on the Gold Coast.

1. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. This book is my favourite book ever. I totally recommend getting it out of the library and reading it. It is about a boy called Ponyboy Curtis (funny name huh) and his brothers and their gang, and what they get up to.
2. Rumble Fish by S.E.Hinton. This book is my 2nd favourite book ever. This book is about a boy called Rusty-James whose hero is his brother called " The Motorcycle Boy" because he can't live without a motorbike, hence the name.
3. That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton. This book is about two boys called Mark and Bryon. They are the best of mates until Bryon gets a girlfriend. The manager of the local bar gets killed defending them. They start to drift apart, and then Bryon finds drugs under Mark's mattress and he calls the police and they take Mark away.
4. The Drowned Maiden's Hair by Laura Amy Shlitz. This book is about a girl called Maud who lives in an orphanage until two ladies come and take her away. Little does she know that they want her in a seance -- to be Caroline, a girl who drowned, and to fool Caroline's mother.
5. April Fools by Diane Hobb. This book is about a girl called Belinda who witnesses someone burning in a car and doesn't help them. She starts to receive messages in lots of different ways of how she is going to have to pay for what she did .
6. The Knight And The Squire by Terry Jones. This book is about a boy called Tom who befriends a boy called Alan who is apprenticed to a knight. Tom gets into lots of trouble with Alan. It sends you doubling up in laughter!
   
7. Sunshine To The Sunless by Gareth Thompson. This book is about a boy called Andrew Kindness who witnesses a murder by quicksand and how it affects his life.

I'm halfway through another two books and I'll update when I've finished them!

Go and read 'The Outsiders'!!! Before I get grumpy at you!

More describing books.

Hiya,
I'm going to do exactly as I did last entry.

The most mysterious= How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found by Sara Nickerson.
The most exciting= Count Karlstein by Phillip Pullman.
The most touching= Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen.
The most old-fashioned=White Boots by Noel Streatfield.
The most unfinishable= Watership Down By Richard Adams.



The book that I would most recommend reading would be: Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen.


The book that I could not even finish: Watership Down By Richard Adams (I couldn't finish it because I like books that keep moving forward and this one was just sticking on one subject and not moving forward. It was really boring me, but Mum said that I should have persevered and that one day I will look back and regret that I haven't read it fully, although I'm probably going to try it again later.)


All the rest I like and would recommend but aren't my favourites.

Books being described.

Sorry that I haven't been on here lately. I have been sick, so I have been reading a lot but haven't been bothered to update.

So anyway, seeing as there are so many books that I have to put on here, I am just going to put a list of different genres of books, then put the books that I have read of that genre next to it with its author.



The Scariest = Terry Deary's Terribly True Horror Stories,

The Funniest= '... startled by his furry shorts!' By Louise Rennison.

The Most Mysterious= The Name of this Book is Secret By Pseudonymous Bosch

The Most Intriguing= The Baker Street Boys, The Case of the Captive Clairvoyant by Anthony Read.

The Most Touching= Monkey Taming, ( You've eaten too much you fat pig) by Judith Fathallah.

The Most Bloodthirsty=The Horse and His Boy by C.S.Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia)

The Most Historical= Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.

The Most Romantic= A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton Porter.

The Ones I Most Recommend= Monkey Taming (if you are worried about becoming Anorexic and you need encouraging not to), Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry (if you like history and want to find out about how it was living in the American Depression), The Name of this Book is Secret(if you want to know what you need to do to become a really good spy or survivalist) & Startled by his furry shorts (if you just want to have a good laugh and trashy read).

Harriet the spy by louise fitzhugh

Hiya,
It is about a girl called Harriet who keeps a notebook and in it writes all the things she thinks about her classmates and she also writes down all the things that she thinks and hears on her spy run.
but then one day she gets caught out and everyone turns against her and isn't her friend anymore, they also do some really mean things to her.

I got the movie of this book when I was about 5 from my grandma.
I rate this book9/10.
I really like it because it is extremely moving.

Riddles of Epsilon by Christine Morton-Shaw

Hiya,

This book was at my reading level,
It was about a girl called Jess who moved with her Mum and Dad (from the city )to a house( in the country) that her mum had inherited. Soon after wards she hears a flute playing, she follows it and it leads her to a cottage hidden by gorse and when she opens the door the flute is there in the air playing with no-one holding it ...
Who's the cottage is and what happens in it you'll have to read to find out.

I like this book because it keeps moving forward and it's really intriguing, There are also puzzles in it that you have to solve.

I rate this 10/10

Lots of books

Hiya, I've been a bit slack lately haven't filled you in, but anyway here we are with a few of my latest read books.

First of all ,
Split by a kiss by Luisa Plaja.
This book was at my reading level maybe a titsy bit under.
This is a really funny book, it's about a girl Josephine (who in the U.K. is called Jo by her friends and is really nerdy), moves to the USA, gets called Josie and is really cool. Josie starts up a new life goes to parties and then kisses a guy that kiss splits her apart. The rest of the book is with her in two parallel universes (one Josie the cool and one Jo the nerd) and it's about how she gets them back to one.
I like this book because it keeps moving forward,
I rate this book 7/10.


My spooky sister by Sandra Glover.

This book was way under my reading level, I managed to read it under 1 hour.
It was about a girl called Allie who kept having recurring nightmares in which she always said that she could see a murder case take place. She was very insistent on saying that she was the one being murdered when the murdered one was a women and Allie was only about 5 or 6.
I like this book because it was a bit scary.
I rate this book 6/10.

The bad spy's guide by Pete Johnson.
This book was a little bit under my reading level.
This book was about a girl called Tasha who was a fanatical about spies and really wanted to be one. One day she thinks that she meets one or does she...
I like this book because it kept you thinking.
I rate this book7/10

Eustace by Catherine Jinks.
This book was slightly under my reading level.
It was about a girl called Jess who went on a class excursion to Hill End and found out that a ghost was a resident at their friends' house there but to find out who it and a couple others were you'll have to read the book.
I rate this book 7/10.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull byRichard Bach.
This book was at my reading level .
This book was about a seagull who lived life trying to perfect the art of flying,
But then one day he was flying around and he was going so fast then when he turned he went slamming into the cliff and died. He then went to a place like heaven but he could still fly around.
Then one day he came back to earth and taught all that wanted to learn how to fly like he did.
I like this book because it has really good pictures and it was really moving.
I rate this 9/10

The Sea-Wreck Stranger By Anna Mackenzie.

"Our sea-wreck stranger doesn't stand much of a chance, not on Dunnett Island..."
This book is about a girl called Ness and her brother called Ty and her cousin called Sophie who find this half -dead guy called Devdan ( Dev for short ) and help him get better. He Has a big gash on his leg and Ness helps it get better.

This book is a drama.
My grandma got me this book.
I rate this book 8/10.

This book is also coolly by none other but a n.z. author.

Sabrina Fludde by Pauline Fisk

This book is a mystery book, it really kept you thinking and guessing

The things that I really liked was that it was really scary and it kept you anticipating.
The characters that were the the best were Abren ( the main character), Phaze II and Old Sabrina.

I got this book from the library.
I rate this book 8/10.

Funhouse by Diane Hoh

Today I finished a book called "Funhouse", by Diane Hoh. It was really creepy and really cool at the same time!

It was about a girl called Tess, and at the beginning a rollercoaster called "The Devil's Elbow" ran off its tracks and killed a couple of people but as everyone was crowding around the cars Tess saw someone slinking away...

This isn't the last accident that happens and Tess gets drawn into the mystery of it all and tries to figure it out.

I borrowed this book from my friend Vikki.

I rate it 7/10.