An exciting blog for 7B to record their own reflections on the books they have read and to read and comment on the reviews of their classmates too.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Well...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Zombie Butts from Uranus
Zack thought he had seen the last of butt-fighting action when he quit the academy, but he was wrong. The Zombie butts from outer space had reawakened, and landed on Earth! Zack (and his butt) uncovers the deadly truths of these otherworldly butts, and discover his Gran's secret identity. With the help of Mabel's angels, Zack, Eleanor and his butt overcome the threats of the zombie horde, but horror of horrors!! The Kisser has returned as the Mutant Maggot Lord! What will Zack do next?
Friday, May 14, 2010
GRrrrrrrrrrr............
Grammar Lesson Friday 14th May
Hurricane verb quiz: http://a4esl.org/q/h/9807/cr-hurricane.html
subject/ verb agreements: http://a4esl.org/q/h/9901/cw-svagreement.html
headline anagrams: http://a4esl.org/q/h/9801/mr-headlines.html
Missing word quiz:http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/mw001.html
Now folks, all these (apart) from the last one are on "difficult" setting, so you will need to think carefully about your answers. Copy and paste the links into your browsers and get to work on them.
DO NOT simply click on 'answer; straight away. There is NO POINT in doing this and you will not learn anything. Try as hard as you can to answer it yourself before you click on 'answer'.
After each round, please write the correct answers in your book.Also in your book,note down what score (be honest!) you got in each round.
Okay, there are four rounds....get started!
Mr Pollicutt
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Don't Stop!!!!! Wait a Minute!!
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Yanee would like to say Thank You
Thank you Mr.Pollicutt for all the hard work he put into this and for everything he did to help us, Thank You to SEAN for reading so much books and thanking to everyone else in the class that read as much as they can.
It doesn't matter if they beat us, but at least we don't cheat right? There's always a next year, so we will take that prize next year !
Goosebumps: The Headless Ghost
This book is about two kids who "haunt" their neighborhood, by howling behind bushes at neighbors and throwing rubber spiders in a boy's bedroom. But one night they decide to go a little further. There's a famous town attraction of a haunted house--it is haunted by the spirit of headless boy who got his head ripped off by a ghost! They've visited it a hundred times on tours. One night they decide to join the current tour group, and then wander off searching for the head of the headless boy. Do they find anything? Read this story and find out!
Breaking Dawn
Bella and Edward get married, but their honeymoon is cut short by Bella's realization that she has become pregnant. Bella's pregnancy progresses at an extremely fast rate and makes her very weak. She nearly dies while giving birth to her and Edward's half-vampire-half-human daughter, Renesmee, but Edward injects Bella with his venom to save her life by turning her into a vampire. A vampire from another coven sees Renesmee and mistakes her for an "immortal child", the existence of which violates vampire rules, and informs the Vultori. The Cullens gather vampire witnesses who can verify that the child is not one of the immortal children. The Cullens and their witnesses convince the Volturi that Renesmee is not a danger to vampires or their secret, and they are left in peace.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
The Worst Witch
This is Harry Potter for younger readers. The Worst Witch is exciting with magic spells, people being turned into frogs, a scarily strict teacher, a horrid enemy classmate and loyal friends.
Mildred is a witch and she goes to The Academy for Witches which seemed just like a normal school – just with broomstick lessons and spells classes! This book is also very funny with Mildred getting into all sorts of scrapes. Mildred is so hopeless that even her cat, Tabby, is a terrible witches cat. Read to find out her adventures in her new school.
There are at least 5 books in the Worst Witch series.
Judy Moody Gets Famous
In this second book of the series, Judy Moody wishes she could be famous, like Queen Bee Jessica, winner of the Northern Virginia Spelling Bee. And when her brother sets up a "Moody Hall of Fame" on the refrigerator, she realizes she has nothing to put in it. It turns out everyone she knows was shortly famous at some time--everyone except Judy. Judy sinks deep into gloom.
She gets imaginative by displaying what she claims to be a cherry pit from George Washington's cherry tree (unfortunately, a little kid swallows that claim to fame). Next, she enters her cat into a pet trick contest. She thinks she'll win first prize with her cat-making-toast trick, but comes in second to a piano-playing chicken.
Judy keeps on trying, but fame continues to avoid her. But when she meets a young heart transplant patient, Judy becomes famous in a most unexpected way.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Rodrick Rules
Greg Heffley is trying to put behind the memories and events of last summer. Although it would be much easier if his mean older brother - Rodrick -didn't know his darkest secret. All Greg has to do is keep Rodrick quiet and keep his 'diary' far away from Rodrick and everything should be okay. Read to find out if the 'secret' will come out. Will Rodrick tell Greg's 'darkest secret'?
Diary of a Wimpy Kid - Last Straw
Let's face it, Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to tell that to Greg's father.
COME ON GUYS!
COME ON!!
The reckoning by kelley arm strong
Eragon...counts as 2 books
case of the missing murderer
The Nightmare Room: Dear Diary, I'm Dead
Dear Hound by jill murphy
Fox friends
Eldestx3
For all mystery and fantasy lovers this is a definate must. I reccomend to all people who have the time to read a 800+ pages book.
The Runner by Keith Gray
Jason is getting tired of his parents arguemuing every senond of the day. He has finallt come up with a solution - run away to liverpool to live with his brother. Jason finally gets on the train and is soon on his way to liverpool. Once he's settled, he meets a boy his age called Jam. they both get along well so jam decides to introduce him to his all time secret club the runnners. Jam lets jason in all on all of the runners secrets but one. A deadly one...
Goosebump:DEEP TROUBLE:
the mysterious benedict society
You're a bad man, Mr Gum!
Mr Gum. A disgrace to all of the town. Why you may ask? Well, Mr Gum looks bad, dresses bad and even talks bad. No one likes him because of something that no one knows except him and someone else. Some one extraordinary... She threatens him and says that she will do something bad, very BAD to him if he doesnt at least keep his garden nice and presentable. Who is it? and why?
Eclispe
Brisingr
It is part of the series Eragon which is about a boy, Eragon and his Dragon Sapphira in their quest to overthrow the corrupt dragon rider/king . Brisingr begins about four days after the events in Eldest book. A struggle for power as the small country Surda attempts to overthrow the larger Empire. Surda is supported militarily by elves, dwarves, Urgals(a deadly group of assasins), and a rebel organization known as the Varden, the group that Eragon helped to defeat a shade in the first book. In this book Surda tries to attack the land, will The Varden, Eragon and The Empire join forces to stop them? Read this book and see.
inkheart
Mad Dogs
This street gang is a drug dealing company, who is at turf war with another street gang.
They are caught inside the middle, will they survive, who will they help? And who will they kill?
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Dog Days
1984
Cherub:The Fall
It iss about an M15 operation that goes wrong, terribly wrong
when two agents working with James Adams (The hero in the cherub series, he wears a black shirt , his shirt means that he is the most succsessful operator in cherub.) murders their primary subject within Aero City, Russia. He is not able to contact campus and when he attempts to,he is beaten up badly by a group of Russian thugs. These thugs worked for the Mafia.
Half a week later, James wakes up in hospital near CHERUB campus, to the relief of Lauren and Kerry
His sister Lauren is then sent on her first solo mission, making friends with a young Russian girl named Anna, a victim of a brutal human trafficing operation. After the Russia disaster, James has been suspended from all missions and after a talk with one of the teachers, he suspects Ewart, the mission controller, for betraying him, and asks Dana, another CHERUB agent to help him search Ewart's files to find a clue to what he is hiding.They end up dating.
nightmare room
Danielle Warner and her brother, Peter, move into a house where the basement is haunted by the ghosts of children who have been forgotten by their friends and families—and lure living children in by making their friends and families forget about them. On the first day of school, Luke gets assigned locker number 13—and is haunted by an evil spirit who wants to curse him with bad luck.
A carnival fortuneteller accuses Maggie of being evil. Maggie brushes it off as a joke—until accidents occur in school and all signs point to Maggie as a suspect.
Liar, Liar: Years of lying suddenly catch up with Ross when he finds himself in a parallel world where an evil twin tells him that he will die in two days. If you want to get more info, just read it! even I'm scared of these things, it's to help 7B! i'm so cool huh?
Goosebumps: Stay Out Of The Basement!
My Sister's A Popstar by Kimberly Greene
Small Steps
He gets himself 5 small steps, but those turn out to be much bigger.
Because he got in a ticket scam with X-ray, he meets a famous rockstar, and his life changes, Read on
About 250- 300 pages
Pretties
A blackhole in Neasden
Skulduggery Pleasant The Faceless Ones
Teleporters are being killed around the world but for what reason is what confusing Skulduggery further research proves that if a piece of the Faceless Ones is placed in a pacific location a Teleporter can open a gate leading the Faceless Ones back to the earth. So Skulduggery and Valkyrie is doing everything they can to protect Fletcher Renn the last Teleporter on the planet but this time they are facing more evil than they can ever imagine would they be able to stop the terrible powers of the Faceless Ones? And if they fail how can Skulduggery and Valkyrie be able to stop the Faceless Ones? Read and find out...
Kingdoms and Conquerors
Harry potter half blood prince
frankanstein
Why I'm afriad of bees
Skullduggery Pleasant: Dark Days
A night in the terror tower
The Meanwhile Adventure
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The Secret Garden
Weirdo's War by Michael Coleman
Danny Edwards "Weirdo" is high school student, who prefers sitting in the library and working out mathematical equations to socializing. His father decides it would be good for him to go on a team-building program during spring break. Placed in a cabin with his nemesis, class-clown Tosh Tozer, and Tozer's two close friends, Danny is the victim of camp pranks. Added to this is the fact that the trip leader, the P. E. teacher Mr. Axelmann, also has it out for both Danny and Tozer, pairing the two together whenever possible. Danny finds a friend, the camp warden, who urges him to think of himself as the water that flows around rocks and obstacles. Deliberately mislead by Tozer's "friend" during an orienteering exercise, Danny and Tosh are trapped in a cave with an injured Mr. Axelmann. While waiting to be rescued, Danny comes to understand his enemy's perspective and the two of them work together to escape their dangerous situation. Will Tozer still act the kind way towards Danny once they're rescued? If they ever are...
Anne of avonlea
Anne of Green Gables
Mr Hi-Tech by adam ford
the mean dream wonder machine
Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood. A bad Mood by Megan McDonald
Judy Moody wakes up on the wrong side of the bed with a bad mood on her first day of Grade 2. She knows that this year will be a bore and doubts she is sitting by her best friend Rocky. One of the reasons she was in such a bad mood that day was because she hadn't gone anywhere for the holidays and so she didn't have a souvenir shirt that said something like DISNEY WORLD. Instead she wrote in big letters: I ATE A SHARK on her pajama t-shirt. She didn't particularly mind that it wasn't nearly as good as Rocky's Loch Ness roller coaster shirt. She had even bigger problems when she got to school because as she predicted she didn't sit next to Rocky but even worse Frank pearl, known for eating paste. Her day was NOT starting out well. But when her teacher gives her a 'Me' collage project to do, she nearly forgets to be angry and starts to enjoy everything.
school for trolls by clair ronan
Secret garden by frances hodgson burnett
My Sister's a Pop star by Kimberley Greene
Samantha or as everyone calls her - Sam - writes a daily blog about her life. She includes all kids of things such as her dream - to become a writer and how much she HATES Robert. Life hasn't always been this hard until her pop sensation sister arrives back form her tour. Sam moves from her old stinky apartment and moves into this great big palace right behind SuAn stables where Sam goes horse riding. Sam thinks that moving away and her sister coming home means they will be a normal family. she is mortified when she finds out that she can only live in the colossal house if her family agree to be in a reality show. Sam throws a major tantrum in public. But that is only one of the humiliations Sam deals with when later in the story she has supposedly asked a fat woman her weight. Robert, Sam's pop star sister's agent, suddenly organizes them a trip to Canada to perform to 330, 000 fans Sam suspects something. Robert is hiding something form the whole family. Something that would change everyone's life forever.
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy by douglas adams
Goosebumps: The Scarecrow Walks At Midnight
Jodie can already imagine the stories her grandpa will be telling around the fireplace at night. She can also taste her grandma's chocolate chip pancakes. Guess again! When Jodie and her brother Mark get there, they realize that their grandparents are out-of-shape. Then one night, Jodie sees something strange, the scarecrows seem to be moving and twitching! Will people believe her? If you're hoping to be a farmer, read this book.
Goosebumps HorrorLand: The Streets Of Panic Park
Please note: Each HorrorLand book, there's an extra story about this, The Streets Of Panic Park will tell you how it all ends:
THE STORY SO FAR...
A group of kids received mysterious invitations to be Very Special Guests at a scary theme park called HorrorLand. They all expected for good, creepy fun, but instead, they found REAL horror. Only one Horror, Byron could help them. He warned the kids they were all in danger. He said he'd help them escape...
THE STREETS OF PANIC PARK:
The kids who are trapped in HorrorLand thought they had reason enough to panic. That was before they reached Panic Park. Because Panic Park is home to The Menace, a two-faced villain (literally) with a cruel plan to trap them...FOREVER! Then they learn they've been sharing secrets with a traitor who's been tricking them all along! Panic Park is a perilous place, and it makes HorrorLand seem like HappyLand! In order to escape the nightmare for good, and foil The Menace's evil plans, the fourteen Very Special Guests and Lizzie and Luke Morris must face their fears. With the help of some frightful allies, will the horror finally be at an end?
PS: This is the BEST Goosebumps I've ever read!
Goosebumps HororLand: Help! We Have Strange Powers!
Twelve-year-old twins Jillian and Jackson Gerard need help. They are startled when they discover they can read each other's thoughts. But that's not all. They can read other people's thoughts, too! The strange new powers are exciting...at first. But soon find themselves being targeted by an evil organization, an organization that will stop at nothing to control their powers....
one of the books i dont know which one
wow, a bunch of people just walked by in gowns so either the year thirteens are graduating or they are in some kind of harry potter club...
i hope that its the latter
is that how you spell latter?
wow im going on a bit arent i, i could of finished ages ago, im just coming out with pointless jiberish, i feel like cecile, ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh! she got dissed! no, i dont mean it cecile. please dont get mad.
Goosebumps HorrorLand: Say Cheese-And Die Screaming!
Anyone of you who loves photography, you better be careful! Don't open the book unless you want your bones to break. It's filled with action and suspense. If you have a camera, DON'T trust it for anything! A picture taken by the evil camera is worth a thousand screams! The owner of it, Julie Martin makes a horrible mistake when she took the camera from a garage sale...she doesn't know that bizzare things happen to everyone who is unlucky enough to be caught in the camera's lens. Can Julie break the curse of the camera in time to save everyone?
Bad Girls
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
CHASING BROOKLYN
I read a shorter of this story the actually book is 400 pages or more long, but i read the one that was only 306, i couldn't find the longer one kinokuniya i think its out of stock i really want to read on!! it's soo good
By The Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
While she’s on the site, Daelyn blogs about her life, uncovering a history of bullying that goes back to kindergarten. When she’s not on the Web, Daelyn’s at her private school, where she’s known as the freak who doesn’t talk.
Then, a boy named Santana begins to sit with her after school while she’s waiting to for her parents to pick her up. Even though she’s made it clear that she wants to be left alone, Santana won’t give up. And it’s too late for Daelyn to be letting people into her life…isn’t it?
Complicated Story :/
Lily B on the brink of Paris
Pig heart boy
Goose Bumps: Help! We have strange powers!
Goosebumps- Beware the Snowman
This books was quite boring though, but i read it anyway.... It's about this girls called Jacklyn who moved to Shyperia, a snowing plave with hundreds of snowmans....weird. Everyone's house have snowmans in front of their doors. Snowmans with mean looking faces and a scar. Until Jaklyn unraveled her family's secret about the snowman beast. It was too late to brake the spell from the evil snowman that lives on the mountain who everybody feared....
Tell Me no Lies by Malorie Blackman
Gemma hated her life, she was sick of being invisible, being weird, being nothing. Everybody ignored her, they dislike her. She didn't care really. This book is about 2 similar lives of 2 different people with some some weird fate brought them to meet each other. Let me tell you Gemma's life: Her mother died when she was five. She live with her dad and big brother, Tarwin. She was fed up with her dad and Tarwin for always argueing and keeping secrets from her. She loved her mum, so she decided to make scrapbooks of different pictures of mums in it. But one day a new boy was in her class, Mike. She thought she'd seen him before in one of her scrapbooks with his mum in it. Now Mike's life was difficult....his dad died because of an accident that the police thought his mum killed him. So she's in prison and he is stuck with his granps and gran. Gemma was interested in Mike's mum. She was eager to find out who she is. As when mike knew that Gemma knew his biggest secret.....(well he thought she knew the real secret)he would do anything for her so that Gemma would stop telling everyone his secret. You have to find the real secret if u read the book, and Gemma likes Mike but she just couldn't admit it. It is a lovely toughing story. That makes me realized that there's always hope...........hopefully...:)
Something Secret
Monday, April 26, 2010
Judy Moody
Playing with Fire
Size 14 is not fat either.
The Secret Garden
The Phantom of the Opera
This book is about a legend of a fearsome ghost wandering the passageways beneath the opera house. This tale is about a girl called Christine, she is a famous singer in Paris but then she gets kidnapped by a madman, which made her think that he was the angel of music sent by her father. However she fell for it but when he took of his mask, she found out he was a man with no eyes nor mouth. Instead he has black holes replacing them. This led him to trick her into marrying him although she had a lover, Raoul, the boy who saved her from drowning when she was younger. The madman forced her to marry him for the sake of Raoul's life. Read and find out how Raoul saves the love of his life.
Hate That Cat
This book is basically a huge poem, with stanzas instead of paragraphs. It is about a boy called Jack who writes poems that are inspired by other famous poets, he even sent a postcard to his favourite poet - William Carlos Williams. Jack reads these poems to his mother, who is deaf so he used hand signals to communicate. Many of these are about a black fat cat who he really despises. He hopes to become a famous poet when he grows up just like William Carlos Williams.
The Grim Grotto
Many secrets in this book will prove pivotal in the hunt for the sugar bowl, so read it! (even though it discourages you to do so.)
The Queen's Nose
First wish: an animal for her
Second wish: a watch
Third wish: a bike for free
When she finally got to her last wish her dad got a letter in from India(that's where her uncle was)to tell them how sick her uncle was and how it was very unlikely he will live. Harmony was going to ask for a puppy but as soon as she heard she raced up to her room and wished that uncle would get better and live near them.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Thanks for telling me Emily
one day a woman, Mrs Fysshe-pye and her son Ryan go to the store to look for pets. They buy Bubbles Mulvey and a parrot called Captain Cockle. The pets hated it there in Mrs Fysshe-Pye castle. They were so small compaired to the house. They found a way to escape back to the pet shop.
The next day Mrs Fysshe-Pye goes back to the shop and says that she wants a bigger pet. She is given some very strange pets until she figures out what she really wants.
Friday, April 23, 2010
The Worry Website
The Prisoner By Cade Merrill
Her cousin went into the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland to make a film about the legend of the Blair Witch.
They NEVER came back.
So Cade read every book she could about the Blair Witch, she emailed everyone who might something about ELLY KEDWARD (the blair witch)
That was just the introduction to the book.
Cade wrote 8 Case files on the blair witch to get more evidence on what actually happen to cousin, but can the answers come to her soon?
I'm reading Case File 6 - The Prisoner and i really want to start from case file 1
her books are so interesting.
and the story she's trying to tell us are TRUE.
it's scary and fun to read.
I got so interested in it that i finished the book in 2 days.
Adrian Mole aged 13 3/4
This story is written like a diary which is one of my favourite styles of writing. but this book wasn't that interesting compared to other book i've read. But here is the plot anyway:
Adrian Mole is living a normal life until he meets the girl of his dreams Pandora whoi has the nickname of Box. He thinks that the world couldnt be better when he is chosen to be her partner in geography. But at home things are getting serious between Adrian's parents as they argue over who doesn't get custody of him when they divorce. Adrian is forced to cook and clean for him self as his parents are too busy arguing. Soon a neighbour from across the street called Mr Lucas starts too get involved and Adrian's dad finds out why his wife left him. Adrian cant take it anymore so he starts doing clubs after-school so he doesn't spend much time at home. He joins a club which helps senior citizens. Bary is the name of his citizen except he doesn't act like a senior...
Absolutely normal chaos
This book to me wasn't very interesting. It was about a girl who has to write a journal over her summer holiday. Her cousin comes to stay his name is Carl Ray he is as boring as the book until the end of the story when something interesting actually happens. You find out a secret about Carl Ray. This book is very strange i do not suggest it to anyone. I am glad i finished it.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
QUEEN SHAHRAZAD - Alibaba and the 40 thieves
Northern Lights by Phillip Pullman
This series focuses on Lyra, a twelve year old girl, whose life is completely changed when she was given an alethiometer. Along with Pantailamon, her dæmon, and her friend Will, she travels across universes and fights battles. The series of events revolve around and take place as a consequence of the presence of elementary particles called dark material or Dust.
The gobblers kidnap Lyra’s best friend, Roger. While leaving Jordan College, she is given a secret alethiometer with which she begins an extraordinary and adventurous but dangerous journey to the frozen North in the world of ice-bears and witch clans in search of her friend.
Singing for Mrs Pettigrew by Michael Morpurgo
This book has many stories in in it. Different ones...And I think they are wonderful, quite emotional and soe have a message in them. Mostly about books some of the stories are. Some of my favourite stories are: The Giant's Necklace, I believe in unicorns, My one and only great escape, The silver swan and lastly SINGING FOR MRS PETTIGREW. The Giant's necklace is about a girl who promised herself she would finish her giant necklace. But sadly died drowning. Sing for Mrs Pettigrew is about a boy who loved the place he lived in. But sad again, the place is going to be rebuilt in to large buildings, swarming with construction sites. Mrs Pettigrew loved the place more than anything, but it was no use. As the bird sing for Mrs Pettigrew because they thank her for her kindness to nature. The other stories you guys to find out.
Marcus king was strange. He coudn't bear lots of things. Firstly he couldn't stay in the closed places. He couldn't stay if the door is closed.For example, in the boat, when the door is closed, he always whet out on deck whatever the weather is. It also caused big problem of travelling for him too. When he is travelling on the car, his parents always needed to stop suddenly to let him out. He also couldn't bear someone making him do something, and let him in control. So he definately hated school. He ran off from the school from the time of 5. When he grew, he looked like his mom. The red hair. That's why people call him noodle head. If you want to learn more, read it!