The Vintner's Luck

Harsimar Dugh
Book: 14/20
Author: Elizabeth Knox
Genre: Historical Fiction

This story is about a man called Sobran Jodeau in the year 1808, that goes out to drown his love ones in his family's vineyard.. But during the incident he trips over an angel. Once he got over his shock, he decides that Xas the male angel will be his guardian. But Xas turns out to be a mysterious character.

I liked this book becuase it seemed interesting to read. I give this book a rating out of 8/10

Paper towns

Brooke Wilson
Book 12/20
Paper Towns
Mystery
John Green
Rate 9/10

This book is one of my favorite books. It take you through Quentin's journey to find Margo when she suddenly leaves without any notice. He had to piece together the clues to find her . The book describes an amazing journey and keeps you wanting to read more. It one of those curl up and read book,. I rate this book a 9/10  

Paris Of The West

Harsimar Dugh
Book: 13/20
Author: Karen McMillan
Genre: New Zealand literature

This is a New Zealand authors novel Karen McMillan's. The story opens in the year 1948, with the second world war over. But with many victims suffering injuries that cannot be seen, Injuries to the mind, as well as to the soul. It is a novel of love and loss, betrayal and forgiveness, and having the courage to start over.

I enjoyed reading this novel because it was interesting to read.  I give this a rating out of 8/10.

Goosebumbs

Josh Clifton
Goosebumps the werewolf of fever swamp
Book 16/20
The Werewolf of Fever Swamp is the fourteenth book in Goosebumps, the series of children's horror fiction novellas created and authored by R. L. Stine. ... After a swamp deer is murdered, his father believes Grady's dog is responsible, but Grady is convinced a werewolf is the culprit.
I Found this book very entertaining and it pulled you back in when it started to get boring. Irate this book 7/20

Payback

Josh Clifton
Payback
Book 15/20

Thirteen- year- old Riley has a skateboarding accident and discovers that he has a serious delay in bone development. He also has a run in with Vince, an all round tough guy, who plays in his softball team and now seems to be hanging out with his ex-girlfriend.

This book was very interesting and I recommend it for ages 11+.
Irate this book 7/10

Susannah McFarlane: EJ12 Girl Hero - Drama Queen.

EJ12 is a special agent who now needs to gain access to a movie set and stop the water supply from being contaminated. While the latest action movie is being filmed the water supply is secretly being tampered with, while everyone focuses on the movie. I think doing that will be super easy for her and her friend Emma Jacks because they have done so much already so what's stopping them from succeeding now. This book was very...... It was a good book to read, so give a go and test it out and what do you know you might even like the book. I will be rating this book a 8/10 and recommended for people over the age of 10 - 16. Timara Stevens-Lett, 11/10/2016

R. L. Stine: Goosebumps - The Werewolf Of Fever Swamp.

When people find out that there's something very dreadful going on in Fever swamp. weird noises and ripped apart animals is how people say it all began but how far will it go. But everyone is blaming Grady's ( a boy living in Florida ) dog for the incidence happening around the area. But Grady strongly Believes that his dog isn't responsible for the vicious and vile things that has happened. Personally I quit like horror books, movies, ect. If you're also interested in horrors then R. L. Stine is your writer. My rating would have to be 8/10 and my age recommendation is ten to sixteen years of age maybe but it's a good book. Timara Stevens-Lett, 11/10/2016

 Meredith Badger: Go Girl! Bestie's - Beach Break
 Mia is a young girl with her two best friends and she is so excited for them to come over and stay in the holidays. But Shae and Michiko both are acting very unusual, Mia is so frightened that her best friends will like the beach house neighbours more than her. No one knows whether the three best friends will stay best friends forever, after fighting and arguing all night. In my perspective this book is averagely good but I wouldn't recommend this for the twelve plus. My rating would have to be a 7/10 because I don't think this book is for me but if you're into drama and maybe a little bit of mystery this could be the book for you. I don't know about you but just try it out and see how you feel after the first two chapters.
Timara Stevens-Lett, 11/10/2016

The Lion the witch and the wardrobe

Erena Clarke-Boyle

This book is about 4 children Lucy,Peter,Susan and Edmund who all enter into a magical world called Narnia.All through a wardrobe.They meet magical creatures such as talking animals and fauns.I'm the midst of it all Edmund leaves the 3 and other companions that were with them in search of the wicked witch who controls the land.Leaving his 3 family members to search for him alongside there new friends.Overall this book was good and I liked it.

Rating:8/10

Book:15/10

Genre:---

Author:C.S Lewis

Beach Break

9/10/16
Meredith Badger
15/20
6/10
classic literature/ Known books

Mia is at her beach house for the holidays. her 2 best friends are coming to stay with her as well but when they get there the seem a little bit strange. Mia is scared that her best friends will like her neighbors more then they like her and with them acting strange shes sure of it. But the question is will they?.

This book is all about friends and friendship but is on a lower reading level for me. It took a little while to read but it was a good read. I wouldn't recommend it to people who are on a higher reading level. Although it was in a lower reading level i still enjoyed it and it takes up a good amoun of time if you aren't doing anything.

And also this book is one of the many books in this series.

Georgia Perry
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What About... the natural world?

9/10/16

Miles Kelly

14/20

6/10

Have you wondered what animals are made of?. How they live and how they survive in the wild?. And also how plants survive and what is the biggest land mammals are?. And discover everything you may need to know about our growing animal life.

This book is bursting with questions, Answers facts and everything you want to know. I would recommend this book for a project about animal life or if you just like animals. This book is 1 of a few explaining different subjects with facts and answers as well. I think this book is good but i wouldn't read it as like a fantasy book.

Georgia Perry

Stories Gogo Told Me

Stories Gogo Told Me Josh Clifton

By Lisa Grainger

Genre: Collection of Short Stories

Book 14\20

In almost every village in Africa lives a storyteller. Telling stories is not her official job. By day she may be a Gogo (or granny), a teacher, a farmer or a seamstress. But by night, round the fire, she will sit, surrounded by young children, old friends, neighbours and travellers, and will tell you of how it was in the olden days, when the Earth was young, when man was a hunter-gatherer, and when animals roamed wild throughout the continent. The author spent several months hiking around the villages, towns, farms and deserts of Zimbabwe, Zambia, Botswana and South Africa, asking people who can't read or write to tell her their favourite stories. The result is this children's treasury of legends and fables, of witchdoctors and kingdoms of strange creatures and talking animals, which celebrates Africa and its ancient storytelling culture.

This book is very special to me as it was given to me as a Gift from my Granny and Grandpa who live in South Africa. I love all of the stories in it, especially the one called Why Lightning Strikes. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good story. I rate this book 10/10.

Danny Champion of the World

Danny Champion of the World By Josh Clifton

By Roald Dahl

Book 

Danny champion of the world is a very interesting book.
Danny, the Champion of the World is set in the 1950s and written from the perspective of a nine year old boy.
Danny’s mother died when he was four months old, leaving him to be brought up by his father. They live in an old and cosy gypsy caravan behind a petrol station where Danny’s father works as a car mechanic. The story explores their relationship when Danny discovers “the deepest, darkest secret” of his father’s life: a love of poaching pheasants.
Together they devise the “Sleeping Beauty” plan to drug two hundred pheasants in Hazell’s wood by filling raisins with powdered sleeping pills and distributing them for the pheasants to eat. This local wood belongs to the detested, corpulent, exceedingly rich and obnoxious snob, Mr Victor Hazell. Danny and his father have a violent dislike of Victor Hazell, and they hope their plan to poach all his pheasants will ruin his annual pheasant shoot, held for all the nobility and “fancy folk” in the county.
Their plan succeeds and they escape under the cover of darkness with two gigantic sackfuls of sleeping birds that they leave with the local Vicar’s wife. Danny is crowned "Champion of the World" by his father for setting a new world record for poaching pheasants. The Vicar's wife hides the birds in her baby’s pram in order to return them to Danny and his father the following day. But on the way the sleeping pills wear off and pandemonium ensues as the pheasants escape.
Although their plan is not quite as successful as they had hoped, Danny and his father still manage to exact their revenge on Victor Hazell, who is forced to watch all the birds he raised to be killed at his infamous shooting party fly away. Danny and his father are left with just a few heavily-drugged pheasants to eat with their friends while they contemplate their next adventure.

Space

Laura Walker
Space
15/20 books
 This book is one of the most interesting S books I've read. It is all about space. It has lots and lots of facts about space, you could probably find everything you need to know about space.
Facts :
* black holes are one of the coolest phenomena in space.
*the are several different types of black holes
*the word asteroid comes from the Greek and means "starlike"
* Saturn is the sixth planet from the sun and the second largest
* a meteoroid is a small peice of rock or iron.
*the Milky Way Galaxy is about 13.6 billion years old
*venus was named after the Roman goddes of love and beauty
*the Suns core temperature is approximately 27 million degrees F (1 million degrees C)

I really enjoyed reading this book because of the interesting facts, I rate it a 8.5/10

              
               Roald Dahl: Fantastic Mr Fox
 Mr Fox steals chickens from the farm and the farmers Boggis,Bunce and Bean go crazy with anger! It's told that they're the most unpleasant crooks in the and they have assembled a devious plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But what they don't know or want to believe is that Mr fox has a plan of his own....I rated this a 8/10 and i recommend it to people over the age of 10-16, 9/10/2016 Timara Stevens-Lett

The Subtle Knife

9/10/16
mystery
Phillip Pullman
7/10
13/20

Will is on the run, he's just killed a man. His adventure will take far beyond the roads that he knows in his town. And his fate will collide with a girl named Lyra. His and her fates are joined and them two together need to find the most powerful weapon ever.

This book i think is very adventurous and dark about the murder of a man at the start but you get into the book easily and then don't mind about the gruesome turns. Its not a book that i would normally read at night  because this book is maybe a head turning book. Its not a big book not a small book so it would take up a bit of time to read it all. I would recommend this to adventure seekers and people who love mysteries.

Georgia Perry

Boy in striped pajamas

Laur Walker
The boy in striped pajamas
Book 14/20

This book is about a boy who loves to explore but leaves in a terrible ending
The boy (Bruno) came home from school one day and got told he was moving to a different house. He wasn't very happy because he wanted to be with his friends but his mum said he would make new friends. When they moved in Bruno And his sister picked their rooms. When Bruno was unpacking he saw what he thought was a farm, but it wasn't. One day he asked if he could go exploring but his mum said no, so he snuck out though the shed window to go see the farm. He met this boy named shmal. He was a Jew. They became friends,  so he went everyday to see him. Bruno's mum told them they were moving and he didn't want to move because he didn't want to leave shmal. So he dug a hole under the fence so he could stay with shmal. Bruno thought it was a fun camp but little did he know it was a camp for people to slave around for people. When he got in the camp they were looking for shmal's dad because he went missing. Bruno's mum realised he was gone so everyone went looking. Bruno ended up dieing with his best friend.

I rate this book a 8.5/10 because it was very interesting but sad.

Encyclopedia of world wonders

Laura walker
Encyclopedia of world wonders
Book 13/20

This book was very interesting to learn new things. It has lots of facts on different topics such as...
*amazing animals
*space
*megastructers
And more
My favourite topic was amazing animals because it's the most interesting for me.
Here are some facts from the book...
A grizzly bear can run as fast as a horse, about 56 kilometers per hour.
The word sues has been derived from the Greek word dios, meaning bright.
There are about 100 billion galaxies in the universe
There have been about 435 people go into space

I rate this book a 8/10 because it had lots of interesting facts