Dear Sixth Graders,
This week for your blog entry, we would like for you to write a letter to your teacher to introduce and share a book from which you can learn something. Book reviews can contain just about any type of information related to the text, to the reader, or to the world of books and readers in general. Here are some typical things book reviews include:
- An Interesting Lead – Start with some catchy phrase that takes something interesting from the book.
- A Brief Summary – What did you learn from this book and why it is good for anyone interested in learning from the topic
- The Reviewer’s Favourite Part – Talk about your favourite part and why it’s special
- An Evaluation – Say whether you liked the book and which were your favourite parts
Some guidelines for you –
- Write approx.. 300-400 words
- Include the book’s title, author, publisher, and year of publication
Your Inspiring Sixth Grade English Teachers
HKBUAS G6 2019-20 
Dear Ms. Sandra,
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is my favorite book because it is full of funny moments, magic, also love. This book is written in a 1st person, Charlie. Imagine when you see the magic chocolate factory yourself, it must be a great adventure! So I strongly advise you to read this book.
This book is about a boy called Charlie is living with his parent and his grandfather, grandmother, grandpa and grandma. There is a mysterious factory owned by Mr.Willy Wonka which sell chocolate made by IDK who, and one day he decides to put five golden tick into five of his product and the golden ticket allows a kid with one of his family to visit his factory. So Charlie gets one of the tickets and went to the factory. He sees a lot of new stuff like a chocolate river, dwarfs and how did the chocolate is made out. The favorite part for me is when Violet becomes a big purple ball because it teaches me to follow orders and mostly funny.
Last, I hope you would read this funny and interesting book, thankyou.
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Dear Ms.Yiu:
The book that I am going to recommend is The BFG by Ronald Dahl.The book was very interesting with many fantasy things.
Why do I like this book,I like this book because the book has many great adjective.So we could learn from the book and use the great adjectives.
This book is about a Big Friendly Giant who is a dream collecter and he went to Sophie’s house at night and wanted to collect her dreams,but she woke up and saw BFG then the BFG took Sophie away back to the cave where The BFG had lived.
The BFG took good care of Sophie when they were in the cave,the BFG also had introduced his cave to Sophie.
The BFG and Sophie also went to the Queen of England’s castle to call for help and capture the big nasty giants who eats humans.
If you want to know more about the details read the book written by Ronald Dahl The BFG.
In this book I learned that we have to take care of others like the BFG.
Your student
Carloslam6b15.
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Dear Ms Yiu,
“felt SO insanely happy i could just . . . VOMIT sunshine, rainbows, confetti, glitter and . . . um . . . those yummy little skittles thingies!”
The book i would like to recommend is “Dork Diary”. Dork Diary is a humorous children’s book series written and illustrated by Rachel Renée Russell. The seres is written in a diary format, using drawings, doodles, and comic strips to chronicle the daily life of it’s 14-year old protagonist, Nikki Maxwell, in and outside of middle school !
The author, Rachel Renée Russell said that this series was inspired by her own middle school experiences as well as those of her two daughters, Erin and Nikki. Her older daughter, Erin, helps with writing and her younger daughter, Nikki, helps with illustrations. Dork Diaries is published by Aladdin Paperbacks.
This is my favourite book in all, and it was very funny and interesting ! This book is all about cliches the same old middle school thing where the main character has crush,meeting mean girls, going to new schools. She finds friends and is the leader in the group then everything goes well for her in the end.
My favourite book in dork diary is ” Tales from a Not-so-haappily Ever After” This is the book which is the most popular in all of he other books in Dork Diary.And this book is just mainly about friends.
I hope you could have a chance to read this blazing and absurd book !
Your Student,
Stephanie Chung
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Dear Ms.Carmen
“Charlotte’s Web”From E.B White(Pictures by.Garth Williams)
The novel tells the story of a livestock pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte.When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur(such as “Some Pig”) in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live.I’ve learned that even that [sample] If a student had some problems that they maybe can’t finish by them self,they can still call people to help him\her.)
Actually I learned there were no one that is perfect.Charlotte’s Web was adapted into an animated feature by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Sagittarius Productions in 1973. Paramount released a direct-to-video sequel.
Book Summary:After a little girl named Fern Arable pleads for the life of the runt of a litter of piglets, one spring morning, her father gives her the pig to nurture, and she names him Wilbur. She treats him as a pet, but a month later, no longer small, Wilbur is sold to Fern’s uncle, Homer Zuckerman. In Zuckerman’s barnyard Wilbur yearns for companionship but is snubbed by the other animals. He is befriended by a barn spider named Charlotte, whose web sits in a doorway overlooking Wilbur’s enclosure. When Wilbur discovers that he is being raised for slaughter, she promises to hatch a plan guaranteed to spare his life. Fern often sits on a stool, listening to the animals’ conversation, but over the course of the story, as she starts to mature, she begins to find other interests.As the summer passes, Charlotte ponders the question of how to save Wilbur. At last, she comes up with a plan, which she proceeds to implement. Reasoning that Zuckerman would not kill a famous pig, Charlotte weaves words or short phrases in praise of Wilbur into her web, making the barn, and pig, a tourist attraction, with the web believed to be a miracle. At the county fair, to which he is accompanied by Charlotte and the rat Templeton, Wilbur fails to win the blue ribbon, but is awarded a special prize by the judges.
Characters:Wilbur,Charlotte A. Cavatica,John Arable,Fern Arable,Templeton,Avery Arable,Homer Zuckerman,Henry Fussy,Dr. Dorian,Fern’s uncle,Charlotte’s children and Other animals…
Aslan Liu 6E[21]
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Dear Ms.Liu,
‘isn’t that everything in this museum supposed to be…you know, dead?’ and ‘Dinosaur bones can’t really come to life… or can they?’ is my favorite quotes from this book, Night at the Museum, the junior novelization. It was written by Leslie Goldman and was publish by B.E.S. Publishing in November 1, 2006. I am recommending this book, because in my opinion, i think this book is out of imagination, because everything, except the structure it’s own, will move in the night!
This novel is mostly talking about a person called Larry have no job, so he found a job that is to be a guard. Mysterious happened those days he work. so, my favorite part is in the first night for Larry to guard the museum, Larry have found that some Easter island’s statues called ‘Moai’ likes to eat bubble gum?! Mongolian soldiers statues came alive, Christopher Columbus talking with Larry or even Ahkmenrah the king of Egypt chatting with Larry!
I like this book very much and i think this book have many exciting part and it makes me feel tension and i really want to keep one reading the book!
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Dear Ms. Yiu
“If you are good, life will be good.” “Matilda” is the book I would like to recommend. I like it very much. It is written by Roald Dahl and published in 1988 by Puffin Books.
In my point of view, I think that this book tells us whatever how horrible your parent and teachers is, If you have an amiable heart, your life will be immeasurable. Also, the problems with Mr.Wormwood tells us that if you are cheating and not being honest, you will soon get into consequential trouble.
My favorite part is when Matilda has successfully done with the third miracle and help ms. Honey gets back to her house. I think ms. Trunchbull deserved it and I am happy with Matilda and Miss. Honey that they get back the house Miss. Honey’s dad gave her.
I also like the part when Bunce Bogtrotter eats the whole chocolate cake. I think this part is very funny and interesting because of Ms. Trunchbull asked Bunce to come up with the stage because he stole Ms.Trunchbull a piece of chocolate cake.Ms. Thunchbull method of punishing Bunce is ridiculous and makes me felt delightful. She asked the cook to make an enormous chocolate cake and asked him to eat the whole one. However, Bunce finishes the watermelon size chocolate cake. I think it is ridiculous and makes my mouth watered. The cake seems appetizing in Roald Dahl’s writing.
I think that this book is very marvelous to read because it is very remarkable and fun. I hope that everyone could read it. This book will help people to be more imaginative and have a pleasant time reading it.
Sincerely,
Amelia Huang 6B(11)
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Marco Lui 6B21
Dear Ms.Yiu,
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” The book that I am recommending is The Bald Bandit and the author of this book is Ron Roy, published in 1997. The main character in this book is Dink (Donald David Duncan). but nobody called him Donald.
This book was about a bald bandit went robbing a bank and a red-haired high school student was taking a videotape of the thief and a detective named Reddy was looking for someone who saw the red-haired boy. The detective asked Dink, Josh and Rose to find the boy and get the videotape for the detective. After they found the boy, they went to lend the videotape to the detective. The detective revealed that he was a thief and after Dink, Josh and Rose knew, they called the police and the thief got arrested. Dink, Josh and Rose got 100 bucks each and they each gave half to the red-haired high school student.
My favourite part of the book is when Dink, Rose and Josh went to a school and find the red-haired boy but in the school, there are many red-haired students, so it is so hard to find the boy who taped the video.
I highly recommend you to read the book because it is so exciting.
Your student,
Marco Lui
6B21
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Dear Ms.Yiu,
“What knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” The book that I would like to recommend the book “Charlotte’s Web” because it is a fascinating novel that was about a story on a farm of a pig and a spider and Fern.
What I had learned in this book was to not kill animals, respect every life, and we should understand others just like the book has written that Fern understands the animals so they are friends, just like we should understand each other. I also learned to not underestimate pigs because Wilbur could do a backflip.
My favorite part was” Templeton poked his head from the straw. He noticed that the end of Wilbur’s tail in his mouth and bit it, just as hard as he could bite. The pain revived Wilbur. In a flash, he was back on his feet” The reason that I like was that it was funny that a rat bit a pigtail. And the pain revived it.
At last, about the question that I whether liked this book. The answer yes! I like this funny book!
PacoZhou6B30
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Dear Ms.Yiu,
‘isn’t that everything in this museum supposed to be…you know, dead?’ and ‘Dinosaur bones can’t really come to life… or can they?’ is my favorite quotes from this book, Night at the Museum, the junior novelization. It was written by Leslie Goldman and was publish by B.E.S. Publishing in November 1, 2006. I am recommending this book, because in my opinion, i think this book is out of imagination, because everything, except the structure it’s own, will move in the night!
This novel is mostly talking about a person called Larry have no job, so he found a job that is to be a guard. Mysterious happened those days he work. so, my favorite part is in the first night for Larry to guard the museum, Larry have found that some Easter island’s statues called ‘Moai’ likes to eat bubble gum?! Mongolian soldiers statues came alive, Christopher Columbus talking with Larry or even Ahkmenrah the king of Egypt chatting with Larry!
I like this book very much and i think this book have many exciting part and it makes me feel tension and i really want to keep one reading the book!
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Dear Ms. Poon,
“Me is the only one what won’t be gobbled up because giants is never eating giants.”The book that I want to recommend is “The Big Friendly Giant” I think this book is a very educational and interesting book that is very popular among primary school students.
Good has its reward and evil has its recompense，good people get good result,evil people have to pay. The evil giants were eventually caught by the Queen’s, and the friendly giant finally lived a good life. That is what I learn from this book.I think that today’s primary school students prefer books of fantasy and novelty. In the topic, the word “giant” is easy to imagine, which is the most interesting place.
In the silver moonlight, the familiar streets seem to have completely changed. The house is sloping and slanting, and the house in the fairy tale is like that. Everything is so pale, milky white, full of ghosts. This is my favorite part, because it depicts the street as lively and interesting, as if it is a street full of ghosts, children will feel the same, and will not feel scared.
Roald Dahl is the author of this book, he is a very famous author, I like this book!
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I would like to recommend the book of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, published in Hong Kong by STUDENTS-KINGDOM PUBLISHING LIMITED, first published in NOV 2013. This is a detective fiction. All the short stories are about a british detective Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant, friend, and biographer, Dr. Watson to investigate a dozen of cases.
Following them to solve a series of problems, you will able to see a incomparable mind to work on a criminal
world in London.
These are really amazing books. I think they are so fasinating when you find out how Sherlock thinks through everything. He is very awesome and intelligent. They contain many mysterious and exciting mysteries, and also contain a lot of adventure and they are exciting. From the stories, you can learn things about the characters. The writer always led you to miss the significant details. The outcome is totally different from what you want.
My favourite part was from The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle.
The part in this book was when Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson met the criminal James Ryder. He talked to Holmes for the first time. Here are the quotations.
“You?Who are you? How could you possibly know anything of the matter?”James Ryder said.
“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.”
“But you can know nothing of this?” James Ryder said
“Excuse me, I know everything of it……..”
I like this part because Holmes had a superior and so smart reply. He like a god. He also was a genius. He seems know anything. I also want to have a such talent.
It is really worth to spend your time to read the whole collection.
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I would recommend the series The Wizard of Once to you. It was written by Cressida Cowell, also known as the author of a quite popular series, how to train the dragon. The first book was published on September 19, 2017. The series contains three books. The three books were full of magic, with wizards, warriors and magic creatures. It was really exciting and it deserves you to read.
This series starts from, long long time ago, the wizards and warriors had a war. They hated each other more than anything. The warriors had a secret weapon called iron. Iron can always stop magic. The warriors believed that iron was so strong that no wizards could stop it. But, they were wrong. Yes, they could stop wizards at that age, but, long long time after that, there was a warrior princess, Wish born with a magic eye. She had magic that could stop iron. Magic was banned at the Warriors font. Her magic causes everything trouble. Her mother, the queen of the warriors always ban her from doing anything connected to magic, and always thought that her stepsisters were much better than her. It also causes witches to wander around the world to steal her magic.
On the other hand, there was a wizard called Xar who always cause trouble to the wizards. But, yes, his ways were smart, but just a little bit wicked. He was over the age, his magic should appear by now. But, he didn’t get any magic. He wanted some, so, he hunted for the witches who had believed extinct. He got a witch strain on his hand that makes everything trouble.
Then, Wish and Xar met each other and had an ultimate adventure. The story was twisted and everything just went different from what you expected from the start. The story was full of elements of magic, and exciting parts.
In conclusion, this book really worth your time to read it. If you had time, go to the library or bookstore to do so.
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Dear Mrs Pradhan,
“I wish everyday could be Halloween” Which is said by an inspirational boy who wrote a book about his journey. “Wonder” is the name of the book, and it is magnificent.
“Wonder” is a diary, written by R.J. Palacio. This treasure was published on the 14th of February 2012.
“Wonder” is a book about a boy who has a medical condition with his face, and he is afraid to let people see his appearance. His family tries to convince him that he is normal and would be fine, but the boy just doesn’t give in. He expresses feelings and wrote how he got bullied during his time at school. His sister also takes part in writing in the diary-ish book, adding on how she feels as a sister of a depressed child.
My favorite part of the book was when the boy meets a student who was willing to be his friend. They had a special bond; they both liked astronauts and astronomy. It was very touching when he got a friend. The two of them went on a journey together. His response when he found out that he had a friend was priceless, it would make you shed a tear.
This book is very worth reading, as it’s a message to never be ashamed of who you are. No matter if you have a fake leg, or a medical condition, being yourself is always number 1. This book is full of exquisite vocabulary, making the ride through the little boy’s journey as clear as crystal. The content is loaded with surprises, reading this book would never be boring. It’s a very special story, not reading this is like not having presents on Christmas! You can learn about how unique everyone is in their own self.
Reading “Wonder” is very thrilling, as it’s full of emotions. This book is poetry, in a pattern perfectly. I recommend this book to all readers, no matter if you’re a teen, adult, or even aged citizens, as long as you can read, it is a great choice. If you don’t like to read, watch the trailer of “Wonder” first, then you will easily fall in love with the series! This is one of the best books, I hope all of you can read this treasure.
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Dear Ms. Carmen,
People only see; I observe. This is what made a great detective. I am a big fan of Sherlock Holmes series and among all the detective stories, my most favourite book is called The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes – The Greatest Jail-Breaker therefore I am glad to introduce this book to you. Author of this book is Lai Ho and the book was published by Rightman Publishing Ltd in 2016.
The book tells the story about a notorious con artist named Mack who has some sort of principle to scam only the greedy and wealthy people but never deceived the poor. He has a 14-year old illegitimate daughter named Katie whom he visited once a year on her birthday. Because of this routine, he got caught by Holmes at Katie’s 15-year-old birthday and was put into jail. Four years later, he escaped from the jail to attend his daughter’s wedding. Holmes was assigned with the task to capture Mack again. Following the clues left behind from the prison, Holmes resolved the case and captured him after Mack attended the wedding.
My favourite part of the book is that Holmes let Mack quietly attending his daughter’s wedding before returning to the prison. It is a perfect gift for a caring father and the bride. I am very touched because Holmes is truly a great detective because he can easily resolve cases and he has a kind heart for others.
This is an incredible and interesting book, because it is a detective story which contains fantastic contents, so I highly recommend you to read this book. An alternative for you is to watch the movie as the story has been produced into a movie – The Great Detective-Sherlock Holmes-The Greatest Jail Breaker.Also, the observation skills of Sherlock Holmes is Great and let me impressed.
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Dear Mrs Poon,
“In a forest primaeval, A school for good and evil, two towers like twin heads, one for the pure, one for the wicked, try to escape you’ll always fail, the only way out is through a fairy tale. ”
This has always been my favourite quote from the book the school for good and evil. The school for good and evil is a fantasy fairytale hexalogy of books by Soman Chainani, the very first novel was published by HarperCollins on May 12, 2013. This series is one of my all-time favourites because first of all, I am a fantasy person and second of all, the Author just made this book so special! It’s different, it’s unique, it’s everything a young reader would like to read!
This book is basically about a pair of best friends Sophie and Agatha discovering where all the lost children go: the fabled School for Good and Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy-tale heroes and villains. As the most beautiful girl in Gavaldon, Sophie has dreamed of being kidnapped into the enchanted world her entire life, at the drop of a hat she thinks that she will earn top marks at the school for good and graduate a storybook princess. Meanwhile, Agatha, with her shapeless black frocks, wicked pet cat, and a dislike of nearly everyone, seems like a natural fit for the school for evil. But when the two girl’s fortunes are reversed— what would happen? Is this the first step to finding who they truly are?
Your guess is as good as mine to the question “When is your favourite part?” As I say, this book is just magical, every single part is a piece of treasure, and all i could say is that if I could bewitch you all to read it, I absolutely would.
My favourite character in the school for good and evil, book one is Sophie of woods beyond, because even though she is very vain and selfish, she is also creative and brave. Under all those warts and selfishness, what i can see is a little girl begging for someone to truly love her and never leave her behind. Her mother died when she was 10, her father only cares about her step-brothers, and her best friend left her for her prince. Sometimes you just have to dig deeper, like what everyone says “don’t judge a book by its cover” but can one do it? It is really easy to say, but doing it? That’s the hard part. Many of us just accept what we see and think, not what is true, and that is why my favourite character is Sophie of woods beyond. A talented, creative and smart little girl.
This whole book is a blessing in disguise, I loved the whole story, each page is full of wonders and miracles, it’s a journey to a dazzling new world, and I want whoever is reading this dig into this wonderful book too. (you might even find out what your finger glow colour!)
P.S you’ll find out what a finger glow is if you read the book!
Enjoy,
Ava
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What happened to Gorilla just now? Did he just got kidnapped? The book I am going to recommend is The Great Detective Sherlock Holmes book 7 Saving Gorilla written by Lai Ho and translated by Maria Kan, it was published in 2018 and all the characters are different except Holmes and Watson, it is also not an adapted version of an original version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
In the book, I learnt about the fabulous deduction method Sherlock Holmes used. Also, many scientific things are taught in this book. Like how can you distil water by using cotton balls, tin can, soybeans, charcoal, gauze and an envelope. Moreover, Sherlock Holmes used the water that is being distilled to make the room brighter. How? By putting the bottle sticking to the hole on the top of the ceiling. The light goes into the bottle of water, then it reflects to the whole room. It acts like a light bulb which doesn’t use electricity. It’s good for people who are interested in science and they can learn facts while reading the wonderful book.
After all, my favourite part of the book. It the scene when Sherlock Holmes can instantly know that Gorilla is in the broken cabin at Waterloo Station. Why? It’s because it is impossible for normal people to guess where is he just from a few hints from the letter the kidnapper wrote to him. It’s also because he has a lot of general knowledge and he knows his opponent well, so he can know where is Gorilla.
Last, I really liked this book because it’s very interesting and its captivity level is very high, I am rating it a five star and I highly recommend this to all students. In conclusion, my favourite part is when Sherlock Holmes figure out where is Gorilla. I hope after you read about it you can buy or borrow this book to read.
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Dear Ms Carman
Recently,I read a really amazing book! I am going to introduce and recommand this book to you, the book is a diary of a wimpy kid the ugly truth.
This is a book about a kid called Greg who always wanted to grow up, to be an adult. But he can not handle. He tries a better alarm clock than his older one, which didn’t work, a wind-up clock. He put it under his bed so he would have to get out of bed to find it. But with the clock ticking loudly under his bed, he feels like he is on top of a bomb and therefore gets no sleep.
As a result, Greg accidentally sets off the fire alarm at school in his sleep-deprived state. The entire school has to evacuate, and the fire brigade is called. After everyone goes back in, the head teacher says that whoever set off the alarm will be suspended and should turn themselves in. Greg does not get caught. Then everyone thinks that the teachers used this as a trick to see which kid goes to wash his hands first. No one goes to wash their hands, and since it is the middle of flu season, the school has to close early. Since Susan was studying, Frank picks Greg up.
My favourite part of this book is he go to take off his teeth. It is because it was very make other laugh. And they are talking very stupid. Like a pig!!!!!! And when he pretending he were Jury, jury is a most popular kid in the grade above him. Because he want to pretand he were popular.
I like this book because This book are very funny, and I learn that being a adult are not easy.
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Dear Ms Sandra,
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.Charlotte was both.” Charlotte’s Web is a inspiring book which introduces a miracle friend ship.It was written by E.B.White,the famous author who had been awarded the Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for his children’s books in 1970.
The story begins on a farm with a runty piglet -Wilbur, saved from death.He met Charlotte the spider in the barn,and they start an unlikely friendship.Soon Wilbur discovers he is going to be slaughtered for the Christmas feast,which made him felt desperated. The story revolves around Charlotte saving Wilbur by spinning webs to trick people not to kill him.
By far Chapter11 “The Miracle” is my favorite.It clarifies how Charlotte’s first web ‘SOME PIG” tricks people.It’s memorable not only because it’s funny,showed how foolish people are,but also reveals that Charlotte’s trick was a success,which made me feel relieved.
I loved the book since it’s such an emotional novel which shows the strength in friendships and how far friends will go to support one another.It also implies that we all need a best friend to assist each other when we are facing difficulties in life.
To conclude,Charlotte’s web is definitely worth reading.The inspiring story will encourage you to become more aware of the value of your friendships.
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“ Wisdom’s daughter walks alone, The Mark of Athena burns through Rome.” The book I would like to recommend is The Mark of Athena. The author of this book is Rick Riordan and was published on the second of October, 2012. It is the third in the five book series Heroes of Olympus, preceded by The Son of Neptune and followed by The House of Hades.
This book talks about Annabeth, daughter of Athena has received a message about having a mission to go to Rome and to find this “person” and to kill him/her. All daughters and sons have received this message. A lot of them try to accomplish but fails.
I learned a lot in this book. This book talks about Greek Mythology with many names of gods and heroes that I can never forget! You can learn a lot of Greek Mythology. This book also has great use of words and sentences. I learned a lot of new words from this book.
My favourite part is when Annabeth uses the smartest way to defeat the monster, Arachne. She tells Arachne to make a round and long drawing using spider web and says the drawing can be put in Olympus. Arachne believes in what Annabeth says and starts weaving. After finishing weaving, Annabeth tells Arachne that there is a little hole in the middle of the drawing. Arachne then goes in but gets trapped by her own the sticky web. This is special because Annabeth uses a smart way to defeat the villain. Most Greek heroes will use fighting to defeat monsters, but in this case. Annabeth does not need to waste any strength and defeats the monster.
My favourite parts of the book are: Annabeth defeating Arachne, Percy Jackson fighting with Jason Grace, and Hazel defeating Chrysaor. I really like this book, you can borrow it from the library or read it online for free!
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Dear Ms Sandra
My Favorite book: Storey Treehouse Series
My Favorite book is Storey Treehouse Series because this book is very funny.
The full name of this book is not only storey treehouse, but with a number of the multiple of 13, like 13 26 39 52…etc. The full name is like 13 storey treehouse, 26 storey treehouse…etc. The Author is Andy Griffiths and the illustrator is Terry Denton.
In the story, the main characters are Andy, Terry, and Jill. Andy and Terry live in the treehouse together while Jill lives in other side of the forest in a house which is full of animals. There are some other characters like Bill the Postman, Mr Big nose etc. Andy and Terry’s treehouse are having very weird facilities. Each story contains different kind of adventure.
Let me share my favorite part of this series!!!
My FIRST favorite part of the book is happen in 39 storey treehouse. This happen in Chapter 2: 39th level. Terry build top secret machine. This machine is call the ONCE UPON A TIME Machine. This is not a time machine, but a publish book machine. Terry start his machine by setting how funny us the book, he set MILK SNORTINGLY FUNNY. He also set with many action and different characters and setting and romance. He also set when someone stole the machine, it will explode, and how to Transport the book to the publisher, Mr. Big Nose. He chooses FLYING BEETROOT. He also set the page number to 344. The funniest part is before the book start publishing, you have to put your big toe to the scanner.
I like this series because this series is very funny. The words are not so hard and the pictures are very beautiful. The plot is very compact, it makes me want to know what next, it is not boring at all.
I recommend you and your daughter to read this book because this book is very fun.
P.S. You can also tell your dog to read too, it is suitable for them. If you dog can read 🙂
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Dear Mrs. Pradahn.
“Now she realized that the hardest test for a child of Athena wasn’t leading a quest or facing death in combat. It was making the strategic decision to step back, to let someone else take the brunt of the danger—especially when that person was your friend. She had to face the fact that she couldn’t protect everyone she loved. She couldn’t solve every problem.” This quote is said by Annabeth Chase, one of my favourite characters in the book House of Hades, one of my favourite books.
The book House of Hades is written by Rick Riordan. It is published by Disney Publishing Worldwide on the 8th of October, 2013. The book is based on the greek mythology world.
This book is exciting and hilarious. It is about 7 demigods, children of the Olympian gods, and their thrilling, deadly quest to close the doors of death and, of course, save the world. The Doors of Death were opened by Gaea, and devious villains and monsters from a long, long time ago were infesting the world. Gaea want to use them to destroy Camp Half-blood and Camp Jupitor, the only safe haven for demigods, overthrow the Olympians and wipe out civilization. Yet the doors of death could only be closed together on both sides together, the living side and Tatarus, the hell in greek mythology. The 7 demigods, along with Nico and Reyna has to seperate. Nico and Reyna will attempt to carry the Athena Parthenos halfway across the world, Jason, Piper, Hazel and Frank will try to close the doors of death on the living side, against the swarms of monsters coming out from it. Annabeth and Percy took on the most dangerous mission: closing the doors of death in Tartarus, the land that houses all sorts of monsters who wouldn’t hesitate to kill a demigod.
In House of Hades ,I learned about friendship. During hardships, will the members on board still manage to trust each other? How much are the members willing to sacrifice for each other? If there is a situation where only one demigod who can survive, will the members be willing to give up their own life for their friend’s life? But if they have to make a choice, whether to lose one of their friends for the greater good, what will they choose? I learned about perseverance through this book. The demigods have to achieve the impossible, constantly facing challenges without time to rest. Even if they manage to save the world, they might not even gain credit for all they’ve done. Can they still continue striving in these extreme conditions? Yet they still did. I think I should learn from them. This book is also about facing your own challenges. Percy has to choose between the fate of the world or his friends. Annabeth has to accept that even if she tried very, very hard, she can’t protect everyone. Piper has to deal with insecurance about her own identity and her abilities. Jason has to deal with all his responsibility and keep his self image. Frank has to deal with self- esteem problems. Hazel has to get over her guilt for releasing Alcyoneus. Leo has to learn to trust. Nico has to let go of grudges. Reyna has to accept her past. I found these stories very inspiring and learned a lot from them.
My favourite part of the book is when Percy and Annabeth face Night in Tartarus. They tricked her into believing there are demigods going on vacation in Tartarus, and that she should let the live and make her popular again. They then asked her to take a selfie with them and her favourite child. Her children all want to be her favourite child and they started fighting together. Percy and Annabeth escaped during the mess. I like this part because it was hilarious, and my favourite character, Annabeth Chase demonstrated yet again how smart she is and how good she is at using her wits.
This book is a really good book and I highly recommend you to check it out. I am sure you will like it and start daydreaming about being a demigod like I do (don’t call me weird).
Kendra Lee 6D 20
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Dear Mrs.Kum,
” As a Tamaranian princess, this palace was my home,” said Starfire. ” We often entertained kings, queens, and warlords in an effort to keep the peace of the galaxy.” I would love to recommend this book, called Starfire firebomb. This story basically includes all of this hero, Starfire in Teen Titans. Teen Titans hero includes Raven, Robin, Cyborg, Beast Boy, and Starfire herself. She is friendly, kind, but a powerful character. and in this story, Starfire needs to save everyone from monsters, villains and even fighting against their teammates, but when fighting, there were also some funny twists and jokes that even made me laugh.
It’s funny and entertaining, but there’s also a lot of meaningful meanings. the most important thing I learned in this book was to always be happy, even in depressing times. Always think positive, doing this can improve your behavior and even your actions. With this message, I really want to share this book with everyone. My family, friends and more people. and anyone interested in superheroes, this is the perfect book for you.
There are many scenes that I really like, but the only one I will never forget was when the teen titans got swallowed by Gridnock the Skull crusher, and they found a pretty weird but unexpected way to get out. Gridnock’s stomach was full of green, slimy, acidic goo and rocks. The Teen Titans have no way but to only stay on a small piece of rock floating around the “river”, feeling hopeless. Everyone finally confessed that they hate the planet Tamara as the rock was sinking. They all thought they are going to die. But Starfire did not lose hope. instead, she took out a drill covered in feathers and tickled Cyborg until he laughed and laughed. He laughed so hard that his engines went on and he knocked Gridnock’s stomach off him. So the monster was defeated.
I really love this book, and I would recommend to anyone that is having a bad day or borrow to them anytime.
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Dear Ms Sandra,
‘ This is Giant Country ‘ My favourite book is ” The BFG “, I recommended you to read this book is because this book was very funny, the big friendly giant is the only one who won’t eat humans beans.
The BFG book was a 1982 children’s book written by British novelist Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake. They are also a famous person.
I will talk about the story, first Sophie has been given a giant to grab her up, and bought her to a strange giant country when she arrived at the giant country, she saw a tall giant was standing in front of her that’s called the big friendly giant, she saw many jars of dreams at there. Then the big friendly giant told her she was the only one who eats snozzcumbers, and he told her all giant also will eat humans beans, so be careful. And they took a suitcase and take out the empty glass jars and catch the dreams and put it in the jars.
My favourite part of the book was Sophie catch the dreams with the giant because I think playing was the happiest thing they do. And catching dreams were happy, the dreams have a different type, it has good dreams and bad dreams, if Sophie caught a bad dream, the giant also will call back her to throw the dream, don’t let the dream to follow.
This book was really funny, I hope you will read it, and I hope you like this book.
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Dear Mrs.Pradhan
Demigods, camp-Half blood… what does it make you think of? It makes me think of my favourite book, Percy Jackson And The Battle Of The Labyrinth, by Rick Riordan and published by Puffin books in 2009.
Through this book, I learnt that there are many ways to do things in life and they each lead to a different ending, just like the labyrinth. In case you don’t know, the Labyrinth is an underground passageway that has different exits around the world. However, if other people except from the owner, Daedalus will most likely die or get lost in the labyrinth since the walls will move as you walk inwards to the labyrinth. There are also many deadly traps in the labyrinth such as flying hammers… anything you can think of.
My favourite part of the book was when Annabeth, Tyson, Grover and Percy stepped in to the labyrinth. This part makes the readers excited about what will happen next. As soon as they stepped in, they got lost. Annabeth got the idea to stick to the left wall, so they could return whenever they wanted to. Unfortunately, as soon as Annabeth said that, the left wall disappeared and they were brought to the middle of a circular chamber. This is an example of how mysterious and magical the labyrinth was.
Lastly, I like this book very much. I would recommend it to my classmates and even my teachers.
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Dear Mrs. Pradhan,
“Still, it seemed to us that the main reason we were hated must be that we always lived by stealing. From the earliest times, rats lived around the edges of human cities and farms, stowed away on men’s ships, gnawed holes in their floors and stole their food.” That’s the quote from the adventurous book I would like to recommend, “Mrs. Frisby and the rats of NIMH’ by Robert C. O’Brien, published by Atheneum Books on 1971.
From this book, I learnt that different kinds of animals on earth must have something that they wanted to accomplish, just like how Nicodemus wanted to build a rat civilization so rats could live independently without stealing or using different resources from humans anymore. Also, I totally understand that the power of our parents’ love was actually very enormous because they would be eager to do anything for ourselves to keep us safe. In the book, Mrs. Frisby had took the risk of putting a cat Dragon to sleep. It was a very risky thing indeed because her husband tried before and he even died from that. But she considered of how much she really wanted to keep all her children and the other members safe, she thought it was a responsibility as a mother of four children either. Same as our parents, all they would do for us was from their kindness and caring towards us, which was definitely something we should be thankful for!
My favourite part of the book is when Nicodemus was talking about all the experiences and hard times that they went through before to Mrs. Frisby. Not only it was because these experiences showed how they were longing for freedom, but also it stated out how were humans being non-friendly towards them and using them as an experimental product frequently. It made me think were rats actually that bad apart from just spreading out disease that could make us sick? It had been a very inspirational part for me to think in their point of view.
I really liked this book a lot since it was very inspiring, somehow mysterious, and truly amazing to read.
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Dear Ms Sandra
My favourite book is Charlie and the chocolate factory.
Wondering having the largest factory in the whole global world? The most famous and fantastic man in the world? Eating chocolate everyday? Having cute and tiny Oompa Loompas in your factory? If you wanted to know who is the most fantastic man, you should read the book Charlie and the chocolate factory!
This book is named as Charlie and the chocolate factory, and written by the famous author Roald Dahl and published by Puffin book in 1964. I learned so many things in the book, the first is don´t be greedy. In the book a greedy kid wanted a squirrel, but that squirrel cannot be taken by anyone. So that kid tried to break the rule and wanted to grab that squirrel, but as last he fell into a rubbish bin. Second, always follow rules. In the book, Willy Wonka set a few rules but the kids did not follow, at last the kids that did not follow rules is being kicked out by Willy Wonka.
My favourite part in this book is when Violet chew the wrong gum. That time, Violet grabbed a gum that Willy Wonka said that it was poisen, Willy Wonka said that when any people chew that gum, that people will be become a fat blue blueberry. But Violet did not obey Willy Wonka, he put that gum into his mouth and start chewing. When she chewed a while, she bacame a big fat blueberry, that was very funny!
I liked this book because it was very funny and meaningful.
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Dear Ms Kum,
“Oh, Edward. I love you. I never want you to be away from me.” This is what Abilene often says. I would like to recommend the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane to you. This fiction is written by Kate DiCamillo, and published by Candlewick Press in 2006.
This book is about the journey of Edward Tulane. He was a china doll, and belonged to Abilene. He lived in the Tulane Family, and wore elegant clothes as well as a pocket watch. Edward had fallen overboard when he and the Tulane family went on a vacation. Abilene was sobbing and wanted Edward back. A few years later, Edward was rescued by Lawrence the fisherman. One day, his daughter Lolly dumped Edward in the bin. Edward met a lot of different people, went to lots of places and did a lot of things. At last, he met Maggie, which was Abilene’s daughter.
My favourite part of the story is when Edward met Nellie and Lawrence and was brought to their home. Nellie was really happy. I was really excited when Edward was rescued out of the sea suddenly, because I didn’t know what will happen next. Later on, Edward started to know more about love. He liked Nellie and Lawrence and missed them when they were apart. It makes me really wants to continue reading and know what will happened to Edward and Abilene in the end.
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane is a book that I like a lot. The whole entire journey of Edward was really miraculous and magical. Edward, the china rabbit, has its own feelings and thoughts. Can you imagine a toy can think and feel? It was also funny that he wears different clothes and has different names throughout the journey. It was really adventurous and thrilling, and I would like to see the whole adventure with my own eyes.
After reading this book, I found that everyone have different feelings. Everyone have different thoughts towards Edward. We also have to love and appreciate each other, like what Edward felt when Sarah Ruth died. We should also share, like Amos, Martin and Abilene should share Edward and play together instead of snatching it. The Tulane family also share the dining table with Edward when they have meals.
This book is really worth reading. It is not really difficult to understand, and I think everyone should spend time to read it, no matter how old you are. Enjoy reading it!
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Dear Mrs. Pradahn ,
” When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.” This is one of the fabulous and essential precept written in the book called “Wonder”.
“Wonder” is written by R. J. Palacio. And this book was published on the February 14, 2012.
“Wonder” is kind of like a diary. This book is mainly about a boy named August. August was born with an abnormal face. Besides from his parents , August also have a smart and considerate sister named Via . Via also took part writing this book. Via explained how she felt when She had a little brother who is abnormal . Is she mad because her parents took too much time on taking care of August but less time on her ? Or is she sorry for August because he was born with such an abnormal face ? Read the book and find it out ! In this book, August will write down how he felt of being stared all the time . And how he felt of being bullied all the time. August’s parents always tried to convince August that he is an normal child . But of course, August knew his parents were lying. He knew clearly that a normal kid wouldn’t have people staring at them all the time.
My favourite part of the book is when August got an award from Mr.Tushman, the principle. It happened on the awarding ceremony. Mr. Tushman gave out tons of awards that morning . But after the last award was given, Mr.Tushman suddenly added a new award. And it is to appreciate courage, kindness , friendship and our own character. This medal is mainly about recognizing greatness. And this award goes to August! Everyone in the school hall cheered for him. No one stared at him with dislike, no one stared at him with disrespect. Everyone just cheered for him. When everyone was taking the group photo, no one was avoiding August. At that moment , August just felt like an ordinary child. And that was the wish which he had hoped for since he was born.
I loved this book. This book had always reminded me ——— no matter who you are or where you came from, just be yourself. Do not let others’ comment effect you of being your true self. Always remember —— we are all unique. Reading “Wonder” makes me understand a lot of different life principles. I highly recommend all readers to read this fabulous book. This is one of the best books I have ever read. Hope everyone gets to enjoy this awesome book!
Hayley So 6C (23)
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Dear Ms.Carmen,
“All for one, and one for all!” This is the quote that come from a classical novel that I strongly recommend, “The Three Musketeers”. Originally written by Alexandre Dumas, retold by Martin Howard, published by Collins Big Cat Classics on 2015.
I learn that if you want to be a musketeer, you should have loyalty, intelligence, bravery, swordsmanship, and team spirit. Nowadays, there is no more musketeers, but I can relate it to a football player. To become a successful, and famous football player, you should be royal to your football club. You need to think about how to play football to win the match, so you need to use your brain to think about the strategy. For sure, you must work as a team, sometimes you can’t score a goal by yourself, so you need to pass the ball, and let the others help. Not just as a football player, you can apply these musketeers skills in everywhere.
My favorite part of the story is on the last day before the three musketeers and d’Artagnan left Paris for La Rochelle, one of the guard of the Minister Richelieu told d’Artagnan that the Minister himself want to see him. When he arrived in the Minister office, he though that the Minister wanted to punish him, because he screwed up the Minister’s plan, but surprisingly, the Minister gave him a paper, d’Artagnan though it was the execution order, but when he read the paper carefully, he saw that it was a promotion, because the Minister is the most powerful man in France( accept the king), he can order anything he like, so he ordered d’Artagnan to be the new commander of the musketeers. I chose this as my favorite part because it is a happy ending, and also shows that if you work in one thing very hard, you will be paid off.
I like this book very much, if you want to success after you work very hard, you can feel free to take reference of this inspiring story, I hope you can be more success!
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Dear Mrs. Pradhan,
“If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary – the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.” The book I recommend is called “Wonder”, by R. J. Palacio. This book is published in February 14th, 2012, and it brings out a really strong and powerful message about the importance of being kind and respectful.
This book is about a boy named Auggie who suffered from a rare condition called “Mandibulofacial Dysostosis”, which only occured in only 1 in 50,000 births. This condition caused Auggie to have a very small lower jaw and chin, and he felt really insecure about his appearance and other people’s weird stares. He had an older sister named Olivia, and a dog named Daisy. His parents, sister and dog were mainly what kept him occupied and entertained. He had been always bullied at school and had low self-esteem. This book described how he went through his dark times and became confident once again and started to love himself.
This book taught me something really important, which is to be kind to other people. For example, Auggie was really sad when he saw Jack laughing at him with his other friends. It really broke his heart, because he always treated him as his best friend. It also taught me not to judge other people by their appearance. Auggie might not look cute on the outside, but he has a really friendly and sweet personality.
I learned a lot from this book I recommend it to every one of you. I hope that you could read this book in your spare time!
Your Student,
Charlie Lau
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Dear Ms. Poon,
“The king teaches the hero that judging yourself is far more difficult, and at times far more important, than judging others.” the book I would like to recommend called THE LITTLE PRINCE, (French Le Petit Prince) written by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It was first published in English and French in April 1943. And The Little Prince was the most famous novel. And this book is a fairytale.
This book is very interesting and teaches me a lot. Little prince teaches me to be honest and love everything we see. Little Prince lived on his asteroid in peace, taking care of his friend fox and watching his sunsets. The reason why everyone was interested in this book is that people can learn from Little Prince of his kindness and love.
My favorite part of the book is in chapter thirteen, it said that The Little Prince went to the fourth planet. The fourth planet belonged to a businessman. This person was so busy that he didn’t even raise his head when the little prince arrived. The businessman was keep saying out some nonsense number to the Little Prince which was really funny when you image it.
Last but not least, I would like to tell you that I love this book very much! I strongly recommend this lovely book to you, it is really worth to spend your time to read and watch the movie.
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“I truly believe, deep in my heart, that one’s life must have meaning and purpose.”
This was my favourite quote from this book, “High Time for Heroes”. “High Time for Heroes” was a book from a collation, Magic tree house, this collation is a friction written by Mary Pope Osborne.
This book is saying about a girl named Annie and a boy named Jack that help both Morgan le Fay and her friend Merlin the magician to do those mission and it was the third mission already so now this time Merlin want them to travel through time to Therbes and learn the third secrets of greatness from a woman named Florence Nightingale, this woman lived in the 1800s, in England she was a nurse there. The soldiers called her the Lady with the Lamp, because after the hospital was quiet and dark at night, she went alone from bed to bed with a lantern. She gave light and comfort and took care of wounds, she was so brave and amazing, so she became famous everywhere! Later she changed the world of nursing by organizing.
So Annie and Jack had been to the past and found Florence, at that time she is still not a nurse because her parents don’t let her to work because at that time lady are not allowed to work it only allowed to rest at home so she only help her friends when they were sicks or hurt. Lastly Annie and Jack found that the secret of greatness for Florence is meaning and purpose
For my favourite part of this book is when they found out that the secret of greatness is meaning and purpose because Annie and Jack didn’t disagree Florence for being a nurse but instead they told Florence to keep doing and achieve her dream that to be a nurse this moment was very touching so I like this part so much!
Lastly I really recommend all readers to read this book no matter this book is easy for you or not this collection of the Magic tree house was so wonderful and miracle I enjoyed reading this book a lot, in every book of this collection you will know the secret of greatness and I think it was great to know it for your rest of your days.
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Dear Mrs.Poon
I will like to recomend you a book which you can learn a lot of things, sometimes you may find out that people need help.And in this story was written by Mary Pope Osborne, not only other people helped other people, but some people who really thinks of people’s feeling, also think of the animals feelings.Can’t you see how wonderful they are, and now will begin to tell you more!
In summer holiday,there was a eight year old Jack and a seven year old Annie was in their house.Then the magic tree house appeared, they had a new mission.They had to find a special magic because they had done a lot of good things,then the people who send them the message called Morgan disappeared.The magic tree house spin around and they was in a new place!
They had walked for a long time,then they saw a bear who was kidnapped in a cage,the bear was been forced to fight with other bear,Annie felt very sad and she tried to save him,but she couln’t.Then a directer of a scene came,he was asking anyone could be a role.At last Jack and Annie became a role and Annie quietly stole bear back.A person was yelling and said that Annie stole the bear,so the directer gave him the money,so the bear was safe, and they got their magic powers.
I think everyone should read this book,because they need to know what is caring and love.I hope you enjoy this book.
From Leah Wu
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Dear Ms.Carmen,
‘They wait until they’ve got ten thousand rats.’ This was a book that called ‘Boy’. I interest about this book is because this book is talking about a boy (Roald Dahl), it is telling his life from kindergarten to now. And this book contain his mum and dad. I learned a boy’s life and know how a boy that experiences a people died in front of him. My favorite part of this book is saying that a factory that needs the died rats and I think that it is super strange, how would a factory needs died rats??? Also, I think that someone are stirring the died rats were super disgusting, it is strange too. These strange things were in the book, p.26,27,28. Harald Dahl had two children by his first wife, Marie, who died shortly after the birth of their second child.
Roald started at the Elm tree house primary school in Cardiff when he was 6 years old. He was there for a year, but has few memories of his time there because it was so long ago. When Roald was three years old, his seven-year-old sister Astri died of an sickness. Only weeks later, Roald’s father died of pneumonia. Roald’s mother was forced to choose between moving the family to Norway with her relatives or relocating to a smaller house in Wales to continue the children’s education in the UK, which is what her late husband wanted.
Lastly, i like this book and the author is Roald Dahl. The publisher is Cape (US), the year of publication is 1984.
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“Please!” said the girl who was chased by the men,“I need to take care of my sister!” The book I want to recommend is Into The Water. I love how this book is extremely emotional, and teaches you how important it is to treasure the people that are around you.
This book is about a little girl named Nel. She has a younger sister, Nickie. Nickie was a spoiled brat, who would expect everyone to follow whatever she says. Nel, as the elder sister, would always protect, and find ways to make Nickie happy. However, Nickie never appreciated Nel’s kind heart. Instead, she would tease Nel for her looks. One day, Nel was picking a flower from the garden to give to Nickie, but things didn’t go so well……
“Stop!”, Nel shouted as two men pushed her into the water. Nel tried hard to escape, but she was not even close to defending herself to two strong men. Nel was soon dumped into the water, and drowned without anyone noticing. When her sister, Nickie, found out that Nel has been missing for days, she immediately called the police.
Soon, everyone guessed that Nel had committed suicied, except for one, Jules(Nel’s best friend), he knew that this wasn’t a suicide, he knew that Nel wouldn’t do such a thing. After years of investigation, the truth has risen. Nel was killed. All wanted to get revenge for Nel, so all charged, and looked for the killer.
Nickie, as Nel’s sister, has finally learned to treasure those around her. She was poor, helpless, unwanted, and missed Nel a lot.
This story teaches us deeply that we need to treasure those around us. It may not seem like they are important, but in reality, all are secretly helping us, supporting us.
My favorite part of this story was when Nickie finally found Nel as an important family member, and learned to love the people around her. I really appreciate how the writer made this part so emotional and deep. This part also brings out the moral of this story, making it more meaningful.
The author of this book is Paula Hawkins. I really liked this book, especially how Paula put together the structure and made is really deep. I am truly looking forward to reading more of his books. Remember, “Secrets can pull you under……”
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“Please!” said the girl who was chased by the men,“I need to take care of my sister!” The book I want to recommend is Into The Water. I love how this book is extremely emotional, and teaches you how important it is to treasure the people that are around you.
This book is about a little girl named Nel. She has a younger sister, Nickie. Nickie was a spoiled brat, who would expect everyone to follow whatever she says. Nel, as the elder sister, would always protect, and find ways to make Nickie happy. However, Nickie never appreciated Nel’s kind heart. Instead, she would tease Nel for her looks. One day, Nel was picking a flower from the garden to give to Nickie, but things didn’t go so well……
“Stop!”, Nel shouted as two men pushed her into the water. Nel tried hard to escape, but she was not even close to defending herself to two strong men. Nel was soon dumped into the water, and drowned without anyone noticing. When her sister, Nickie, found out that Nel has been missing for days, she immediately called the police.
Soon, everyone guessed that Nel had committed suicide, except for one, Jules(Nel’s best friend), he knew that this wasn’t a suicide, he knew that Nel wouldn’t do such a thing. After years of investigation, the truth has risen. Nel was killed. All wanted to get revenge for Nel, so all charged, and looked for the killer.
Nickie, as Nel’s sister, has finally learned to treasure those around her. She was poor, helpless, unwanted, and missed Nel a lot.
This story teaches us deeply that we need to treasure those around us. It may not seem like they are important, but in reality, all are secretly helping us, supporting us.
My favorite part of this story was when Nickie finally found Nel as an important family member, and learned to love the people around her. I really appreciate how the writer made this part so emotional and deep. This part also brings out the moral of this story, making it more meaningful.
The author of this book is Paula Hawkins. I really liked this book, especially how Paula put together the structure and made is really deep. I am truly looking forward to reading more of his books. Remember, “Secrets can pull you under……”
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Dear Mrs. Pradhan,
“You can learn a lot about life by observing another species” this is the best part of the book called “The World according to Humphrey”. It is written by Betty G. Birney, first published in 2004. It is the first book it the Humphrey series.
This book is about a classroom hamster named Humphrey that was moved to Longfellow school Room 26 when his favorite person, Ms. Mac substitute Mrs. Brisbane. After Mrs. Brisbane came back, he learned more about the class and Mrs. Brisbane, and he found a lot of problems in the class. Repeat-it-please-Richie always mumbles, Raise-your-hand-Heidi Hopper never raises her hands! How could Humphrey help them? Read the book to find out!
This book teaches us that everyone has problems, you need to find a way to solve it. Also, that friendship is important! Friends help each other and you need to cooperate with each other. You also have to overcome challenges to improve!
My favorite part of the book is when Humphrey goes to Mr. Morales, the principal to spend the weekend, the principal is very important in the school, when somebody is naughty, they need to see the principal! When he arrives home, the kids won’t listen to Mr. Morales! Like as if he doesn’t exist! So Humphrey helped by acting as he got out of the cage, Mr. Morales’s kids need to cooperate with Mr. Morales in order to “get” him back to the cage. You really can learn a lot by taking care of another species!
I love this book, I wish you all like this book, hope you all have a NICE-NICE-NICE time reading this. SQUEAK!
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Dear Mrs Pradhan,
“Wait for a little while and the fruit will fall into your hand” this is one of the important quotes in a book I would like to recommend: Esperanza Rising. Esperanza Rising is written by Pam Muñoz Ryan, published by Scholastic press and it was published in the year 2000.
Esperanza Rising is about a rich mexican girl, who lives with her parents and her grandmother, thinking her life would be perfect until her father was killed because of bandits. Everything changed and Esperanza have to face challenges one after another inorder to fix her and her mother’s life. This story mainly talks about esperanza moving to Los Angeles with her servents because her family is no longer in charge of the ranch they live in. Esperanza’s adventure taught us a few important lessons, which are, patience, determination and courage. The book mainly teaches us about having the courage to start all over again. Which leads to another quote “do not be afraid to start over”
My favourite part of the book is when Miguel brought Abuelita to Los Angeles. That is my favourite part of the book because it shows a happy ending even though Esperanza don’t have a lot of money. This book teaches how to conquer different difficulties in life, and how to adapt to different situations in life. This book is quite an emotional rollercoaster,and it is based on the author’s grandmother’s life. Which makes the book more close to our daily life and special.
I learned a lot of things just by reading this book, that’s why I recommend this book to all of you. It is very depressing in the middle of the book, but it turned out to have a happy ending. It started off from a happy, rich(a little spoiled) mexican girl that lived in a huge ranch to a hard-working, helpful girl that lived in Los Angeles. You can truly experience this book’s content because it is written in a very vivid way. I think you would learn a lot of things from this book, it also includes a recipe and a guide to make a yarn doll at the end of the book. So if you ever read this book, hope you enjoy it.
Nicole Cheng 6A 05
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Dear mis. Poon,
“Have you read your underpants today?”
“THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS” is my first funny engilish book i read in kindergarten,so I am recommending this book to read!
The story is about two boys named George Beard and Harold Hutchins in a horrid school called Jerome Horwitz Elementary School.
They always play pranks at school and they like to change letters on the signs in school and pretending animal sounds on lessons.
One day they had an idea of drawing comics and sell them in school,but their principal Mr. Krump hated them playing pranks and selling comics in school.
On the big football game the two kids first put the black peppers in the cheerleader’s pom poms, next poured bubble water in to the marching band’s instruments,then filling the rugby ball with helium and last replaced the sunscreen with itchy cream to made the team lost.
The next day their principal Mr. Krump gave them to see the videotape of their pranks he wanted to give the football team to watch it. After the two boys knew it they begged Mr. Krump to have mersi and will do anything .So he gave a list of rules to George and Harold and told them to follow or else he will send copies to the football team.
At the next day the two of them dragged themselves to Mr. Krump’s house then washed his car, moned his garden .In school they are not allowed to play pranks ,smile,laugh …… After lunch they helped him to moan his office ,cut fingernails …… At evening Mr. Krump gave the boys extra homework to do.This situation repeated 4-6 weeks .
On the second day of the situation George ordered a hypnotic ring to hypnotize Mr. Krump ,at the sixth week the two of them went to school as normal but did not obey the rules when they got to school, Mr. Krump stand on the stairs of the front door,he was mad .in the office Mr. Krump asked them why they did not do the list things. George and Harold explain that the ring have a picture on it and started to hypnotize him .The two boys hypnotized from a chicken to a monkey at last to CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS then he went out to stop crime and Dr.diper baby from destroying the world.
At last i would recommend you to read this book .Have a nice time reading!
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Dear Mrs. Pradhan,
” I don’t find trouble, trouble usually finds me.” ~ this quote is my favourite quote is from my favourite book series – Harry Potter
My favourite books are the Harry Potter series. Inside the series my favourite is definitely gonna be Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You may ask me why? Let me tell you from the start.
At first, I was reluctant about reading the book, but when I started reading the book, I got addicted to it! The events were so amazing that it got me shivering after I finished the first chapter of this book!
The book is about how The Order of The Phoenix, the team Dumbledore builded to defeat Lord Voldemort, or known as ”You-Know-Who” before Harry was born. After Dumbledore died in the previous book, Lord Voldemort was controlling the Ministry Of Magic, literally the whole world. Therefore Harry, Ron, and Hermione, known as ”The Undesireable Number One” carried their journey on the mission Dumbledore left for them – finding Horcruxes and destroying them all. Upon finding them, they (of course) was difficult with the whole world chasing them for money and with Ron leaving them and finding Voldemort’s name a taboo. Since they did not know, so the Death Eaters (Voldemort’s followers) found them and the faked identities, but got exposed. Luckily they made their escape along with Luna,Dean,and Mr. Ollivander, who were also captured by the Death Eaters. Sadly , Dobby the house-elf passed away.
However , these were only the appitizers for me. The part I liked the most was the middle-end of the book- The Battle Of Hogwarts. The battle was exciting yet scary. Well, at first, when the arrived at Hogwarts, they were welcomed by a flock of screaming Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaw students who were all beaten up to the state of unreckonisable. They have been plotting to help Harry to kill Lord Voldemort.
The part I liked the most was the part was not when Lord Voldemort was killed. But it was when Snape was dying and when he gave Harry his memories. It was so touching that I really cried in my bed. After Harry saw his memories, he finally understood why Snape was treating him like that. He was an undercover spy.
In the end, of course they won. However they were outbattled and a lot of people sacrificed their lives for him, like : Remus Lupin , Tonks, Fred, Colin Creevey, Lavender Brown…… the list was endless! When Lord Voldemort used the ”avada kedavra” curse, everyone thought that Harry had died. But Lord Voldemort only killed the Horcrux inside Harry, but not his soul and body.
After the spell, Narcissa Malfoy asked an important question that saved his life- ”Is Draco in the castle?” After he said yes, Narcissa immeadiatly lied for Harry.
Since no one was focusing on him, he snuck away in the castle, where the battle resumes. Unfortunately he could not resist his temper and jumped out, surprising most of the people inside the castle. During the rebattle, Molly Weasly took revenge due to the anger of her killing her son and sucessfully killed her.
When Harry showed up, everyone stop fighting and he exposed Lord Voldemort’s secret out to everyone, and said,” Lord Voldemort, there are no more Horcruxes to back you up anymore.” then he cast his life saving spell-Expelliarmus. Luckily the spells rebounced on their casters’ so the Hogwartians took the victory. Harry, on the other hand, caught his wand with his catching skills.
After the battle, Harry went to the headmaster’s room. Every portrait in the room made a standing ovation and he held out the elder wand. He selflessly said,” I don’t need this wand.” and repaired his own with it.
After all, Harry returned the wand to Dumbledore’s grave and buried alongside with Dumbledore. And the story ended like this.
I learned to be brave to stand up to anyone who had done anything wrong – even to your friends and closest family member. Also, we have to make sacrifices – even your loved ones
I strongly recommend you read this book and the other books in the series !
Sincerely,
Brenda 6D (27)
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Dear Mrs. Pradhan,
‘You must hear the prophecy.The entire prophecy.’ Do you know this line? Yes it’s from the ‘Percy Jackson And The Olympians’ book, why do I recommend this book to you? It is because that all of Percy’s adventures were risky but also exciting. This book was created by the one and only Rick Riordan and was published in 2009. Now let’s get out of the facts and start recommending.
This book was the most amazing among the other series because the titans from the past Iapetus(Greek translated to English:The Piercer and I don’t know Why is he called that don’t ask me), Krios, Koios, Hyperion, Oceanus and the worst of them Kronos(nicknamed The Crooked One) are back here in the present and are ready to rip everyone in to bits including the gods and start a new Golden age, but first they needed a human they could manipulate and that poor person was Luke Castellan even though he had been manipulated he too also hated the gods himself for not answering his calls or helps.That is why Percy Jackson and his friends had to save the gods from being pulverized.
Meanwhile the gods were quite busy dealing with their old enemy who had been struggling to come out of mount Etna, yes folks it’s the father of all the monsters around the world Typhon(I know right his name is so similar to Typhoon, but that’s because of the mist who helps disguise his whole body making everybody believe he’s a Typhoon, so next time you see a Typhoon say hi to Typhon). Now Typhon was just the distraction so the gods could not help their own children. On the other hand Poseidon was having his own problems with Oceanus the Titan of the seas because Kronos knows if Poseidon was with the gods he would tip the balance and kill Typhon, so now Percy has to 1) Stop Kronos from getting to mount Olympus 2) Think of a plan to kill Typhon 3) Bathing in the river Styx so he could have the invincible strength to both kill all monsters on sight and stand up to Kronos, so it’s a hundred thousand monsters including the titans versus forty of Percy’s friends and of course sacrifices should be made, many people died because of Kronos’s wrath like Ethan Nakamura, Micheal Yew, Silena Beauregard, Charlie Beckondorf, Luke Castellan(who had changed his mind and died as a hero) and many more…
After reading this book, I learned to be brave and stand up to any difficulties even it is impossible to do, this story even inspired me to work harder on everything! Anyways if you feel interested feel free to read it, bye now!
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Dear Mrs. Poon:
Every single person has thier own way of presenting themselves, some would throw thier temeper some would cry, and some would even try to commit a crime, that s’ what happened to Oxana. or should I say Villanelle.The book I would like to talk about is Killing Eve Codename Villanalle.This book is about a murderer named Oxana (who’s nickname is Villanelle) works for a company called ” The Twelves” and was told to murder diffrent people,Villanelle was a psychopath, so she often killed people even if she wasn’t told to.
Villanelle used many different clever ways to sneak into someone else’s place or to kill someone else. I really like the way she uses different kinds of accents and languages to talk to people when she has to complete a mission, when she goes to France she speaks french, when she goes to germany she speaks german, she can even speak italian!! She’s russian by the way.
But on the other hand, Eve, who was a detective heard about Villianelle, and she and her team was on a mission to find her, but every time Eve tries to find her, Villanelle tries to escape and finds a place to hide.
My favorite part of this story is when Villanelle points a sharp knife at Eve’s neck, but when Niko (Eve’s husband) came in, Villanelle pretends that everything was fine then begins talking to Niko with her AMAZING brittish accent!!
Every single person has thier own way of presenting themselves, this is what I learned from this story, Luke Jenings is the author of this book which had inspired the TV sensation KILLING EVE, starring Sandra Oh who played Eve, and Jodie Comer who played Villanelle. Killing Eve season 3 is coming out soon, and I don’t want any spoilers.
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Hi, I am Scarlett by the way, and I wrote this blog,sorry I typed Wolfie,that’smy nickname only.
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Dear Mrs. Poon:
I want to recommend a book to you,the book is “Romeo and Juliet”.This book is a very famous
love story.This story is written by William Shakespeare,a playwright.This is the most famous book,William Shakespeare wrote.He is born at 26 April 1564,and dead at 23 April 1616.
One day,Romeo and Juliet meet each other at a party.When they saw each other the first time,they found they they are in true love of each other.But their families are bitter enemies,so their family do not let then together.They can only meet secretly,after meeting for a long time.Juliet found that she really fell in love with Romeo,so she found out a trick to elopement with Romeo.
She buy a medicine that will only make her sleep for tree days,but other people would think that she is dead.She a man to tell Romeo this plan,but when Romeo walk back to his house the man when to toilet.So Romeo dose not know this plan.The next morning,Romeo,s father tell him that,Juliet is dead,Romeo fell very sad and went to see Juliet.When he saw Juliet is dead,he kill himself in front of Juliet.After Juliet wake up,she saw that Romeo was dead so she drink the poison near her.
At last,Romeo and Julie die together.And the story ends.
In this story I learn how important is freedom.We should treasure what we have now,but not blaming what you do not have.I strongly recommend you to read this book.
Your student,
Josie Tang
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Dear Dear Mrs. Pradhan,
I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That’s when things really started going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends and generally trying to stay alive.’Does this sound familiar to you? It probably isn’t but to many children across the world they may recognize it as the first paragraph from Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief.
The Lightning Thief is a famous book written by the one and only Rick Rordan on 1 August 2005 has sold over 1.2 million worldwide and is a 5-book series and even has another 5-book sequel to the story and even more to come!
This book begins in the metropolitan museum of art where Percy, the main character, accidentally vaporizes his algebra teacher Mrs Dodds whom is a fury with a magical pen which can turn into a sword, soon after he went to Camp Half-Blood where half bloods/ demigods go to live as there is a magical border which keeps all kinds monsters like Furies and Minotaur away. Percy is later discovered to be a son of Poseidon the god of water, seas, earthquakes etc, He is then sent on a quest with two others to retrieve Zeus’s lightning bolt, and it is on this quest that he encounters many different gods and deities such as Ares, the God of War, Medusa, Hades, the God of the Dead etc.
This book is good for anyone who is interested in learning Greek mythology as Rick Rordan had used many different monsters from different tales in this book and can set the basis for the general study of Greek mythology though you would have to learn from other materials as it may have incorrect information.(if anyone wants to read this book then I would strongly recommend reading the other 4 books in the series.)
My favorite part of the book will definitely have to be when Percy challenges the god Ares to a duel on a beach,It is simply one of the best written fights I have ever read, it was very intense as either side could lose or win at any moment,they had both used they’re powers to impressive heights as percy used hydrokinesis he had gotten from his father and Ares just using his ability as a god to summon different animals to attack percy. Percy won after a long fight stabbing the god in the knee not long after Ares curses Percy before retreating from the battle.
I really like this book and could read it twenty times non-stop as it is just so entertaining. Even though Percy’s fight with Ares was my favorite part I had also particularly liked Percy’s encounter with the Minotaur, it is a creature which as a body of a man but it’s mostly known his head of a bull. I would like to thank Rick Rordan for writing this book, you can get your own copy at a bookstore or just order it from amazon
Until Next time, Bye! 🙂
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Dear Mrs. Poon,
“Have you read your UNDERPANTS today?”
“THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS”is a relaxing funny book , so I will read this book to let myself to relax in my free time! This funny series is by Dav Pilkey, and it is published in the United States by Blue Sky, Scholastic,first published in September 1, 1997 .
In the series of books can let you relax when you are very frustrated and sad .
This is a children’s novel, all the short fun stories are about Captain Underpants and his assistant George Beard and Harold Hutchins to stop the evil Dr. Diaper from destroying the world.
The part that I liked the most is that when Dr. Diaper came out of the changing room.Here is the funny quotations.
“Let’s run away before it blows up!”said Harold
“Not so fast” said Dr. Diaper “you have destroyed my robots and my plan to take over the world!You are not going away!”
“STRETCH!BAM!”
“Help i could not see! “Yelled Dr. Diaper
“Nice shot Captain Underpants, but where did you get the extra pair?”asked George
“What extra pair?” asked Captain Underpants wearing a bucket over himself.
I liked this part the most because Captain Underpants used his own underpants to shoot at Dr. Diaper and used a bucket as his underpants.
At last I extremely recommend you to read this hilarious book. Have fun and enjoy reading the whole collection !
Have fun,
Norman 6A 25
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Dear Mrs Poon
I would like to Introduce a book to you, it’s called ‘General Knowledge’ by James Maclaine, Alex Frith and Marco Palmieri. It was published in 2015 by Usbourne Books.
As soon a read through the first few chapters, I became glued to it and couldn’t put it down. It was filled with many bite-sized facts about the World. The range of subjects in the book was vast, but it isn’t frightening like other big books. The pages content many illustrations which help in explaining difficult scientific facts. I would highly recommend this book because it is easy to read, interesting and educational.
I enjoyed this book immensely, my favourite part is in the end of each chapter, a small quiz is used to test how much we have learnt.
Matthew Li 6A 18
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Dear mrs poon,
have you heard or hear dog man before???
its a book that is very funny, action and comic
each page of the book only have little lines of sentence
it talks about a dogman and a guy went to help their friends, and it always talk about when dog man go to help, some thing funny will happen like dog man was lost, and the funniest scene is: dog man got stunned and was threw to the rubbish bin…..
there is a part called flip-o-rama that you flip thr book very fast and could see dog man fight people
i strongly strongly recommend you to red this ridicolous book with me. the book includes a whole set that have like 20 books
conan ho 6A 7
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Dear Mrs Carmen,
¨I need to feel that you are willing to make some effort.” This book that I am recommending to you is The Great Gilly Hopkins. The author is Katherine Patterson, it is published by HARPER company, and its year of publication is 2015. From reading this story, it helps you to understand that people have to be compassionate, or the world will treat them as if they were disposable. I believe it is compelling and informational, and it can help you learn not to treat each others as gibberish. You may learn some meaningful lessons in this inspiring book.
My favorite part of this book is that how she makes the daring escape from the Trotters’ home. It started at midnight, when some days ago Gilly (Galadriel) stole Mr. Randolph´s money on top of the bookshelves. She grabbed her clothes and headed out from the door. William Ernest Teague, a boy also lives at the Trotters´ , saw Gilly and tried to prevent her from leaving the house, and ran to the rearby bus station, but that did not work as the bus wont start until eight. The policemen came and tried to settle this thing out, at last Trotter and William came, telling Gilly to go home. This tells to not be risky without telling a parent/guardian first.
This book is destined to be read by people by all ages, and it is truly amazing and it is worth it, able to understand more about life, so I recommend this Newbery Honor Book to all.
Your Student
Law Chun Hei (6E 15)
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Dear Mrs.Pradhan,
¨ Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.¨ The book I would like to recommend is from The Harry Potter Series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher´s Stone, written by J.K Rowling. This fantastic book was published by Bloombury in 1997. The Harry Potter Series is about a young boy named Harry Potter, who did not know he was a wizard, in fact a very famous wizard. Each year at his school, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, he experiences different adventures with his two best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.
In this book there were many interesting and odd magicial stuff. But the most important thing I learned was bravery and friendship. Harry Potter was only a young boy but he was brave enough to face dangerous creatures, go to scary places and fight the most evil wizard in the world, Lord Voldemort. His friendship with Ron and Hermione also gave him support and courage and helped him to solve the puzzles and fight Lord Voldemort.
My favorite part in the book is the Quidditch match.Quidditch is a sports game for wizards and witches. Quidditch is like football, but on broomsticks. In the book, Harry´s role was the seeker. The seeker is the most important role and has to catch the golden snitch, a very fast flying ball. If the seeker catches the golden snitch, their team earns 150 points and the game ends. In the book, Harry caught the golden snitch after falling off his broom and swallowing it.
This book is really interesting, funny and full of suspense. After reading each chapter, you will want to read the next chapter to see what happens next. That is why I love reading books!
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Among The Hidden is the book I would like to recommend. The author is Margerate Peterson Haddix.
This book is about a third child in a country that has a law that allows parents only to have two children at most. The boy is called Luke. Luke’s mum had always wanted a boy called Luke but was aware of the population law.
Luke has been hiding in the attic for us whole life until he looked out the window of the attic… He saw a girl in the house next to his house when the family of four had already been out! “It was another third child!” He thought.
After this, he started plotting to secretly go over to his neighbor’s house and find out if the girl was really and third child.
One day he finally snuck over and found out that the girl was a third child and her name was Jen. He started going over frequently sand Luke and Jen became good friends.
A few months later, Luke snuck over to Jen’s house but saw that she wasn’t there. Suddenly, Jen’s dad came rushing through the door with a gun. Turns out, he helped Luke get a fake I.D. and escape to a better life.
From this book, I have learned that you must be brave and take some risks. I recommend this book to everyone. Hope you enjoy!
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