Percy Jackson And The Lightning Thief

Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, God of the seas is accused of stealing the most powerful weapon in the world, Zeus's Master Bolt. He travels around the USA with his friend Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena Goddess of War, Wisdom and Useful Arts. His protecter Grover, a saytr, also accompanies Percy during his quest to find the Master Bolt.

I would recomend this book to ages 9+. It makes Greek history so interesting. You get to know all the Greek Gods, and learn about them without realising. This book is also very, very funny.

I would also  recommend The Percy Jackson Series: The Sea of Monsters, The Titans Curse, The Battle of The Laberinth and The Last Olympian.

USA The Greek world travels around the world in different places. For example, instead of Olympus being on Mount Olympus it is on top of the Empire State building and the Underworld is in Hollywood.

Satyr ( Sat-ear ) Half Goat half Man.

The Thornthwaite Inheritance

The Thornthwaite Inheritance winner of the Blue Peter book of the year 2012 is about two kids Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite. Ovid and Lorelli have been trying to kill each other for a very long time but all of a sudden they decide to make a truce. But not for long Ovid and Lorelli start again or are they?
 
Mr.Farthing is going to create this " truce" but since he lives so far away the "truce" will take forever because he lives 2 hours away from the Thornthwaite Manor  he is invited to live in the Manor, but his son Adam Farthing onc ehe set his eyes on  one of the twins his whole inside changes forever.



I really like this book it has lots mysteries and strange things happening. A bit of love and bit of adventure. I can truely understand why it won Blue Peter award 2012.

Night Mail

Here's 5G performing Night Mail by W H Auden::



You can see the original poem in the Night Mail film here:

Recipe books

We've been busy cooking, eating and packaging biscuits. Here are our recipe books:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Halllows

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In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry  has a difficult choice between finding the Deathly Hallows and destroying Lord Voldemort once and for all.  Harry succeeds in destroying six of of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes but everyone is shocked when he finds out the seventh.

Voldemort means "flight of death".

The Deathly Hallows are;

The Elder Wand is one of the most powerful wands in the world. It is represented by the line down the middle of the image above.

The resurrection stone brings life back to the dead loved ones. It is represented by the circle.

The cloak of invisibility is  the most powerful invisibility cloak ever. It is represented by the triangle.

There was only one problem: if you had the Elder Wand it only responds to its true master.

Harry Potter books are some of the very best fantasy books. I would recommend this book  for eight years plus.    

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie Diary

The movie diary is a book all about the films Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules and Diary of the Wimpy Kid Dog days (which has the Last straw in it as well). The movie diary is not like the other Wimpy Kid books as it has pictures as well. The movies are all filmed in Vancouver. There  are three different schools which are used for the school Greg goes to. Shaughnessy Elementary School was used for outside. Van Tech Secondary School was used for the gym. Finally, Templeton Secondary school was used for the classrooms and corridors. I really like the way this book is made, how it gives you a taster of the movies. I like the way it shows pictures unlike the other books.

Characters:

Dad (Steve Zahn)

Mom (Rachael Harris)

Greg (Zach Gordon)

Rodrick ( Devon Bostick)

Patty  (Laine Macneil)

Darren ( Harrison Houde

Fregley (Grayson Russell)

Chirg (Karan Brar)

Billionaire Boy

A boy called Joe who is a very rich boy. He has anything a girl or a boy could wish car here are some things: 100 inch plasma widescreen flatscreen high definition TV in every room in the house, a grand prix race track in his back garden, a robot dog from Japan, a golf buggy, a waterslide that goes from his bedroom to an olympic sized swimming pool, every computer game in the world, a crcodile,  3D cinema, a bowling alley, popcorn dispencer, skateboard park, another crocodile, ext... .

Joe ( a fat boy ) and SOME of his money
 

 As you can imagine that list goes on forever but he hasn't got everything he hasn't got a FRIEND. Joe search's  for a friend but his dad works for a company called bumfresh which is a type of toilet paper. Everyone makes fun of Joe because his dad works for bumfresh. But Joe isn'thappy with all that money as they say, money can't buy everything. Are you a billioaire girl or boy.

Leopard Adventure

Do you like wild animals. Join Amazon and Frazer  in the TRACKS group to save animals but it always turns out as an adventure.Amazon's cousin Frazer is really good technology he has an X-Ark which is a tranq gun.The problem is that he isn't very good at aiming for example he is trying save Amazon from a wild boar he tries to shoot to boar but he shoots..... you don't want to know .  Amazon Frazer and the TRACKS gang heads down to Siberia to find a amur leopard and her cubs since they are in danger of a forest fire. Will they save them no they won't, wait... you can find out.




Characters:

 Amazon- an English girl.

Frazer- a advanced high tech american boy.

Boris- an Siberian man who loves to have a good laugh.

Hal- Frazer's dad.

With the TRACKS team.


Tranq Gun:A gun with bullets that make you go to sleep.


Amazon does not link to amazon.

The Isle of the Dead

Here's our book inspired by our reading of Odysseus, and Arnold Böcklin's painting The Isle of the Dead:

How much do you know about he Odyssey? Test you basic knowledge with a quick quiz of eleven easy questions: Click here

Insula Dulcamara

Here is our book of 100 word challenges on the theme of Insula Dulcamara:

Mythological Creatures

After meeting various mythological creatures in the book Odysseus, we created some of them ourselves. Have a look through our book (click on the image to expand the book, and then on the arrows to turn the pages. Click Escape to minimise it again):

Point Blanc

Alex Rider takes on  his next mission. Point Blanc is a french mountain in the Alps. Alex is a fourteen year old boy. He works Alan Blunt and Mrs Jones and only they know a great secret: he is a SPY. Alex Rider is the only member of his family left. His uncle (who was a spy before him ) died in the last mission, Stormbreaker. Alex has gone to Point Blanc and there is a school but it is so not ordinary. Seven kids are there but there is a lot of security for seven boys - fishy!
Alex is under a secret name Alex  Friend since their headmaster is tring to duplicate people and take over the world.Can Alex stop Dr Grief and his mad idea?

I really like Alex Rider.So far I would say Point Blanc is the best book I have read! I love an adventure when I see one and this is a great adventure book.

Stormbreaker

When there is a ring at your door a three a clock in the morning  it is never good news. Alex a fourteen year old boy perfectly normal, or is he? Alex is the only member of his family left since his Mum and Dad died in a airplane and his uncle died in a car crash or did he?  Alex has been sent from a mysterious  company called MI6 to spy on Sayle  Enterpress and his suspicious Stormbreaker. Alex has been equipped with special equipment since he can't have a gun. 

    

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

In this book Harry Potter ( not me! ) is in  his fifth  year at Hogwarts.  Following the departure of the fake Mad Eye Moody, who is their new DADA teacher? Hogwarts becomes  out of control when  Dumbledore leaves and  most of all,  Lord Voldemort has returned.

I like JK Rowling she is a good author for big books she may be a common writer but she is a very good writter. JK Rowling writes lots of books but Harry Potter  is one of her most famous creations.
I like how she writes big books with good words in.


Mad Eye Moody = A fantastic Auror
DADA= Defence Against the Dark Arts
Dumbledore= Headmaster of Hogwarts
Lord Voldemort= The most powerful killer in wizard history also known as You Know Who for the fear of his name.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie is a poor boy. He lives on the edge of town and this town is no ordinary town: this town has Mr. Wonka' s chocolate factory, the greatest chocolate factory in the world. This is the start of Charlie and the Chocolate  Factory. Mr. Willy Wonka is giving out golden tickets. Will Charlie get his dream?

Charlie's wish


Charlie only gets one Wonka bar a year but not this year he gets three. Only he and Grampa Joe know. The  rest of the family only think he has had two. Sneaky Charlie. Does Charlie get  a Golden ticket?  Do you have a golden ticket?

I would recomed this book to Roald Dahl readers ( Roald Dahl is not alive though).

Kensuke's Kingdom

Michael used to live in England until one day when his Father’s work shuts down he can’t pay the rent for his house anymore, so with what money they have they buy a boat called the Peggy Sue and sail around the world.

But one night Michael falls of the boat! Where is he? He is not alone.

I enjoyed this book because it has a lot of adventure (I like that), and I would definitely suggest it to people who like adventure and Michael Morpurgo readers.