Excellent Reads

THE MAGIC FINGER By Roald Dahl. Illustrated by Quentin Blake. 80 pp. Puffin. £4.99 (Ages 7 and up) ISBN 9780141322681 Rating: ? Stars 1 Book title : the magic finger. 2 what is the book about : it's about the girle have the magic finger. 3what did you like about the book: "I" like about the book they do not have guns 4 what didt you like:thay hunting

THE THIRTEEN TREASURES By Michelle Harrison. 336 pp. Simon & Schuster UK. £6.99. (Ages 9 and up) ISBN 9781847384492 Rating: 4 Stars       While Tanya is visiting her grandmother, Tanya and Fabain find out that fifty years ago, a girl named Morwena Bloom went missing in Mr Hangmans Wood. Together they try to unravel this mystery, but Tanya has her own secret, the ability to see fairies. Will this help them on there journey or not? If so, how? When they do find her, she is nothing of what she used to be sweet, kind and shy, instead she is full of hatred, anger, jealousy and revenge. Tanya nearly gets pulled into the fairy realm, but her friend, Red, exchanges herself for Tanya.       This was a really good book, actually one of my second favorites. If I put this book out of five, I would definitely say four out of five. My favorite part is, when Tanya nearly gets pulled into the fairy realm. The moral of this book i...

IF YOU'RE READING THIS, IT'S TOO LATE Secret Series: Book 2 By Pseudonymous Bosch. 416 pp. Usborne Publishing Ltd. £5.99. (Ages 10 and up) ISBN 9780746097403 Rating: 5 Stars       I liked this book so much I could barely put it down. This book is about a girl called Cass and a boy called Max-Ernest. Both are twelve and both are in the Terces Society, which is secret backwards.       First they are fooled by Pietro's twin brother Doctor L. But while they are locked up they find something very mysterious, a sound prism. When they get back to the Terces Society they are given a job to do it is to find the homunculus.       But Cass is grounded so she has to be clever. That night Max-Ernest gets some mail from the Terces Society. He runs to get Cass the minute he sees it. Together they read it. This is one of the stories they read.       There once was a docto...

TWO BAD MICE By Beatrix Potter. 18 pp. Publications International. Out-of-print (Ages 4 and up) ISBN 9780785300052 Rating: 4 Stars This book is actually all abOut two bad mice.The characters in this book are Lucinda, Jane, Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca. Lucinda is a doll and Jane is a doll too. Tom thumb was one of the mice and the other was Hunca munca.Tom thumb was married to Hunca Munca. Lucinda and Jane live in a doll's house. When they went out for a walk two bad mice came in. They saw the table with food on it. Tom Thumb cut the ham but the knife bended, so Hunca Munca tried to cut it but of course it was just plastic. Hunca Munca tried to give Tom Thumb some fish but the fish was stuc on the plastic plat so tom thumb smasht it in to pisis with a shuful. Hunca Munca took Lucinda's pilo too the hole in the haus. when Lucinda and Jane came home they saw all the mes that they made. they were shoct. Hunca Munca had babies. She kept the cradle and chair but she gave back the pillo...

CHARMED LIFE The Worlds Of Chrestomanci Book 1 By Diana Wynne Jones. 288 pp. HarperCollins. £5.99 (Ages 12 and up) ISBN 9780007255290 Rating: 5 Stars       I really liked this book because it can get a bit funny.       This book is about a witch, named Gwendolen, and her little brother, named Cat Chant, whose parents have died when they went in a paddle steamer and it broke so they drowned. Cat Chant was holding on to Gwendolen (who is a witch, and witches don't drown) so he didn't drown.       As Gwendolen stayed with Mrs Sharp longer, she started to turn into the best witch in town, and starts to want to live with Chrestomanci. When she gets there she wants to have more magic classes, but Chrestomanci doesn't let her, so she wants revenge. Gwendolen trys many things but never gets any reaction. Finally when she does her last thing, which was make bugs turn into giants, she gets a reaction, but i...

LA CHINOISE Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. 393 minutes. KOCH Lorber Films. (15+) See at IMDB Rating: 5 Stars I watched this film. It was funny. They people in it are crazy, they put crazy masks on and talk funny. Watching a version dubbed in Russian with English subtitles made it strange, because I can’t read. Ultimately, the characters are naïve in their belief that a true international revolution could come from the likes of a bunch of middle-class French quasi-intellectuals, but their devotion to the great chairman Mao makes you still want them to win (even if they really are still Capitalist Roaders). Mommy thought it was boring. (communicated by Gigantosaurus megalonyx ; written by a parent)

CHARLOTTE'S WEB: WILBUR FINDS A FRIEND (I CAN READ BOOK 2) By Jennifer Frantz. Illustrated by Aleksey Ivanov and Olga Ivanov. 32 pp. Harper Collins. Out-of-print. (Ages 4 and up) ISBN 9780060882815 Rating: ? Stars It is abaut ; a sweet little pig in the barn I like it because;because I like the little pig Is it sad or funny or nice; it is sad because wilbur was lonely Is he nice or bad; nice