Excellent Reads

VIKINGS (BBC FACT FINDER) By Peter Chrisp. 48 pp. BBC Books. Out-of-print. (Ages 8 and up) ISBN 9780563352600 Rating: 4 Stars I read this book to learn about Vikings for school. The Vikings came from Denmark, Norway and Sweden. We sometimes call the Vikings "sea raiders". There once was a King called Cnut, who had a long war with England, Then they decided they would have peace. After England's king died Cnut was made King of England. He was a lot like an English king because he was Catholic. I also happened to watch a BBC movie on Vikings. However the movie was wrong because it said the Vikings were the second Europeans to go to North America when they were the first. Buy Vikings (BBC Fact Finder) at amazon.com Buy The Vikings (Factfinders) at amazon.co.uk

THE IMPROBABLE CAT By Allan Ahlberg. 128 pp. Puffin. £5.99. (Ages 8 and up) ISBN 9780141314907 Rating: 3.5 Stars This is quite a good book, because it haunts you a bit.       It's about a boy, who's family one day see a limping grey kitten on there doorstep so they took it in put it on the couch then started to stroke it like anyone would do to a kitten. However, the cat was hypnotizing them and in a week it was twice it's size.       I think that if you really like cat's that you should not read this book because the cat is bad.       I would only recommend it if you have another book with you or are only reading for a short time. If I put this book out of five I'd definitely say 3 1/2 .

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS By Scott O'Dell. 192 pp. Houghton Mifflin. $6.99 (Ages 8 and up) ISBN 9780547328614 Rating: 5 Stars This book is about a girl named Karana. Karana lives on a small island, called Island of the Blue Dolphins, her Father is the Chief. The mane thing to know is that she gets left behind on the island. I really liked this book because it is sad and because she has animal friends. I like that she has animal friends because I wish I had animal friends. This is one of my favorite books; actually it's very close to being my favorite. Even though this book looks thin when you are reading it it seems as though it is as fat as my table because so many unforgettable things happen. An interesting thing to know is that the Aleuts came to hunt sea otter. My favorite part is when Karana and her dog are in a cave and suddenly sea a giant devil fish outside on the sea, it is actually twice as big as there canoe. If I put this book out of five I would definitely sa...

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...