Book Reviews for Book Week
Title: The worst kids in the world
Author: Barbara Robinson
Rating: Good
Date: 10-3-00
Story: This is a story about the Herdman family. They had six children called Ralph, Imogene, Leroy, Claude, Ollie and Gladys. All they did was thump each other and pull each other's hair all day. They lived over a garage at the bottom of a hill. Nobody went there anymore just the Herdmans. They had the meanest cat in the world. They only found that cat. It was so mean the postman wasn't able to deliver letters to their house. By Darren
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Title: The little black sheep.
Author: Elizabeth Shaw .
Date: 10/03/2000.
Rating: Very Good.
Story: This story is about a little black sheep. There was a sheepdog called Polo, who
Helped the shepherd look after the sheep. Polo wants to get rid of the black sheep.
At sunset the shepherd blew a long blast on his whistle and this meant that
Polo should round up the sheep and chase the sheep into the fold.
Title:
Francis Fry and the O.T.G.Author:
Sam McBratney and Kim BlundellRating: Very Good
Date: 10-3-00
Story: A girl called Elizabeth Wintersprout aged almost eight years old Asked Francis Fry a private eye to find Teddy Brown. Francis Fry said; Okay I will find Teed Brown. Then Francis Fry went to the Museum of Childhood. He saw the oldest teddy in the world. He thought that he could have a teddy bear Picnic and try to catch the robbers at the picnic. When the picnic was on O.T.G. Better known as the old toy gang, tried to steal the oldest teddy bear in the world. They were caught and Elizabeth Wintersprout got back her Teddy Brown.
Title: island of the giant pokémon
Author: Tracy west
Rating: excellent
Date: 10-3-00
Story: ash was still on his way to becoming a pokémon master when he saw Gyrados. Gyrados started spinning round in circles and made a giant whirlwind of water. The whirlwind came at them. After a long night they were on the island. Their pokémon were not there even though they looked everywhere. Meanwhile somewhere else on the island Team Rocket was there. They had lost their packmen also. On another part of the island all the packmen were there eating.
Title: Ultimate Guide of Dinosaurs
Author: David Lambert
Date: 10.3.00
Rating: Excellent
Story: This book had information that I found very useful.
It had full profiles of all the dinosaurs from Compsognathus right up to Tyrannosaurus Rex. It had a chart showing me how dinosaurs got fossilized and how they died. It had everything I had to know about Bayarionx. It told me that the meaning of its name is "Terrible Stone Claws". Bayarionx's nickname is "Claws". It also told me that T-Rex was not the biggest meat eater in fact it has a cousin that is bigger than it but just as ferocious and just as feared. So, that makes T-Rex the ex-tyrant lizard and king of dinosaurs. It also said about a dinosaur no bigger than a child's hand!
By: Shahbaz
Title: The Survival of Arno Mostyn.
Author: Sarah Garland.
Rating: Good.
Date: 10-3-00
Story: This book is about a boy called Arno. In the first chapter Arno finds some mousse in the back of a cupboard and asked his mother to put it on because her hair was sticking up. He always thought he was a detective and thought there was a bomb ticking. He was trying to catch a robber that robbed a lot of stuff. His father is in Spain and his mother is at home with him. His mother is going out with a man called Jerome. The go to Rosas house and look at her pantings. And at the end of this story Arno goes to the police station to be asked questions.
TITLE: Ready Steady Go
AUTHOR: Pat Moon
RATING: Excellent
DATE: 10/03/00
STORY: Ready steady go is about a few animals that decided they would have a sport's day. The cheetah said he would win all of the races but he did not win the first few. Every animal won but the cheetah. The last race was called out. It was a running race. The cheetah said he would win this. Everybody knew that. The cheetah ran. The turtle said let's teach him a lesson. They took a short cut. When the cheetah got to the finishing spot he stopped in surprise. He sat down and said how could you all beat me? The animals felt sorry and told him all about it.
TITLE: The night I Was chashed by a vampire
AUTHOR: Kaye Umansky
RATING : Good
DATE: 10/03/00
STORY: This story is about a boy that goes to his aunts for tea. When he was walking through the trees he saw a light. He walked up to the light and saw a tumbled down castle. He knocked on the door. After a few minutes a person opened the door. They walked down the corridor and came to his room. He went into his bed and woke up soon.
Title: Space Stories that really Happened
Author: Andrew Donkin
Rating: Very Good
Date: 10-3-00
Story: The one story out of this book I read was called The Martians are Coming! In this story hundreds of Americans believe Martians are invading Earth. It all started one Halloween night when a family of three turned on the radio. They hear that a spaceship landed in Grover's Mill less then two miles away from there home. The father gets into a panic and tries to flee the state. He is stopped along with lots of other people who live near Grover's Mill. The police explain that it was only a play on the radio and you must have missed the start.
Title: How I learned to fly
Author: R.L Stine
Rating: Good
Date: 10-3-00
Story: This story is about a kid named Cristopher. He found a book that had a secret potion that could make him fly. He did not know this and he tripped over his dog and
Hit the potion. The potion fell into his mouth. The next day he was in a competition for jumping to see who could jump the highest. He flew 10 metres into the sky and won. Everybody on his team celebrated. 
By Bernard O Brien
Title: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Author: Roald Dahl
Rating: V. Good
Date: 10-3-00
Story: The story was about a boy called Charlie and a man called Willy Wonka.Willy Wonka owned a chocolate factory and is giving away five tickets for a tour of his factory in five Wonka bars. Charlie got one of these tickets and went to the factory. Some of the machines were very large and Charlie was amazed. During the tour Charlie saw some type of workers called the oompa-loompas. Charlie thought that they were very strange. While the tour was on some of the other kids had strange things happen to them because they touched or ate things that they were told not to. Anyway the book was very good so get it.
Two kids eating chocolate.
Title: The Yuckee Prince.
Author: Larry `O` Loughlin.
Rating: 10/10 Excellent.
Date: 10/03/2000
Story: This story is about a king and queen who had one prince who could be an angel when he wanted to be. That was when he got what he wanted. When he didn't get what he wanted he would lie on the ground and kick and scream, chase the servants down the road throwing pots and pans at them and wreck the palace. One day the king and queen got an invitation to another kingdom. First they had to find a babysitter but everyone had an excuse. They finally found a witch that was new to the kingdom. After a few days with the prince the dainty little cottage was a terror castle with ogres, grizzly bears and crocodiles. The prince learned his lesson when the ogre nearly ate him.
Title: Cat and Mouse
Author: Margaret Mahy
Rating: Good
Story:
One summer day a young mouse set out looking for adventure. He met a cat. The cat said he was Santa Claus and the cat asked him to get into his bag .The mouse was not that stupid so the mouse found out that he was a cat. Then he said he was a dog and barked and frightened him up a tree and the mouse ran home and the mouse though he had just had a narrow
Title: Tilly Mcgillies Fantastical Chair
Author: Vivian French
Rating: Good
Date: 10-03-00
Story: This story is about a fantastical chair. This chair is a flying chair. Tillie has ten woolly hats, nine woolly scarves, eight woolly jumpers, seven, woolly cardigans, six woolly cardigans, five woolly blankets, four knitting aunts three puffing uncles two wobbly legs and a gran who is nearly a fairy. Her gran always says ''Hmph. Every time Gran always waves her magic hanky and closes her eyes something happens. Tillie lives in a flat eighty- two steps up. She has to get her three purring uncles to help her.
By Rachel
Title : The Secret Seven
Author: Enid Blyton
Rating: Excellent
Date: 10th of March 2000
Story: George is in trouble and has to resign from the Secret Seven. Now it's up to Scamper golden spaniel to protect the rest of the gang from danger as they go in search of five missing dogs.
Title: Supersub
Author: Alan Mc Donald
Rating: Excellent
Date: 10-3-00
Story: Roger Milla lived in Cameroon. He had retired from football as he was thirty-eight.
He coached a small team, in a tiny island of Réunion. At a match Milla saw Valeri Nepomniachi
The coach of the Cameroon national team. He wanted Milla to come to the World Cup in Italy.
Valeri had a special request to take him along which came from Paul Biya the president. That
Year Cameroon made history by being the first African side to reach the quarter-finals of the
World Cup.
Title: Mona the vampire
Author: Sona Holleyman
Date:10-3-00
Rating:very good
Story: Mona the vampire is about a girl's dad who read her a story about vampires and she like it so much she decided to be a vampire. She needed a cloak and the curtains in the dining room were just right.
It was very funny 
Title: How I learned to fly
Author: R.L Stine
Rating: Good
Date: 10-3-00
Story: This story is about a kid named Cristopher. He found a book that had a secret potion that could make him fly. He did not know this and he tripped over his dog and
Hit the potion. The potion fell into his mouth. The next day he was in a competition for jumping, to see who could jump the highest. He flew 10 metres into the sky and won. Everybody
TITLE: Last Convoy
AUTHOR: J.Eldrige
RATING: Excellent
DATE: 10/3/00
STORY: Malta is under siege by Axis ships, aircraft and submarines. Malta is on the brink of surrender or starvation. In desperation England sends a convoy that must reach Malta or Malta will surrender. A man in the DEMS gunners who is called John Smith boards a new American oil tanker called the Ohio. The Ohio is part of a massive convoy to resupply Malta with food, fuel and ammunition. If this convoy fails to get to Malta the Allies will have lost the Mediterranean.
David
TITLE: Secret water
AUTHOR: Arthur Ramsome
RATING: Very Good
DATE: 10/3/00
STORY: John, Susan, Titty, Roger, Peggy, Brigit and Sinbad the cat are marooned on an island with two boats. They have an incorrect map, which they have to correct. They set off and find a tribe of children. There was the Mastodon, Daisy, Dumb and D in the tribe. The tribe was called the eels. They become Blood Brothers and help with the map. When the boat comes to take them back they were not finished the map. The two boats had left in the morning and had finished the map in time.
Daniel
Title: Animals of the sea
Rating:good
Date: 10/3/00
Story:Although whales looks like fish they are in fact large animals.
They have lungs instead of gills and so must come out to the surface regularly
To breathe. Each whale has a blowhole on its head through which it breathes
There are many different kinds of whales; the blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived. Over 30 meters in length the killer whale is so called because it feed on other animals.
Title:
Run to Earth.Author:
Tom Mc CaughrenRating: 9 out of 10 very good
Date: 10/3/00
Story: Hop-a-long is a fox with only three paws. He went across a stream to hunt rabbits, but there
Was none there? Then he saw footprints that looked like foxes but were neither. He saw an animal that that was half cat, half fox. He thought that was why there were no rabbits. He saw pigs and goats turned strange. Then he saw a flower eating a rabbit. He ran away and collapsed on the
Title: Cats witch and the lost Birthday
Author: Kara May
Rating: Good
Date: 10-03-00
Story: This story is about a witch who lost her birthday. Once there was a witch who lost her birthday. She was on strike from magic because she was so sad. The French were supposed to be coming for the town's birthday. Age the witch was supposed to be putting on a show but Aggie would not because she was sad about her birthday. With the help of a wizard she found out her birthday was on the same as the towns and put on the most brilliant show. The French loved it.