The View From Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg

This is a very mezmerising book about four students in Grade Six, with their own individual stories and different points of views, develop a special group and attractted the attention of their form teacher, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. And they kept winning the champion, when at last, they are about to compete with the best team in another school, will they be able to win, or will they lose? I'll let YOU to find out!

I think this is a very excellent book because it tells you about different points of views from different people with different backgrounds. I especially like Julian- one of the main characters because he is very intelligent and can easily deal with awkward situations without people knowing it. I really liked how the authors goes from person to person with different stories, but somehow they all connects to each other in one particular way. I am going to search for other books that are written by this author!

Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver

This is my first book that I've read by the author- Michelle Paver, and I think it is absolutely good! This book is about a person that lives thousands of years ago who could speak wolves' language, he lived a happy life with his father. But after his father's death, he set out on a great adventure to the mountains. What will be waiting and lurking in the dark and creepy forest to get him?

I especially like the ending when The Bear and Hord all died and Torak lived, I truly like Wolf because he wasn't only very cute, but also really loyal to his pack brother- Torak. At first, I was quite sad that at the end Wolf cannot stay with Torak anymore because he found a group of other wolves, but afterwards, I think it was actually better for wolf to be with his friends rather than with Torak. The reason for that is, although Torak could speak wolves' language, he is still a human being! I really recommend this book to everyone in the class because it is adventurous and magical.

The Borrowers by Mary Norton

This is my first book that is written by Mary Norton and I enjoyed it a lot! This book is about some little people that are only about the size of a doll that "borrows" your things, whenever somethiing disappears in your house, then it must have been taken by the borrowers. The borrowers only lives in very old houses and they don'e usually learn how to read and write.

This novel is a bit mysterious and I think the author must have very good imagination to think that when something disappeared in your house, it must have taken by the borrowers. I quite like the borrowers although they "borrows" your things without your permission to do so, because they are really quite about their size. I recommend this book to everyone, I think you will all like it!

The Cat Who Wished to Be a Man by Lolyd Alexander

This is my very first book written by Lolyd Alexander. I like this book because it is full of wonderfully created characters and what a cat might think of a human being. There is a wizard in this book who is the cat's master, we often only have wizards in fairy tales, and last but not least, it has a wonderful and terrifc ending!

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

At first, I dislike this book because I cannot imagine how can a fairy be so stupid to give a gift of obedience and thought that her gift was wonderful, I think people should have the right to choose whatever we want to do and whether we want to do it or not. But afterwards I felt that this is actually the event that makes this book so great and adventurous. My favourite part of it is the ending when Ella finally married with the prince. I will recommend this book to someone who likes fairy tales.

Glint by Ann Coburn

I think this book is absolutely STUPID and BORING!! Every character in it is all so stupid and crazy!! I truly dislike Ellie because she told everything to her boyfriend- Ross!! I hate Ross because he was actually the one who captured Danny (Ellie's brother) and he kept denying it, reading this book makes me really mad!! If you have a lot of time for you to spend, then you can read this book!

Bedtime Stories for Grown-Ups

This book is fantastic! It tells you a lot of morals towards loving yourself, this book is also excellent by many interesting, funny and maralish stories, it also has a lot of absolutely funny drawings of characters in the book. I love it! My favourite story in this book is Cinderella. Inc because it is the funniest of them all! Have a go at it!

Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo

This is my very first book I've read that is written by Michael Morpurgo and I like it very much! When I was reading the beginning of the book, I thought it must be a totally boring book, but I changed my mind afterwards, when I am reading the chapter "Gibbons and Ghosts". I think Kensuke was absolutely right when he said that he was just like the king of this island and he mustn't leave it. I think this book is wonderfully plotted, very well written and have an excellent ending! I recommend this book to everyone! I hope you will all enjoy it!

The Wild West Witches by Michael Molloy

This is the third adventure in this series, I like it very much. Inspite of some parts of the book is boring, but mostly it is exciting. I escpecially liked the ending when it is connected to the beginning of the story. I am not sure if the evil Wolfbane had died or not, which I really hope he did, because he is so sinister and disgusting that he likes to eat rats and bath in mud water!! I hope you like this novel!

The Time Witches by Michael Molloy

This is the second adventure of this terrific series and I think it was even more exciting than the first book- The Witch Trade, it is also full of thrilling adventure that you certainly cannot miss. I like Paddy the Pooka because he always appears whenever Abigail and Spike needs him. I totally dislike Wolfbane and his mother because they are so sinister and proud. My favourite part of the story was the part about the raising if the spirit of Ma Hamlock because it is so scary and exciting, this book was very easy to follow. I really like Michael Molloy's books because thay are so magical and I want to read more!!

Fergus Crane by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddel

This novel is about a boy named Fergus Crane whose father went onto a voyage to find the fire diamonds and didn't come back. He and his mother lived in a small attic apartment. Because his mother cannot afford to pay the fees for a school he still didn't go to school until he is nearly nine. One day a ship that is called the Betty-Jeane School Ship arrived on the port and it is absolutely free of charge, so his mother instantly decided to let him go to that school. All the teachers in that school are all very strange and weird and there is only five students in the whole school! But when Fergus found about his father and his long-lost Uncle Theo, his life has completely changed into a breath-taking and thrilling adventure that you can only read in stories!!

This novel is the first book that I have read by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddel and I think it is marvellous! This book is just simply great! You can hardly take your eyes off it for even one second and it totally drags you right into the story! I am planning to read more books that are written by Paul Stewart or Chris Riddel!

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

Book Title: The Hobbit 


Author: JRR Tolkien


Date: 11-09-'09


Star Rating: 5/5


Overview: This is a absolutely wonderful book about a hobbit whose name is Bilbo that was whisked away from his cozy hobbit house by a wizard called Gandalf and a group of dwarves, calling him The Burglar. He finds himself in a journey to raid the treasure from the hole of Smaug the Magnificent, a very large, scary and dangerous dragon that likes to raid other people's gold. So they started the journey there, but when everything seems perfect something went wrong!! Will they be able to arrive safely to the dragon's hole, or will they end up as supper......... I will leave it for you to find out!

Comments: This is certainly a well-plotted, excellent, adventurous, magical and thrilling novel, I love it! There are a lot of adventurous things that you can't miss, for example, the giant spider attack, the goblins with wicked minds and a magical ring that can make you invisible. I especially like Bilbo- the hobbit because he does not only have the skill to hide really quickly, but also he is really intelligent and uses his common sense to do things. As the book has said, that Bilbo had improved a lot during this journey and he was not the little hobbit who ran out of his house without his handkerchief but a one with braveness and intelligence. I truly recommend this novel to you all! I hope you like it!

Holes by Louis Sachar

I think this book is certainly a mysteriously written story by Louis Sachar. The is is my first book that I have read by Louis Sachar, and I think it is amazing!

I think the opening of this exciting book is really effective because it tells you very precisely what Camp Green Lake is like and what it's like one hundred years ago. It really makes you easy to imagine the scene of how barren, bleak and hot Camp Green Lake is. The opening also used powerful and strong words to describe Camp Green Lake, the opening is also very mysterious. The book also used a lot of implied meanings of which the author didn't write directly. It also travels to different time periods in the same chapter and that is also a little part which makes the story very exciting and breath-taking.

Last, but not least, the ending of the story was absolutely BRILLIANT, which I really liked because I love stories with happy endings!!