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__**Term 1 Week 6**__ __**Title:**__ **Chicken Feathers** __**Genre:**__ **Fiction** __**Author:**__ **Joy Cowley**

__**Plot:**__ **This book is about a boy named Josh. He and his family lived on a chicken farm. His mum is pregnant and she becomes sick with a sickness called complications and the family is really worried because the last 5 children have been miscarriages. One day it becomes so bad that she has to go to hospital and Josh finds that really hard because Josh and his dad have to clean in the house but then look after the chicken houses outside on the farm. Josh has a chicken called Semolina and she can talk but only to Josh and no one else. Josh has a girlfriend named Charlotte and she works at the chicken farm to help earn pocket money. Josh always goes up and talks to her while she is working and she always talks about this other boys that she likes down the road. Eggs are getting stolen from number 3 chicken house and Josh’s dad doesn’t believe Josh but Semolina had told Josh that there has been a fox sneaking through a hole in number 3 chicken house and stealing eggs. Josh and his dad do daily visits to the hospital to see Josh’s mum. Times are getting tough for Josh and his dad since mum is away so they call up grandma and ask her to come to their house to help in side while Josh and his dad work outside. The day comes when Josh’s mum starts to feel kicks. A couple of days later she went into labour and Josh, grandma and dad rushed off to the hospital they were so excited to see the baby. But guess what the baby wasn’t a miscarriage it was Josh’s new born baby sister called Ruby. He was so excited and pleased that he had finally had got his dream a younger sibling. And guess what else happened on that exact same day Charlotte said to Josh do you want to go out!!!**

__**Rating:**__ *** 5 stars because Joy Cowley is one of my favourite authors.**

** __Comment:__ I loved this book because it has some good morals in it and it leaves you hanging at the end because there are questions that are still waiting to be answered.**

** __Empathy:__ I felt empathy for Josh because he had to work very hard while his mum was in hospital and he also had to work very hard to try and keep Semolina alive and another thing that he was working hard at was trying to get his girlfriend Charlotte to be his girlfriend and he was also working hard at trying to get his boat finished before the baby was born and his mum came back to the house.**

__**Term 1 Week 4**__

** __TITLE:__ MY SISTER JODIE**

** __AUTHOR:__ JACQUELINE WILSON**

** __GENRE:__ FICTION**

** __PLOT:__ My sister Jodie is about a girl named Pearl, and a girl named Jodie. Pearl and Jodie are sisters Jodie is 15 years of age and Pearl is 11 years of age. Jodie is a very outgoing, attractive and most of the time naughty teenager. And Pearl is shy, academic independent 11 year old. Although Jodie sounds very naughty and selfish she to Pearl is a very loving, caring, motivating sister. Since Pearl was born Jodie has been such a good sister to her. But one day their mum and dad get this letter in the mail saying that they had been accepted for this job at Melchester Collage, their mum was going to be a cook and their dad was going to be the caretaker, if they were to say yes to this job they would live in a house on Melchester Collage property and the two girls would get free schooling there. This meant that they would have to move. They moved to Melchester Collage. It took them a while to settle in. This time Pearl was turning into Jodie, Pearl had a much better class than Jodie, and the boys didn't think of Jodie as a attractive girl they thought that she was just a piece of rubbish. They both met a friend Harley. He was very tall and looked very posh. They had lots of adventures with him along the way especially Pearl. They both at night would sneak out and go and watch the Badgers. They would set out some honey and the Badgers would come and sniff it. Pearl and Harley became such good friends that it became very lovey dovey in the book. Then one day everything went very wrong and Harley and Pearl had a fight and Jodie and her boyfriend Jerry (well Jodie thought he was her boyfriend) got into some trouble on the tractor that Jerry was driving because they ran over a baby Badger and they all had to bury it and then Jodie and Jerry broke up. It was a disaster!! Then one day they found a set of stairs leading up to this door that was locked. They found out that it is a tall tower looking down to everything. One night on New Year’s Eve Jodie went up into the tower and.............. ...... fell off. Pearl was so sad that she had died, Pearl could hear her whispering in her ear telling her what to do, and not to be worried that she had just died. It was very quiet and calm and sadness was going through the air for the next few days. After the family had gotten over the death of Jodie, Pearl settled back into school and did very well. **

** __Features:__ There was some really good language in this book like " The room that they had just stepped into was damp,musty and dusty." I really liked that sentence it showed how they where feeling when they stepped into the room. **

** __Empathy:__ I felt empathy for Jodie because when they moved her life was not normal. She was also very depressed because her mum was putting her down quite a bit. **

** __Rating:__ ***** 5 stars.**

** __Comment:__ I loved this book because it had a future that was still waiting to be answered for Pearl. **

**__Term 1 week 8__**

** __Title:__ The Witches**

** __Genre__: Fiction**

** __Author:__ Roald Dahl**

** __Plot:__ This book is about a boy and his mother and father got killed in a house fire so he got sent to his nanas. She told him stories every night before he went to bed and one night she told him a true story about witches that used to live in her town when she was** **little. She found out all the little details about what they do and what they looked like, and her father told her all of these details. Then one day the boy spots a witch as he was walking home from school he is freaked ut so he runs for his life back home.**

** __Rating:__ ** *** 3 stars**


 * __Reccomended:__ 8+**


 * __Empathy:__ I felt empathy for the boy because he had just lost his mum and his dad in a house fire which would be the most devestating thing ever to happen.**


 * __Comment:__ I really liked this bok because Roald Dahl always has good language and describes the characters really well.**


 * __Features:__ There were some really good features in this book like “ the boy had fluffy non combed hair and was wearing some ratted and ripped and ragged clothes. He looked like a rat that had just been in the suage.**


 * __Reading Log__**


 * __Term One Week Nine__**


 * __MILES TO GO__**


 * __Response:__ This book is an autobiography about Miley Cyrus’s life. It is about how she started her courier and about when she was little and what her journey has been so far. I like this book because she has made this book into like her diary because she has got little asterixes throughout her book leading to something else that she has got to say.**


 * __Rating:__ ** *** 5 stars

__Recommendation:__ 10+

__Empathy:__ I felt empathy for Miley Cyrus because she had a friend l that looked exactly the same as her and so they got teased at school, and people were saying that they looked like twins.

__Comment:__ I absolutely loved reading this book because the way that she published it was very teenagerish and it had some very different things in it like 100 things I want to do before I die and then she listed all of the things she wanted to do before she died. This book was the one that got me hooked on to autobiography’s and now I am reading them all of the time.

Reading Log

Term Two Week One

RED SKY IN THE MORNING

Response: Anna's little brother, Ben, was born with hydrocephalus. He is profoundly disabled. But from the moment she sees him, Anna loves him, far more than she could ever have imagined she would love anyone. She spends every moment possible with Ben, cuddling him, comforting him, even teaching him to kiss. However, at school, Anna keeps Ben's disability a secret. Anna is too afraid to tell anyone because she does not know how they will react on her. Until one day she had to let out the secret.

Comment: I was captivated by this book in a way the makes me want to read more of Elizabeth Laird's books. This book has to be in the top 5 books that I have ever read. I am quite a fussy reader. I have to enjoy the book from the very first page to make me read on. It had a very underlining message/moral and the message/moral was ' never keep a secret for too long because one day you will have to tel someone tell someone the secret'.

Empathy: I felt pressure on Anna because she was a very unpopular girl at her school. That made her feel left out and not part of anything. I also felt empathy for Anna's mum because she is trying to look after three kids one of which is mentally and physically disabled. She must of had a stressful 2 years with Ben.

Language: I really liked the language in this book because it used every language features in it. Here are some examples. 'The sky was as red as a bowl of cherries.' ' The grass was swaying in the wind like a girls hair blowing in the wind.' ' Ben's silly, smiling smile was smiling at me.'