Reading+Log-Ailsa

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Recommendation: 9+
=Peace, Love And Baby Ducks=

Genre: teenage novel
===Plot: Carly is wiered. Unusual, the way she wants to be and now Anna, her little sister has become seriously popular (amongst the boys as well as girls) and she has GOT to be jealous. Now there is a new boy in school, his name is Cole. Anna doesn't like him but Carly does and he is breaking her heart. For P.E. they have to do a back flip of the high board and their p.e. coach doesn't like Anna. Anna is to scared to do the dive and fails the class. All rounded up with a party gone wrong while their parents were away, just brings these sisters closer and closer.=== ===Response: This book shows sisterhood at its peak. It shows that even very different sisters can learn to help each other stay afloat. I love this book, it is the second time I have read it. It is a great book to relate to if you have a sister.and an annoying one at that!===

recommendation: 11+
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=The Sea Piper=

Genre: Mystery
===Plot: Harriet lives in Little Shrimpton with Fancy and Davy. She is a shrimper, born and bread. So is the whole of Little Shrimpton! One day all the shrimp disapear and all of Little Shrimpton are forced to leave to find work and to find money. Harriet, Fancy and Davy stay in Little Shrimpton living by themselves, thinking the shrimps will come back but winter closes in and the shrimp havent returned. Fancy and Davy decided to send harriet to aunty Lavina's place to learn how to use shells and make them into jewlry so they could earn some money that way. When harriet is there she comes accross a strange man, the Sea Piper, and watches him play. Later that day she hears the myths about the Sea Piper, that he can pipe all the sea creatures into folowing him, how he does this for company, and how only childen can see him. She thinks, then goes and sees the Sea Piper, she asks him for a deal, he can have all the seagulls from little Shrimpton to keep him company if they get all their shrimp back. He agrees, and everyone travels back to Little Shrimpton. Back into business they were!=== ===Response: I think this book is a great read and there is a great use of vocabualry. It shows that some things happen because of magic and that, more important than staying were you have been all your life is your friends.===

Recommendation: 9+
=Double Act=

Genre: Fiction
===Plot: Ruby and Garnet. Two identical twins who are totally different are getting forced to move into a book store in a different area of town with Rose. Rose is their dads girlfriend. They hate her, well at least Ruby does and of course Garnet has to follow along. They here in the newspaper that there is a spot for identical twins on TV program. Its all the way in London but by deviously selling stuff to pay for the taxi to the train station and a train to London they do without dad and Rose because they wouldn't have taken them. At the audition dad suddenly pops up and it makes Garnet chicken out and they don't get the part. The new plan is to get a scholar ship to the private school its going to be filmed at. They book an appointment and do the test, but Garnet gets the scholar ship and Ruby gets mad and cuts her long hair completely off!. Garnet goes to the new private school and Ruby starts to realize how much her sister means to her. She makes some new friends. When Garnet comes back to visit Ruby is mad, at first but then realizes how much she missed her and their friends again.=== ===Response: I have read this book many times and it is excellent to show that you don't realize what you've got until its gone. It also shows that people aren't as bad as you think they are. If i were Ruby i wouldn't be so bullying to Garnet and if i was Garnet I wouldn't let Ruby control me.===

Genre: Fantasy
===Plot: Jarred is the childhood best friend of the new king of Deltora; Endon. Protecting deltora is a belt of seven gems; topaz- symbol of faithfullness; amethyst- symbol of truth; diamond- the symbol of purity and strength; emerald- symbol of honour; lapis lazuli- the heavenly stone; ruby- the symbol of hapiness; opal- symbol of hope. These gems are lost when the shadow lord takes over and scattered over Deltora; into some of the most feared places; and also very heavely gaurded. Over the years the palace in the city of Del has accumulated some ridiculous rules to trick the palace dwellers into thinking everthing outside the palace is perfectly fine, when its not; full of crumbeld buildings and starving people. The shadow lord has prepared all these years so he can eventualy take over Deltora; which he succesfully does. Allthough, While Deltora has been under the power of the shadow lord; Jarred has found a loving wife and had a son; Lief. Along with the help of another escaped palace dweller, Barda, Lief sets out on the journey to recover the gems and restore the belt of Deltora. First stop; the Forests of Silence where they face creatures of nightmares and make friends with Jasmine; a girl who has lived in the forests all her life, with her parents who where taken by the shadow lord when she was seven. Jasmine Helps Lief and Barda uncover the first gem; the topaz.===

Genre: Fantasy
===Plot: Lief and Barda have found the topaz- symbol of faithfullness; and are continuing on to the lake of tears; to the next gem. Along the way of finding the topaz, Lief and Barda have accumulated a friend; Jasmine and her two friends a black raven Kree, and a small furry creature called Fili. The lake of tears is in the teritory of the great sorceress Theagan, her thirteen childreen and inocent creatures bound by magic into her slavery. Along the jourey the trio come across two of Thaegan dreadfull children Jin and Jod. They manage a narrow escape along with the help of a ralad man, who takes them back to Raladin. Once at the lake of tears the trio face another of Thaegans enslaved creatures; soldeen. It is here were Theagan shows herself, and faces the brave trio. At the Brink of turning into another of Theagans slaves Kree makes a riskfull move; the one that will kill Thaegan! All is returned to its origanal form- to the long lost city of D'Or! At last the second gem is found the ruby- the symbol of happiness.===

Genre: Teenage fiction
===Plot: Freia lockhart is your average teenage girl, just trying to fit in. To fit in she must be in the 'popular' group nicknamed the B's. She gets entwined into this group through her best friend Kate, who suddenly took a turn and befriended them; so ultimately she had to too. This then leads to the school production; with Parkville Boys school; and Freia gets stuck on lighting with apparent drug addict Daniel a.k.a; swanker. Though things are different to people say about Daniel as she finds, at home her education obssesed Mother is reading books on how to raise a teenager; of which is written by someone who doesnt even know how to do it himself!; and happens to be Daniels Dad! As the production progresses Freia realises that the B's arent her real friends; they are people who have the same interests as her for example, The Ramones and definately not lip gloss and fake tan!===

Genre: Teen Fiction
===Plot: Scarlet is allways getting expelled from schools and her Mum has had enough; shes going to send her to Ireland. To her Dads; who left them when she was 10. As the expedition looks like a complete disaster there's more to come- it turns out she has a stepsister; and another one on the way. As the school in ireland fails to put up with Scarlets fiery temper, Scarlet goes into being home schooled. This turns out to be Scarlets perfect medicine to resolve her temper, as she can do projects on whatever she wants; so she does her project on the beautiful nearby Lough Cohill- its history? A magical wishing tree. Here she meets a misterious boy; Kian, with a sad past and a black horse named Midnight. As the new baby is on its way things take an unfortunate turn of events. With her step mum Clare drifting in and out of coniousness after bumping her head, the phone line out, and her being in labour. Scarlet has to do something; thanks to some friendly, passer by, American tourists Clare and Scarlet make it to the hosptal just in time. In the end she returns to her Mums place in london; afer saying a sad goodbye to the mistery boy who lives by the lough, to start a fresh life.=== ===Respnse: I think this book was really page turning, and I love the use of believing in magic relating to a naughty girl with a bad temper. If I was Scarlet I wouldnt run away from a school just because im frustrated.===