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Term 1 Week 4

Title: Extinction

Author: Lizzie Wilcock

Genre: Fiction, Thriller

Plot: The World Is Going To End On The 21st Of September. We Know This Because We've Seen It. We Were There. Twins Annie And Mac Are The Only Survivors When Humanity Is Wiped Out- Or So They Think. A Mysterious Website Reveals That They Are Not Alone, And That they Have The Ability To Undo The Mass-Extinction. But There Is Someone Who Will Do Anything To Stop Them....

Response:

Some Of the Magnificent Language Used Was... The Trees Howled Like A Wolf In The Middle Of The Night. Or... Round Biscuit Faces With A Sprinkling Of Chocolate Chips. Large Blueberry Eyes. Thick Swirls Of Caramel Hair. Wafer Thin Bodies, Lightly Toasted.

Overall it was an excellent book. I loved it and would happily read it again. My favourite character was Mac because he was very courageous and was willing to do anything to keep his sister and others safe. I give it a 8 out of 10. Not a boring book at all.Recommendation: I Recommend This Book For 10+ Because It Has Got Some Parts Younger Readers May Not Understand



Term1 Week 5

Title: Extinction 2 The Explosive Conclusion

Author: Lizzie Wilcock

Genre: Fiction, Thriller

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Plot: Eight of us are marked with the infinity symbol. We are the chosen ones. We have to stop the human extinction.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">The chosen ones face a life-or-death mission, one that will force them on a perilous journey back through time and within reach of their enemy, Rufus Keller. From the past, they must command their powers over the earthly elements in an explosive battle that will decide the future of humankind...but if they succeed, would they have destroyed the need for there existence? Annie, Mac, Douglas, Rhea, Zeph, Kyla and Jay all have a tough decision to make.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Response: A great sequel. I loved it. It was so entertaining and a great book. Annie was a very well thought up character. She has been described as a very descriptive character. For example, she has hazelnut eyes, blonde wavy hair, slick and smooth skin and a slightly tanned forehead.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Recommendation: I recommend this book 10= because like the first book it has a few sentences that younger readers may not understand.

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Author: Elisabetta Dami

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Genre: Fiction,Children

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Plot:I,Geronimo Stilton, am not a sports-mouse. Running? Sweating? Not for me. I prefer relaxing in an armchair with a bowl of cheesy chews and a good book. But when I was assigned to report on the Olympics in Greece, I sniffed a mysterious adventure in the making!And holey cheese, was I right....

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Response: I rate this book -on a scale of one to ten- a seven. It was quite interesting at first but then it became a teeny bit boring. A bit of a short book but I would read it again. Geronimo is a very creative character. He does not like anything to do with physical <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">exercise <span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">but what he does like is-like all mouses-cheese, hot cheddar and sitting in front of the television.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Recommendation: I recommend this book for 7+. A great book for younger children is well.

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Author: Suzanne Collins

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Genre: Fiction, Horror

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Plot: Katniss Everden from district 12 has just volunteered to become a tribute to compete in the hunger games. In the hunger games 24 children age 12-16 are taken to arena. They try to kill each other and the last one alive wins great fortune and to go home. The games can get quite gruesome but sometimes it can have a bit of romance.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Response: I rate this book a 9. It is a great book and I found it very interesting. I found it so interesting that I just wanted to read all day and night. Some parts can be very hard to understand but otherwise it was a excellent book. Katniss was never sure of anything. She always thought of her self as a weak, defenceless girl. But that is not what it looked like when she entered the arena.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Recommendation:I recommend this book for 12-16. It has pretty disgusting parts and if you do not like people dying then this book is definitely not for you.

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Title: The Hunger Games Catching Fire (Book 2)

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Author: Suzzanne Collins

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Genre: Horror, Fiction

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Plot: Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire, has survived the hunger games. But now the capitol wants revenge for her making a fool of the hunger games. Can she manage to save herself and the ones she love, or will the capitol destroy her once and for all?

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Response: I found the second book very entertaining. I think that it was a good twist to have Katniss end up back in the games. If I was Katniss, instead of scratching Haymitch ( Katniss's mentor) on the face I would of just told him to be quiet instead of making him mad. My favorite character was Gale, because he was always sticking up for Katniss and always taking on-board her ideas. He is a great hunter, just as good as he is a friend.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Reccomendation: I reccomend this book for 12-15. It wasn't as gruesome as the first book, but still pretty awful and really horrifying in some parts.



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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Title: The Hunger Games Mocking-jay ( Book 3 )

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Author: Suzanne Collins

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Genre: Horror, Fiction

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Plot: Katniss Everdeen has been retrieved by Plutarch Heavensbee, the head game maker of the hunger games, and transported to the only safe district: District Thirteen. But Katniss wants to fight with the rebels and help overtake the capitol once and for all. But with her loved ones becoming more endangered, can she save them?

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Response: This book was a great ending for the series. The last quarter of the book was very sad and devastating. I got to a point where I couldn't bare to read the book anymore but yet it was so tempting. If I was Gale I would not of left Katniss for district two to help in weapon making. In this book I found Peeta to be a nemesis to Katniss. This was because the capitol had tortured him so much that he had turned into a mutt almost.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Recomendation; I recommend this book for 14+. It was the most gruesome of all the books and the most horrifying. 9.5 out of 10 from

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<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Author : Veronica Roth

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Genre : Drama / Action, Fiction

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Plot: Beatrice Prior has to decide which faction she has to go to and leave her parents because she is a very endangered person; she is Divergent. A mixture of three factions including Erudite (the smart ones ), Dauntless ( the brave ones ) and Abnegation ( the selfless ones ). In a battle for her own and other peoples lives, she discovers what she is meant for.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Response: This book did not really interest me at first, but then I began to have an interest in the book and became sucked into it. A very dramatic Novel with a variety of characters and locations. Beatrice Prior is a very shallow and shy person as she lives in the Abnegation faction. But when she shocks her parents by choosing to move to Dauntless, the brave and reckless faction, she turns into a respected, undaunted person.

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Reccomendation: I reccomend this book for 14+. It has some awful parts in the novel. A respectful 9 out of 10.

Term 3 Week 3

Title: Insurgent

Author: Veronica Roth

Genre: Drama/Action, Fiction

Plot: Beatrice Prior's parents have both died from an attack on Abnegation from Erudite and simulated Dauntless. She now wants revenge on Jeanine Matthews, the leader of Erudite. But can she do it, or will she suffer agonizing consequences.

Response: This was a improvement from the last book as I tried to read it every spare moment I had. This book was full of devastating lies and hurtful deaths as well as a bit of romance. The perfect sequel as it was just the right kind of book for me.

Reccomendation: I reccomend this book 15+ because most children will get frightened from this novel. 10 out of 10.