http://www.esculham.eu ESC Reads en-GB Copyright 2009 by ES Culham webadmin@esculham.eu <p> <font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size: 16px"><em>Skellig</em></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-size: 12pt"> by David Almond is a great book to read on a spooky night. It is about a boy called Michael who is moving into his new house. But his dusty, rat-infested, almost-collapsing garage is occupied by a creature who is covered with dust and feeds off dead, rotting bluebottles. Together with his best friend Mina, they drag the creature into the light, to reveal what they have discovered.</span></font></p> http://www.esculham.eu/BookReviews/Year1Reviews/ViewYear1BookReview/tabid/259/ArticleId/530/language/en-GB/Skellig.aspx staghavi Tue, 11 May 2010 11:22:00 GMT <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Arial"><font size="3">This story is about a boy who thinks he is as ordinary as any other boy (well, any other who gets expelled from school every year) until he accidentally vaporises his maths teacher and soon finds himself on a quest with Annabeth and Grover. Together they have to return Zeus’s master bolt (and, in this book the gods are alive and kicking) before the gods break up into the biggest war in the history of the Earth.  <span style="mso-spacerun: yes">  </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">   </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></font><o:p></o:p></span></p> http://www.esculham.eu/BookReviews/Year1Reviews/ViewYear1BookReview/tabid/259/ArticleId/354/language/en-GB/Percy-Jackson-and-The-Lightning-Thief.aspx staghavi Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:44:00 GMT