Year 3 Book Reviews
Category
The Future of Us by Carolyn Mackler and Jay Asher
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
26/04/2012 15:35:26 - Reviewed by Emma Paul- Ebiai - Categories: Genre,Science Fiction,Friends/Family,Fiction
The Future of Us
The Future of Us by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler is a futuristic book set in the past. It can also be described as teen fiction.

Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
26/04/2012 15:34:38 - Reviewed by ganstis - Categories: Genre,Fantasy,Humour,Action/Suspense,Crime/Mystery,Book Type,Fiction
Skulduggery Pleasant
Skulduggery Pleasant is an action/ comical/ fantasy novel by Derek Landy. It is about four hundred pages long and is published by Harper Collins.

Brotherband: The Outcasts by John Flanagan
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
26/04/2012 15:31:27 - Reviewed by ttaylor - Categories: Genre,Fantasy,Action/Suspense,Book Type,Fiction
Brotherband: The Outcasts
Brotherband: The Outcasts is a fantasy novel much like J. R. R. Tolkien stories. It is written by John Flanagan who is a very experienced writer. He has written television shows and since 2000 has created many fabulous novels.

Genesis by Bernard Beckett
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
08/05/2011 11:28:37 - Reviewed by rsladden - Categories: Science Fiction,Fiction
Genesis
Genesis is a book for young adults. It is written by Bernard Beckett, an author from New Zealand. It is a science fiction book, looking at a possible way of life in the future.

Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
06/05/2011 14:49:01 - Reviewed by Chelsea Owen - Categories: Action/Suspense,Crime/Mystery,Fiction
Skeleton Key
Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz is an action-packed thriller with a very interesting plot-line. Everything that happens is important to the plot, enhancing it, giving a place to it. This is the third book in the Alex Rider series, but each could just about stand on their own feet, though I would recommend reading them in order. I am definitely going to be reading the others.

Lirael by Garth Nix
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
23/06/2009 13:20:01 - Reviewed by shodges - Categories: Fantasy,Action/Suspense,Fiction
Lirael
Lirael, the second book of the Old Kingdom series by Garth Nix, is a fantasy adventure of necromancy and magic.

Double Cross by Malorie Blackman
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
19/06/2009 09:48:38 - Reviewed by jsundaram - Categories: Action/Suspense,Fiction
Double Cross
. Double Cross by Malorie Blackman is an action book with a bit of drama in it. It is for children but older people read it as well. The book is the fourth in a series and it is carrying on from the the previous three. It is about a girl called Callie Rose and a boy called Tobey. The series shows how their family grows up and now it is focusing on Callie. In the previous books she was involved in a bomb blast that killed her grandmother, but she feels really guilty as the public assume that a t...

Public Enemy Number Two by Anthony Horowitz
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
19/06/2009 09:39:36 - Reviewed by mr.t - Categories: Humour,Crime/Mystery,Fiction
Public Enemy Number Two
Anthony Horowitz is a thriller/crime novelist. Public Enemy Number Two has it all: police chases, escapes from prison and detective work.

The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
19/06/2009 09:38:28 - Reviewed by mmacheta - Categories: Fantasy,Fiction
The Golems Eye
The Golem's Eye is the second in the Bartimaeus Trilogy . The genre of the book is fantasy; the trilogy is about magicians, summoning creatures and ancient magic.

Leaving Poppy by Kate Cann
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
19/06/2009 09:35:11 - Reviewed by abungey - Categories: Crime/Mystery,Other,Fiction
Leaving Poppy
Leaving Poppy is written by Kate Cann. It is a fiction with a slightly spooky side to it! The main character is Amber. She is a timid but caring girl who has been put second best by her mother to keep her ‘difficult’ and overly sensitive half-sister, Poppy, happy. She lives hidden behind the shaddow of Poppy who has had difficulty in settling into schools and colleges and making new friends.

Mimus by Lilli Thal
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
19/06/2009 09:31:07 - Reviewed by nsharapova - Categories: Fantasy,Fiction
Mimus
Mimus by Lilli Thal is translated from German into English by John Brownjohn. It is a fantasy/adventure book set in medieval times.

Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
19/06/2009 09:30:47 - Reviewed by lrogers - Categories: Humour,Fiction
Molesworth
Molesworth (earlier The Compleet Molesworth Anthology ) is a compilation a compilation of the books Down with Skool! A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and their Parents , How to be Topp: A Guide to Sukcess for Tiny Pupils, Including All There is to Kno about Space , Whizz for Atomms: A Guide to Survival in the 20th Century for Fellow Pupils, their Doting Maters, Pompous Paters and Any Others who are Interested and Back In The Jug Agane . They are sort of fictional handbooks, supposedly wri...

The Tales Of Beedle The Bard by JK Rowling
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
19/06/2009 09:28:17 - Reviewed by ffaithfull - Categories: Fantasy,Fiction
The Tales Of Beedle The Bard
The Tales Of Beedle The Bard by JK Rowling is a fiction/fantasy written in the same style as Harry Potter . It is supposed to be a book of short wizard fairy tales. So most of them have a moral. The Tales Of Beedle The Bard is set in the same world as Harry Potter . These fairy tales were mentioned in the last Harry Potter book, so JK Rowling has actually made the book of fairy tales. It has various stories including ‘‘ The Tale of Three Brothers ’’ which is about three brothers who cheated dea...

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
The overall verdict is: Review Score, 1=Worst - 5=Best
19/06/2009 09:28:11 - Reviewed by hexton-smith - Categories: Fantasy,Romance,Fiction
Breaking Dawn
Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer is a romance fantasy story. It is about a family of ‘vegetarian’ vampires, a group of werewolves and a normal eighteen year old girl. The main character is Bella Swan, a girl who has fallen in love with Edward Cullen, a vampire, and decides she wants to be a vampire too. The other important characters are Jacob Black, a werewolf who is Bella’s best friend and is in love with her, and Edward. The story is told in the first person by Bella and by Jacob. It is told...

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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