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His Dark Materials , Phillip Pullman

For those of you who have heard about Phillip Pullman you would probably have heard that he is an amazing author. Reading a couple of his books I thought he was a good author but maybe amazing was an exaggeration. However, after reading Northern Lights, The Subtle Knife and The Amber Spyglass I realised that in actual fact he was more than good.
The triolgy follows the journey of Lyra Belequa who is only a child but she has an unknown responsibility that can hange the whole world and either bring it to hope or to destruction. She gets herself caught in sticky ends but with determination and pereseverance manages to get herself out with the help of her daemon and her friends.
For those of you who love fantasy you will love this book. Maybe The Golden Compass film wasn't all that but the book that it came from is fantastic; you have to give it a go.

Chandra by Frances Mary Hendry

Looking at the cover you can sort of guess a little about what will happen in the story. When I first looked at it I knew it was going to be about a child bride. Chandra at eleven gets married to a boy called Roop (at the age of sixteen).She is full of joy when she meets him as he seems like such a lovely boy and a caring husband. However when she goes to live with his family things aren’t as they seem.

This story is a real eye opener of what happens in some societies and is a fantastic and gripping novel.

At last the final ceremony arrived. They rose to their feet her money helping Chandra up, for she was stiff with sitting for so long. In a blare of trumpets and drums, a chorus of chanted prayers and blessings, Roop led her seven times clockwise around the sacred fire. When they sat down again, she sat on her husband’s left; she was married.

If this sounds good to you give it a go.It's short and straight to the point and has you completely absorbed.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

“Enter freely and of your own will”

These are the words written at the back of the book Dracula written by Bram Stoker. When Dracula comes into mind you always think that it’s going to be a story about a scary vampire going around killing people and then they turn into vampires and so on and so forth. However this book not only offers this but in a more original way. This story has never ending twists and turns in the plot and if your like me and enjoy reading books with suspense and thriller or maybe even a bit of horror this book is definitely for you.

I was afraid to raise my eyelids, but looked out and saw perfectly under the lashes. The fair girls went on her knees, and bent over, fairly gloating. The was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed about to fasten on my throat.

Sounds good doesn’t it. Do you dare to read on? Go one you won’t regret it.

I like to recommend this book because it is full of misunderstanding.

This book is called high school musical 2 by Peter Barsocchini.


Goodbye, classroom! Hello, summer! But for Troy, Gabriella, Chad and Taylor, this vacation is no day at the beach; they're all working at a country club founded by none other than Ryan and Sharpay's grandfather! And with the club's annual Midsummer Night's Musical right around the corner, Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. If she can manage to win the Star Dazzle Award just one more time, the country club will name it after Sharpay, and it will be hers forever. But this year, Sharpay faces some tough competition?Gabriella! To have any hope of coming out on top, Sharpay knows that she'll need a secret weapon.

She dumps Ryan and starts wooing Troy to be her new partner. Gabriella is less than thrilled that Troy has fallen under Sharpay's spell. How could he do that to her? Things are heating up on the lawns of high society. Will Troy and Gabriella realize that they're meant to be? Or is it already too late for them to sing one last song together?

I like to recommend this book because when i just read the first chapter i wouldn't stop reading it.



This book is called High School Musical by Peter Barsocchini.



This book is about a high school basketball boy called Troy Bolten. His dad is the coach of the wildcats basketball team. On New Years Eve Troy had to go to a party, he thought it would be so boring, but eventually it wasn't. He had to sing a song in the party with a girl called Gabriella Montez. He knew he couldn't sing, when he sang Gabriella sang as well, everyone turned there heads to see who was singing. Troy and Gabriella forgot there nervousness and started to sing more boldly, they realised they had a talent.



It was time for Troy to go back to his school, he had a championship to win in two weeks time. There was a new girl coming to Troy's class, Troy couldn't believe his eyes, it was the girl who sang with him on New Years Eve, Gabriella couldn't believe her eyes as well. so they decided whether to join the school musical or not . On the other hand Sharpay and her brother Ryan hated Gabriella and was part of the school musical. Troys teammates got fed up of troy having to sing so Gabriella's friends and Troy's teammates decided to break the relationship, so when Troy and Gabriella broke up every one was depressed, Troys teammates decided to rejoin Troy and Gabriella.



When the basketball championship game and the school musical Audition was on the same day Gabriella's Friends and Troys Friends planned to set a fire drill while the basketball game was on, so Troy and Gabriella sang so beautifully in front of the whole school, and they won the basketball cup and the musical, Troy and Gabriella were so thrilled.

Checkmate by Malorie Blackman

Checkmate concludes the story of Callum, Sephy and their daughter, Callie Rose. For those of you who have read Noughts and Crosses and Knife-edge will know that this book does not disappoint. For those who haven’t read the books I won’t say too much to spoil it for you but just that you do not know what you have been missing. For those who love romantic novels or novels about prejudice and discrimination, then this book and the two before should have a place in your hands.

This book is called Final Cut, by David Belbin. I would like to recommend this book.
This book is about a seventeen year-old girl called Sarah Wood who is a model. She is offered a starring role in a film. Her brother Jon asks her to find him a job for him with her, so Sarah finds him a message job which you have to send messages to the director Leo Fitzgerald. Sarah is Malissa in the play, a movie star called Luke Kelly is Aidan and Brett is Matthew.
Something bad goes wrong, a camera technician called Karen dies when a camera tied to a tree falls on top of her head, not only that when Sarah and Brett are on a speed boat, it caught on fire and explodes and then when everyone is acting out a fire scene it all goes wrong, someone put petrol on the fire so it can burn faster, luckily they were all safe.
At the end Luke dies from falling of a cliff. Jon looked like Luke so Leo said he can play Luke's part. When finally the film was made, the whole world of Luke's fan couldn't wait to watch it. The film came out one month after they acted it out. Sadly at the end Brett got stabbed by a gangster.

I like to recommend this book because it is full of mystery and excitement. This book is called Holes by Louis Sachar.

This book is about a boy called Stanley Yelnats, the reason why his name was that because it spells the same way backwards and it was names after his father. Stanley was arrested of something he didn't do, the police thought he stole a pair of trainers by some one famous, bot really when he got out of school he say they hit him on his head out of the sky. So the judge gave him a choice, either go to jail or live in a boys camp which you have to dig a holes each day, 5 metres high and across. So when he stars digging the first day he was so tired, gradually the days past and he got skinny and strong.

He met a friend called Zero and they both ran away, they climbed a mountain called The gods thumb, on the top there was water and onions to eat. Next they climbed down to dig an hole and Stanley however dug out a treasure chest. It said his name on it and he gave half of it to his best friend Zero.

Recommended Reading

Girl Missing By Sophie Mckenzie

I got this book for christmas and when I started reading it I could not put it down. The story of it is amazing.

Lauren has always known she was adopted but when research for a school project turns up the possibility that she was snatched from an American family as a baby, suddenly Lauren's life turns upside down. Who's her biological parents? Are the people she calls mum and dad responsible for taking her away form her real family? She manages to get a trip across the Atlantic to America where she runs away to try and find the truth. But the reality of her kidnapping is dangerous and Lauren's kidnappers are still willing to do anything to keep her quiet.....