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Author: Enid Blyton Genre: Adventure + Mystery + Crime Main characters: Julian, Dick, Anne, George, Timmy Recommended: 8+ children to adults Rating: 5/5 Summary: Dick, Julian, Anne, George and Timmy the dog make the Famous Five. In this book, they are going on holiday on a caravan. A circus comes to the same field the five are in. The circus hated children, so they shooed the five away. But Jo, their friend saves the day!! She was a nephew of one of the circus performers. She tells them how kind the five had been to her (but that’s another story) and the circus let’s the five in. After that, their adventure begins! They see the face of the recently vanished scientist Terry Kane in a window in a tower nearby. They go to investigate and find a secret passage that leads up to where the Terry is. With the help of the circus, they save the scientist and call the police. Why I liked this book: I like this book as it has adventure in it. Adventure books are my favourite. Also, Enid Blyton cre...

Author: Enid Blyton Genre: Mystery + Adventure + Crime Recommended: 8+ children Rating: 5/5 Summary: Meet Julian, Dick, Anne, George (Georgina is her real name, but she will not answer you if you don’t call her George – she’s always wanted to be a boy) and Timmy. Together they make “The Famous Five”! In this great book, they go on a hike. On the first day, Timmy breaks his leg! Poor Timmy! Julian and George go to the vet, while Dick and Anne tried to get to the right farmhouse as planned, only to lose their way! Dick and Anne sleep at a horrible inn, while the others sleep in comfy beds at the right farm! Dick accidentally gets a piece of paper, telling the five where the recently stolen Fallonia jewels! They work out where the jewels are and give them to the police. Why I liked this book: I liked this book as it is mostly adventure mixed with crime and sprinkled with mystery. This type of book is great. I like books that are spiced up with adventure and sweetened with mystery. Enid Bl...

Author: M.G. Leonard Genre: mystery Main Characters: Lucretia Cutter, Uncle Max, Humphrey Gamble, Pickering Risk, Virginia, Bertolt, Darkus, Dad (Darkus’s dad) and the beetles. Recommended :Kids who love beetles will also love this book (kids who don’t may find it a bit bad at first, until they read the chapter “Battle of the beetles” ; it’ll really make them laugh.) Rating: 5/5 Summary: Darkus’s dad has disappeared in a vault and his mother has died. On top of the door that leads to that vault says, “The Cutter Coleoptera Collection”. He is going to his Uncle Max’s place for now. One ordinary day, he is walking back from his new school, when a huge beetle falls out of one of his neighbour’s (Humphrey Gamble and Pickering Risk) trouser.                                                                        ...

Written as a letter: Dear BigDida👵,                        I hope everything is fine with you! 😀 🙏 I'm just emailing to tell you the new things I've learnt about beetles with my new book called "Beetle boy".🐜 It's a really cool book, and I'm really liking it so far. Anyways, I need to tell you before I tell you anything else about beetles, their latin name is Coleoptera. Also, I've learnt that beetles can turn wood into sawdust!😯 That's really cool, right! Unfortunately, beetles don't have a long life, unlike us.🙁 Also, one species of dung beetle can pull a weight a thousand times heavier than its own body weight! 😮 That's like pulling six buses, on your own!!!! I'm still reading the book, and I'll send another email when I get to know more facts. Stay safe, and Bye Bye.🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

Yesterday, I went to the British Museum. I went with my dad. It took a good lot of time, but we finally reached. Our bags were checked, and we went inside. I chose to go to the Africa gallery first, as it would be good to go somewhere different. I saw huge and weird masks that Africans wear. Some had long winding tusks and others had long chins or beards. I also saw a tree all made from cut guns. After that, we saw some North American culture. I saw fur coats and lots of other stuff to survive the cold. Then we saw a bit of Aztec culture. I was astonished to see that the Aztecs would smash glass to tiny pieces and join them together to make sculptures. I liked the two- headed serpent the most. While roaming around, we became as hungry as wolves, so we sat down to eat. I had sandwiches, and my dad ate roti.  We went to the ‘Living and Dying’ section where we saw a hands-on thing. We saw how gold was traded using weights some 500 years ago. We did some shopping after that. I brought ...

Dear Diary,  I went in the garden to hear the sounds today. I heard three sounds. The first sound I heard was the unmistakable honking of cars on the main road behind the Longford river, off the boundary wall. The next thing I heard was the chattering of my neighbours in their own garden. The last thing I heard was the tweeting birds. “Tweet” they went “tweet!” I liked the birds the most. My neighbours were a bit annoying but the buses and cars out on the road were causing noise pollution. I hate noise pollution.  Though I didn’t like all the birds. The crows were ANNOYING! “Caw” they went “caw!” My neighbours seemed to be talking about something exciting. I’m not sure what they were talking about though. They probably were talking about some friends coming to their house as I heard some greetings from their house a short time after they had spoken. The buses were the least annoying, even though there were’nt many of them. Well, I won’t say it’s annoying, but I’ll say it’s doi...

In Little Bumbleton, a curious girl lived. She had heard rumours about an enchanted wood. In the middle of that wood was a haunted house. Nobody dared to go there except that curious little girl. Her name was Fiona. She made two friends there! It all started on dark clear night. Fiona had been informed that she shouldn’t go to that wood. Did Fiona care?  No. So, off she went. She had a backpack in which she packed: 1.       Extra set of clothes 2.       Her mobile phone 3.       An extra fat book 4.       Her piggybank (just in case) 5.       Some food 6.       Her large water bottle She stepped out of the house and started to walk at a risk pace. It wasn’t along walk and she reached before she knew it. When she was at the start of the wood, she thought “should I go in or not?” she decided she would go in. She followed...

In Greenland, all was dark. A man was trudging along in the snow, with his robot snake sidekick beside him. This man’s name was Frank Fink and his robot snake sidekick’s name was Flexy. It had been a tiring day for him and his sidekick. Frank always thought of his bed and flexy always thought of his charger. At their secret headquarters, them and five others decided to find the parts of a magic sandwich. Each of them had to find one part of the sandwich. Frank and Flexy had to find the bacon of the sandwich. When all the six parts of the sandwich were collected, the sandwich had to be made and fed to someone and they will become the justice league! Frank was to tired to think about this though. He and his sidekick finally reached their home. Frank dropped into bed and Flexy slithered to his charger. Next morning, he was awoken by a loud sound his phone was making. He got up and read a comment on his phone. It said: quest postponed till next Monday as weather chart shows snowstorms al...

Author: R.J Palacio Genre: Kids to adults Main characters: Auggie (August Pullman), Jack, Summer, Via, Mr. Tushman Recommended: Children to adults   Auggie is a boy who is fighting for a normal life. This book describes the ups and downs of his life. He has been homeschooled by his protective parents. They say that now is the time for Auggie to go to school. Auggie says no, but his parents say to at least have a tour and meet the headmaster at least. Auggie says yes. He finds out that school isn’t too bad.   When Auggie first goes to school, Mr. Tushman greets him in normally, unlike others. After the tour, he thinks that school isn’t so bad. On his firs day, he has no friends, but eventually, he makes friends and becomes the most popular and celebrated boy in his grade.   Why I liked this book: I liked this book extremely emotional. Also, the way R.J Palacio writes the book is very clear.This book has a purpose too. It is: never judge a pe...

An introduction to badgers Badgers are furry, burrowing creatures. They have huge underground networks of tunnels, one network for each family. These are called territories.  A territory is very big. They can stretch to 1000 metres long and 500 metres wide. You can understand that badgers have huge homes! There territories are split into a few sections. They are: the main sett and the smaller setts.   The main sett In the main sett, the badgers breed. A group of their babies are called a litter. They stay here for most of their lives and the main sett has a bigger entrance than the other smaller setts. Even on the inside, the main sett is the largest of all the setts. That is why it is called the main sett   The smaller setts The smaller setts are quite useful to badgers. They have two uses. Badgers stay here in Summer and Autumn. This the time when food sources are high. They may get some food, then nip in here and have a nap. Another way badgers use the sm...

In the land of Anitgartal, there were no humans at all. Instead, there were animals. Talking animals! They could speak like humans, but only knew one language – English. There were a few white bears (Mr. Whiteby, Mrs. Whiteby, Lil Whiteby and Lol Whiteby), there was a hedgehog family (Mr. Prickle, Mrs. Prickle, Prook Prickle and Preek prickle), there was a mouse family (Mr. Squeak, Mrs. Squeak, Sooky Squeak and Seegy Squeak) and of course, there was the chief elephant! So, you can understand, this was a very small city. There were only 13 animals living here.  One sunny morning, in Anitgartal, Mrs. Prickle was hanging her clothes on the Prickle family’s washing line, when she saw something very out of the ordinary. She knew there was something wrong with the clouds, and then she realized that the outlines of the clouds were faintly pulsing – golden, faint golden, golden, faint golden and so on. It was early in the morning, and the clouds shouldn’t have been glowing like that. She c...

Author: J.K Rowling Genre: kids & teens Main characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore                       Recommended: children & teenagers   Harry Potter is no ordinary boy, he is a wizard like lots of others. Not just that, he also has faced the most             powerful dark (mean) wizard in the world a lot of times. That dark wizard’s name is Lord Voldemort. There are other books in the series that talk about Harry and Voldemort fighting. Harry has two friends, Ron Weasley (wizard) and Hermione Granger (witch). The three friends stick together and have lots of adventures.   On Harry’s sixth year at Hogwarts (school of witchcraft and wizardry), Harry is having private lessons with the headmaster (only for some days though) called Dumbledore. Unfortunately, Dumbledore dies in this book. Wha...

Author: S.L. Ager Genre: Fantasy Recommended to: 8-9-year-old children Rating:5/5   Summary: Claire is an ordinary schoolchild – until one day. Claire finds a letter asking her to travel to a strange place in Wales. She has to take Jack the dog, and she can tell nobody at all . Not even her mum.   Climbing steep mountains and facing her greatest fears, Claire must discover her hidden talents to protect a dangerous artefact, which, if in the wrong hands, could cause devastation. In this world of spies, lies and magic, who can Claire truly trust.   Why I liked this book: I liked this book because there are a lot of word definitions in it. I learnt a whole heap of words. This is useful for people who are preparing for 11+ exams. Also, I liked the wording of the book. S.L. Ager reveals everything bit by bit. This makes the book much more interesting. I like the idea of making a gem be able to manipulate time too.   Other books in this series: ...