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A big baboon breaks into the school

Author: David Walliams Genre: Humorous + a little bit of horror Recommended: 8+ children Main Characters: Gabz – a little girl, Alfie – a boy with very rotten teeth, Mrs. Root – a dentist, Winnie – a social worker, Raj – a newsagent, Fang the cat, Mr. Snood – a drama teacher, PC Plank – a policeman and Dad – Alfie’s dad Rating: 5/5   Summary:   Alfie is a boy with rotten teeth. This is because he had a terrible incident with the dentist. After that, Alfie would NEVER go to the dentist again. Dad is wheelchair bound. Then, a new dentist comes. She gives everyone in Alfie’s school sweets! She also gave them toothpaste which burnt through concrete! So when the children came back, they all had toothaches! But Alfie was clever enough to check that the toothpaste was ok or not.   The next day, Gabz, his friend, said that children were putting a tooth under their pillows for the tooth fairy, and find something unspeakably gruesome under their pillow in the mo...

Author: Enid Blyton Genre: Adventure + Crime + Mystery Recommended: 8+ Children Main Characters: Aunt Fanny, Joanna the Cook, Uncle Quentin, Berta, Elbur, Julian, Dick, Anne, George her real name is Georgina, but she will not answer you if you call her Georgina) Sally the dog and Timmy the dog. Rating: 5/5   Summary:   Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog make the Famous Five. In this book, they spend their holidays at Kirrin Bay. Uncle Quentin and Aunt Fanny live there, with George. Uncle Quentin is a scientist, and now he is working on a very important experiment. Unfortunately, a scientist who is working with Uncle Quentin, Elbur Wright, has been warned by the police that his daughter, Berta, may be kidnapped. He has promised the kidnappers that he will give them all the secrets of their experiment to get Berta back. Uncle Quentin is very angry now. Elbur thinks Berta needs to be protected, so she comes to Aunt Fanny’s house. She is American and has ...

Famous Five   Author: Enid Blyton Genre: Adventure + mystery + crime Recommended: 8+ children Main characters: Julian, Dick, Anne, George (her real name is Georgina, but she will not answer you if you call her Georgina), Sniffer, Liz the dog, Timmy the dog, Captain Johnson, Mrs. Johnson, William and Henry (Henry thinks the same as George. Her real name is Henrietta, but she will not answer you if you call her Henrietta. Only her very best friends can call her Harry.)  Rating: 5/5   Summary: George and Anne are in the stables, alone, at Captain Johnson’s riding school. They get a letter saying that the boys – Julian and Dick – Were coming too! But then, Mrs. Johnson has the boys coming and some other children too. Mrs. Johnson says that there will be too many children. So, Dick has an idea. Why won’t the five – Julian, him, Anne, George and Timmy the dog – go camping on the moor called “Mystery Moor”? So, the five go camping on the moor. Then their advent...