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- Summary of the book
- Favourite part
- Favourite character/s
- Five phrases/ words to share with your peers
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Spoilt Recorder
CANCELLATION OF SJI OPEN HOUSE ON 18 July
17 years ago
Author:Robin Wasserman
ReplyDeleteSummary of the book:It is about a girl name Callie who finds herself accidentally in the running for student council president, she doesn't take the race very seriously.Brianna, the most popular girl in school is determined to win.Then she stole Callie's best friend.But Callie is not going down without a fight.
Favourite part:When I'm going to find out who's going to be the president.
Favourite characters: Callie and her best friend,Tricia
Five phrases/words to share: refusing to be penitent, reprobate behaviors, shrieked in antagonism, nefarious deeds, portentous event
Yeo Eugene
ReplyDeleteTittle: S.T.O.R.M. the infinity code
Author: E.L.Young
Summary of the book: Will Knight is a genius inventor. But one day when Will was going to test his gadget,a covert organization named S.T.O.R.M.(Science and Technology to Over-Rule Misery) caught the attention of him and asked him to join the team.
Favourite part: When his team mates nicknamed him The Maker
Favourite characters: Will and his team leader, Andrew
Five phrases/words to share: glowered, deftly, hoisted, veering off and devastating fruition
Lim Zheng Xuan
ReplyDeleteTitle:Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Author:Rck Riordan
Summary:Percy and his mother was at their favourite place for a holiday when they met a Minotar also known as Bull-man.After that incident, he found out hi father was the greek God Posiedon.He was trying to resolve the clash between his father and the Greek God Zues who controls the sky.In this quest, Percy must go o the underworld to get a thunderbolt and return it to Zues but when Hades found out and he wasn't happy, he tried to say it was Percy who stole the thundebolt.
Favourite part:When Percy and his mother fought the Minotar.
Favourite characters:Percy and Annabeth
Five phrases/words to share:lava-red eyes,fangs like daggers,grim,clopping and paranoid.
Title:Little Women
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Louisa M. Alcott
Summary:This is a story about 5 young ladys who have to cope with the difficulties of life with their father in the Army and the lack of money.Along the way, they all learn extremly important lessons.
Favourite Part:when the girls give their breakfast to a poorer family.
Favourite character:Jo
Five Words/Pharaes:With a florish,Sank into a chair,Weighing heavily on her conscience,Reproachful look.
Title:OPEN SEASON
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Franklin W.Dixon
Summary:Frank and Joe take off on a cross country skiing trip into the Colorado Rockies and soon face the greatest challenge of all:a test of survival! the boys mission is to create a wildlife preserve has stirred up passions as old as the frontier itself.
Favourite Part:Criminals shooting their own people.
Favourite character:Joe
Five Words/Phrases:Face the music,guilty conscience,blow a fuse,sallow,pummeled.
Ann Hui
ReplyDeletetitle:the coral island
Author:R.M Ballantyne
summary:Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island. At first their life on the island was lovely the food they ate were fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions; a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat.
Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more.
Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The three boys hide themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, he is then taken aboard the pirate schooner. Ralph strikes up an unexpected friendship with one of the pirates, "Bloody Bill", and when they call at an island to trade for more wood he meets Tararo again. On the island he sees all facets of island life, including the popular sport of surfing, as well as the practice of
infanticide and cannibalism.
Rising tension leads to an attack by the inhabitants on the pirates, leaving only Ralph alive and Bloody Bill mortally wounded. However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends.
The three boys sail to the island of Mango where a missionary has converted part of the population to Christianity. The boys find themselves in a deliama between the converted and non-converted islanders, and attempting to intervene are made prisoners. They are only released a month later after the arrival of another missionary, and the conversion of the remaining islanders. The 'false Gods' of Mango are consigned to the flames. The boys then set sail for home,older and wiser.
Favourite part:when they survived the shipwreck
favourite character:Ralph
five words/phrases:seized it with wonder and delight,a shreik that rang clear and fearfully loud,ghasty glare,terrible anxiety,hallooing
Title:The Blue Boa
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Jenny Nimmo
Summary:A boy is lost in the attic.He is made invisible by the blue boa whom the evil professor kept.He is kept in the attic as a guinea pig for an experiment the professor is working on.The boy has a brother whom is in disguise as a teacher.Charlie Bone found out about the boy and wanted to help but his uncle is missing.In the end, the boy is made visible again thanks to the help of Charlie,Billy and his friends.
Fvourite part:The boy in the attic is made visible.
Favourite character:Billy
Five words/phrases:Malicious grin,pulverised,voice sounded rather like a rusty saw,discreet sniff and exploded with indignation
Title:Sundae Girl
ReplyDeleteAuthur:Cathy Cassidy
Summary:Jude live with her grandparents, her mother and her dog,Toto.Her mother has a habit of drinking which brought Jude plenty of problems.Jude`s grandmother had Alzheimer`s disease-Old-Timer`s Disease.She forgets stuff,like names and dates and even how to get dress properly.
Jude`s mother left Jude`s father for twelve years but Jude still keep in touch with her father.One day, Jude went to her father`s house to play.She asked her father why did her mother leave her.He told Jude that they had baby before the wedding and Jude`s mother was a bit wiped out first as looking after a baby isn`t easy,she found it hard to cope.Jude`s father was away a lot,so he could not help as much as he have liked.
That was when Jude`s mother started drinking.Jude`s father explained to Jude that Jude`s mother should not drink when she got a baby to look after.So he started taking more and more time off from his work,to look after Jude,until they found someone else to take his place.At last, her father could not stand it,the way her mother was drinking,kidding herself that everything was fine.
Jude tried many ways to stop her mother from drinking and her mother promised to her that she will stop it.But she broke the promises.
At the end,Jude`s grandmother died of stroke.Jude was very sad and her mother stop drinking from then on.
Favourite part: When Jude`s mother stop drinking.
Fvourite character: Jude
Five phrases/words to share:1)under the weather
2)tears leak out
from the corner of
my eyes
3)voice fizzles out
4)fat tears of shame
and fear rolling
down my cheeks
5)the sky is streaked
with pink and
orange,casting a
golden glow over
everything
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ReplyDeleteTitle:Twinkletoes
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Thomas Koh
Summary:Leadro Giovanni Ang Soon Huat has a chinese and brazilian parentage.Since he was young, he was born to play football.Their parents who were also football players tried shielding him, but after he enters Morrison High,his coach spoted Leandro's unusal talen.Lendro's heart raced with excitment.Ashe created magic with his feet,people nicknamed him twinketoes.
Favorite character:Leandro
Favorite part:When Leandro played a friendly match
5 phrases or words i would like to share.
1)Suspense
2)Rousing
3)Multicultural
4)Suppressing a smile
5)Domianant foot
Title:Shabanu Daughter of the Wind.
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Suzanne Fisher Staples
Summary:
Strong-willed Shabanu, whose home is the windswept Cholistan Dessert of Pakistan. Being the second daughter of the family with no sons, she has been allowed freedom forbidden to most Muslim girls.
Her life was perfect for her when unfortunate things happened.
First, Shabanu's favourite camel Guluband was sold.
Second, her grandfather died in a sandstorm.
Just when things started to look better, a tragic encounter with a wealthy and powerful landowner called Nazir Mohammad ruins the marriage plans of her older sister, Phulan, and Shabanu is called upon to sacrifice everything she has dreamed of.
As Phulan is the first daughter, she has to get married first. So, Shabanu's parents decided to let Phulan marry Murad. Murad was the man Shabanu was supposed to get married with and she has grown to love him.
To make things worse Shabanu must marry an old man and become his fourth wife. Shabanu tried to ran away but was unsuccesful
In the end Shabanu married the old man and bear him a daughter.
Favourite Character:Shabanu
Favourite part:When Shabanu tried to run away.
5 Phrases/words I would like to share:
1.Bitter resignation
2.The skies clears as the palest pink outline appears over the top of the dunes.
3.Breath shallow with pain.
4.Growing in intensity of fear and pain.
5.Burn with shame
Title:The Fire Within
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Chris d'Lacey
Summary of the book:When David moves into Mrs Elizabeth Pennykettle's house he saw dragons' potteries everywhere.When he have his own dragon,Gadzooks,he then discovers their magic.
Favourite part:The chapter when David gets his own dragon,Gadzooks.
Favourite character:Lucy
Five phrases/words to share:twittering,smiled graciously,groaned with embarrassment ,medieval maidens, obliged
Tittle-Keeping The Moon
ReplyDeleteAuthor-Sarah Dessen
Favorite character-Colie
favorite part-When Colie met new friends.
Due to frequent moving around with her mother when she was younger and having been overweight, Colie always felt like an outsider. Although she lost the extra weight, she is still without friends, and now has a reputation for being easy.So, staying with an aunt she barely remembers in an unfamiliar small town seems like the last thing in the world she needs.
Colie is soon befriended by neighbors, Isabel and Morgan, two young waitresses at the Last Chance Bar and Grill and by Norman,a art freak,who lives in her aunt Mira's basement. Between working at the restaurant under Morgan guidance, consisting of lessons like mayonnaise is a lot like men, and spending time with her aunt Mira, Colie starts to leave her reclusive self behind. Although she would not have anticipated a summer spent like this, it may turn out to be just what she needed.
Title-The Great Automatic Grammatizator and other stories.
ReplyDeleteAuthor-Roald Dauhl
Summary-Is it possible to invent a machine that writes ? Does Sir Basil turton value most of his wife or one of his sculptures that are priceless ? Read this book to find out.
Favourite part - when the author met peter.
Favourite Character - Peter
Five phrases / words - ruffled her hair , offshore , refuelled, bullets splattered & disconsolate
Jeline
ReplyDeleteTitle:The twins at St Clare's
Author:Enid Blyton
Summary:)
The twins reach a new school, St Clare's which the twins first hated very much. They felt that the school was worser then their current school. But the days began to change when they stepped into their new school. During the first few days, the found the school ok except for some of the senior girls there who consistantly annoy them. Their parents have promised them that they could change school after the summer holidays but in the end, they didn't ! They loved St Clare's! <3
Jeline
ReplyDeleteTitle:The twins at St Clare's
Author:Enid Blyton
Summary:)
The twins reach a new school, St Clare's which the twins first hated very much. They felt that the school was worser then their current school. But the days began to change when they stepped into their new school. During the first few days, the found the school ok except for some of the senior girls there who consistantly annoy them. Their parents have promised them that they could change school after the summer holidays but in the end, they didn't ! They loved St Clare's! <3
Good phrases:
1. Looked at the name in disgust
2.first glimpse
3.merry-voiced girls
4.dormitories
5.fat, jolly person but eyes were sharp indeed!
I'll rate it 4/5 stars, psps for the previous post. (:
Jeline
ReplyDeleteTitle:The twins at St Clare's
Author:Enid Blyton
Summary:)
The twins reach a new school, St Clare's which the twins first hated very much. They felt that the school was worser then their current school. But the days began to change when they stepped into their new school. During the first few days, the found the school ok except for some of the senior girls there who consistantly annoy them. Their parents have promised them that they could change school after the summer holidays but in the end, they didn't ! They loved St Clare's! <3
favourite character: Isabel and Pat(twins)
Favourite part: When the girls sneaked out of their school just to watch a movie
Good phrases:
1. Looked at the name in disgust
2.first glimpse
3.merry-voiced girls
4.dormitories
5.fat, jolly person but eyes were sharp indeed!
I'll rate it 4/5 stars, psps for the previous 2 posts. (:
BTW, i am using my moms google account
ReplyDeleteChoi Hoi Ching
Title: Pendragon: Book 4: The Reality Bug
Author: D.J MacHale
Summary:
Pendragon flumes to Veelox, a territory which is on the verge of crumbling. People there are immersed into a fantasy-creating machine, callled 'Lifelight'. Aja Killian, the Traveler of Veelox, tries to make the people go back to their normal lives by creating a virus called the Reality Bug, which makes the fantasy more realistic. How ever, Saint Dane messed with the Bug, making it hyper-realistic. If people die in the fantasy worlds, they die in the real world too. The only way to clean the string is to get the origin code. And the only person who has it is Dr. Zetlin. Unfortunately, he is in Lifelight. Pebdragon and his traveler friend ,Loor, must go into Zetlin's jump, and get the origin code from him. But they are too late. The reality bug takes solid form, and destroys the pyramid that holds the Lifelight cubicle. After that, Veelox lost to the hands of Saint Dane. Saint Dane is currently on Eelong, matching his wits againts Gunny the traveler from First Earth. He flumes there after that
Favorite part : When the reality bug took its solid form.
Good words:
grime
suspense
gears turning in her brain
icy cold eyes
his breath smelled like something had crawled in there and died.
I give it a full 5/5.
Calvin
ReplyDeleteTitle:I know what you did last Wednesday
Author:Anthony Horowitz
Summary:A boy called Nick,was a private detective.His brother Tim received an invitation to a school reunion on a scottish island.Nick got a bad feeling about it,so he followed Tim there.The feeling get worse when guest start to die in a harsh way.
Favourite part:When Nick and Tim saw a fake armoured knight without it sword and they went to one room and saw Rony,the host,dead with a sword in his stomach.
Favourite character:Tim
Good words/ phrases:
1)Pantomine
2)A grand sprawling bulidings with towers and battlements and even gargoyles gazing wickedly out of the corners.
3)slumped
4)smothered
5)vaulted
Title: The Saint of the Dragons
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Jason Hightman
Summary:
Simon St. George attends an elite boarding school and hasn't seen or heard from his parents in 11 years. Then one October day, a greasy-haired, ragged, and dirt-ridden man shows up on campus claiming to be his father. Before 24 hours pass, Simon finds himself abducted by this odd stranger and about to be initiated into the family business–dragon-hunting. The man explains that "the Dragon is the source of all that is rotten in the world," and that since the time of the legendary St. George of England, his descendants have been dragon-hunters. Now 13 year old Simon is needed to join the fight with the Dragon of Venice and he struggles to survive and finds out that he was the desendent of St Goerge the legendary dragon hunter.
Favourite character:Simon St George
Favourtie part: When simon saw his father kill the White Dragon
Good words:
1)Kicked him in the groin
2)Peevish look
3)The joy of this vanished like vapour
4)Ship was cutting through the ocean like scissors through silk
5)Morsel sized bodies
Title: Charmed Life
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Diana Wynne Jones
Everyone says Gwendolen Chant is a talented witch with great powers. Soon, she was taken to live in Chrestomanci Castle with her brother Eric Chant. Life in Chrestomanci Castle is not what either of them had expected.My favourite part is when they began to live in Chrestomanci Castle.My favourite character is Gwendolen Chant as she is a very clever witch.I rate this book 4/5.
Good words:
1.Fulsomely
2.Nerve-racking
3.Tormented
4.Melting glitter of golden eyes
5.Crocheting
Title of book: The Olympic Conspiracy
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Katherine Roberts
Summary: Theron needs to train for the Olympic Games, but someone deliberately threw a javelin at him so that he got injured because he bragged about the dream of victory. Now only his twin brother Sosi can help him take his place, but he has a curse that he could change his shape every month.
Then Sosi met a Persian boy, who would be a slave.The Greeks were enemies with the Persians at that time but Sosi helped defend the boy, Rasim, from being criticized.
My favourite character is Sosi as he helped his brother to train for the Olympics to fool everyone, and helped defend a Persian boy even though the Greeks and the Persians were enemies.
My favourite scene was the part Sosi was training for the Olympics, trying to fool everyone to think he was Theron.
Five Words:
Clouded his words
Trumpet blast that made his heart thump
Sweat breaking out all over his body
Swollen bigger than a tyrant's head
Grimaced
Regards,
Choy Boy
Title: The Mum Detective
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Gwyneth Rees
Summary: Esmerelda Harvey is a 12 years old girl who wants to be a detective when she grows up. She has a brother who is 4 years older. People she knew called her Esmie. Her mother died when she gave birth to Esmie. Her dad had a girlfriend called Lizzie and her brother’s girlfriend was called Jennifer. They were going to get a kitten. Esmie’s best friend was Holly, whose mother was a counselor. One Saturday, her father called and asked Esmie to look up the number of the chemist shop where Lizzie worked. She called the shop and said that Lizzie never works on Saturdays. She then called her mobile and found out that she did not bring it. Esmie and Holly took her hand phone and pressed a button to hear the mailbox. They expected that it was from her father but it was from a man whose voice was never heard by Esmie. It was Andrew. They thought Lizzie had an affair. Later on, Esmie asked Lizzie who was Andrew when she came back home. One day, Lizzie fetched Esmie from her school to go shopping for Holly’s baby cousin. Lizzie bought a Crime-Buster Kit for Esmie knowing that she wants to be a detective. One day, Lizzie was meeting Andrew and Esmie decided to follow her to see whether Lizzie was having an affair. Andrew was Lizzie’s psychotherapist. A few weeks later, Lizzie got a boy kitten home and called it Hercule Poirot because he got a moustache like Hercule Poirot’s. They called him Hercule for short.
My favourite part is when all the misunderstanding was cleared.
My favourite character is Esmerelda Harvey and her best friend, Holly.
Five phrases or words to share:
• Pious
• Stark
• My comment was drowned out by the doorbell ringing
• Doggedly
• My vision seemed to go blurry and my heart started racing
Title:Freedom Writers Diary.
ReplyDeleteAuthor:??(Many authors as they are diaries from different people)
Summary(Diaries of Joyce):
Joyce is a student in America and she is Black.One day,during lunch time, a carton of milk was thrown, someone shouted vulgarities.A big crowd formed and the fighting began.It was the Black against the White.There were people punching and throwing things at each other.Then the police arrived.
About 5 years ago, her father killed Joyce's grandmother.He poured gasoline onto Joyce's grandmother's body and turned on the kitchen stove.He was in jail for three months.
Joyce was scared everyday.
Favourite character:Joyce
Five phrases or words to share:
-tirade
-disacredit
-restitude
-my eyes reddened and turned moist
-fade out
Title:Around The World In 80 Days
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Jules Verne
Summary:Phileas Fogg had accepted a bet that he could travel around the world in 80 days.He travelled with a new valet Passepartout.During these 80 days,they travelled using different transportation.People who bet against him tried to stop him from succeeding his mission.After overcoming all the difficulties, he managed to return to London in 79 days and won the bet.
Favourite part:When Kelvin joked about Queen Victoria without knowing she was standing behind him.
Favourite character:Kelvin,because he is very humourous.
Five words or phrases: dejectedly,bellowed,exult,took a deadly swipe,dazzling array of kicks and punches.
Title:Anyone can eat squid!
ReplyDeleteSummary:It is about a girl,Sarah Simpson,who wanted more than anything in the world was to be special somehow.When she heard that Wing Wong's,her favourite,restaurant, was closing down,Sarah did something extraordinary to prevent it from closing down.
Favourite character(s):Sarah Simpson
Five phrases or words to share:
-short stubby fingers
-the colour of cocoa
-half-grown,copper-coloured puppy
-floppy ears and big feet
-squared his shoulder
Micheal
ReplyDeleteTitle:Northern lights
Author:Phlip Pullman
Summary:When lyra's friend, roger, the kitchen boy, disapeared, she and her daemon(pronounced as demon)sets out to find roger.They went through many obstacles and finally saved roger the kitchen boy.
Favourite character:Rogger and Lyra.
Favourite Part:When Lord Ariel, lyra's uncle, found her hiding in one corner of the forbidden room
Five phrases or wors to share:Darkening,hastily stuffed the leaf into his pocket,dominate,wayward divations,tapestry
Title:The Hardy Boys
ReplyDeleteauthor:Franklin W.Dixon
Summary:When Frank and Joe's friend,Chet,found himself in a counterfeit case(the man asked for change at the train station)the hardy boys looked for the clue to who this person is.mean while their father(who was a detective) was working on a national case which turned out to be connected to the robbery.
Favourite part:when some guy passed chet the fake money
favourite cahracter:like them all
words:looked pale and disheveled
eight and one pattern
prompt
tantalizing
foolhardy.
Title:the extarodinary adventure of ordinary boy
ReplyDeleteauthor:William Boniface
summary:everyone has super power except ordinary boy.He inspired to be superman who is undefeatablein a tv show.In reality,he is actually at the mercy of Professor Brain–Drain as he trys to take over his place in the show as there are only three cards of him in the super hero card collection.
I like the part when ordinry boy together with his friends trys to complete their collection of the super hero collection as they tries to find the three cards scattered around the city with the help of his parents.
My favorite character is the mutiplyer(Professor Brain–Drain boss) as he tries to mutiply cones to create chaos in the city but he does not know that the traffic cones have marks on them.
Five words or phrases: slur,distinguish,scoff,vulnerable and red carpet treatment.
Author:Shannon Greenland
ReplyDeleteTitle:Model Spy
Summary of book:Kelly James,who is sixteen years old,got into trouble for hacking into the government's main computer system for her friend,David.She is offered a chance to change her identity and enlist in a secret government spy agency that trains youngsters to go undercover and she readily agrees.After all,she has no friends or family as her parents died in a car crash.Her fitst mission is to help David,who is a spy as well,to find his father,who apparently wasnt dead.
Favourite Part:When she practices to be a model.
Favourite Character:Kelly aka GiGi
Five words or phrases:
1)A contented curve to his lips
2)My stomach turned one huge flip
3)Excitement jolted through my veins
4)Sneaky little weasel
5)His dark eyes crinkled with amusement
WEI JIE
ReplyDeleteTitle:Lionboy
Author:Zizou Corder
Summary:Charlie was born in Africa and had a fight with a baby leopard. As a result, a drop of the baby leopards blood went into his body. Since that day,he has been able to speak to cats. Charlie's parents have been kidnapped by a young adult named Rafi who works for the coporation. The coporation kidnapped them because they are superb scientists and have invented many medicines. Charlie is now helping six magnificent lions to escape from the circus. They are now in the train to venice to rescue charlies parents.
My favourite scene: I like the part when one of the lionesses bites a whole chunk of flesh off Rafi's arm.
My favourite character: The oldest lion because he is very wise.
Five words or phrases: heart sank slowly and steadily
Bore an expression of deep concern on his grizzled face
Temper flared up again
Stomach had dropped 16 floors in a lift without him.
Large and frightening question was forming in his mind.
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ReplyDeleteTitle: Blind Spot
ReplyDeleteAuthor: Terri Persons
This book is abouut an FBI agent(Bernadette Saint Clare) wanting justice upon a serial killer. But to crack the case, she must face many difficulties in her path.
I felt that the most exciting part was that when Bernadette saved her parther Gracia and stopped the killer from killing his last victim.
Ong Jun Hong
ReplyDeleteTitle:The Caravan Family
Author:Enid Blyton
Summary:It is about Mike,Belinda and Ann and their parents,they wanted to have a house of their own.At first, they could not find any house on sale but in the end,they found two empty caravan.They went to ask their parents if they could live in a caravan.their parents did not agree at first but after some discussion,they agreed and they named themselves The Caravan Family.
Favourite scene: When the family moved into the caravan and lived in it.
Favourite character:Belinda as she is very optimistic.
Five words or phrases:chewing the cud,inquisitive,thrush,reins,jolting behind them
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ReplyDeleteSheryl Lee
ReplyDeleteTitle:Totto Chan
Author:Tetsuko Kuroyanagi
Summary:Totto Chan was born in Tokyo
and she was expelled from elementary
school when she was only in first grade.As she always open and close her desk whenever she takes something and that disturbs the class.
So her mother have found her a new school for her.In the new school,it uses abandoned railroad
cars for the classroom not like other schools.
When she started going to school,she started
to fall in love with it and later it tells
about her time in school.
Favourite part:I like it when the whole level
went for swimming in their own school.
My favourite character is Totto Chan as she does
not shed any tears.
Five good phrase or words:
1)manipulate
2)connoisseur
3)dilapidated
4)unanimous
5)derail
Title :ALFRED HITCHCOCK and The Three Investigators in THE MYSTERY OF THE WHISPERING MUMMY
ReplyDeleteAuthor :Robert Arthur
Summary:There were three investigators, Jupiter, Peter and Bob,who were on a case of a whisper mummy. Only Professor Yarborough had heard the mummy whisper.
It is up to the boys to solve the case...
My favourite character is Jupiter as he is the smartess of the three.
My favourite scene is when Jupiter was explaining how the mummy whispered.
five good words or phrases:
1)perplexity
2)amplified
3)chagrined
4)mike
5)rigged up
Tittle:The Time Twister
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Jenny Nimmo
Summary of book:Charlie Bone's great grandfather appears,he was twisted through the time from January 1916. Although,he had travel through time he still is resemble a 11 years old boy.His cousin Ezekiel hate him a lot and still remember Henry finished his puzzle for him.He was very furious.That night,Henry was playing with his marble when he saw a strange marble rolled on until it reached his foot.he stared at it was very long and was send all the way through the time.Ezekiel wants to send Henry back to the icy winter.Charlie Bone help Henry to escaped from Ezekiel with his friend help too.
Favourite part:when Henry was save by Charlie and his friends.
Favourite character:Henry
Five words or phrases:1)Eerie blue flames of gaslights flickered and hissed.
2)An early moon sparkled through the long,frosted windows,giving the grey flagstones a soft pearly glow.
3)teeth rattling
4)sparkle of sequins on his mother's dress.
5)oak-panelled walls
Title:The Mona Lisa At Salem Street
ReplyDeleteAuthor:Jan Mario
Summary of book:
Since the death of their parents, Nettie and her brother John Peter have been living with differernt relatives.Then suddenly,their Grandma Bessie sends them to Boston's North End to live with their paternal grandfather- Having been told by Grandma Bessie that he was a rich man who owned a flower emporium. Nettie is certain that John Peter and her life will change. But their horrible Grandma Bessie has lied to them. Their grandfather is none other then a jobless man whose "Funeral and Coffin arrangements" is out of business. His house is made up of poor material, his furniture is old and shabby, and he even speaks Italian to their dead grandmother, as well as his cat!
John Peter is ready to call Salem Street his home, but Nettie is not, even though she finds herself warming up to her neighbours, including the sttrange 'Mona Lisa' by the window, who does nothing but stare into space. Nettie is afraid to let herself love her grandfather-afraid that he will send them back to horrible Grandma Bessie-afraid that her great-aunt Aleta's promise that they will become one not so big but happy family will never come true.
Favourite part: When Nettie found out that her grandfather was not going to send her brother and herself back to her grandmother. It was a touching part as Nettie finally realised her grandfather was something else from what she had thought of at first.
Favourite character: John Peter. He is Nettie's brother and has a horrible habit of poking into other people's private business. Whenever he is sorry or is beginning to cry, his chin will always begin to touch his chest.
Five phrases/words:
1)As soon as the door opened, the small, dreary hallway was filled with the smell of furniture polish mixed with a queer, burning aroma.
2)as skinny as a knife grinder
3)the man's steel-colour hair stuck up like straight pins; his eyes were deep in the face that was one big frown
4)the air was frigid, the sky a dismal grey
5)a woman's high-pitched voice, rising and falling as though keeping time to some silent tune
6)woke to the sound of rain beating on the windows and that of her stomach growling-not from hunger but fear
7)waves of emotion swept over her
8)like stars when the night sky first meets the pale light of morning, they dissapeared
9)the moon was full and the sky was dotted with stars
10)light of the moon lit up the tiny silvery particles on the roof's shingles
Title:Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire
ReplyDeleteAuthor:J.K Rowling
This story is about Harry Potter in his fourth year in Hogwarts(a witchcraft and wizardry school),and the year where a world cup(called the Quidditch World Cup) and a tournament(called the Triwizard tournament).The Quidditch World Cup was ruined by a group of dark wizards called the Death Eaters and they follow a very dark wizard called Voldemort(who has lost his powers when he faced Harry who was still a baby then and lost and that is how Harry become famous).The Triwizard Tournament which has been banned for a lot of years(because alot of people were killed) was taking place at Hogwarts that year.The Ministry Of Magic(a Ministry that takes note of any thing happening in England) has made new rules that include a age limit.When alot of people who was under age,has grown a beard(the effect of the age line drawn by the headmaster in Hogwarts).On the day where the people who will challenge the other schools turned into a disaster when instead of one name became two and one of them is Harry(who is under age).Now,he has to face three task to win the cup and suvive.
My favourite part is where Harry was fighting a dragon to get a golden egg to know what is the next task.
My favourite character is Harry because he will do anything to help his friends if they need help.
The Five phrases/words are:fine-looking manor,ill-disguised excitment,snobbish,decency,tormented
name:kevin choh
ReplyDeleteTitle:stormbreaker
Author:Anthony Horwitz
Summary:Storm Breaker is a book abot a boy named Alex Rider who became a spy after his uncle died mysteriously.At his uncle's funeral he meets a few of his uncle's colleagues who said he died in acar accident . After the funeral he finds his uncle's car riddled with bullet holes . When he went to his uncle's office building he was told the truth about his uncle being a spy and that he was kill ed while trying to solve a case . When his uncle's agency thinks that Alex was a suitable candidateto finish his uncles case' they employ Alexand brought him to Sayle enterprises posing as a computer tester. Once there he was to find out if there was anything harmful in the computers which were going to be given to every school in Britain . When he found out that the computers had the small pox virus which was able to kill thousands was being inserted into the computers . Fortunately he was succesful in stopping the computers from being activated at the last second.
Favorite part ; When Alex came parachuting into the scince museam to stop the computers from being activated
Favorite character : Alex
FIVE WORDS OR PHRASES> 1]Wind was tearing into his eyes 2]Taking stock of his surroundings
3]Quivering mass 4]drifted into view 5]mixture of horror and wonderment
Rating4/5 stars
Name: Jeffrey Lembang
ReplyDeleteAuthor: J.K. Rowling
Book: harry potter and the order of the phoenix
This is a book about a young wizard named harry potter who will be attending his fifth year at Hogwarts.He will face his toughest enemy yet as he comes face-to-face with Voldemort.
Favourit Character: Harry Potter
Five phrases:
streaking out from the sky
poisonously sweet voice
see sparks fly
provacation
utmost satisfaction