This is what learning looks like when I am not at school
By Jane Leslie Conly
278 pages
Racso is a city rat, used to things like candy, and T.V., but he decides he wants to be educated. He runs away from home, and goes to Thorn Valley, a place where educated rats have a civilisation. While there, he becomes part of a plan to sabotage a dam, which if opened, would flood the valley. Can he do it, or will the rats if NIMH be wiped out?
This book, which is a sequel to Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, was very good and I give it a 10/10.
By J.K. Rowling
636 pages
The Tri-Wizard championships are being held at Hogwarts this year, and students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons have come to try out. Only one student from each school will be selected as a champion, and they will have to go up against 3 tough challenges, the winner receiving the Tri-Wizard Cup. People are putting their names in the goblet, hoping to be chosen. Will Harry be chosen?
And…another awesome book in the series, which is a must read after the first three.
By J.K. Rowling
317 pages
Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban! Azkaban, the wizard prison, has never had a breakout before, and the Dementors, the guards of the prison, are furious. Sirius was said to be a Death Eater, one of Voldemort’s evil followers, and Voldemort loathes Harry. Will he survive, or succumb to the dark lord at last?
Another really good book, I never wanted to stop reading it. If you have read the first two Harry Potter books, go read this one now. Like, right now!
By J.K. Rowlings
251 pages
The Chamber is Secrets has been opened. People around the school are being paralysed at random. The finger is pointed at Harry, who must find a way to close the chamber before anyone is hurt or killed. Can he do it?
This was a very good 2nd book in the Harry Potter series, and I can’t wait to read the next one!
By J.K. Rowling
223 pages
Harry Potter is an abused child who, on his 11th birthday, is told that he is a wizard, and that he has been admitted into Hogwarts, a wizarding school. Harry can barely believe it, he was finally free from his horrid aunt and uncle and his obese cousin, Dudley. But trouble is brewing at Hogwarts, involving a dark wizard, Lord Voldemort. It’s up to Harry and his friends, to stop Voldemort from gaining power once more. Can he do it?
I really liked this book, it hooked me in from the beginning, and I would give it a 9/10.
By Phillip Pullman
592 pages
Malcolm Polstead is a boy who works for his parents at their inn, The Trout. One day, a baby named Lyra Belacqua is placed in the Priory across the river from the inn, and Malcolm finds that the baby is of some importance. One day, a huge flood came, and Malcolm saved Lyra, as well as Alice, a girl who worked at The Trout in his canoe, the La Belle Sauvage, which had just been renovated by a man named Lord Asriel, who was Lyra’s father, because Malcolm had lent it to him. They went cascading down the flood. Will they survive?
This book was really good and was a cool backstory to His Dark Materials. I give it a 9 of 10 and recommend it to teens.
By Phillip Pullman
518 pages
Third book in the His Dark Materials Trilogy finds Lyra seemingly captured by the dastardly Miss Coulter.
9/10
By Phillip Pullman
341 pages
The Subtle Knife is the second book of the His Dark Materials Trilogy. Lyra has entered another world, blown open when Lord Asriel killed Roger, her goal is to find the source of an elementary particle known as Dust.
9/10
By Phillip Pullman
399 pages
Lyra is a girl who is being raised at Jordan College in Oxford. One day her best friend Roger is taken by the Gobblers, who are a group who as part of their research are taking children to experiment on. The Gobblers are also known as the General Oblation Board. She gets an opportunity to find Roger when the seemingly wonderful Miss Coulter offers to take Lyra with her but Lyra soon finds out the she isn’t as nice as she first thought.