James and the Giant peach By Ben.G

James and the Giant Peach

The author that wrote this book was Roald Dahl.

Illustrated by Quentin Blake

Recommended age:  6-12

When James parents were alive he had a happy life. His parents were kind to him. James' parents were eaten by an enormous angry rhinoceros, so now he lives with Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. They beat him and starved him and make his life a misery. One day he meets a mysterious man who gives him a bag of magic crocodile tongues. And so begins the adventure of his dreams.

He meets some giant insect friends in the peach and they flew to New York, He met some cloud men on the way and they danced around in the sky. When they finally made it to New York, they were swooped by a plane and they fell onto the New York Tower.

This book is interesting and makes you want to keep on reading.  This book  is filled with dreams and imagination of his adventures. 

I would recommend this book to children aged 10 - 12.

Ninja Meerkats by Ryan S

 Ninja MeerKats

(7-11) years

ISBN    9781847152046

By  Gareth P. Jones

Ninja Meerkats is a very exciting book that made me read twenty pages without stopping and I was still interested. I'm not a big reader either and if you read it you will love it too.

It's about a bunch of meerkats that stop the enemies that are also meerkats. They fight them off and have a great time doing it. Their leader is called Chuck. He is my favourite character because he is very strong and helpful to the other meerkats. He also has my favourite colour on him which is green.

The other meerkat in the group is just normal. I think they could have added them in a bit more and not let Chuck do most of the work.The other meerkats just stay back in their fight position and not even fighting. They just tell Chuck where they are and he gets them. They only fight when the enemy meerkats come near them which really doesn't happen very often.

They get kicked out of their homes at one point because the council cuts their tree down.

Ninja Meerkats is a fantastic book and it has a good storyline about how they work together as a team. It will teach younger children who are reading it how to work as a team.

The Wrong Book by Sharla

The Wrong Book                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           By Nick Bland

ISBN:978-1-74169-304-9

(Ages 5-7) Recommended

The book is about Nicholas Ickle. He is trying to tell a story but keeps getting interrupted by all kinds of weird things. The age recommendation is 5-7. I think for any kids above this age they will not find it funny.The elephant keeps saying what the book is about.     

At the end, he finally said what the book is about and whatever the elephant says, it will appear.  I didn't find it funny but you might I'm a big reader but I didn't find it interesting.

Nick Bland lives in Darwin where he is a full time writer and illustrator.  

Meet The Werewolfsons by Andreas

         

Meet The Werewolfsons

Knife and Packer

ISBN 978-1-74283-671-3

AGES 5-12
character(s)wilf winny Mr werewolf son Mrs werewolf son


The Werewolfson's are just your average every day family, Yes they are  covered in hair and the dad  is one of the most embarrassing disco dancers for his kids.  They live in Freak Street and every full moon,  they would party.There are flees everywhere  in their house making party people itch.   They hate flees.  Wilf really wants to find a star in space, and name it after his mother.

The problem is when they are having a full moon party and celebrating,  a big beast comes along and carries lots more flees and every one goes crazy.  People scream.  People shout.   People run for their fur  protection, and  they hate flees so bad.

Mr Werewolfson  loves his lucky shiny gold comb.  Without it, he is week,  sad and angry. He is a pet person  He won  his lucky comb at the competition.

I think this is a great book to read for people because its funny,  really enjoyable,  and exciting to see what happens next.  Enjoy

by andreas

Meet Pearlie By Eva

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Meet Pearlie

By Gabrielle Wang

ISBN: 978-0-140330794-5

(Ages 8 - 12) Highly  Recommended

The book is about Pearlie and her friend Naoko. She is Japanese. Naoko is more adventurous than Pearlie. They have amazing adventures together in a cave, meeting lots of  dangerous animals like large carpet pythons in the bushes. They have a really great time together exploring the diamond cave in 1941. They explore all the big and small chambers together in the diamond cave.

The chapters in book are Snow Whites, The Stranger, Diamond Cave, The Scrapbook, The Break-in, The Darkroom, The Gold Bracelet, The Red Truck,  Pearl Harbor and Missing. All the chapters have fantastic stories of Pearlie and Naoko's adventures in 1941 in Darwin.

In the story, Pearlie's life changes every day because it is war time.The soldiers are going against Pearlie's best friend Naoko just because she is from Japan. Pearlie gets even more sadness in her because people are going against Naoko Pearlie's best friend. Will Pearlie be brave enough to do what's right or will she be too scared and stand back?

Read to find out what happens to Pearlie and Naoko.

Meet The Humansons by Lachlan D

Meet The  Humansons

By Knife&Packer

ISBN-9781741690644

(Ages between 7-14) Highly Recommended


The Humansons are just your average everyday family. This book is about a really dumb family:

• Yes they clean their car with yogurt 
• Yes they've trained their pet slug to belly dance 
• Yes Harriet Humanson invented the 'Toffee Tie
• And yes, they're looking for a new pet... at the zoo!

But that's nothing out of the ordinary right?

The annual pet day is coming up soon at Harry and Harriet's school. Horace their pet slug is sick and Harry has no pet to enter in the competition .The prize is a visit to the zoo with Woof Barkwel. Woof Bakewel is a zoo keeper who runs his own zoo, but he seems to have gone missing because no-one has seen Woof Barkwel for a while and the competition has been postponed. Harry is still in the competition but the he needs to get a new pet to enter the competition. They think of a pet shop but they end up in a Zoo! They were looking around at all of the animals for sale then Harry and Harriet spotted a giant gold fish. But what is it really though?

Meet the Humansons is a funny and exciting series that's always full of adventure. I would have to say this is my favorite book that I have read. I know it is a very popular book, so you will have to reserve it quick, if you want to get it. 
This is a amazing book you will love and this book is for all genders.

                                                   My Rating Is 99/100 
   

The Red Pyramid by Nhial C

The Red Pyramid

ISBN 978-0-141-35039-4

By Rick  Riordan

ages (10-15) Recommend

I chose this book because it looked fascinating on the cover and sounded good when I read the beginning. At first it didn't really grip me until I read more. The middle part made it become interesting as I found out all of the crazy stuff that was happening.

Carter and Sadie Kane's Dad is a brilliant Egyptologist. He has a secret plan that goes horribly wrong. An explosion shatters the ancient Rosetta stone and unleashes Seth,the evil  god of chaos magic.

Seth is in prison, Dr Kane is in a golden coffin and Carter and Sadie have to run for their lives. To save their Dad, they  must embark on terrifying quest from Cairo to Paris to the American South-west and discover the truth about their family's connection to the house of life, an Egyptian temple of magic that existed over one thousand years.

Then Seth unleashes demons from the underworld to release the great storm and fulfil his master plan to make the modern world into his evil world so he can rule it forever. Carter and Sadie must challenge Seth to restore the world and save their dad.  

This book is fascinating and full of action. People who like Egyptian history would enjoy reading this book.

Naughty Fairies by Alyson H

Title:Naughty Fairies

Author:Lucy Mayflower

ISBN:0-34091177-8

(Ages 8-11) Recommend

Naughty Fairies is about a fairy school full of fairies and the problems that the student fairies face.

In the back of the room there are five fairies and their names are Brilliance, Nettle, Kelpie, Tiptoe and Sesame they're naughty. They do not listen to the teacher in class but when they have to make fairy dust they don't know what to put in it because they were talking.

When they say the magic word the stuff that they put together blew up and the fairy science teacher shouted "TEST" so all the fairies had to do a test and the naughty fairies aren't happy. They make a plan to go find and catch some insects and put them in a flower pot. Unfortunately though in the morning they will come out and find the fairies are no longer where they were supposed to be.

Naughty Fairy books are a fun read and an enjoyable ride.

Maxx Soccer Shocker By Michael

Maxx Rumble Soccer Shocker

By Michael Wagner

Illustrated By Terry Denton

ISBN - 9781922244819

( Age 8 - 19 ) Highly Recommended

Rating 98/100

The Maxx Rumble Shocker is for people in soccer (football). you could read all of Michael Wagner series and very talented illustrator Terry Denton

This book is about them attempting to win the grand final  with the team Archie Beckham ,Harriet Kewell, Diego Ronaldo , Maxx Rumble , Rexx Rumble ,Bobby Kahn and Wayne Best  with their coach Lionel Beckham

No one knows if they win the grand final if they make it.They could have put it on a year later or after? Because they could have tried 3 times to make it.

It is great for people that want to now how to play soccer or know more about this magnificent sport becuase they give handy hints.

There is a family bond with Maxx and Rexx. Because they help each other with things they do wrong.

I think this is a excellent book for so many people.It is the best soccer (football) book I have read so far.You should try this book so go find it in the library.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Rylie S

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

By Jeff Kinney

ISBN-978-0-14-330499-9

Ages 8-14 Recommended

Dairy of a Wimpy Kid is a series of books . There are more than nine books and 3 movies about the Wimpy Kid. It is a very popular book in school libraries.

This book is recommended for boys and girls that like drama and comedy.

This book is about a kid called Greg Heffley who tries to go through high school with his friend Rowdily. Rowdily is a kid who still acts like a five year old when he is almost twelve years old. Greg thinks he might be afraid of growing up but Greg wants to grow up so doesn't have to go to school. This book made me laugh in some of the parts and it was very interesting. This is why is I recommend this book to read. :)

Purple Sluggy Worry Warts by Joe M

Purple Sluggy Worry Warts

By Matt Kain

ISBN 978-0-330-51022-6

(Age) 7-13

This book is about two boys named Charlie and Jez who bought  a box of highly dangerous tricks and Worry Warts from Quentin Quirk's Magic works. In the box, there was an unexpected surprise. Charlie came up with an idea of entering the tricks into the talent contest to beat Francesca and win the money.

A lot of troubles come to Jez and Charlie's way while trying to win the talent contest. When they're getting ready for the talent contest, Francesca tries to ruin their hopeful chances of winning by scattering the tricks across the room. It takes a lot to find their tricks again.

I personally chose this book because of the blurb and front cover. It wasn't as good as I would of hoped but I enjoyed it anyway.

I would rate this book 7/10 because I like the story but  it was too short and the author could have made the story a bit more about The Worry Warts.

I recommend this book for children aged 7-13 because of the font size and the type of characters and it still could be for older ages like 12 and 13.

Overall, I think this book is for kids who like strange stories because it is the strangest book I have ever read and there are strange characters and objects. I recommend this or other books by Matt Kain to be read by both genders. 

The 26 Storey Treehouse By Hermione B-H

The 26  Storey Treehouse   

 
 By Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton

ISBN 978-1-7426-1127-3

Ages (8+) Highly Recommended

Pages 343

The 26 Storey Treehouse is a entertaining book series. There are 5 books out at the moment and I think that they should make more because they're so funny, silly and like I said before they are so entertaining.

This book is about two 12 year old kids living in a treehouse that is 26 storeys high. The treehouse stated with 13 storeys and now every  year they add another 13 storeys to the treehouse which is an other book of the series. All the treehouse books end on a happy note because the author wanted you to finish the book feelling sad and like you don't want to read the other books. They have to try to write a book that is for Mr Big Nose but all these problems pop up and they just can't.

I kept laughing at this book because of all the silly things that the characters were saying.The book stays entertaining with all the characters that come into the story like Jill, Mr Big Nose and the Pirates. Also something I find entertaining is that they always add 13 more storeys every year.

I highly recommended for you to read the Treehouse books and enjoy them like I did.

Lulu Bell and the birthday unicorn :Hayley R

Lulu Bell  and the Birthday Unicorn 

Written by Belinda Murrell

Drawn by Serena Geddes

ISBN-978-1-74275-875-6

(Ages 7+) Recommendation

This book is about a girl called Lulu. She has a brother called Gus and a sister called Rosie who is turning 6 years old. She also has 2 dogs  called Jessie and Asha and has best friend called Molly .

In the book,  Lulu and Molly are making jelly, chocolate crackles, lolly bags and a birthday cake for Rosie's birthday party. Lulu lives behind the vet store. Her dad works there as well.

Something was ringing; it was the phone.  The  person on the phone said that there was a horse in their  street. Lulu and Molly went to the vet to tell her dad about the horse.

You will have to  read the book to find out what happens next.  It is a PRC book as well and you can read the other books in the series. There are 13 books  in the library.  This book is really good for 7 year old and older kids.

        

Rhianna and the Wild Magic

Rhianna and the Wild Magic

By Dave Luckett

ISBN-1-86291-449-4

( Ages 11- 13) - Recommendation

"Rhianna and the Wild Magic" is one of three magical books. It is a fiction book about a girl called Rhianna. I don't think it is the best book,  but I do recommend it for an age range of 11-13. The story is set in a fantasy world.

Rhianna goes to Smallhaven Village Magic School. Two of the main characters in my book are Rhianna and a guy called Magister Northstar. From my perspective,   the book  sounds like Rhianna doesn't like magic much  especially in  the beginning. Later on in the book Rhianna gets in trouble. I think this is why she wants to become good at magic. There is a boy called Rory Spellwright and Rhianna doesn't like him very much.  I think he's mean and annoying to her and thinks he's the best.

During the book,  lots of adventures happen and the language they use is quite difficult to understand!! Even I couldn't understand some of it. This is my main reason why this book should be suited for 11-13 year old kids.

This book wouldn't just be good for people that like magic. It would be a great book for anyone,  but I  think kids 11-13 would like it most. I didn't particularly like it but i'm sure other kids would.

By Celeste

The Recruit by Kyle N

                                                                               

The Recruit

By Robert Muchamore

ISBN 978-1-444-903-188

[Ages 9-12] Highly Recommended



The book "Recruit",  is about a boy named James. He is getting teased about his mum so he does something about it. He runs away from school and goes home. His mum gives him money so he can get dinner on the way home from picking up his sister Lauren. He gets ambushed on the way back and hurt badly.

He takes the money from his mum's safe. He has to go to a special school because his mum is very sick and in a coma. James has to share a room with a boy named Kyle who tells him what to wear,  and then James gets teased,  so Kyle and James have a fight. He goes to the headmasters  office, and the headmaster
takes him to a martial arts dojo to start training to be an agent.

 He does lots of training there, and passes the tests. He goes to a village. He sits by the bonfire. James watches the remote controlled cars with his friends at the village. James found a work shop under ground at the village.. He then goes to the hospital because of something in the underground which makes him sick.  He recovers well. The police enter where he is sleeping at the village.. Afterwards,  he drives back to the school with his friends. James enters the headmaster's office again but this time to get a special top to wear. His friends say he brought it from home,  but his team mates said he earned it so everyone was very proud of him.

                                                                                                                                                              

Snuffle and the Flower by Nikkita W

Snuffle and the Flower

By Jonathan Lambert

ISBN  978-1-74178-860-0

(Ages 5-9)brilliant book


This book is very interesting and it is about an elephant who wants  a friend to play with . Snuffle finds a little flower which is lonely .Snuffle wants to play with something .Snuffle looks at it and blows at it,  then a buzzing noise comes from  a bee which  fly's around the elephant's trunk and his tail ..It starts raining so Snuffle walks away, and when the rain stops, he goes back .

This book made me sad and happy.When it was happy it was because I saw  a  flower that grew and the elephant got excited and it just made me feel happy .It  made me sad too because he was really lonely and he had nothing to do. My favorite part of the book is when he finds the flower and gets excited about the bee,   and also when more flowers bloom.

Snuffle is the best book on every shelf on the little kid section in the Library .When you read it, you will see what I mean,  and get an idea of the book. I love this book. It is the best .

Meet The Vampiresons Tom S

Meet The Vampiresons

Knife and Packer

ISBN  978-1-74169-917-3

AGES 5,12

The Vampiresons are just your average every day family but they're  not an average family, They fly  around and they live in a crumbling bell tower,  and they have a fruit bat for their pet. Vonda is a young girl who  likes cooking.  There is a famous cooker Vonda follows, His name is Gerard Le
Spatula .

This is a good book because of the silliness and the wonder of what is going to be next .  I think  this a good book  because it is exiting  and silly.

In the book,   sharks teeth are ,missing  and no one knows where they are,  but that is  nothing compared to going on to a cooking  show and meeting Gerard Le spatula  on tv.

It is a good book and it has sharks mentioned in it. It  has lots of funny and silly characters.  They are all pretty  much silly and funny throughout the book.

Tom Gates Everything Is Amazing (Sort Of ) By Adam

Tom Gates Everything's Amazing (Sort Of )

By L.Pichen

ISBN-978-1-74283-759-8

Ages:7-15

Tom hates school. He has the worst  enemy at school called Marcus. He  also has Amy sitting next to him to help him in maths.Tom is very bad at maths so he copies Amy 's maths work .He has a very annoying sister too, and he will do anything to annoy his sister Delia. Tom has a very unusual family. Tom hates Marcus who sits on the other side of him. Tom lives next to his best friend Derek. Tom and Derek have a lot of sleep overs together. Tom and Derek have a band called Dog Zombies. Tom has two twin cousins that he does not like at all. He thinks he is the best at a game called Champ but even little kids can beat him. Tom's dad is a very big embarrassment to him. In Tom's spare time he does doodles and drawings. Derek has a weird dog called Rooster. Rooster has lots of hair covering his ears and he loves rolling around in the mud. Rooster is a very weird name for a dog.

I think this book is for people that like funny jokes. I find Tom and every other character wierd. His cousin's are very annoying. Toms musical band, Dog Zombies is very funny. This book makes me feel funny. Tom does drawings that look funny. Rooster is also very weird.

The Chronicles of Narnia,The Magicians Nephew by Nina S

                         

                       

The Chronicles of Narnia,The magician's nephew

Author       C.S.Lewis                                   Illustrator    Pauline Baynes

ISBN 0-26-167046-8

(Ages 10 - 14) recommended

The Magician's Nephew is an adventure type of book.When I read The Magician's Nephew it was nothing like I imagined. I thought it would be one of those dragging on books. It also has its funny moments like most books do.

The Chronicles of Narnia is about a little girl called Polly who sees another little boy at a house next door where there lived a grumpy old couple. They decide to get to know each other. Polly found out that the little boys name was Digory. As the days go by, they grow a better relationship.

Together they adventure through lots of  places, one of there favourites is inside the roof of  their houses.One day they decide to go to another house but they end up in Digory's uncle's forbidden study where Polly gets persuaded into touching a pretty ring. Digory then goes after her and finds himself in a forest with pools and Polly.What will happen next? Will they get back home? Read and find out in The Chronicles of Narnia,The Magicians Nephew.

Favourite line/quote:"Silence sir, " Uncle Andrew said, bringing his hand down on the table. "I will not be talked to like that by little, dirty, school boy. You don't understand. I am the great scholar, the magician, the adept, who is doing the experiment. Of course I need subjects to do it on. Bless my soul you'll be telling me next that I ought to have asked the guinea-pigs' permission before I used them!

Stuff Happens Michael by Matthew Maletto

Stuff Happens - Michael

Author: Phillip Gwynne

ISBN:978-0-14-330810-2

(Ages 7-11) Highly Recommended for boys that swim or skate

The series stuff happens has come to it's third book, stuff happens - Michael. The authors haven't changed anything with their exciting series with titles of the main characters in the book. In each book they have different activities like in Michael it's from Swimming to downhill Skating. The authors have made and published 9 Stuff Happens books: Ned, Jack, Michael, Sean, Lennie, Cooper,  Fad, Tom, and Ethan.

In Michael's Swimming Classes he versus' someone called Bevan Jenkins and they're both really good swimmers. When Michael Gets to school he tells his friend Fadi how many laps he did that day, the highest he did was 5 k's(Kilometres).

The Stuff Happens Series is recommended for all the S.A libraries shelves. The 88 pages and ten chapters will be read in about 1-3 days. This series is good for beginner readers and kids that are just starting to read. This book will work nice as a childrens book as there's no violence or nasty stuff in these books.

I thoroughly recommend the series for all and hope you read this it and enjoy.

Spiderwick the Wrath Mulgarath by Aidan S

Spider Wick The wrath of Mulgarathuthor   

SIMON& SCHUSTER  BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS

ISBN 0-689-85940-6

Ages 7-12 (Recommended)

Jared, Mallory and Simon trudged along in the early morning. One brother sees a thimble tack and all the children run into the woods. The brothers then see Mulgarath change into a old man. The goblins chased the kids, but they didn't catch them.  After being underground trying to hide from the goblins, the children pop out from the sewerage pipe and found that the goblins were still chasing them. The children see a giant goblin coming to try to hurt them.

The children go to the old lady's house.  She talked to Mallory and her brothers about the time when the goblins attacked her when she was a little girl.  The children then see the goblins looking through the window and they run away from the goblins to their houses. When they got home they talked to their mum about the danger of the goblins.  The kids told their mum not to get out of her car and then the goblins attacked them.

The Spiderwick Chronicles are a fun, exiting and at times scary adventure. I really enjoyed reading Book 1 and 5. You will never believe what happens!

Bowl Like The Devil By Navi R B

Bowl Like The Devil

By Bob Cattell

ISBN - 978- 1-84780-282-8

(Ages  5- 50) Highly Recommended

This Book is for people that like or know anything about cricket.One day Tyrone meets a guy called Nick , he teaches him to bowl fast,accurate and deadly . Tyrone has a big decision to leave his school cricket team to the country club team, he also losses his best friend  Cristiano.

I think this book is really good because the pictures are well drawn , the story line makes sense and its really good and makes me want to read more and more. Bowl like the devil is about cricket, the main characters are Tyrone and Nick.

I think this book would be good for young cricket players, around the age 5 - 7, Tyrone wants to win so he joins the country club, everybody in his school team is disappointing, especially Cristiano, Cristiano also has to move schools because of his dad.

Nick teaches Tyrone more tricks but now Tyrone has to pay Nick for more tricks, Nick now has told him to steal from his mum to pay Nick. Tyrone isn't too happy about it.

This book is suitable for every age, this is probably the best book about cricket i have ever read.

Hey Jack The Big Adventure by Jay C

"Hey Jack!-The Big Adventure"

By Sally Rippin

ISBN 978-174297681-5

(Ages 6-9 Years) Highly Recommended 

Hey Jack! - The Big Adventure is a book in a series of books about a boy called Jack. Sally Rippin wrote the Jack books after she finished Billy B Brown books. 

Jack loves camping at the beach. Jack can sleep in a tent, make campfires and go exploring! 

There is a problem when Jack goes on the camping trip with his mum and dad. Jack goes to the beach near the campsite and his mum and dad fall asleep. Jack takes Scrap his dog for a walk to the rock pools. When they get there they find a cave and go into it. They play in there for a couple of minutes and get stuck and Jack starts calling for mum and dad while Scrap starts barking.But will Jack's adventures take him too far?

"Hey Jack The Big Adventure" is a great book and is highly recommended for ages 6-9 as it's quite easy to read.This book would be great for boys who love wonder and mystery.

"Hey Jack the big adventure" has quite big writing, I have glasses and I didn't need them to read this. The author could have written a novel but she kept it simple and easy to read that's why its highly recommended for ages 6-9.

The book recommends that you listen to your mum and dad because they might keep you safe.

I'll totally listen to my mum and dad if I got marshmallows at the end of the day over the camp fire. 

Amelia's Longest Biggest Most Fights Ever Family Reunion By Skye H

Amelia's Longest Biggest Most Fights Ever Family Reunion

By Marissa Moss

ISBN - 978 0 689 87447 5

(Ages 7 - 12) Highly Recommended 

This book is amazing, the best book written by Marissa Moss who has written lots of books.

Amelia's Longest Biggest Most Fights Ever Family Reunion is a great book, one the best books I've read. The books in these series are about Amelia the main character and her family and school life.

Amelia's mum and dad get split up and her dad moved to Dallas in Chicago, she gets invited to her dad's big family reunion with his whole family aunts, uncles, cousins half - brothers and half sisters.She doesn't know anyone except her Dad, his second wife and their baby son George.Will she fit in with everyone else? Will anyone like her ? After a week in Dallas with her family she actually realizes that she's glad she came because she got to meet her grandparents who are very nice to her.

When Amelia returns home in a week she is happy to be back in her own bed, in her own room, in her own house, but she can't wait to see her family again. 

Most 7 - 12 year olds would like this book because it's about all sorts of funny things that could happen in a family. It describes all types of family members and that even family members you like least have a good side to them.

My Two Blankets By Sarah Leigh

Irena Kobald & Freya Blackwood

ISBN - 978 1921 714764  

Ages 6-10 highly recommended

My Two Blankets is a book about a little girl and her warm outback coloured blanket. Her name is Cartwheel. She moved to a new country and she thought it was very weird and different from her old country. Cartwheel thought the food, the clothes, the people, even the animals were weird.


In the story, Cartwheel meets a little girl who was very friendly. 
Will Cartwheel make friends with this girl? What is the blanket? Read the book to find out.

Irena kobald  is the author and she  made this book for charity and along the way it sends a beautiful message. She describes Cartwheel and her feelings really well like when Cartwheel was very upset and she was thinking she was under a waterfall and that explains how she is feeling. 

My Two Blankets is a wonderful read and manages to bring a tear to your eye through both sadness and happiness. 

winner of the year 2015

Kitten Kaboodle By Trent S

Kitten Kaboodle Mission One: The Catier Emerald

Author:Eileen O'Hely & Heath McKenzie

ISBN  978-1-921529-93-1

(Age) 4-11

This is the first book in the Kitten Kaboodle series. There are only two that I know of but I believe  Eileen O'Hely and Heath McKenzie are going to write another Kitten Kaboodle book to add to the series.

This book is about Kitten Kaboodle who works for a secret agency called CAT. He is given a mission to work under cover for DOG the rival agency of CAT. His mission is to stop DOG from committing any more crimes or bad deeds.

I believe that this book should be in every library because it is such an interesting book. It makes you not want to put the book down and just keep on reading until you finish it.

This is one of the best books I've read this year. It's not one of those boring adventure books that don't make sense. It's a really interesting one.

I recommend this book for young readers who like lots of action and under cover spy business.

The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppet by Alex B

The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett

Tom Angleberger

Ages 8-14 Recommended

The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett is the fourth book in the Origami Yoda series published in 2013.

This book is about Kellen Dwight and Tom who attend McQuarrie middle school. Their principal announced that a new program called Fun Time was going to begin. Will the students enjoy Fun Time? What will happen because of Fun Time? Will it be a success? You will need to read this to find out.

I really enjoyed this book. It was very exciting, especially the last 4 chapters. The text is a good size so it is easy to read but it wasn't too big.

The Surprise of Jabba the Puppett was a very good book and I recommend this book to people who like adventure books.   

Skulduggery Pleasant the End of the World Jason F

Skulduggery Pleasant the End of the World

By: Derek Landly

ISBN 978-0-00-746678-8

(Age) 10-24 Highly Recommended   

The story is about a boy named Ryan who is being chased by an evil gang. He meets a strange creature called Skulduggery, who is going to help him. At first, Ryan is afraid but soon they become friends. The evil gang try to trick and catch Ryan because he has something they need on his hand, but Skulduggery helps him to avoid them. While the gang are trying to destroy the planet, Ryan wants to save it. Can he do it? 

I enjoyed reading this book. I thought it was exciting. It made me want to read more to find out what was going to happen in the next chapter. The text is good size print so it is easy to read. The book is not too thick so it doesn't take too long to finish. It is a really good book.

Skulduggery Pleasant is a good book if you like to read a series and if you like to read big books then I really recommend you read it.

I'm not a Supermouse! By Chantika B

I'm Not A Supermouse!

By Geronimo Stilton

ISBN 9780545103756

(Ages 7-11) Recommend

This book is one of the many Geronimo Stilton books. The series has many books in it, this book is number 43 in the series.

When I picked it up in the library for the first time and read the first few sentences, my mind was already imagining the adventure that Geronimo Stilton was on. Some of the main characters in the book are Geronimo Stilton, Thea, Trap, Benjamin and Bruce Hyena. This book has 108 pages.

This book is about Geronimo and Bruce going on a big adventure around the wold. Along the way, Geronimo gets himself in to lots of trouble.

Along the way Geronimo has to do things he would rather not do. Geronimo gets him self into life threatening situations and Bruce has to help him get out of them.

In one of the places Geronimo needs a Jungle Survival Kit so he doesn't get killed or hurt.
               
Near the end something horrible happens to new mouse city and Geronimo has to help everyone out.

This is a really good book and I think you should read it.

The Secret of the Fortune Wookie by Kawa A

Title:The Secret of the Fortune Wookie

Author:Tom Angleberger

ISBN:978-1-4197-0517-5

Tom Angleberger has made five extraordinary books about this series. These books have a lot of detail. This book is about a boy called Dwight has to change schools because Origami Yoda and his friend Tommy are trying to make him come back. This book gives you an opportunity to imagine what they're saying.

Can Tommy save his best friend Dwight and Origami Yoda from going to Tippet High and make sure he doesn't get suspended for a year again? Can everything go back to normal? There might be a chance if you read this book. You might actually find out what happens and if they go back to normal will something else happen?

This would be a great book to read at night because it feels like you're in the place when you read the words. It's a really awesome book, the best I've read in the origami series. It even has an extra origami instruction inside.

I hope you enjoy this book as much as I have if you read it.

Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes by Aman B

Author-Lauren Child

ISBN 978-0-00-733406-3

Ages(8-14) Highly Recommended

Pages-390

The main character is Ruby Redfort. Ruby Redfort was first introduced in Lauren Child's three award winning, best selling Clarice Bean novels. Since then, she has got many letters asking her for a Ruby Redfort series and here it is now.

This book is about, as you can guess, Ruby Redfort. She loves code cracking and is every smart kid's smart kid.She has a best friend, Clance and she can't keep a secret from him because he can tell when she not telling him something. She gets recognized for her smartness in an exam by a secret agency, a very secret agency, Spectrum.  She is given codes to crack. She can keep secrets? Right?
Can Ruby keep her mouth shut from the person she has never lied to or kept a secret from?

I would recommend it to people that like smart spy books. You would need a lot of time to read this book, it has little writing and 390 pages.

One Step at a Time by Lily S

ONE STEP AT A  TIME

By Jane Jolly&Sally Heinrich

ISBN 978 0 987309 5 1

Ages-6+

One Step At A Time is a emotional book.From start to finish the reader is immersed in sadness and happiness. A baby elephant stepped on a landmine then her world went black. She had lost her leg. Luk, a young boy from the village took care of the baby elephant. Luk prayed for the baby elephant to get better.
The monks came to see the baby elephant and prayed for the elephant too. Luk slept with the baby elephant every night and feed her bananas. The baby elephant tried to walk but kept stumbling and falling.
Even though One Step at a Time is full of sadness it is a book that makes you think about others and find happiness in things that happen that we can't control. .

Big Nate Flips Out by Deepasha

Big Nate Flips Out                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Author: Lincoln Peirce                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   Illustrator: Lincoln Peirce                                                                                                                                                                                         

ISBN: 978-0061996634

Ages : 7+ highly recommended

Big Nate Flips Out is a great book. It is about a boy who tries to get out of being a girls partner for a test. The great thing is as well, there are many more books about Big Nate that you will love.

Nate is partnered up with a girl he does not want to be with, he tries to achieve an A+, will he succeed? He is in a school sport team competing with year 6's, he's partnered up with the same girl again and she's not a sport person, will he win the trophy for his team? Or will he lose? Read to find out more!!!   

Big Nate flips out has 224  pages in it, which is not much. There are no hard words in it and is easy to read. It is very entertaining, especially with the trouble he has with his teachers. This book is good for preteens.

I highly recommend this book. It should be on every library shelf.                                                  

The Cat on the Mat is Flat by Owen .C

The Cat on the Mat is Flat

 Author: Andy Griffiths

Illustrator: Terry Denton

ISBN-9780312535841

Ages:6-10 (Recommended)


The book was first published in 2006. The author Andy Griffiths writes funny books and this book especially is one of the funniest's of them all. I really like this book because of the silly parts of the book.

"The cat sat on the mat" repeats, it's easy to read it because of the short period of chapters and little stories.
 There is a rat with a bat and a very flat cat also a frog on a jet rocket-log and a snack-stealing yak-in-a-sack called Jack also a duck with a truck that sucks up muck All these and lots more can be found in this book.

The Cat jumped off the mat and chased the rat around and around the mat, the rat didn't like being chased by the cat for 3 laps, the rat said "That's enough of that and got a BASEBALL BAT. Then the rat started to chase the cat around the mat then cat got hit by the baseball bat, now the cat is FLAT!

This book is very exciting to read because of its Entertainment and its comedy. That's why I recommend this book for you.

Song For A Scarlet Runner By Tansy G

Song For A Scarlet Runner

By Julie Hunt

ISBN-978-1-74331-358-9

(Ages 10 +) Recommendation 

Song For A Scarlet Runner is about a young girl named Peat who lives with  her sister Marlie. They live out of  town in a place where the cows live. One day Peat is out in the paddock with the cows, when one of the calves run off. Peat follows him up to the gap. The gap is a big drop that has a small thin  bridge going across it. She notices something odd. The calf was behaving himself with a complete stranger.

Peat ends up in the marshes where she gets caught in a trap. She thinks she's been caught by the swamp hags,(terrible old lady's who capture children and make medicine out of them)when they're actually swamp aunties, (who are healers)and give Peat a warm welcome.

Song For A Scarlet Runner is a mysterious and adventurous book with lots of fun and scary surprises along the way. It has exactly 315 pages of fun filled excitement with lots of twists and turns along the way. She's safe and sound at home one day and on the run the next.

This is by far the best book I have ever read and I would definitely read it again,(which is not a normal thing I would do) so go ahead and give it a try I guarantee you will like it!!

I highly recommend this book to people who like a good page turner or twist. Just because it doesn't look like much on the outside, doesn't mean it's not interesting. So it just goes to show you really can't judge a book by its cover!      

Fantastic Mr Fox by Connor Ross

Roald Dahl Fantastic Mr Fox

Illustrated by Quentin Blake

ISBN 978-141-34882-7

Age to 2 to 100

Pages-80

In Fantastic Mr Fox, a book about a fox and his family, Mr Fox is not an ordinary Fox because he steals from farmers Bean,  Boggis and Bunce. He had so much to choose from, a plump chicken from Boggis, a duck or a goose from Bunce or a nice turkey from Bean.
The Fox family were hunted down by the farmers. Fantastic Mr Fox  had his lucky tale shot off by one of the farmers with a gun.

So Fantastic Mr Fox set off  running in the tunnels with the machines digging outside, The foxes were inside the tunnel and the farmers knew were they were. They continued digging because Bean, Boggis and Bunce had a sneaky plan.

In the morning people came to see what happened and set up tents.The foxes were starving. Mrs Fox laid down  and of-course Mr Fantastic Fox kept on digging.  Mr fantastic always had a plan but I wont spoil it for you but you'll have to read the book.

Kylie Jean Football Queen by Demani

      

Kylie Jean Football queen

Author: Marci Peschke  

ISBN: 978-1-4048-6617-1

( Ages 7-16)

Illustrator: Tuesday Mourning

This is a book about a girl named Kylie Jean Carter. She is an eight year old second grader who has a dream to be a beauty queen. She has a brother called T.J who thinks that Kylie is his good luck charm. He thought that if Kylie came to his football game then his team would win. Kylie got invited to try out for Little Dazzler camp! Kylie was very excited.

If you want to know what happens next in Kylie Jean Football Queen then I suggest you read it. It is a fun book for people that love playing football and love dancing.

This book is great for children that are just starting to read novels. I recommend this book because it is exciting to read and will make children very excited. When you pick this book up you will not want to put it down. If you are a dog lover then you will like this author because she grew up on a farm with lots of dogs.

Marci Peschke has written many other books like Kylie Jean Rodeo Queen and Kylie Jean Singing Queen. this great book is the most interesting book i've ever read

Dear Dumb Diary by Jess M

Dear Dumb Diary

The Author-Jim Benton

ISBN- 978-0-439-79622-4

(Ages 8+) highly recommended


This book is about a girl that has her own diary. She starts writing on Sunday the first. In her diary she does not want anyone looking in it with out her permission because there are words she does not want her parents to see.
There are many books in this series like "Dear Dumb Diary My Pants are Haunted".

This girl goes to school one day and wants to have an accent because her friend Isabelle has an accent. A french TV show came on and she watched it and they made everything sound like you might want to eat it. After tea her best friend Isabella tried to teach Stinker some foreign words Stinker hates cats so she said "goto" it means cats.

I recommend you to read it.