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Term 3
Series: Warriors - The New Prophecy Title: #1 Midnight Genre:Action/fiction/Adventure Plot: The wild cats of the forest have lived peacefully together in their clans for many moons (days). A doom that will change everything is coming. Brambleclaw and 3 other cats (one from each of the four clans) have had a dream sent to them in their sleep by their warrior ancestors. Will they meet up and do something about the doom coming to the forest? Read the book to find out. Response: This thrilling Adventure book really pulled me in to actually think this was real. it has a great variety of adjectives, sentence lengths and verbs. Language Used: This book has some interesting words. e.g Twolegs/upwalkers are people. Kittypets are family cats. Twoleg kits are children. Thunderpaths are roads. Monsters are cars,trucks. Twoleg/upwalker nests are houses,buildings. Location: This thrilling adventure book is set in the forest where the clans are. Reccomended: I recommend this book to people who like a good adventure and are cat lovers. Library Location: This book is found in the local library umder HUNT. Rating out of 10: 10/10

Title: Bindi Wildlife Adventure: A Whale of a Time. Author: Chris Kunz Genre: Adventure/Action Plot: Bindi takes a pair of troublesome English twins out for a whale-watching trip of a lifetime. But when one of the twins spots an emergency flare, they race to the scene of a boating accident, only to notice an oil spill, which may jeopardize marine life for hundreds of kilometers! Response: This book was a great adventure and was also made to give an awareness of whaling in Antarctica. Language Used: This story was written as the third person and was also an easy book to read. Text to World: In this story there was a big oil spill in the ocean which could of harmed a lot of marine animals which also happened about a year ago from BP oil and was spilled in the gulf of Mexico. Location:This book was set at a whale watching center near the zoo. Interesting Facts: Blue whales are the biggest of all whales. The killer whale is actually a dolphin not a whale. I Learned That: Oil spills in the ocean happen very rarely but when they do happen it can effect a lot of marine animals and even make some species extinct. Recommended: I recommend this book to people who love marine wildlife. Library Location: This book can be found in bookinopolis in the kids section under KUNZ. Rating out of 10: 6/10

Title: Bindi Wildlife Adventure: Camouflage Author: Chris Kunz Genre: Adventure/Action Plot: Bindi, Robert (brother) and Terri (mother) have been invited to Singapore for the opening of a new reptile park. But the kids realize they will have to blend into their surroundings to help find a Komodo dragon that has disappeared from her enclosure! Response: This book along with all the others was amazing as it was set in Singapore and included one of the endangered species of reptiles in the the world the komodo dragon. I think using one of the endangered animals in a book of such a famous person as Bindi will be great and will let people know how endangered these animals are and will help them along with all the other endangered species. Language Used: like the story Trouble at the zoo this story has some Australian words like g-day but has some different animal names like the komodo dragon. Text to world: In this story one of the reptile keepers has taken a komodo dragon to kill and use it's skin as a new line for clothes this is happening to all other animals around the world and should be stopped or soon all these animals will be gone. Location: This story is set in Singapore. Interesting Facts: __Th__e komodo dragon The komodo dragon is the largest living land lizard. Their saliva contains poisinous bacteria which will disable prey which will die within 2-3 days. komodo dragons are carnivores. I Learned That: people are to selfish when it comes to fashion that the don't realise when they are getting a animal skin that doing that is making that animal species one step closer to endangerd or worse completely wiping out that species. Recommended: I recommend this book to people who love reptiles,animals or/and komodo dragons. I also recommend this book to people who love fashion to show them that next time they wear a fur coat or something made of animal that he/she should stop wearing this and instead support zoos and other animal places. Library location: This book can be found in bookinopolis in the kids novel section under KUNZ. Rating out of 10: a perfect 10/10!

Term 2
Title: Bindi Wildlife Adventure: Trouble at the Zoo Author: Chris Kunz Genre: Adventure/Action Plot: Bindi's birthday party at Australia Zoo is going to be HUGE. Karaoke, animal rides, dancing competitions, it's all happening! But when a spoilt ten-year-old boy decides he wants to take home one of the zoo's precious water dragons, chaos arrives! Response: This book was a thrilling experience to read as it was about bindi irwin but better yet that at the end of the book they have put a animal fact file about the main animals that were in the story which I think is a great thing expecially to lean something about the most great things on earth which are animals! Language used: Since this story was located in Australia there was alot of Australian words like g-day. Also the sentences ranged from short to complex sentences. Location: This wonderful story is located in Australia at the Australia Zoo that is full of wildlife. Interesting Facts: Australia zoo used to be a reptile zoo untill they let in other magnificent animals. Eastern water dragons are semi-aquatic lizards that are found along the east coast of Australia. I Learned That: Stealing something as important as an animal from the zoo can lead to big trouble, can be fogiven for and sometimes become a show at the zoo (one time only) Recommended: I recommend this book to animal lovers and people who would like to find out something about bindi Irwin's life. Library location: This book can be found in bookinopolis in the kids novel section under KUNZ Rating out of 10: 7/10

Title: Elephants in the East Author: Lucy Daniels Genre: Fiction Plot:Elephants in the East happens in Kenya. It is about the poaching of elephants and is part of the series of Animal Ark. In this story Mandy a girl who loves elephants and wants to save a mother elephant from poachers getting her ivory. In the end Mandy and the others save the mother in trouble and gets her back to her baby. Response: I think I can relate to Mandy because she loves elephants and so do I and if there was an elephant in trouble I would try to save it just like Mandy did. Language Used: This story has a wide range of vocabulary and is very easy to read. I Learned that: Some people are more determined than others. Recommended: I recommend this book for people who love wildlife and for ages 8 - 13 Rating out of 10: 10/10

Title: Saving Sam Author: Susan brocker Genre: Fiction Plot; Saving Sam set in Auckland and is about a boy called Ben and his brother Sam move to go live with their aunt Ida and uncle Joe because their dad is in jail. After being there for awhile Ben and his uncles new dog Layla create a bond together. Ben and Layla start going to a dog obedience class. lately Ben has been worried about his big brother Sam because he has found some packets of powder in his brothers room and also his brother Sam hasn't been coming home lately. After awhile Ben sets out with Layla and his friends to go look for Sam. They were told Sam was at Rainbow's End so Ben, Layla and his friends set out to look for Sam they found him down a hole on the side of the log flume track. in the end Sam was saved and the coach ( the guy who had been hiding Sam from his brother) was sent to prison. Response: This book is one book that I can't relate to because this has never happened to me before but if it had happened to me I would have done the same thing that Ben did. I Learned that: Don't trust anyone you don't know and if you are given drugs go tell someone. Recommended: I recommend this book for ages 10 - 15 and for people who like to have an adventure. Rating out of 10: 10/10

// Title: // **Esio Trot**

Plot: **This story is about Mr Hoppy (a retired bachelor) harbours a secret passion for his neighbour,**
==**the lovely Mrs Silver. Unfortunately she lavishes all her affection on another ... Alfie, her pet tortoise**. ==

Term 1
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** Plot: Geronimo Stilton is a mouse living on mouse island and works in a newspaper company called the daily rat.[[image:subway_cat.png width="103" height="167" align="right"]]**
==**One day while he was waiting in the subway a very frightening sound was heard, it was the most terrifying thing a mouse could ever dream about and it was the sound of a cat. Geronimo and his cousin trap, his sister Thea and his youngest assistant pinky go on a expedition to find more about the subway cat.**==

** Text to self: this story showed me that if you never give up you will never fail and that you should not be scared to face your fears.**
==** Language Used: All through out the story all the big bold, exciting, verbs and other words have been put into pictures to describe the word such as DARK, pink shoes , s c o o p and m o u s e l e t **==

** Genre: A fictional story about a giant**
==** Plot: Sophie an orphan has been pulled out of bed by a giant called the BFG (Big Friendly Giant) in the middle of the witching hour and finds herself after what has seemed hours in a country with yellow ground and blue rocks. After being with the BFG fo a couple of hours they decide to blow a dream into the Queen of England's mind and the Queen, Sophie, the BFG, the Army and The Air Force all work together to capture 50ft giants and bring them back to England and put them in a gigantic pit.**==