Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 January 2012

Reading now: Hetty Feather



Hetty Feather is a really emotional sort of book that takes place in the Victorian period about a girl named Hetty Feather who is abandoned as a baby. She goes to a foster hospital and gets a foster family whom she loves a lot. When she turns 6, her happiness is threatened because she has to go back to the foster hospital. But she is even more shocked after finding out her family is not actually hers.

When she goes to the hospital, she suffers a lot as she hates it there. She makes friends in the hospital but, she makes enemies too. She tries to look for her mother. Can she find her mother? Well thats for you to find out.

This book is really interesting and almost made me cry at certain times. It's written by the very talented author Jacqueline Wilson.

All Jacqueline Wilson fans need to read this.

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Tuesday, 23 August 2011

Shadow

Michael Morpurgo's Shadow - book cover

I am currently reading a book called Shadow written by the very talented author Michael Morpurgo. Shadow is a very emotional book that takes place in Afghanistan. When Aman and his mother are in danger due to the Taliban, they try to escape and go to England. During their journey, they go through many dangers and little hopes of surviving. At this point their only happiness is because of a Springer Spaniel who  follows Aman like a shadow and that is what they decide to call him. But then it turns out the spaniel is a sniffing dog belonging to the British army. When Aman and his mom have to say goodbye to shadow they find it very hard.

In the end they finally reach England.  Aman finally settles down in school however, because they don't have the right papers to let them live in England they are taken to a detention centre. One of Aman's friend from school, Matt's grandfather comes to visit Aman. When Aman tells him his story. Matt's grandfather is determind to try to help. At that point, Matt's grandfather is their only hope.

This book is a very sad story that made me cry many times. But I guess that the sign of a good writer. The way the author has written this book you feel like the author has been in the situation where Aman and his mother are. It is SUCH a beautiful book and I would recommend it to everyone. If you have not heard of Michael Morpurgo you might of heard of his best books: Alone on a Wide Wide Sea and Kensuke's Kingdom.

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Reading and Listening Now..

Reading..

Listening to.



Monday, 18 July 2011

Reading now..

'Small Steps' by Louis Sachar. It's a sequel to 'Holes' ( Have yet to see the movie.) . Armpit is such an interesting character. The other book I remember of his is 'There is a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom'. My next buy is going to be his 'The Cardturner'. Hope one day I can publish a book. I do write poetry and my parents and teachers do tell me that I write well, maybe this blogging will take me a step closer to one of my many dreams...