Carrie's War by Nina Bawden

'Carrie's War' by Nina Bawden
Are you a fan of stories that give you an insight into what it was like as a wartime evacuee? If so, then 'Carrie's War' by Nina Bawden is the book for you.

The book follows two children, Carrie and Nick Willow, during their time as evacuees. They are billeted in Wales with the unlikeable Mr. Evans and his kind, comforting sister, Auntie Lou.

The children have a hunch that Mr. Evans has been up to mischief and old tricks. However, Carrie is the one who discovers the truth (or does she?) Her discovery results in the most terrible thing she has ever done. This thing still sticks vividly in Carrie's mind, many years after the incident, when she is grown up and brings her own children to Wales, back to what she believes to be the scene of her crime.

By Ian Keir
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The Saint of Dragons by Jason Hightman

The Saint of Dragons' is a novel by Jason Hightman about a boy called Simon who lives in a boarding school. His life seems quite normal and he doesn't know what happened to his parents, as he has never met them before.

One day, his dad appears at the school looking for Simon, but Simon doesn't believe that that he is his father. His father, Aldric, then leaves again. However, he comes back on his horse and takes Simon away, telling him that he is a dragon hunter and he needs his son's help. They go to New York and destroy what they think is the last dragon, but they soon discover that there are hundreds more. They go to Russia to track down the next dragon on the list, but they are nearly killed and are forced to retreat.

Simon is tricked by a dragon from Beijing, and he takes Simon to a large meeting of all the dragons in existence in London. Aldric has no choice but to follow his son and the dragon there. They are taken prisoner and are going to be killed by the Queen Dragon. How could they possibly escape???

I enjoyed this book because it is exciting and you don't quite know what is going to happen next.

Christopher Scholes

Doctor Who : Price of Paradise

Doctor Who and The Price Of Paradise is written by Colin Break who is one the people who write the Doctor Who books. The book is based on a planet called Laylora also known as the Paradice Planet with people who live in places like large forests with no technology.

When the Doctor and Rose arrive on the planet they find a place that has the perfect Eco-system , falling apart and being Doctor Who they find some other form of life which has come from ancient legends , and they wonder does this have anything to do with t a large spaceship that has crashed on the planet.

I thought that the book was a good read. I would recommend the book to people aged between 9-14 since the language is a bit harder to understand than some of the other Doctor Who books.

Euan Clague

Doctor Who Snowglobe 7

If you are some one who likes Doctor Who or adventure books then this is a book you should try reading: Snowglobe 7 , written by Mike Tucker .

The story is based on Earth in 2099 and in order to preserve parts of the world, governments have taken large parts of places like the Antarctic and Arctic for snowglobe 7 . There are other globes which are based on hot places like Spain and others like jungles but the story is mainly focused on the snowglobe.

The main characters are the Doctor and Martha the doctor's companion. The place is meant for peace and relaxation but they end up finding out that the snow and ice are not the only things that are in the dome and end up finding an alien that could have been from the last Ice Age , and they soon find out that it poses a threat.

It's a good read that will be enjoyed by most ages. It is a reasonably large book with 260 pages broken into 20 chapters but it's not a hard book to understand or read and you will probably want to read it more than once.

Euan Clague

The Falcons Malteser by Anthony Horrowitz

This book is about two detectives but one of them is the worst detective in the world but his younger brother is a way better detective. Tim, who is the bad detective, gets a parcel with five million dollars in it, which the owner gave to him to keep it safe but Tim and his brother Nick soon find out that the guy that gave him the parcel was murdered.

The bad guys soon find out that the brothers have it and every bad guy in the town is after them for the parcel. So it is up to them to keep it safe.

This is a good book because you don't know what's going to happen next and you just want to keep on reading.

Nico Medinelli

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a compilation of Sherlock Holmes' "mini-adventures". The book was written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famous Scottish author from the Victorian era. There are twelve stories in the book, my favourite being the seventh, "The Blue Carbuncle".

The Blue Carbuncle starts when a gem known as the Blue Carbuncle belonging to a countess goes missing and appears in a goose a few days later. Sherlock Holmes decides to track down and find the thief, along with his sidekick, Doctor John Hamish Watson. The narrator of the stories is Doctor Watson and he has an interesting view of the events that happen. It is also slightly hard to understand, due to the fact the grammar is quite old. It uses phrases like "said I" instead of "I said" and some complicated words, but you really get into them. I'd recommend this book for somebody who has a large vocabulary and it is a very good read.

Nathan Bonner

Small Steps By Louis Sachar

Small Steps is a book of great reading and I recommend this book to all ages because it is funny and gripping. It is the sequel to Holes, the bestselling book by the same author.

It starts off with Armpit and Xray. This was after Camp Green Lake . Xray decides to sell tickets to Kaira De Leon's concert and make lots of money selling them and he asks Armpit to join him so he could double his money. The story goes on with fake tickets, police, Kaira De Leon, Fallouts and coffee in the face.

This book is happy, funny but sad at the end. I really recommend this book as it is now my favourite book ever.