If a Tree Falls at Lunch Break by Gennifer Chokendo

In this story you see the lives of two different 12 year olds. Kirsten is an overweight kid who goes to a private school and Walker is a coloured boy who has just moved there from a public school. They are both going through difficult stages in their life. Kirsten constantly eats without others knowing and her best friend has abandoned her for the popular group. For Walker the challenge is to stay away from his friend and cousin who is a bad influence.

When Kirsten decides to make up with her friend Rory she is forced to hang out with the popular group. After an incident with them at lunch, Kirsten decides to look the other way and not talk to them, even when her mum tries to persuade her to have some kind of party or sleepover with them. As Kirsten is sneaking into the garage to get junk food (her mother doesn't want her to eat it but she doesn't find out), she overhead her mother and father's argument. They were arguing about a serious occurrence: the facts from this argument could change Kirsten and Walker's relationship forever.

Daria Sassarini

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo

The book is filled with emotions and two of them are anger and joy. From the start of the book it's basically a flashback on Thomas Peaceful's life when he was young and in his childhood until he was a lot older and in the war fighting.

Thomas has two other brothers: one called Joe but is nicknamed big Joe and the other called Charlie. But when they were all young there was a very sad death which wasn't really Thomas's fault but he could be easily blamed. But after that there are a lot of unfortunate things that happen in their lives.

Then when Charlie and Thomas get older they are both forced to join the army but if you want to find out what happens when they are in the army you will need to read the book to find out and once you start reading you won't want to stop to find out what happens next.

Nico Medinelli


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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