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Reviewer: Simone
Book: My Best Fiend
Author: Sheila Lavelle
Type: Fiction
Pictures: some
For: Girls
Age: 7 - 9
Review: This book is about two girls who are best friends. They are called Angela and Charlie. In class they had to do a essay and charlie wrote about Angela her best friend or best fiend as she wrote in her report. Many other storys go on in My Best Fiend one is about a circus coming to town. there was a tiger in the circus. then one day on the radio there was an report on the circus. Angela and Charlie both wonderd what it was about then they heard something that astonised them. The tiger had got loose and was wondering the whole town.
Rating: OK
ISBN: 0-14-037182-6
Reviewer: Eve
Book: A Horse For The Summer
Type: Fiction
Pictures: none
For: Girls
Age: 9 - 11
Review: Tom spends most of his free time at Sandy Lane Stables and he is a very good horse rider. When his cusin go's on holiday she lends him her horse, chancey. The last time Tom had seen Chancey was at the Jumping competion last year and he was a really posh horse and he was jumped well. When Chancey came to the stables he wasn't brought by his cusin but a man he had never met before. Chancey was really scruffy and dirty so Tom groomed him. If Tom was to ride him at the horse show he would have to reschool him so he secretly schooled him every morning before anyone elde was there.
P.S. This is not finished yet!
Rating: AWESOME!
ISBN: ?
Reviewer: Emma.
Book: Just Ferret.
Author: Gene Kemp.
Type: Fiction
Pictures: some
For: Girls & Boys
Age: 9 - 11
Review: A boy called Owen Hardacre has been dragged round the country by his dad Joe, an artist failure.
Rating: AWESOME!
ISBN: 0-14-0345889-2
Reviewer: Alec
Book: Esio Trot
Author: Roald Dahl
Type: Fiction
Pictures: some
For: Girls & Boys
Age: 5 to 7
Review: A nice man falls in love with a nice woman and play a clever trick on her to make her love him.
Rating: very good
ISBN: 0-14-04-034728-3
Reviewer: Jennifer
Book: The Enchanted Horse
Author: Magdalen Nabb
Type: Fiction
Pictures: some
For: Girls Age: 7 - 9
Review: In this book is a little girl called Irina. She finds a junk shop and there is a toy pony in it. She buys it and she takes it home. The pony is called Bella and she comes alive at night and she lets Irina ride on her back.It is a secret ride and nobody knows about it. Then bella runs away with the wild horses.Bella returns in the night and brings her a little foal and it has a sore leg.Irina looks after it.It was a really exciting story but when I started it it didn't feel exciting.
Rating: excellent
ISBN: 0-00-674721-3
Reviewer: Laura
Book: Smokey the mystery
Author: Jenny Oldfield
Type: Fiction
Pictures: some
For: Girls & Boys Age: 9 - 11
Review: This book is about two girls called Hannah and Helen.They came to there anties farm.One day they went to play in the woods and they found a little kitten under a tree.So they took it to there mum and dad and they put signs up a round the village to see if it was any ones kitten.It wasnt so they called the little kitten Smokey and they looked after it for ever more.
Rating: excellent
ISBN: 0340726822
Reviewer: Joshua.
Book: DOCTOR WHO And The Face Of Evil.
Author: Terrance Dicks.
Type: Fiction
Pictures: none
For: Boys Age: 9 - 11
Review: The Doctor on his last quest had left Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan and the Brigadier on Earth to return to a normal lifestyle.He had programmed the TARDIS for earth but had arrived in a gloomy forest. Soon he finds Leela,a warrior banished from her tribe,the Sevateem. The Sevateem worship a god called "Xoanon." Apparently Xoanon has been kidnapped by the Tesh the enemies of the Sevateem. The place where the Tesh live is paradise to the Sevateem so not only do the Sevateem want to rescue Xoanon but they want to take over paradise,the Tesh territory beyond the time barrier. The Doctor has to get in to turn the mad Xoanon back to his normal self.
Rating: very good
ISBN: 0 426 20006 3
Reviewer: Lois
Book: One day at horror land
Author: R.L Stine
Type: Fiction
Pictures: none
For: Girls & Boys
Age: 9 - 11
Review: This book is about a family that were going to zoo gardens but they got lost and found horror land.All the park assistants were horrors but the family thought they were people in green costumes.They tried to kill the family but they escaped and survived and went home.I thought that at the beginning the book was boring but then it got better and a little frightening.
Rating: AWESOME!