The Eye of Ulam by Terry Denton

Terry Denton was born in Melbourne in 1950. He is one of Australia's busiest literacy writers. The eye of Ulam was published in 2001. It is a fiction comic adventure book. There are 130 pages in this book but it is mostly comics with pictures. This book is about a guy who lost his eye and needs to put an eye on the statue of Ulam to get his it back.

The first part of the plot is easy to understand. First, there is a guy called Nico who likes to surf and he’s been participating in a surfing championship. He has been practicing but then his friend says that his other friend has lost so Nico to decide to save his friend and give up the surfing championship. The story is at the statue of Ulam. The pace of the story is quite slow. It’s not that fast and it’s not straightforward. It’s not straightforward because it doesn’t tell you straight away that his friend is lost. It tells you one thing at a time. This is a good thing because it makes you more interested.

The parts that I enjoy are the parts where there is comedy I think these parts are funny. I don’t like the part where there are too many writings. The plot was ok- not too boring and not too interesting. The character was not believable because there is a character with only one eye in the middle. I think the novel is suitable for a year 6-7 kid. I would recommend this to some people because it is a bit funny so I think it’s not a really bad book.

Review by Evan Weng

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Leviathan is a war fantasy by the American author, Scott Westerfeld. He’s quite famous for having written science fiction novels. This book is quite related to Science even though it’s a war fiction. It was first published in 2009, and became one of best sellers in the US. Leviathan continues its adventures in the book, Behemoth, and is a historical fiction about World War 1, adding some science developments to it.

The plot is simple. In 1914, the war seems inevitable. Alek is the prince of Austrian Hungary and he hears that his father has been killed by Germans who want war. So he flees for his life with his faithful servants. In Britain, a girl named Deryn, who wants to be a boy joins the military, hiding her gender. She changes her name to Dylan and rides in a big airship, Leviathan. Then, days later, the war breaks out and the whole of Europe goes into war mode.

The story is told in third person, which allows the settings to keep changing between Alek and Deryn every 2 chapters till chapter 23. This is a quite well paced story written in a thought provoking way. You have to think about why; the characters acted in such weird way. For example, Deryn bets her life to save a high ranking military solider. Why?

To me, Leviathan is a very exciting novel. It’s mixed of the past & the future. The warships and the beasts are all science fiction like, but the story itself is based on events from World War 1. Characters do have emotions. It’s got a message of how war can affect others, even a prince. The author and highly recommend this book for teenagers and I agree, because this book looks to me that it’s suitable for teenagers.

Dear Dumb Diary is a fun book written by Jim Benton. This book isn’t really old, it was published at 2009 and it is still popular now. Dear Dumb Diary is all about a girl’s life. It is mainly about a girl overcoming her problem and at last she becomes friends with her enemy.

The plot is like this. The girl who writes the diary is Jamie. Recently her aunt’s dog is married to her enemy, Angeline. She is really happy. She has a friend called Isabella; she also loves puppies so Jamie promises to give her one of the puppies after the puppies are born. Isabella is so excited. Jamie goes to Angeline’s house and sees the puppies, but the puppies are still too small to give away. This situation is driving Isabella crazy. Jamie still hates Angeline, but not as much. When the puppies are old enough, Isabella and Jamie go to Angeline’s house to pick a puppy. Then they become best friends.

Dear Dumb Diary may seem like a fun book, but it actually contains more then just fun. It is a story that contains friend ship. It might be hard to believe they became friends at last because Jamie wrote a lot bad things about Angeline at first. You can get lot of entertainment out of this book. I think this book is a really fun book. Do you like fun books? If you like fun books this can be one of your choices. This book is suitable for everyone because every one likes fun stuff and learns something at the same time.

Passion Flower

Passion Flower is a very interesting, cool, and, funny book written by Jean Ure. It was first published in Great Britain by Collins 2003. Passion Flower is realistic fiction that explores love between a dad and his daughters, and how a couple can be separated.

The plot is this. Passion and Afterthought are sisters; their parents are always fighting and arguing until one day they divorced. They didn’t live together anymore. Their dad went to live in Brighton. Later Passion and Afterthought had vacations, so they went to visit their dad. Their dad was living very poorly in a very small apartment and sometimes he had very little money and sometimes he had a lot of money. The girls started to think that their dad was a thief! They noticed that their dad didn’t pay much stuff such as, the apartment, clothes, food and many other expenses. He also lied to his daughters telling them that they will never see their mum again. This story is told in the first person. Passion Flower is also a well paced story.

Passion Flower is a very interesting story which includes believable characters and a plot that keeps the reader’s interest. When you read the story you’ll understand how Afterthought and Passion had been in a very hard situation. The message of the story is that you can’t trust anybody that you don’t know very well. I recommend this book to teenage readers.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (The Ugly Truth) By Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a book about Greg’s Middle School life. Greg has a family with four other members. They are: Rodrick (Older Brother), Mom, Dad and Manny (Baby Brother). It was first published at November 9th, 2010. Each book in the series book is 224 pages long. The book is basically about Greg’s school life.

The plot of this book is Greg horsing around in school and what he does in his school. It has been about 4~5 weeks since he had an argument with his ex-best friend Rowley Jefferson. The novel is set in Greg’s town and school. The time set is the middle school time. Greg has almost reached teenage years. The main character is Greg and minor characters are his friends and his family. He’s always doing fun things and witnessing weird things like Rowley having a peer helper. Rowley never noticed any differences he had seen.

Greg was meant to go to Jordan Jury’s party one day, but Greg couldn’t go because of Uncle Gary’s wedding. Afterwards, Greg felt happy because Jordan used people he invited in his grade to be his servant. The story is connected with The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days when Greg had the argument with Rowley. The summary of this book is his future and his trouble in school and in his house.

It is a very fun book with fun characters and a fun story. It is a quite well-paced and straightforward story. I strongly recommend this book because it is very fun and you can also learn English with this book.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a book written by Jeff Kinney. It was published in April 2007. The pace is really fast, for example, one day is only a few paragraphs. This story is a JOURNAL written by Greg Huffily. He is a person that have a babyish friend called Rowley, and he even says babyish stuff, such as “play” not “hang out”. Anyway, Greg always have unlucky things happening to him, for example, when he tries to listen to his brother’s(Rodrick) music through the headsets, but it came out from the amp.

In my opinion, I think this book is great. In this book I discovered that the main character Greg has many same issues that I have. The thing I remember that he had a fight with his friend, me too, it happened with me and Yoshi. And on halloween night, he got so many candies, but he loose is at the end, I had that experience before, I feel so bad, and the next day I feel perfect.

Back to the point, Greg is a wimp, which me laugh all the time, he do some stupid but funny stuff, if you are a person like him, I recommend students in primary school to read this book.

The Night Bus by Anthony Horowitz

The Night Bus is a very scary and mysterious book. It’s written by Anthony Horowitz. The Night Bus was published in 2002 and the text was written by Anthony Horowitz at 1999. This book has three different chapters having different stories, but they are all scary. There are the night bus, the hitchhiker and the man with the Yellow face. This book only has 79 pages in total and text is quite small. The pace is fast. So this horror book, which is fiction is not very long, but has lots of events. The night bus is mostly about Nick and his brother Jeremy going to their cousin’s party on the 31^st of October (Halloween). Lots of scary things happen…….

The story is that Nick Hancock and Jeremy Hancock are going to their cousin’s party and his father rarely agrees to let the brothers go to other people’s party. But this time, because it’s their cousin’s, John Hancock (the father) agreed to let them go but they had to be back by half past eleven. When they left the party it was already five to twelve and Nick dressed as the devil, and Jeremy as Count Dracula. They Were feeling very small and stupid as they walked together through

Trafalgar Square

in the heart of London. Then they saw a Night bus, so they decided to go towards the bus and there were no passengers, no driver and no conductor. After a while, when Nick looked at his watch and saw the time tick from 23:59 to  00:00  “the lights came on, the engine rumbled, the bell rang and the bus lurched forward. The conductor, dressed in a crumpled grey uniform that looked at least 10 years out of date”. Then, scary things happened………….

The Night Bus is a very good novel with a few believable characters and plot that keeps the reader’s interest. Sometimes you will get kind of scared, but the scariness that this novel gives you is very fun. It still compels you to read on and see what happens next. I think that there is also a message that this novel wants to tell us. The message is children shouldn’t be outside when it’s late midnight. This book is suitable for all ages, even old people can read it!!

THE EYE OF ULAM By Terry Denton

Terry Denton was born in Melbourne in 1950. He is one of Australia's busied literacy writer. The eye of Ulam was published in 2001. It is a fiction comic adventure book. There are 130 pages in this book but it is mostly comics with pictures. This book is about a guy who lost his eye and need to put the eye on the statues of Ulam to get his it back.

The first part of the plot is an easy to know. First, there is a guy called Nico he likes to surf and he’s been participated in a surfing championship. He has been practicing but then his friend says that his other friend has lost so he to decide to save his friend and give up the surfing championship. The story is at the statue of Ulam. The pace of the story is quite slow. It’s not that fast and it’s not straightforward. It’s not straightforward because it doesn’t tell you straight away that his friend is lost. It tells you one thing at a time. This is a good thing because it makes you more interesting.

The part that I enjoy is the part where there is comic, I think the part is funny. I don’t like the part where there are too many writings. The plat of the story was ok not to interesting and it wont to boring. The character was not believable because there is a character with only one eye. I think the novel is suitable foe a year 6-7 kid. I would recommend this to some people because it is a bit funny so I think it’s not a really bad book.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a book about Greg’s Middle School life. Greg has a family with four other members. They are: Rodrick (Older Brother), Mom, Dad and Manny (Baby Brother). It was first published at November 9th, 2010. The book is 224 pages long. The book is basically about Greg’s school life.

The plot of this book is Greg horsing around in school and what he does in his school. It has been about 4~5 weeks until he had an argument with his ex-best friend Rowley Jefferson. The novel is set in Greg’s town and school. The time set is the middle school time. Greg almost reached teenage years. Main character is Greg and minor characters are his friends and his family. He always doing fun things and witnessing weird things like Rowley having a peer helper. Rowley never noticed any differences he had seen.

Greg was meant to go to Jordan Jury’s party one day, but Greg couldn’t go because Uncle Gary’s wedding. Afterwards, Greg felt happy because Jordan used people he invited in his grade to be his servant. The story is connected with The Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days when Greg had the argument with Rowley. The summary of this book is his future and his trouble in school and in his house.

It is a very fun book with fun characters and story. It is quite well-paced and is very straightforward story. I strongly recommend this book because it is very fun and you can also learn English with this book.

The question here is answered with unbelievable and weird answer.

Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld

Leviathan is a war fantasy by the American author, Scott Westerfeld. He’s quite famous for having written science fiction novel. This book is quite related to Science even though it’s a war fiction. It was first published in 2009, and became one of best sellers in the US. Leviathan continues its adventures in the book, Behemoth, and is a historical fiction about World War 1, adding some science developments to it.
The plot is simple. In 1914, the war seems to come up. Alek is the prince of Austrian Hungary and he hears that his father’s killed by Germans who want war. So he leaves for his life with his faithful servants. In Britain, a girl named Deryn, who wants to be a boy goes to military, hiding her gender. She changes her name to Dylan and rides in a big airship, Leviathan. Then, days later, the war explodes and the whole of Europe goes into war mode.

The story is told in third person. Settings keep change between Alek and Deryn for every 2 chapters till chapter 23. This is a quite well paced story written in thought provoking way. You have to think about why; he/she acted in such weird way. For example, Deryn bets her life to save a high ranked military solider. Why?

To me, Leviathan is a very exciting novel. It’s mixed between past and the future. The warships and the beasts are all like science fiction like, but the story itself are based on events from World War 1. Characters do have emotions. It’s got a message of how war can affect others, even prince. Author and I both highly recommend for 10’s because, this book looks to me that it’s suitable for some kids and teenagers.