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

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.

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.

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.

Binkle and Flip Misbehave

Its another edition of Binkle and Flip which includes more funny stories.These 2 bad bunnies were always playing jokes on people but always get caught by Willy Weasle the policeman.
They live in heather cottage which is in Oak tree town.
They tried to earn some money by having Flip acting as Binkles father and putting some paintings around them then showing the people coming to the market to buy food.

loser

Loser, by Jerry Spinelli is a heart touching story about a young boy, Donald Zinkoff, and why people are called “losers.” This story is about how Zinkoff was one of those people, and how he also got noticed. In this story, you first meet Zinkoff when he is about three or four years old, and are introduced into the world of kids competing and racing. Zinkoff soon enters first grade, and goes to school. He plays soccer and other sports. He loves to just play and has no regard for the rules of the game. His teammates think it's weird that he doesn't mind losing. He keeps a positive attitude and doesn't make many friends, although he tries.He is first noticed when his fourth grade teacher, instead of placing him in the back of the classroom, like all the rest of his teachers had, places him in the front of the classroom. Kids start to notice him. A quote from the book is an example of how little they really thought about him beforehand:
"Zinkoff has always been clumsy, but now they notice. Zinkoff has always been messy and atrocious and too early and giggly and slow and more often than not wrong in his answers. But now they notice. They notice the stars on his shirts and his atrocious hair and his atrocious way he volunteers for everything. They notice it all. Even the dime-sized birthmark on his neck below his right earlobe.

The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson

In his travel book "The Lost Continent", Bill Bryson doesn’t write like most writers -a travel to an unknown country and all. He on the other hand, travels to small town America even though he grew up in Iowa. During his travel he uses many anecdotes relating what he is experiencing alone to what he experienced with his father and siblings when they would all go on a road trip together.
Near the beginning of the book Bill Bryson writes “As my father always used to tell me, ‘you see, son, there’s always someone in the world worse off than you.’ And I always used to think, ‘So?’”. I like this quotation because it is an anecdote without the reader noticing it much and at the same time it is humorous and true.
I would recommend this book to anybody who has or hasn’t been to America because if you haven’t you really will feel as if you have experienced the people.

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure

One of the most interesting things I found about the book was the title, Hemingway Adventure. How did Palin come up with such title you ask? He started reading Ernest Hemingway's journalism, short stories, biographies and memoirs, including less fashionable novels for his research. Once he started to get to know Hemingway more, he was attracted to the same thing he was thirty-five years before - the unforced, unsesational, uncomplicated and magical ability to bring the world to life when he heard of Ernest Hemingway when he was a teenager.
Hemingway Adventure sets out to explore the amazing and rich territory of Hemingway's life. By his inspiration, Palin experiences Hemingway's adventure by either bull-running in Pamplona, fishing for marlin in the Gulf Stream or drinking daiquiris in Havana or even been attacked by cheetahs in Africa "The cheetah bares his teeth and backs up. My hand wobbles. I breathe deeply and keep it moving. It's almost there, hovering above the big, sad, yellow eyes, when the cheetah delivers a sharp and wholly unexpected right hook to my leg". I like it how he added suspension which shows the contrasts between the the big, sad, yellows eyes and when the cheetah attacks him.
Palin's writing is like no other; he allows his audience to portray what he wants as if a picture were to be painted. Humor is what makes his work so entertaining, along with his keen insights on life.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes humor or been taken on a short journey along with Michael Palin.

The Thunderbolt Kid- Bill bryson

Never before has history been laced with so much sarcasm and humor than in Bill bryson's book, "The Thunderbolt Kid". The judgmental, almost condecending, style of bill bryson mixed with a biography of his own childhood maranate together to make a deleciously filling and lively story about america in the late 50s.
The 'Thunderbolt Kid' was what young bill bryson pretended to be when he dresses up as one of the superheros in his comic books. Although he tries to use his powers for good, throughout the book he is constantly zapping people into a smoking piles of ash.

Here is an interview with him






As you can see bill bryson's natural humor greatly contributes to his style of
writing. This great humor is shown by constantly poking fun at himself,

the US, and his general way of life constantly throughout the book.

I recommend that you read through the first chapter, because this

book is to good to stop at one page.

Buy it here

I hope you enjoy this book

17 The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes Home Is Where the Heart Is by Anne Mazer

This chapter of this book is about Abby Hayes moving to a bigger house. Abby's mum is a lawyer and she got a promotion, her mum's office is miles away so they all have to move away from there friends. Abby writes in her diary and expresses her feelings and what she thinks of moving to a bigger house.

I like this book because it is funny and exciting to read if Abby moves houses. And because i can relate to the character's feelings. I reccomend this book to 8- 12 .

Lockie Leonard by Tim Winton

You might think romance is boring but really this isn't just romance it's about a boy who is 12 years of age who is moving to the cost of Australia with his family after living in the city called perth. The book is made up of romance of a young teenager, humor of a family who likes to tease each other and the not very nice experiences of starting at a new school.

Lockie Leonard (main character) is a surfer who moves to the costs and is hit by all the problems of growing up. It isn't easy starting at a new school and starting high school at the same time but Lockie Leonard has to put up with it . lockie does like school too much so he spends most his time at school day dreaming. when he isn't day dreaming he is thinking about the girl who sits at the front of class. Lockie Leonard knows he has no chance with the girl who sit at the front of the class first of all he doesn't even know her name second of all she is like the most popular girl in school.

But if you want to know what happens between the girl at the front of class and Lockie then you better read the book.

i'd recommend this from the ages of 12 to 14 because people younger would find it disgusting and the people older would find it boring. i'd give the book out of 10 about 9

The Titan's Curse- Rick Riordan

With the Harry Potter series done, which book-series will be the next teen-book sensation? Well, look no further, because the "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series will capture your senses! In this third installment, a scheming evil is unleashed that is planning to destroy the world!

Percy Jackson(main character) suddenly recieves an urgent distress call for his friends. He is called for battle. He'll need his powerful friends, his most powerful sword........and a ride from his mom. They race to the source of evil, but little did they know that a devious trap awaits them..

In this hilarious and perfectly-paced book, Percy would have to face his most dangerous challenge yet- the Titan's Curse.

I would recommend this book to anyone! this adventurous novel will have you turn the pages non-stop! I give this book three thumbs up! (If i had an extra hand).

The Adventure of Binkle and Flip

The Adventure of Binkle and Flip is a very funny and entertaining book of 2 bad bunnies named Binkle and Flip they think of doing bad everyday but always get caught by willy weasel the policeman they live in oak tree town.

I recommend this book to anyone who likes to entertain themselves or like humor.i would recommend the age 7 to 12 to read this book or ever bigger childrens may read this book if they have nothing to do

The Sea of Monsters - Rick Riordan

Having a reader's block can cause you to have a severe migrane. Which is why " The Sea Of Monsters" is the book for you! This action-packed novel will have your imagination go wild!

For 12 months,Percy Jackson (main character) thought he was finally free from Greek Monsters, that is until Man-eatting giants showed up at his school. And what's worse, the magical borders that protect Camp Half-Blood have been poisoned by a dangerous enemy.

In this dynamic, funny, adventurous follow up to " The Lightning Thief", Percy and his friends must travel into the Sea of Monsters to save their camp. Many surprises are coming your way!

I would really recommend this book to anyone who has read the first installment. This tale of heroism will cause you to read until the break of dawn. I give this book three thumbs up! ( If I had an extra hand).

Diary of a Wimpy Kid-The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney

"The Last Straw" is the third published book by Jeff Kinney. So far, this book has been an all time favorite, ever since it's release. this book is a humor/fiction book. It displays a teenager, Greg Heffley, who goes through lots of incidents, which are too funny to be true.

This book is set out like a diary entry. It starts out from January the first, where they talk about their new year resolutions". And it ends with Christmas, where they speak about having Christmas back again the Author uses perfect description to describe each minute, of each event.

Here is a summary of the story: Greg Heffley starts his new year of by talking about new year resolutions. It then goes on to school matters, brother conflicts, girlfriend descriptions , birthday and celebration events, and many more things. This book is a 24 hour entertainer, and it will keep you engaged and amused as long as you read it for.

The boy who lost his face by Louis Sachar

Have you ever been cursed? What did you do to break the curse and have your normal life back again? David Ballinger and his friends are sneaking behind Mrs. Bayfield's bush waiting for the right time to steal her snake-head cane. There has been a rumor about Mrs. Bayfield who is a witch that smells like a pig so she becomes a good target to the boys. The boys pretended to visit Mrs. Bayfield and when the right time comes, they took her cane, pulled the rocking chair, poured lemonade over her face, and broke her window. Unluckily, David was the last person when running off so he saw Mrs. Bayfield's underpants. Mrs. Bayfield got so angry, she yelled out, "Your Doppelganger will regurgitate on your soul!"

David did feel bad for what he did, but it was too late. The curse has struck him. All the things David and his friends did to Mrs. Bayfield begin to happen on him. Everything in David's life was going down the wrong path. His friends didn't want to talk to him anymore, his pants fell down when he was about to ask Tori, who David liked, for her phone number, and when he was throwing ball with his brother, Ricky, the ball broke the window. David was terrified that he began to ask people to help him break the curse.

I really enjoy reading this book, and I recommend the book to all teenagers. I think David isn't a bad kid, because he feels guity for what he did to Mrs. Bayfield and he even went to apologize to her. The author is teaching the readers that if you do something wrong, you will have to make some sacrifices. It is important that people learn their mistakes and willing to apologize for what they have done.

Sixth Grade Secrets by Louis Sachar

Have you ever thought about creating a secret club at school? Writing "CLUB WORDS" on the classroom board in early mornings before the teacher walks in, doesn't that sound interesting and fun?

Laura Sibbie, sixth grade, president of Pig City. The story started at a garage sale when Laura saw a hat with "Pig City" written on it. Due to this idea, Laura started a secret club called Pig City with her best friends, Allison and Tiffany. The entrance of joining this club is to tell a embarrassing secret. No one is allowed to tell anyone about Pig City besides the members.

Writing words such as "Pig Rules" on the board everyday seems to be a fun job for Laura, until one day a boy name Gabriel found out the secret of Pig City. Gabriel has a secret crush on Laura, he knew about Pig City, and hoping Laura would invite him to join the club.

Gabriel tried to hint Laura to invite him by passing notes to her, but the notes were changed by a girl who hates Laura. The misunderstanding started. Gabriel decided to create a new club too, called Monkey Town...

This novel is very attractive, because it's very realistic and funny which made me wanted to keep reading this book. Also, it is about school life, boys and girls, which we understands and knew what they are talking about. This book involved not only humor, but also relationships, misunderstanding, and sadness. The ending chapter was very touching, and I really like it. I suggest this novel to everyone, you will be laughing and rolling on the floor when you read it.

Shopaholic & Sister

In the beginning, Becky Bloomwood returns to Britain with her husband, Luke after nearly a year of honeymoon all over the globe to surprise her family and friends. She then realizes that she has changed plenty, however, the world she knew back in Britain hasn't. When she arrvies home, Becky ends up being the most surprised when she finds out about unexpected things such as: her best friend Suze now has a new close friend, she now has a sister, Jess, which in her absence her parents discovered, her husband is no longer "the husband" she knew before their honeymoon, her parents are determined to work hard on their marriage and she is still a shopaholic.
Becky soon finds out how Jess is the complete opposite of her and seem to not be able to get along. Therefore, she tries to do every thing she can to make up for her absence...

Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella

Lara Lington is a qualified twenty-something woman who has always had an active mind, but suddenly her thoughts seem to be on auto pilot. She is getting visited by ghosts, the spirit of her great-aunt Sadie who mysteriously appears to her. Sadie was a lively, tough girl with set ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance. Sadie has one last request that Lara must find a misplaced necklace that had been in Sadie’s possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. But Lara, on the other hand, has a many enduring distractions. Her greatest friend and business partner has run off to Goa, her start-up company is struggling, and she’s just been deserted by her “perfect” man.But Sadie, however, is not bothered about this. Lara and Sadie make a funny duo, and at first it seems as though they have nothing in common. But as the task to find Sadie’s necklace leads to new romance for Lara, these very unlike “twenties” girls learn alot from each other along the way. Twenties Girl is an very moving book that inspires bonds of friendship and family. I highly recommend this book to girls specially. Enjoy reading!