Review of The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder

Review of The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder

pub Dec 2011  9781595143686 Razorbill

 

The fabulous Probability of Miracles is a very descriptive book. It is filled with sadness but is also very entertaining.
It is about a girl called Campbell Cooper who has a horrible disease and the doctors say it cannot be treated. her mother and sister simple won't give up on poor Campbell and they decide to take a trip tp Promise. on the way stopping off at her best friend and her nan's house.
I would recommend this to any teenager looking for a perfect book to take on summer holiday.

By Charlotte Ellis

Review How to Keep a Boy as a Pet By Diane Messidoro

Review How to Keep a Boy as a Pet By Diane Messidoro

Pub  Electric Monkey, Egmont May 2012






How to Keep a Boy as a Pet is an amazingly written book that is so funny in the best witty way.
The book would appeal to the aimed at age group of teenage girls because they feel that they can relate to the story.
It's about a teenage girl called Circe who writes a diary entry everyday about her life. She has two best friends nemaed Tash and Ben. Ben and tash have just got together and are deeply in love. Circe feels pushed out by them but she also has other things on her mind. She wants to become a journalist like her idol Jess Bradley and investigate the minds of boys. Her focus for this is to try and tame her own and the target she has in mind is a hot boy called Jake. She's had a crush on Jake for ages and as the story continues throughout the book we are left to decide whether Circe can 'tame her man.'
I loved how the vocabularry suited the book and how it does not seem to be a planned out story. It is fun and very different.

Review Gods and warriors Michelle Paver

Review of ‘Gods and Warriors’ by Michelle Paver

Pub August 2012 Puffin 9780141339269;

 

                Michelle Paver’s eclectic mix of superstitions and religious beliefs, and the age old fight for survival of the underdog create a sparse world that is somehow still full of hope and rich in culture.

                As Hylas and Pirra came together against a common enemy in the Crows, I found myself rooting for them at every turn, irrelevant of the fact that you remain remarkably uninformed of the motivations of the House of Koronos and the part played by the Goddess in the fate of the young pair until the finale.

                This air of mystery Paver creates simply adds to the distance between the world of the story and the comfort of the sofa upon which it is read, and this allows ‘Gods and Warriors’ to truly capture the reader and impress upon them the importance of conviction and faith necessary to stay truly alive.

 By Becky Steels

Review of Dear Dylan by Siobhan Curham

'Dear Dylan' by Siobhan Curham

 

Pub Egmont Electric Monkey March 2012

 

 

 

Georgie Harris has had a hard time- her dad died in a motorcycle accident, then her mum re-married to 'Tone Deaf', or Tony. Although she loves her little step-sister, Michaela, and she still has her mum, Tony ruins it. He's stringent and openly favouritises Michaela, horrid to Georgie no matter how many cups of tea she makes him, while her mum cowers from his moods. The story starts when Georgie sends an e-mail to Dylan Curtland, a celebrity from her favourite soap who she confesses, in the first e-mail, that she loves him. He replies (if only briefly,) and she excitedly sends back paragraphs and paragraphs, feeling that she has a secret friend and an escape from her mess.

 

Then, after six e-mails of his emphatic consolations, she receives a lengthly explanation of how it wasn't Dylan...

 

It was his mum.

 

I loved reading 'Dear Dylan', because it was the only book that I've read that actually was funny and sad at the same time. It also made you curious about what would happen next, like where it was his mum replying- how else would the 252 pages continue? It turned out that after Georgie's hurt shock subsided, she realised she liked e-mailing Nan (short for Nancy,) and vice versa. They helped each other cope in an unique way and told each other about their problems; some were major that risked Georgie's safety, and some were minor predicaments that kept you interested about how it would turn out... like Jamie becoming her boyfriend, and losing the increasingly malicious Jessica as a friend while Nancy learnt to cope with the death of her husband, Bruce. Tempting, incredible, with intense situations mixed with normal teenage girl problems- a great contrast that makes it a really addictive read.

 

By Abi Pearce, 13

Where She Went by Gayle Foreman

Review    Where She Went  by Gayle Foreman

Pub April 2011   9780525422945  Penguin

 

Imagine everything perfect. Perfect life, perfect girl. Then that perfect girl disappears. Wouldn’t you want to know why? It had been three years since Mia walked out of Adam’s life, cutting off all contact and leaving no explanation. And then they meet again, in New York, both there for different reasons, but fate has decided to give this beautiful love a second chance. Adam finally gets to ask “why?”

I cannot praise this book enough; I absolutely adored it. Fate was really messing around with this pair of lovers. There are good moments, bad moments, confused moments, revelation moments, passion moments and heart-stopping-on-the-edge-of-your-seat moments. At some points, I just wanted to leap into the book and knock some sense into the protagonists for being so mean, stupid, careless and more. You really dislike Mia at first, thinking “how could you?!” but then it is all explained later in quite a showdown and you start going “ah, I get it now!” I would recommend this book to any person who loves mystery and romance or any book that really gets the emotion coming. I loved this book and I bet anyone who reads it will love it too. It was truly heart-warming.

by Georgie Foster