World War One


All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The story of WW1 from the German soldier's perspective.

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
Fictionalised version of Sasson's experiences in the trenches.

Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo
The story of Thomas and his wartime experience.

(un)arranged Marriage by Bali Rai


(un)arranged marriage is about a boy called Manjit (a.k.a Manny) who is part of a Punjabi family. His parents believe that he should marry a Punjabi girl in an arranged marriage and make a big family. The only problem is that Manny doesn’t want to carry on this family tradition and he wants to live his own life his own way. This book is reflecting on Manny’s teenage years throughout his journey to break the family tradition.

A family trip to India makes Manny’s feelings even stronger, this is where he meets his Uncle Jag. His Uncle Jag was just like Manny and managed to escape the traditional Punjabi wedding his family had planned for him. Will he now be able to help Manny do the same?

This book is written in first person which helps you to understand the feelings Manny has and the situation he’s going through. It really helped me to understand what life is like for someone to live in such a strict family but doesn’t want to live that way.

Will Manny manage to get out of his situation? You’ll need to read it to find out!

This book made me feel really sorry for Manny as he was being forced into a situation he really didn’t want to be in. I found this book really good and I would definitely recommend it for people my age to read.

by Snow White

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer


When Bella moved to her father’s home in Forks, She met the Cullens. The Cullens are a family of vampires! Bella falls in love with Edward Cullen, however Edward has to try stop himself from drinking Bella’s blood as her scent appeals to him!

I loved this book! It’s so exciting and makes you want to read on. You just don’t expect anything that happens, it’s all a surprise and that’s what I love about it. I wouldn’t recommend this book to adults, but for children and teenagers this book is amazing!

by Anon

Twilight by Stephanie Meyer


The author of Twilight is Stephanie Meyer, Twilight is the first book in the series. Twilight is a modern-day romance between a vampire and a human. Bella Swan has always been different; she doesn’t care about fitting in with the crowd at Phoenix high school she likes to do her own thing. Her mother remarries and sends Bella to live with her dad for a little while in a small rainy town called Forks. She doesn’t expect anything to change until she meets Edward Cullen; he was different than the rest of the boys she had ever met. Intelligent and beautiful, he see’s right into her soul. Edward and Bella fall madly and deeply in love. Edward can run faster than a mountain lion, he has aged in the slightest since 1918, and he can stop a movie van with his bare hand. Unlike most vampires he and his family don’t drink human blood. The closer they get the harder it gets for Edward to resist the scent of Bella’s blood. But when the Cullen’s mortal vampire enemies come hunting for Bella?!

Reviewed by Robsessed.

A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket


This is a story about Violet, Klaus and Sunny Baudelaire whose parents die in a house fire. The kids are sent of to live with their Uncle Olaf. Olaf treats them badly and goes out of his way to make them miserable. The kids are then taken to other relatives but Olaf tries to get them back by dressing up in disguises He doesn’t like seeing the kids happy so he tries to kill them. He kills all of the relatives they are with so that he can have custody of the once again. The adults don’t know what he is up to but he doesn’t fool the kids. Do the kids stop Olaf and save their remaining family. I chose this book to read and not the first ones because I like this one better. You don’t have to read the first ones to understand what it is about because it is a story in it’s self. This story has a lot of drama and excitement in it and would be good for people who like adventure stories.


By Mr Blobby

The World According to Clarkson is a very good book and a great laugh.
It is written by Jeremy Clarkson and is the first in a series of six. It takes columns that he wrote as a journalist from the newspaper the Sunday times from the years 2001 to late 2003. Topics vary from big news to stories of when he travelled Europe.

You don’t have to be a fan of Clarkson to read this book because there’s something for everyone but it is mainly aimed towards teenagers and adults and it’s not really for young children.

By Anon

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman


The Subtle Knife is all about Will Parry, a boy who wants to learn more about his father because he was an explorer and he went out on a mission in Antarctica and never returns.

So Will goes out to Oxford to see if he can find anything about his father. Failing to find anything, Will sees a cat run into a bush and not come back. He investigates and finds a portal of some sort and he runs through it. He finds himself in a city of silence, no one is here. He later meets Lyra, who is neither from his world nor this one. They team up and form as allies and continue their adventures together from there. Will discovers that there is more than just his world, there are millions…

I really love this book because it is really exciting and it may start off boring, but it gets more gripping. There are however, a lot of characters which may cause confusion, and a complex storyline which you must have either read the first book, or see the film The Golden Compass to understand. I would recommend it for those who love realistic fantasy and want a great, phenomenal adventure.

By SH

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster


The Phantom Tollbooth was written by Norton Juster in 1961 and is a fantasy book which follows the adventures of a boy called Milo. Milo is a smart boy but was never happy with what he was doing and was often bored. One day he came home and found a package in his bedroom with a tollbooth and a map in it. So he set up the tollbooth and drove through in his toy car to find himself in a new world, driving along a road. In his journey Milo visits many places such as the Doldrums, Expectations, Digitopolis and Dictionopolis and makes some good friends like Tock, a dog with an alarm clock on his body and the Humbug a big, beetle who is never right about anything. Milo is set a quest which he must complete so that the kingdom can be restored to harmony but finds that there are some obstacles in his way.
by Regina Falange

The Hobbit by J.R.Tolkien


The Hobbit is a story by J.R.Tolkien and is followed by The Lord of The Rings. It is about a hobbit called Bilbo Baggins who is tricked into joining Gandalf the wizard and 13 dwarfs on a quest to go far away to the Lonely Mountain and reclaim the dwarfs long lost treasure from the evil dragon Smaug .on the way to the mountain the hobbit and company encounter trolls, goblins, wargs(evil wolves).

By Anon

Scorpia – Anthony Horowitz

Scorpia is the 5th book in the Alex Rider series written by famous children’s’ author, Anthony Horowitz. It is about a 14 year old schoolboy named Alex Rider who was told by Yassen Gregorovich (Eagle Strike) “Go to Venice, find Scorpia, and you will find your destiny.” Co-incidentally the very next school year there is a trip to Venice with the school. Alex is not sure whether to go or not so he seeks advice off of his caretaker, Jack Starbright and she encourages him to go. So he heads off into Venice as a schoolboy, not aware at all that he will run into danger once again, but this time with one of the most ruthless gangs ever known, Scorpia.

I like this book because of the storyline. It is very different from most teen-action books and the author includes lots of detail in describing the scenes and it makes you feel like you are witnessing it. In the end all is revealed to Alex, but is it what he wants to hear?

I would recommend this book to all children aged 10-14. Overall I would give this book a 10/10.

by Akbar Shabaz Jenkins

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer


New Moon is one of the better based books out of the series of Twilight. Edward moves a way suddenly and leaves Bella heartbroken. She discovers a relationship which she never thought she would have with Jacob Black who also has a strange family background. Though Jacob becomes other than what she seems. The action would really start to begin in the second half of the novel, and all the secrets are revealed.


I loved this book, I couldn’t keep my eyes away. You wouldn’t expect anything that happens in that series and would recommend this book to people of the age of 12-14. I will continue to read the rest of the twilight series. The book was amazing and I am sure to hope that the next book is even better!

By Nemo

New Moon by Stephanie Meyer


New Moon is the second in Twilight series and
Follows on the story of Edward and Bella’s love
for each other. This is the best book in the
series for me because it goes into a lot more
detail than Twilight and you can really relate to
it in real life some of the time. Edward feels that
he is doing more harm to Bella that good so he
and his Family move away. Unknown to Edward
Bella Is slowly slipping into a state of severe
depression and is finding it hard to cope.

Bella soon finds out that if she feels like she did
With Edward she can here is voice inside her
Head. This means she has to become more of a
Daredevil so she buys 2 bikes and takes them
Over to Jacob Black’s house. She soon finds
Out that she forgets about every thing and she
Feels came and in control.

Later on Jacob stops answering Bella’s calls and
She starts slipping back into a depression. She
Soon finds out the reason why, Jacob is a werewolf!

One day Alice arrives at Bell’s house and tells her
That everything is ok but when Jacob and bella are
In the kitchen Jacobs answers and the man on the
Asks where Charlie was and he say at the funeral.
The man on the phone was Edward and her thinks
He meant at Bella’s funeral so he goes over to
Italy to see the Volturi to ask if he can be killed.
Alice picks up on this so they jump on a plane
But can they save Edward.
I highly recommend this book.

By The Vampire in the Closet x

Mummy, Come Home by Oxana Kalemi


This book is a true story about Oxana Kalemi, a mother of three who lives in Ukraine, who tries to start a new life for her and her children. Being tricked about a job by her best friend, she travels to Turkey to try and earn some more money, in a factory that doesn’t exist, but ends up being kidnapped and sold into trafficking in the UK. Torn from her children Oxana tries everything to be reunited with them again.

By Cabbage Patch Girl

Marked by P.C. and Kirstin Cast


Zoey is your average 16 year old. The story starts off like normal life a t school, with your best friend, boys and gossip! Until Zoey gets marked as a vampire fledgling, too her nothings changed but too her bestfriend, K, and to her mum... This is a disaster! When Zoey gets home, as expected, her mum and John Heffer (Zoey’s step dad) doesn’t understand. Zoey goes too her room and sneaks out of her bedroom window into her car, she’s off too see the one person that will understand! Her Grandma, Sylvia Redbird. She can’t wait too see her Grandma and smell the relaxing smell of lavender from her grandma’s lavender fields.

Zoey finally reaches her grandma’s house but she isn’t in... So Zoey starts too walk up too her lavender fields and on her way she trips, bangs her head and makes her self unconscious. When she is unconscious she gets a visit from Nyx the vampire goddess…

I really enjoyed this book; I literally couldn’t put it down! It’s a good mix of genres and I’d recommend this book to other readers. It’s a book for older readers; it’s not exactly suitable for people under the age of about 12!

By Nemo

Bec by Darren Shan


BEC is by far one of the best Darren Shan. Books available, it is a tale about a young woman no older than 18 or 19 who lives in a rath/fort in a time when the world is in need of a hero. In a world of magic mayhem and . . . . . DEMONS the young Bec must arise and fulfil her destiny as the most powerful priestess alive,and save the human and magical world from coming under the rain of the perilous gruesome and evil. . . . . . DEMONATA!!!!!

By Nemo

Chinese Cinderella By Adeline Yen Mah


The book “Chinese Cinderella” was written by Adeline Yen Mah. It is an autobiography about her tragic childhood and her fight for recognition in her family.

It all starts when her mother died to weeks after she was born. Her siblings all blame her for killing her mother and it was all her fault. It doesn’t help that her father then marries an evil woman who they called Niang. She then becomes the leader of the house and only respects her two children and leaves the other five to fend for themselves. She buries herself in her schoolwork to take her mind of her upsetting home life. She finds great joy and refuge in her writing. The only people that really love her are her Aunt Baba and her Ye Ye (Grandfather).

This is a fun yet very traumatic read it was one of those books that you cannot put down until it is finished. I would highly recommend this book to anybody.

Adeline Yen Mah also has a second and more adult version of her autobiography called “Falling Leaves”.

I rate this book 4 stars!

By K

Cherub: The General by Robert Muchamore


Cherub: The General is the 10th book in the series. It is about an organisation of child spies who go undercover all over the world to catch criminals named CHERUB. At the start of the book, 16-year-old James Adams is working undercover in an anarchist group known as S.A.G. (Street Action Group).He is trying to nail the group’s leader called Chris Bradford because MI5 think that he is trying to gain weapons to transform S.A.G. into a terrorist organisation. At the same time his 13-year-old sister, Lauren Adams is sent on a routine security mission to test a new Air Traffic Control Centre.

By Nemo

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer


The Artemis Fowl books are very good because there an easy read and funny.
My favourite Artemis Fowl book is the 1st one it is based on a kid genius that has discovered fairies; he manages to capture a LEPrecon police elf. Her name is Holly Short she is the only female elf
In the Elvin police force. She lives underneath the earth’s surface near the core at a mega city called Tara it is the biggest city under the surface.

He takes her back to his mansion which he inherited of his father it has security cameras a wall on all sides and Artemis’s own body guard called Butler he is a huge man compared to Artemis that can cook clean or use any weapon on earth or any thing as a weapon.

He is smart because he predicted the more advanced fairies had trackers on their armour he found the tracker in her helmet and had butler hide it on a boat where her commander Root came to rescue her. But he didn’t know that Artemis would play such a crafty trick: he strapped a sizeable bomb to the tracker root survived but had a whole new perception of Artemis fowl.

Holly had travelled above ground to get to a oak tree which she could regenerate her magic, all she had to do was put an acorn into the earth and her magic would come flooding back, but she had not been able to do this before she was abducted. What Butler and Artemis did not know was that she had stashed the acorn in her boot.

The rest of the LEPrecon was planning an attack at fowl manner due to the fact that humans could have access to weapons and technology that they were not ready for such as Holly’s side arm that could with a single blast blow a house up.

They had decided to take a master of “breaking and entering” out of jail to do the job – tunnelling under the manor get holly out so the LEP could blue rinse the place which was bio–bombing the place.

He failed to save them so they send in a troll to bash the place down but artemis has a plan that could get them all killed ….

By Nemo

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison


Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging (aka Angus, thongs and perfect snogging) is a book about a teenage girl named Georgia. Georgia is an average teenage girl and throughout this book you will experience things a normal teenage girl does during her teenage years.

Her friends are called Jas, Ellen, Rosie and Jools . They call themselves the ace gang.
During the book Georgia is moaning at her dad and mum to have a disco in a club for her birthday coming up but her mum and dad won’t say yes. So when Georgia’s dad goes away to New Zealand with his work, Georgia is left with her mum, little sister Libby and her cat Angus and she is hoping she can persuade her mum to let her have the birthday party without her dad being here.

Jas and Georgia are the closest out of all their friends and when these two utterly, fit boys come to there school they both get major crushes on both of them and try to get them to notice them . Georgia has her eyes on Robbie and Jas has her eyes on Tom. Tom and Robbie are both brothers but are not very much alike in personalities.

So will Georgia get her birthday party and will Jas and Georgia get the two boys they want? You will have to read it to find out.

I found this book amazing. After I started reading the book I couldn’t put it down. It made me laugh a lot and I liked it because it was set in a diary sort of way. I would recommend this for girls because I don’t really think boys would find this really that interesting to read . This is definitely a book worth reading!

By Cindy Fudge.

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