Vampire Kisses By Ellen Schreiber

Raven is a gothic school girl. She only has one friend.
Her family is nothing like her and neither is her one friend.
There is an abandoned mansion, which she sneaks into nothing.
But one day when she goes in and she finds a boy Alexander, they become friends then fall in love.
But, Alexander disappears and Raven will do anything to find him.
On her way to find him she meets Jagger, an evil vampire.
Also his sister Luna and brother Valentine try to kill Alexander.
What I particularly liked about this book was that Raven will do anything
To save her boyfriend.

By Bananas

Vampire Kisses is about a girl who moves to a new town that she thinks is boring then she sees a mansion and wants to see inside. When she is 16 the people that live in the mansion move out and new people move in. They are dark and mysterious and she likes that. She only has one friend but a boy named Trevor likes her and invites her to a party and takes her to the woods to kiss her but she doesn’t like it. Then she meets the boy that lives in the house and they fall in love.

I enjoyed this book because it is romantic and a horror and hope you read it to.

Reviewed by Princess P

For more information on the series have a look at Ellen Schreiber's site. Even better you can download a free Raven bookmark here

The Host by Stephanie Meyer

This book is by the author of the Twilight saga. It doesn’t have the same love triangle with werewolf/ vampire/ human but it still continues to challenge the difference between real life and just stories. This book is about a healer called Fords Deep Waters that helps people that have no soul like the first girl you hear about, Melanie Stryder. The Host (that’s a nickname for the soul) is supposed to take full control of the body but Melanie refuses to fade away and so the Host is forced to give in to the mere teenage girl and the story shows what Melanie makes the Host do. Including find out what happened to her cousin Sharron.

By Lala Land version 3.0

You can find out more over at Stephanie Meyer's Offical website

Who kidnapped the Easter Bunny?

The Easter Bunny has gone missing!

It's up to you to decide who has done the dreadful deed and is trying to spoil Easter.

You have  to decide which of the seven suspects kidnapped the bunny and why. 

Pick up an entry form in the library and you have until Wednesday the 6th of April. 

The best solution will win a Thornton's Choclate bunny and a book.

The Kissing Game by Aidan Chambers

Aidan Chambers is a master storyteller and has won the Carnegie Medal, a lifetime achievement award from NATE, the Hans Christian Andersen Award and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature!

His latest book is  'The Kissing Game' and is a collection of short stories and flash fictions. Even better the publishers of the book Random House have put one of the stories online for you to read right now!

You can read 'The Tower' here

The Secret Seven Adventure by Enid Blyton

This book is called “The Secret Seven Adventure” and the author is Enid Blyton. The book is about a group of seven children who are in a group called the Secret Seven. They are always looking for adventures and in this book they find a heart stopping adventure. It is about someone stealing jewellery from a rich woman and the secret seven have to solve the mystery. It’s a book you would get lost in instantly because its filled with excitement and there are also thrilling moments.

BY ROLYAT INNAL

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

This story is about 4 friends who are getting strange emails, texts and IM’s threatining to tell all the girls secrets This all the work of a mysterious person named A. The girls- Hanna, Spencer, Aria and Emily are certain that the person is Alison but how could it be the girls went to her funrel-but she was the only one who knew all their secrets.

This book is fantastic and has you gripped from the first page. I would highly recommend this to any one who loves a good story.

By Smithy B

Pretty Little Liars is also a TV show now. Find out how they compare over at the offical website.

Shaman King: Volume 3 by Hiroyuki Jakei

My favorite book is called Shaman King: Volume 3 . It is about a young named Yoh Asakura who wishes to become a Shaman King , the Shaman King tournament begins every 500 years and can only be one king. Yoh is joined by 600 hundred year old samurai named Amidamaru which is a person who thinks is a bad man but Yoh believes he’s a normal man not a murderer

By DON’T NO HOW 2 SPEL

Vampirates: Black Heart by Justin Somper

The fourth installment of the Vampirates series, and my favourite. Filled with drama and action; it keeps me holding the book and not wanting to release it. Introduction to new characters, and my own favourite: Lady Lola Lockwood, a.k.a Black Heart. She brings such class to the story and an unexpected romance to the savage brute, Sidorio, the so-called King of the Vampirates.

I can’t believe how much adventures the twins, Conner and Grace Tempest, could appear in and how they were in such a story before they were even born. To meet their mother brings a small warm feeling in my body and such heartache when they find out her time is limited. The story is full of awesome plots and heroic actions. I highly recommend it to age 12+ and to those who love both vampires and pirates.

by Rainbow-Llama

Scarlett by Cathy Cassidy

'Scarlett' is about a teenage girl called Scarlett. She gets expelled from school and her mum has had enough so she sends her far away to stay with her dad. She arrives at her dad's and she soon sees that she has a step-mum who is pregnant and a step-sister. She is so bored that she needs to get out the house, so she goes for a walk and comes across a local boy called Kian who she falls in love with. Will he help her out with all her troubles? Well find out and fead the book !!!

I think this book is amazing it is one off my favourite books.

By Nemo

Time Riders by Alex Scarrow

This book is about three teenagers that should exisit. Liam O’Connor who should have died at sea in 1912, Maddy Carter that should of died on a plane in 2010 and Sal Vikram that should of died in a fire in 2026.

Yet moments before death someone mysteriously appeared and said, "Take my hand …"
But Liam, Maddy, Sal aren’t rescued. They are recruited by an agency that no one knows exists, with only one purpose – to fix broken history. Because time travel is here and those who would go back in time and change the past.
That’s why the Time riders exist to protect us. To stop time travel from destroying the world. It's a really exciting story everyone should read it!

By ?

Find out more at the Time Rider's Website

On the Edge: My Story by Richard Hammond

The book is an autobiography written by Richard Hammond

It is about when Richard had a big crash and some is written by his wife. It is a dramatic real story and it goes though when he was in hospital and when he was in intensive care. Some of it was when he was training for the race to the north pole. It is a very good book in all and I would recommend it!!!!

By jefrull tull

My Sister The Vampire Series by Sienna Mercer

The My Sister the Vampire series are about two teenage girls who are both adopted and meet each other to find out that they are twins!!!! They are both as different as can be as one is a cheerleader and is VERY girly when the other is a Goth and has a secret that can change their lives forever as one is a vampire. The books are very interesting and exciting. I loved it and I think they were the best books I have ever read. There is 4 books in the series and they are fang-tastic!!! I think that the best character was Ivy. She was very funny and nice.

By Anon

How to draw... Characters

The Guardian is creating a series of 'How to Draw' turtorials from some of the best children's illustrators. First up is , Nick Sharratt (who illustrates the Jacqueline Wilson books) he looks at how you draw a character.

Get the tutorial here

Crocodile Tears by Anthony Horowitz

This is one of the best Alex Rider books. Anthony Horowitz is just SUPERB! In this one a Rev. that owns a charity, uses the money from the charity to make a formula to try and kill hundreds of thousands of people. It’s a real thriller! It was as if I was looking through Alex Riders eyes. I really recommend it. If you liked the other Alex Rider books you’ll love this.

By Mike Lasulski.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

What’s it about?:
This book is about a boy named Charlie who is very poor boy with no money or food. With one lucky chocolate bar he gets a once in a life time chance.

What did I think of it ???
I think the book is funny and enjoyable, pupils of all ages can enjoy.

By Dino Dappy

Red Nose Day

Celebrate Red Nose Day by enjoying a nose poem!

YOUR NOSE

The blowing of your nose was a trumpet
thrilling the house, rocking from cellar to attic,
shaking the stairs and banisters. It was a strict
aquiline beak that you called ‘Roman’ – at least
it would have been if you hadn’t broken it
and crooked it sideways in the mending. You ate
Club biscuits in majestic bites, then hooked
the wrapper over your royal snout and snorted
until we giggled. Quick to condemn, you sniffed
with curling lip at fads and fatuous fools.
Even in later years your grand-dad trunk
inhaled the world as fiercely, quivering over
cut glass filled with amber. Presence flared
from your nostrils; little children warmed themselves
by dragon flames that lasted and lasted. Yes.

by Helena Nelson
from her latest poetry collection Plot & Counter-Plot, Shoestring Press, 2010.

You could also have a read of Edward Lear's The Dong with a Luminous Nose

Want some tips on reading poems? Then try this helpful guide form the Scottish Poetry Library

Pirates of the Caribbean

“Pirates of the Caribbean” is a very good book and is easy to keep along with. The characters are fearless. The book is a good long book and would be a good thing to do when you are idle. The story contains betrayal and war on the Caribbean seas.

I thought this book was really long but great. There was a lot of action in it.

By Anon

Mrs Wilson Recommends...

Once by Morris Gleitzman

Dairy of a Chav series by Grace Dent

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly

Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy by Ally Carter

Crossing the Line by Gillian Philip

The Red Necklace by Sally Gardner

The Medusa Project series by Sophie McKenzie

Beauty by Robin McKinley

Uglies by Scott Westerfield

For more ideas try the C2C catalogue

– for every £1 you spend the School Library gets 20p!

You can also order online at www.clubs-school.scholastic.co.uk/jyhs

Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud by Andrew Lane

The book is about the young version of Sherlock Holmes at the age of 14. Sent the countryside for his summer holidays, with his father at war, his brother working in London and his mother and sister ill, Sherlock has to live with his Uncle. While he is staying in the countryside he encounters a boy who lives on a boat, two American immigrants and two mysterious dead bodies, an unknown yellow powder and a gang of street thugs to encounter. Will Sherlock discover the mystery or would he be taken by the mysterious killer of the bodies….

by What is the word?

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is about a kid called Greg who writes a diary ever day about his every day life, his family and all the stuff that he does.
I think that the book is really good and I would recommend it.

By Raving Rabbit

This book Is about a boy who writes his own diary and tells the people who read it all about it his life he has a mum,dad,brother (Rodrick) and 2 friends (Rowley,Fregley).


It is the best book I have EVER read it is amazing I would recommend this to everyone that likes to laugh.it is soooooo funny.5 stars!! :)
By :tadpole


My book is about a boy called Greg who gets bullied by his big brother called Rodrick . He also has a little brother called Mannie who is very naughty. I think it it is really funny.
By hinklebert humperdink

My book is about this boy who gets bullied by his brother and he thinks he is so cool. I think this book is really good because it is funny but that is my opinion. He has got another brother and he is 2 years old but he called GREG a ploopy that must be a bad word for his age. 
By spider pig

Diary of a wimpy kid is about a boy who lives with his dad, mum, and 2 brothers. He doesn’t have many friends and the friends that he does have are not exactly like him, they are much weirder. His brother Roderick is a trouble maker and is in a band.  Greg is in middle school and he is trying to get popular. He tries wrestling, drama, athletics etc. Then he entered the comic strip for the school newspaper and he got in but the teacher basically ruined his comic strip. So he quit that and tried for the safety patrol and Rowley (his best friend) got the job. They got hot chocolate every morning and took the kindergarteners home. But one day Rowley was off and Greg scared the kindergarteners and blamed it on Rowley and Rowley got token off and then they really found out it was Greg and he got token off. They then fell out with each other and had a fight. Then Rowley eat mouldy cheese and they became friends again…  I recommend this book to anyone who reads this.

By spider women

Get Caught Reading

If you get caught reading in the library at break or lunch in March you could win an Easter Egg! 

Everyone's name will be placed in a hat and a weekly winner drawn.

Boys on the Brain by Jean Ure

Boys on the Brain is about 2 girls that get really embaressed when they are with there mums. They get really embaressed with there mums because there mums acted like teenagers. The girls are serious about their homework and unlike their mums they are not going to waste their time thinking about boys.

I think the book is very good and it can be funny at some parts , it is an enjoyable book to read

by Blob 25

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison

Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging is a book by Louise Rennison. It’s about a girl called Georgia Nicholson and all the things that happen in her life, but mainly revolves around her trying to catch a boy’s eye, Robbie, even though he’s 18 and she’s 15, and at the beginning he’s dating the girl that Georgia hates. Her best friend is Jas, who wants to date Robbie’s older brother. I really like this book for a lot of reasons, probably the main one being it’s laid out as if she’s writing a diary of the things that happen in her life. It’s really funny, and it’s full of loads of jokes that make you literally laugh out loud. The front cover is colourful and eye-catching and makes you want to read it straight away. This book has been made into a movie, and I like the movie as much as I like the book.

By Joey Bean

Would You Rather by Chris Higgins

Would you rather is a book about a young teenage girl who is obsessed with playing a game called Would You Rather. The game is all about choices like e.g. daddy or chips? Which one would you choose? She enters a competition to see who can write the best review of a sports game. She ends up meeting a boy called Sam on the train and falls in love! Her Mum rushes her off the train and she thinks she will never see him again, but when her dad's long lost sister comes onto the scene she realises that Sam is her cousin she is gutted. Her prize for winning the competition is a trip to London and then to Italy, but on the way her pregnant sister gives birth at home and they decide to ditch the London/Italy trip and go and see the new baby boy called Albie. I would recommend this book because it is such an interesting book. I could not put this book down. Read it!

By – Randomer that is not telling you their name!

Girl, Missing by Sophie Mckenzie.

My favorite book so far has been Girl, Missing by Sophie Mckenzie.

The book is about a girl called Lauren Matthews who is 14 and is looking for her birth parents because she was adopted when she was 3. When you read further on in the book you find out what happens or what the truth is because her adopted parents wont tell her anything about her past.

She wants to know more when her English teacher sets a homework task for the class. Their class homework was ‘Who am I’. When Lauren gets sidetracked and looks on a website that has missing children, she puts her name and age in the search engine (of the website). She then sees a picture of someone that looks like her and is posive that she is this girl.

She sets out to find this girl or to find out if she is this girl, her friend Jam and her mum and her brother go along with her but when she gets to the airport. Herself and Jam go to buy tickets for another plane.
I liked this because it is a mystry through out the book and when you read further on the book draws you in so you read more.

by Croaky2345

My favourite book is called Girl missing and the author is Sophie McKenzie!

The book is about a girl called Lauren she is 14 and she was adopted when she was three, it is the start of a new term and she has been asked by her English teacher to write an essay about herself but she gets sidetracked and looks on a missing children website. She types in her name and age, and finds a girl who went missing when she was three but the girls name is Martha Lauren, the girl would now be the same age as her.

She prints out the picture and the info of Martha and she hides it under her bed, she then asks her adoptive mum about her past her mum says that it was a closed adoption and she doesn’t know anything. She looks at Martha’s page every night until she had learned it off by heart, she is so sure it might be her but the is two reasons why it might not be 1: the girl’s name is Martha and 2: Martha is from America and she is from London!

Lauren decides to try and convince her family to go on a holiday to America to a theme park but she has a plan, her mum said she could take her friend Jam (James). When she gets to the airport she says to her mum she and Jam are going to get something to eat but instead they go and buy tickets to another part of America to find out what happened to this girl and if she might be her!

Lauren and Jam find out that it’s not so easy to find out about this girl, with people trying to kidnap and kill them and with her parents on her tail the whole time, with loads of twists and turns this story will keep you gripped the whole time!

I really liked this book because I couldn’t put it down the whole time and I really recommended this book to anyone.

Cheesy1234

Love and Kisses By Jean Ure

This book is about a girl who is walking to a friend’s house and sees a guy who he thinks is cute. She then gets to know him and starts getting into loads of trouble cause she thinks she’s all that. She has been seeing him for about 2 months and they decide to run away to Spain together. She asks her mum and dad and they go mad and tells her she can't see him ever again. She continues seeing him and is still planning to run away with him.

I think this is a very good book and would recommend it to anyone who is between the ages of 12-14. The book is easy to read but is quite big.

By Frankie Jones

Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan

Birth of a Killer is about how Larten Crepsly met Seba Nile and became a vampire. On the run after killing his employer, Larten Crepsly meets the mysterious Seba Nile and learns about the world of vampires…

I really enjoyed this book, it has all the horror and adventure you need.

by Jordan Strange

Best Friends by Jacqueline Wilson

Gamma and Alice has been best friends since they were born. Until one day Alice’s parents decide to move to Scotland. Alice and Gamma decide to run away and the only person they told was Biscuit but Biscuit betrays them and tells his mum and his mum goes and tells Alice’s mum they go looking for them and just catch them. Alice’s mum stops them from seeing each other and they move up to Scotland but they still get in touch.

I found this book really good and a would recommend it.

By super woman :)

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

Before I Die is about a girl called Tessa who is 16 years old and is told she had cancer at age 8. Tessa is told she only has a short time left before she will die. She then makes a list of things she wants to do before she dies which her best friend Zoey could help her with. I liked this book because it was really interesting and was very hard to put down.

by Bad Squishy :) :(  :)

Becoming Bindy McKenzie by Jaclyn Moriarty

This book is quite interesting, although at some parts it gets really confusing because the main character is really smart. The book is about a young Australian girl called Bindy who goes to High school. She isn’t good at making friends, and after trying hard, she decides to be mean. It doesn’t work and everyone ends up hating her.

What I really like about this book is that somewhere in the middle, she overhears a conversation that only becomes important close to the end.

By Gummy McDougle.

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

Artemis Fowl is a book about a young Irish boy who is the son of a billionaire. When his father is killed moving a chunk of the family fortune to Russia, Artemis decides to turn to crime to reinstate their status as billionaires. His plan comes in the form of kidnapping a race that has remained hidden for thousands of years - fairies. These aren’t your typical bedtime story fairies.
I really enjoyed this book. Although because it has the word fairies in it and your natural instinct is to think “that’s a girl’s book” that’s not true. It twists your perspective of the word fairies to bring a fun, fast paced book full of adventure.

By Ted Macdonald

Airman by Eoin Colfer

It is about a boy in a dungeon who has to escape to clear his name and wants his old life back.
If you like action, adventure, gun crime, Eoin Colfer’s books is the one you want. It is exciting because the author makes it very tense.

By Boom! headshot

A Winter's Tale by Jenny Dale

Christmas is coming and the Parkers' are working extra hard. They’ve got a kennel full of dogs, then one icy day, Neil’s young pup goes missing. This book is heart felt and tradgic but great in the end. Nothing can bring Christmas cheer to king street kennels until he’s found …

By puppy patrol lover!

A series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket

WHAT IS ABOUT??
These books are about three children whose mum and dad die and get a series of carers. It starts with an Uncle taking care of them but he is EVIL and they go on lots of funny, scary, and interesting adventures. There are thirteen books in the series.

WHAT I THINK OF IT??
I think this book is a great adventure book and highly recommend it to you it is a 10/10 on suspense, scary at points but veryen joy able .

By Hannah Montana