Artemis Fowl and the Arctic Incident.

It was a while since I did an Artemis Fowl book, but this is the sequel.  It is the second in a 7 book series.

In this novel, Artemis' dad is captured by the mafia, and he wants to find him. However, he is falsley accused of smuggling illegal goods to the goblin gangs of the fairy city of Haven.The real mastermind behind the plot is Opal Koboi, a homicidal pixie who will kill to achieve her aims, in this case, world domination.

Artemis teams up with Holly to help thwart the plan, but whether they get Artemis' dad I will leave you to find out.

8/10 It is actiony but seems to be a little too simplistic.Still, its a great read and encourages you to read the next one.

L.B

The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

Can you see this person's Mutation?

          This book is about a boy called David who lives in a world that has experienced a nuclear holocaust. Much of the land is uninhabitable except the extreme northern regions. He lives in a country he calls Labrador (which we know as a region of northern Canada but he does not know that any other lands exist except the Badlands to the south). In the Badlands live people and animals which are mutations and his society think are evil. His Father and village leaders obsessed with keeping mankind and their livestock and crops in the "True Image of God". They have rules about animals and plants should look. If a horse is too big, even if it is useful it is not allowed. Mutations are destroyed, even Human ones, whilst his Father preaches about good and evil and the sinfullness of Mutants.
          But one of David's friends, Sophie, is a mutant. She has six toes but tries to hide them. When David finds out he begins to question how someone as nice as Sophie could really be evil. Anyway he has his own secret to hide, he has his own mutation - he is telepathic..........how long will he and some of the other children who share his mutation in his region be able to hide it, especially now that his little sister, Petra, has developed such strong telepathic communication that she is giving them all headaches at the same time. Someone is bound to notice. Should they run away to the Badlands? But what would the people there do to them? What do his dreams about cities far away and strange flying birds (planes but he has never seen one) mean, and distant voices calling to him mean? Is there any truth in the old fishermens' stories about safe lands far, far south of the Badlands?

I would recommend this book to all the readers who enjoy imagenery but real life situations that may occur and imagining what life might be like hundreds of years after a nuclear holocaust when all records of our time had been lost.
I would rate this book 9/10 because it is about young teenagers making life changing decisions.
The title I think refers to the stage of development when a caterpillar is changing into a butterfly, all the cells being mixed up to make something different. The children are going through this change, but they do not know what the result will be.                   J.F.

Point Blanc

Point Blanc is another Alex Rider story. Point Balnc is the second in its series of eight. Alex Rider is a fourteen year old boy with no parents and a person who looks after him. Alex is a spy and is sent to a school in Switzerland called Point Blanc. The spy agency thinks that something is wrong at the school so send Alex to investigate. Whether he makes it out again, well thats for you to read.
8/10
Sercy

the curious incident of the dog in the night time

Christopher Boone is autistic and lives with his dad next door to mrs shears, one day he gets home and discovers mrs shears dog, wellington speared by an garden fork, christopher writes the book to find out who killed wellington he also finds out something about his mum who supposedly passed away 2 years ago.
this book confused me  because  he would stop the story and go into these long maths equations or go on about why he hates yellow and brown and all the chapters were prime numbers so i spent ages trying to find chapter 1 when there wasnt one. i think this is quite a good book, i would rate it 7/10 and would recommend it to everyone.SS

Run , Rabbit Run

Run, Rabbit Run.

This book is a story about an eleven year old girl called Lizzie, her younger brother Freddie and her Dad.

The story is set in the Second World War, but Lizzie is lucky because unlike most of her friends , Her dad isn't fighting in the war .
He thinks war is wrong and refuses to kill anyone .This is mainly because of Lizzie's mum
Lizzie’s mum died in her shop when a bomb landed in an air raid.

Lizzie’s dad starts getting questioned by people asking him why he wasn’t fighting and calling him a coward.

Will (their dad) gets told by the police that he’ll either have to go to prison, or fight in the war.

He won’t leave Lizzie or Freddie so he  decide's to take them on the run.

The rest of the story is about Lizzie and Freddie  finding places to hide, making new friends and keeping safe.I gave this book a 10/10 because there was always something exciting happening. D.H

Scorpia Rising.

Scorpia Rising is the last book in the Alex Rider series. Alex is now fifteen, and this time his old enemy Scorpia has come back. The scene of Alexs last adventure is Cairo, its very exciting blah-blah-blah. One thing I noticed about the book was that it really was the same as any other Alex Rider book. It was exciting, surprising and above all clever. Like the rest of the Anthony Horowitz books. What I mean is that there was no grande finale, or anything like. Just a regular Alex Rider book. I would recommend it to people who read the Alex Rider series and would like to see the end. As for anyone else, Read the goddamn series so that you have to read the last one!
Kiwi

The Cult of Osiris by Andy McDermott

This all about the Dr Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase who get a call from a college girl called Macy who believes that in the hall of records in the pyramids of Egypt has a second entrance which leads to a whole new place ( read to find out ) but little did Nina and Eddie know that this phone call would lead to one of the biggest discoveries in history but they they are trying to find the discovery along with a religious leader Osir named after the king of the Egyptian gods Osiris and his brother Shaban will they find it before Osir and Shaban find it and them. I really enjoyed this book and this series 9/10 very good and a great twist in it. :)  .C.W.

MICHAEL McINTYRE'S LIFE AND LAUGHING

Michael McIntyre's autobiography is a really hilarious and incredibly interesting book about his life. it is weird because up until there are forty pages left he is in a debt of over £30,000 and the most unsuccessful comedian ever... and then he plays at Edinburgh festival and becomes HUGE!...the book is very well written and he really explains everything so that you really get an idea of what kind of embarrasment he had to go through when he "died" on stage.

H.H

Michael McIntyre Autobiography, By Michael McIntyre.

Michael McIntyre's autobiography is one of the funniest things I have ever read.It is his life story:
How he got from a poor school boy to the funniest English comedian, how he met his wife and  his children.
There is not much to say about the story because it will give the story away, and you need to read it for yourself. All I can say is that it is a very good read. I would recommend it to everybody, unless you don't Michael McIntyre. I would give it a 10/10.(It was the best book I have ever read!!)
Mairi Donaldson

Out Of The Shadows

Out of the shadows is a book set in the 1980's in Zimbabwe where Robert Mugbabe has just become president after years of fighting, and he offers land dand freedom to blacks.

Robert Jacklin has just moved from England to Zimbabwe and is now in a completely different enviroment. He makes friends with a boy called Nelson Ndube But quickly has to change his mind because of his skin colour and the encouragement from Ivan. A boy who wants the country how it was before the war and has strong beliefs about people skin colour. I really liked the book because it always keeps you on the edge of your seat and i would rate it 10/10! LA!