Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K Rowling is a story about Harry Potter in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. In his first year he defeated Lord Voldemort (the dark wizard who's name many wizards fear to speak so they say "You know who" or "Don't say his name". Harry and his friend Ron Weasley are late for the Hogwarts Express so they go in a flying car. Ron, Harry and their friend Hermoine take polyjuice potion to get in to Slytherin common room. Hermione accidentally uses cat hair and this is her in the picture. Harry gets into the Chamber of Secrets and defeats Tom Marvlo Riddle also called Lord Voldemort.

Bradly the Battered Bully

The Case of the Battered Bully by  Marion Thomas is a story about Sally the Sleuth solving a mystery about Bradley the Bully getting beaten. At the start when the Year Sevens get to the Year Seven Camp it was pouring down with rain so they did their lessons. When the rain stopped at dusk, they wandered around hoping that the next day would be better and then later on they watched a video.

At 12:00am there were smokes and beer in Bunkhouse C and no one owned up. The punishment the boys in Bunkhouse C had was rubbish collection the next morning. The next day everyone went kayaking on the lake, horse riding and playing on the flying fox. Everyone had fun that day for except for a few people including Bradley who over the course of the day had managed to give Frankie a bleeding nose because Frankie had referred to the night before, held Keith’s head underwater because Keith wouldn’t give Bradley basketball cards that belonged to Keith and called some girls sissies because of the night before.

Later on Bradley was banned from the flying fox as he had been pushing kids out of the way to get on it and deliberately kicking at to spectators legs. During dinner the boys in Bunkhouse had a food fight and no one owned up so the boys had toilet duty.

At 12:30am a tremendous din was coming from Bunkhouse C. It was Bradley. Someone had beaten him up. Blood was pouring down his face and his right eye was already half closed. Sally went into Bunkhouse C to investigate but found nothing.

Then Sally went to the flying fox and the wire was half cut. She got off and looked down. There were blood stains on the platform and there were big footprints at the bottom of the ladder. The answer was Bradley was trying to cut the rope for the flying fox and slipped so he broke two teeth, got a black eye and had lots of blood all over him.

By Karl.

Dinosaur Rescue Dako-Snappysaurus

Dako-Snappysaurus by Kyle Mewburn is a book about Arg, the main character, going on his first dinosaur hunt. Dako-Snappysaurus is in a series called Dinosaur Rescue. Hng, Arg's big sister, keeps trying to kill Krk-Krk, Arg's pet. Then Arg's Dad comes and tells Arg he is going on his first hunt so Arg goes to pack his mamtress (Arg's invention, supposed to be mattress) full of weapons, but all the other hunters only had two spears.

When the hunters in Arg's tribe get to the hunting grounds Arg's Dad leads them to a beach at the side of Huge 'lake'. There Dakosaurus attacks Arg's Dad, Krk-Krk and Arg. Arg fights the Dakosaurus until he kills it. The rest of the hunters are surprised when they see the Dakosaurus and lots of fish on the ground as it takes a whole hunting party together to kill a Dakosaurus but Arg killed it all by himself.

I liked Dako-Snappysaurus because it made me laugh.

Project Huia

Project Huia by Des Hunt.

Project Huia is a good chapter book by Des Hunt. It is about Logan, Jim and Ana who try to bring the Huia back from extinction. The Huia was a New Zealand native bird that became extinct long ago. The people who try to stop them are the Carson family that try to get the Huia first and get lots of money.

I recomend this for people who like books about New Zealand. This is an exciting book for more advanced readers.

By Karl.

Big Shift by Jaqui Brown

WALT write a Book Review

For the purpose of Book Review, we have named the narrator Weremu.

Weremu grew up on a Sheep Farm. He had a brother called Terei and a sister called Cherie. Weremu had a Kunikuni pet pig  named Snorky. He loved the Farm and was sad when his Mum and Dad split up. Weremu really loved his Dad and wanted to stay on the Farm. He could not stay with his Dad on the Farm so he had to go to the Wellington City with his Mum. When Werumu was in Wellington he missed the Farm, his pet Kunikuni Snorky, feeding the Lambs, watching Dad play Rugby on Saturdays, and having a joke with his Dad after the Rugby game.

When Weremu was in the city, he felt like there was no room to breathe. He had made some  friends that lived in the same lot of flats. The three kids all played musical instruments and sat together and chatted on laundry day. Weremu’s friends were Tomo and Meilai.

When Tomo, Meilai and Weremu were older, Tomo and Weremu were at college together and Meilai was in Auckland. At University, Tomo trained to be a Doctor and Weremu trained  to be a Vet. He wanted to be a Vet when he was an adult so he could work in the City or Countryside. When he grew up, he became a Vet. Weremu looked after lots of animals.