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and the winner of the January 160 character text message book review is . . . . .
(drum roll please) . .. . . .. . . Lauren Pearce from New College!!! Congratulations Lauren, the prize of £10 phone credit will be on its way to you soon Laurens winning review is : [...]
Review by Safina Adam, Beaumont Leys School
Lonely. Helpless. Dead. These are the words to describe the ghost children. The ghost children Ann, Oliver, Gwyneth and Charlie. These children are dead, living in one house just waiting for someone to come. Breathe is about the ghost children wanting a human friend to play with. Then Jack [...]
Review by Philip Harris
“I’m Annabel. I’m the girl who has it all. Model looks, confidence, a great social life. I’m one of the lucky ones. Aren’t I?”
What can I say about just listen? It’s a gateway into the life of Annabel Greene, a teenage model in America that loses her best friend (but don’t worry [...]
Burn My Heart By Beverley Naidoo
Review by Philip Harris
Burn My Heart is a deep and meaningful novel that plays with the readers emotions to portray the effects of the British empire spreading into Kenya and taking away the Kikuyu peoples land. Beverley Naidoo has drawn off her own experiences of Kenya as a young girl, [...]
Nemesis: Into The Shadows by Catherine MacPhail
Review by Philip Harris
“I almost took a step back, would have taken a step back, when all at once the outstretched arm shot into life, reached up and, with a strength I wouldn`t have believed, pulled me close. Dragged me down towards his face. I tried to pull away, [...]
Review by Philip Harris
We are watched 24/7, more and more cameras go up every day but are they really “for the greater good”?. CCTV cameras are everywhere but who`s watching them? Who watches our lives everyday, at least 300 times a day? And what is the government doing with RPA’s (Remotely piloted aircraft)?These are just [...]
By Natalie Browne, Fullhurst Community College
What is the real price of beauty?
Would you relinquish everything else about yourself to be pretty or would you rather cherish your innate personality, yet remain ‘ugly’?
This is the dilemma that Scott Westerfeld’s novel Uglies confronts and disintegrates. He creates two contrasting and conflicting worlds, showing us their [...]
Review by Philip Harris
Personally i found it was a bit difficult to read for a short story, and it just seems to end with no conclusion. Sometimes i would like this type of book, but only if it has a moral and i can`t seem to find one in this.
Down to the plot. It [...]
A book review by Rubina Fada
Spiked! Is an engrossing mystery, set in the U.K… Smart, sensible and pretty Debra Carded and her friends have just received their final results and plan a year end pub party, something they haven’t told their parents about. But, unbeknownst to them, a secret enemy has his own unpleasant plans [...]
A book review by Rubina Fada
The novel tells the story of four friends; Becci, Matt, Sophie and Nathan, who are involved in a fatal car crash on the way home from a party. It is written from the point of view of eleven (yes eleven) narrators, and charts how these characters deal with the conflicting [...]
