Nancy Drew #9

My rating: ****

I chose this book because I read book 8 and it was so interesting that I wanted to read the whole series. I was a teeny bit disappointed because it was about a spa and spas give me the creeps.

I enjoyed the part where Deirdre got her face burnt because she cared so much about her facial appearance that she put on loads of blush until she looked like a clown. She got burnt because she was in the steam room and somebody turned the temperature up too far.

I didn't enjoy the part where the cockroaches came out of the mud bath because I hate cockroaches and it was disgusting because Nancy Drew was in the mudbath.

I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in reading mystery books.

Nancy Drew #8

My rating: *****

It's really good, I loved it! I read the first seven books of this series last year, and I found it more interesting now, because everything slotted in and made more sense. I would recommend these books for kids aged 8 and above.

The best part of this particular book was funny. You see, capuchin monkeys were trapped and Nancy Drew fell into their trap and got pulled out by her friends (Bess and George). The monkeys also climbed out making funny sounds and the description of how they escaped was hilarious.

This book made me feel a little scared when Nancy Drew fell into the trap with furry unknown things. Then when Bess shone the torch down the hole she saw they were a type of monkey scattered all over. I also felt a little excited and couldn't stop reading because it was a mystery and I wanted to find out how Nancy Drew solved the mystery.

Lizzie McGuire

My rating: **

This book was boring. It was about a girl called Lizzie McGuire and her friends Gordo and Miranda. They tried to help Lizzie's old best friend Kate when she broke her arm and got kicked off the cheerleading squad and wasn't popular anymore. She showed the cheerleaders that she could still do stuff with a broken arm, such as front flips and one handed cartwheels. When another cheerleader called Claire tried
to do the same moves, she broke her ankle. Kate was back on the team, but Claire was off.

I would recommend this book to younger readers, it was very easy to read.

The Longest Whale Song by Jacqueline Wilson

My rating: ***

I borrowed this book from a friend because it was Jacqueline Wilson's latest book and I hadn't read it and really wanted to. I was a little bit disappointed because it wasn't that great, but it was okay. The book is about a girl called Ella and her mum was going to have a baby, but when she had the baby she lost consciousness and went into a coma. Ella was really upset and tried everything she could to try to wake her mum up. She was having a tough time and all she wanted was her mum. She didn't want anyone else. Her mum and dad were divorced and she lived with her stepdad. I didn't like the story because it was not nice reading about comas and diseases. She had PVS which stands for persistent vegetative state.

Superfudge by Judy Blume

My rating: ***

The title of this book made me think it was would be about chocolate fudge and a boy who liked fudge. I was wrong! Fudge is the nickname of a boy who is five years old and very cute. He calls his older brother Pee-Tah.

In the story Fudge likes to hang out with his brother, but he is younger so he doesn't do things right. One day when Peter goes on a picnic with his friend Alex, Fudge and his friend Daniel smash their piggy banks and ride their bikes to the city. Their parents don't know where they went. They look all around for them. Much later Fudge calls his mum from a shop.

Fudge is always telling funny jokes which made me laugh. He woke his brother up at 1.30 in the morning and had changed his clock so Peter thought it was time to go to school. Peter goes downstairs and gets ready for school so quickly and asks where mum and dad and the car are. Fudge played a funny trick on him.

The Diamond Girls

My rating: ***

The Diamond Girls is about a mother with four daughters who is pregnant with a fifth child. She gives birth to the baby and pretends it is a boy when it is a girl because she wanted it to be a boy really badly. The truth comes out when Dixie, the youngest child, is in a coma in hospital.

I liked this story because it was about a family that had a problem and then they solved the problem. I didn't like this story because a man called Bruce helped them lift all their furniture about when he had a very bad back. After that, he couldn't move because his back was stiff. This made me feel sad because he couldn't move and I thought he was going to die.

HP 5

My rating: *** 1/2

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix has 870 pages. It is the longest book in the series. The title of the book made me think it would be about an adventure with phoenixes. I was wrong because it was about Harry Potter's nightmares. Once he dreamed he was a serpent, but then the serpent belonged to Lord Voldemort which then bit Mr Weasley. Harry dreams about whatever Lord Voldemort thinks about. The Order of the Phoenix was actually a group of people put together by Dumbledore to fight Lord Voldemort.

In the end there is one dream that is untrue and helps to kill Sirius Black and saves Harry Potter. This is sad though because Sirius Black is a goodie, and Harry's godfather.

This book made me feel like I couldn't think of anything else until I finished it. I really want to read the next two HP books, but my mum says they might be a little inappropriate, so I have to wait.