Reading outside of the box- READ BY EAR

Title: Gangsta Granny

Author: David Walliams

Opinion: I find this book very adventurous and mysterious.

Recommendation: I recommend reading this book if your 8-11yrs.

Blurb: This book is about a boy called Ben whose parents are absolutely in love with ballroom dancing, Ben doesn't like ballroom dancing, he wants to grow up and be a plumber and he was in fact very good at it, Ben feels his parents don’t love him because he hated their hobbie. Every Friday Ben would go to his boring granny’s house, Ben hates his granny because she’s boring and has a horrible smell of cabbage, granny would have cabbage all day everyday, she would eat cabbage pie, cabbage soup and even cabbage mints. Ben was suspicious when his eyes zoomed across all of granny’s magazines and books because they we all about diamonds and jewels, and he wondered why his boring old granny had all these exciting spy books. When Ben finds out that his boring granny was a jewel thief he thought she wasn’t so boring after all. Granny told ben all these amazing stories about her times she stole diamonds and rings, one of the stories was….  It was granny’s first time she had ever stolen something and she was very poor so she went to Lord Davenports mansion and stole his wife's diamond ring and she even survived after being chased by man eating dogs and gunshots firing everywhere. Ben wanted to spend time with his granny and steal the crowns jewels but they didn't know how to get into the castle so Ben used his plumbing skills and found a way in through the pipes, Ben and his granny were already so of they went on there amazing journey to steal the crowns jewels.

Reading outside the box- One of the series

Title: Demon Dentist

Author: David Walliams

Opinion: I found this story very creepy but also hilarious and lots of the story is unpredictable so it hooks you in to read more and find out what happens.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to 7-14yrs, I recommend this book if you like horror and humor.

Blurb: This book is about 12 year-old boy called Alfie whose teeth are horrible because ever since the dentist pulled out the wrong tooth he never went to the dentist again, the only way Alfie could hide this from his terribly sick Dad was to hide all the letters from the dentist saying he had to visit them. The old dentist in town was murdered in the dental clinic and when a strange new dentist comes to town and visits his school Alfie is suspicious and thinks something might be wrong. With his new friend Gabz he looks further into why the dentist, Miss Root, is giving out free sweets and acidic toothpaste with the brand MUMMY’S, this toothpaste can burn holes through anything. Alfie realizes he is in big trouble when she straps him into the dentist's chair and starts pulling out all of his teeth!!!

Metaphor- Poem

This is my piece of writing about me in figurative language.

• Bonnie is a motorbike, small but can zoom along the road faster than you can imagine.
• Bonnie is a house, a place with many different spaces and special to her family.
• Bonnie is bag of fruit bursts, sweet but with a lot of different colours.
• Bonnie is a pair of sport socks, short but ready for the game.
• Bonnie is a hotel, sometimes at the top, but sometimes at the bottom.

Reading outside the box-Review

Category: Relive the magic (Re-read a book you loved)
Title: Billionaire boy
Author: David Walliams

Blurb: Billionaire Boy is about a boy called Joe Spud, he only lives with his Dad, Joe is 12 and is getting teased at his posh school, so his dad sends him to a different school. Joe makes a new friend called Bob during X-Country and they become good friends, Joe also meets a girl called Lauren and they seem to like each other. Joe and Bob have a fight and Joe only plays with lauren so they become very close. Joe took Lauren home one night and there was a party because Sapphire had just got engaged to Joe's dad,  but what Joe didn't know was that Lauren was getting paid by Joe's dad to be friends with him, Joe finds out and is furious and had to spend the night with his favourite new agent (Raj). The next day he went to Bob's house because he was lonely and apologised to him and they were re-united. Joe's dad made all his money off his toilet paper so when he found out it made people's bum's purple he cried because all his money was gone and he was fired. Since Joe and his dad lost their house they went to stay with Bob and his Mum. Joe's Dad and Bob's Mum became very close and even married each other. So Joe got to live a happy ending with his new stepbrother.

Recommendation: I recommend this to 7-14yrs.
Opinion: I think this book is exciting and mysterious and unpredictable in various chapters.

Reading outside the box- review

Category: Picture book
Title: Wacky Wednesday
Author: Theo Lesieg





Blurb: Wacky Wednesday is about a day where everything is going crazy. It's crazy at home, such as a palm tree in the toilet a rat chasing a cat. It's wacky in town, the drivers are sitting in the back seats, and there's a green sun. it's wacky at school, teachers on rollerblades and tigers in classes. It's crazy at the park, chimneys in trees and even at lady pushing one hundred babies. But only one person thinks it's wacky but everyone else thinks it's normal so that one person went home for a nap and was hoping when he wakes up it will be back to normal.

Opinion: This is a motivating book to try something different because it looks so exciting.

Recommendation: I recommend reading this book if you love a bit of craziness and I think it's great for 5-9yrs.

Reading outside the box- Review

Category: Read a Chunkster (read a book with at least 450 pages in it)
Title: The Midnight Gang
Author: David Walliams

Blurb: This book is about a boy called Tom. Tom's family lives very far away and he never see's them, so his rich parents sent him to a posh boarding school. At his boarding school there was a little accident and Tom got rushed to Lord Funt Hospital. Tom stays one night at the children's ward and doesn't want to leave. Tom was awake all of the first night because he was spying on Robin, George and Amber (the other patients in the ward),  and discovered dreams really can come true. ''The midnight gang", was what the four of them called themselves is planning George's dream to fly but an old lady called Nelly who thinks she is a little girl steals George's thunder and the Midnight gang get's caught. Sally on the other hand is the illest child in the ward and is suffering from heart weakness and has to miss out on all the fun at midnight because everyone thinks she will slow them down but she doesn't know that.

Recommendation: I recommend this book to 8-14 year olds, boy and girl and also if you enjoy mystery.

Opinion: This book is sad but happy, and has great adventures that hooks you in because you can imagine everything happening like it was real.

Reading outside the box- Review

Reading outside the box a year long challenge in our class, we read 16 books, all different varieties so we experience other people's interests that we might enjoy.

Category: Accidentally watched the movie first.

Charlie and the chocolate factory

This book is written by Roald Dahl.

This book is about a poor boy called Charlie that discovers a golden ticket and gets to go on an amazing adventure to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory with his very old Grandpa. Charlie is waiting for the end prize but everyone seems to be getting in a little bit of trouble along the way. Will Charlie survive?

This book is very good for people who like to predict as I found you could predict lots in this book, this book made me feel that your luck can change.

I recommend this book to people who love a mystery and adventure because this whole book is one big journey, I really recommend reading this book if you love chocolate!!