Tunnels

Fourteen-year-old Will Burrows lives with his family in London. He has little in common with them except for a passion for digging which he shares with his father.
when his father suddenly disappears down an unknown tunnel, Will decides to investigate with his friend Chester. Soon they find themselves deep underground where they unearth a dark and terrifying secret - a secret which may cost them their lives.

An interesting read full of twists and turns as Will searches for his father, before being betrayed by someone he trusted.

LR

Tsubasa is a japanese manga about four travellers. Sounds simple? They are traveling to collect feathers that contains one of the travellers memories by travelling across dimensions of space and time.There are currently 26 of them translated into english.

It is written(drawn) by clamp and they have made many other manga

which I may put up later

D.W

Weekly top 5

This is the the second top 5
and this weeks top 5 is.....
DVDs

1. Twilight*
2. Angels and Demons
3. InkHeart
4. New Moon*
5. Angus thongs and perfect snogging

*please note that there are multiple copies of these movies, so they have an unfair advantage.

LR

House of Night (Series)

House of Night has a complete series of eight books. It is a vampire based fantasy by an american based author P.C Cast and her daughter Kristin Cast. It follows the adventures of Zoey Redbird a sixteen year old girl who has just become a fledgling vampire who is required to attend the House of Night boading school in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The series has been on the New York best sellers list for 63 weeks.

Titles of Boooks in reading order:

• Marked


• Betrayed


• Chosen


• Untamed


• Hunted


• Tempted


• Burned


• Awakened

We have all of them in our school !!

The Book Thief

The Book Thief is set in Germany before and during World War II. The story is told from the point of veiw of Death, who narrates the story and gives a whole new image to the "death" image we the people see. Death finds the story of the book thief Liesel Meminger. Liesels story begins when she and her brother who dies in a sudden spur of coughing while travelling on the train, are sent to a foster home by their communist mother when she is interned in Dachau concentration camp. She later arrives at the home of the foster parents. Hans and Rosa Hubberman near Munich at Himmel Street (Himmel is the German word for Heaven). They treat her well although Rosa swears fiercely to cover up her inner lying compassion. Liesel than meets Rudy Steiner, a neighbour of her own age who becomes her best friend. Rudy is well known in the neighborhood for his romp around the Hubert Oval track as his idol Jesse Owens, covered in charcoal. Rudy and Liesels relationship steadily becomes more romantic over the years and Rudy continually asks Liesel for a kiss. Liesel learns to read and begins stealing books. Max, a 24 year old Jewish man that the Hubberman family helps to hide, composes his experiences with Liesel in a series of sketches, as well as two homemade books.

This book is commomly thought of as a "Modern Tragedy" as it displays many of the key features. First and Formost the story is narrated by a chorus (in this case "death") , it revolves around ordinary working class people (exploring the suffering or clashes within families) and a sense of catharsis at the end of the book.

Weekly top 5

I am planning to place a new top 5 each week.

This week, the top 5 series'.

1. The tommorow series
   


2. The cherub series
   


3. *cough* Twilight *cough*
   


4. Harry potter
   


5. The Eragon series

LR

Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson is just a regular boy living in NY city, before he discovers that he is the son of a god. Watch the trailer (Above), see the movie and of course read the books (we have them all)!
L.R, C.W

Were back!!

Our beloved Geoffrey has left us. Here's a big thank you for being our blog editor we wish you all the best at St Johns.
Shastika has agreed to take on student editor role and we'll do our best to help.
Welcome Shastika!!!
Mrs H.