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Reading Task 1 Term 4 2009
Title: Eclipse Author: Stephenie Myer ISBN No.: 978-1-904233-91-6 Publisher: Little Brown Company. No. of pages: 559 No. of chapters: 29

Eclipse is about a Vampire named Edward and a human named Bella. As well as a werewolf named Jacob. When havoc happens in the town next-door. Edwards family must try to stop them before something bad happens. But when Bella’s stuff goes missing they must find out what happened. Jacob’s family, which is a pack of werewolves must help to protect Bella from blood thirsty vampires. When Bella finds out who is after her, Edward and his family must put their differences aside with Jacob and his pack to protect her from a blood thirsty vampire seeking revenge for her loved one. On top of this Bella must choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob. With her graduation getting closer Bella must choose between life and death. But which is which? When Victoria comes to find Bella she brings a whole lot of new born vampires so the Cullen’s (Edward, Jasper, Emmett, Carlisle, Rosalie, Esme and Alice) and the Wolves (Jacob, Sam, Leah, Paul, Embry, Quil, Seth, Jared, ) must fight them to keep Bella and everyone else alive. I think that this is a really good book but some of the words I didn’t understand. My favourite characters would have to be Bella, Edward, Alice, Jacob and Seth. I like Bella because she doesn’t let anything stand in her way even when she has to choose between her best friend and her lover. Also even when she is being hunted by a killer vampire she still doesn’t let that stand in the way of her life. I like Edward because he realises that not letting Bella visit Jacob is killing her heaps so he just trust her and lets her do it her own way. I also like him because he is polite and nice to her dad even though he doesn’t deserve it. I like Alice because she is so much fun and she is really nice and has a really cool power. Her power is that she can see some things that happened in the future. I like Jacob because he loves Bella heaps but in the end he lets her go. Also because he puts all his differences aside to keep Bella alive. I like Seth because even though his enemies are vampires he still becomes best friends with them and he won’t let anybody stand in his way he loves his world that he lives in including his sister (though he may not say it). My least favourite character is Leah because she is really horrible. Even though she has been through a hard time she gives all the other werewolves heaps of crap and says thing to Jacob like ‘she will die’ and ‘she won’t live so why do you care’ and ’she’s going to marry that thing get over her already.’ My favourite part would have to be when Edward proposes to Bella and when they compromise as well as when Edward understands what he is doing to Bella keeping her away from Bella. My least favourite parts are when they have the big fight and when Edward sends a wedding invitation to Jacob and he turns into a wolf and runs away. I would recommend this book to teenagers mostly because I don’t think kids under 10 or 11 would understand some of the words and they might get a bit muddled up in parts. I also think that girls would like this book more because it is a love story but I think that some boys might like it because there is a big fight in it. By Nicky

Reading Task 2 Term 3 2009
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Reading Task 1 Term 3 2009
The Secrets of Love  ‘The Secrets of Love’ is about three girls from the book ’Sense and Sensibility’ named Ellie, Abby and Georgie otherwise known as the Dashwood girls. In ’Sense and Sensibility’ these three girls are from the 19th century England But when Rosie Rushton decided to transform these girls she put them into the 21st century Ellie, Abby and Georgie had everything, Boys, Money and a really big house, but when everything goes wrong can these girls make the most of it. Will Elli’s sensible attitude towards life stop her from Snogging the gorgeous Blake? Is Abby’s devil-may-care look get her in trouble with her stuck up boyfriend Hunter? What about Georgie, the baby of the family? She’s a tomboy with more male friends then anyone in her family. Will the horrible Pandora their step mum ruin their lives forever?

My Favorite character would have to be Georgie because unlike many women she is so strong willed and will never take no for an answer. I also like because even though she is the youngest in the family she still finds that she can handle things very well and make friends quicker then anyone else. I also really liked Ellie because even though she is the oldest and has the most responsibility in the house when everything goes wrong she helps her family but still has those moments when she can’t take anymore of everything that is happening to her. Also because at the start she didn’t want anything to do with boys and she didn’t have very many friends but by the end she had won Blake around, become very popular and even stolen Blake away from his girlfriend who nobody liked because she was too stuck up. I also liked Abby because at the start she always fell for the bad boys but at the end she had found herself a good crowd and a really nice boyfriend named Nick. Overall my favorite character would have to Georgie the most because as I have said she is so strong willed and never takes no for an answer which I found very funny.

My favorite part of the book would have to be the end when after everything they had been through the girls came through and found their loved ones and best friends (for Georgie of course.) Also when their dad died and they didn’t let the nasty Pandora get in the way of having fun and becoming in love. I also really liked it how at the start of each chapter Rosie Rushton wrote something about love like for example Secret number 3 “Love is a bit like a doodle by Van Gogh- your lopsided circle could be a masterpiece to someone else” to me these means that even if you are different there will always be someone out there for you. Another one is Secret number 4 “Very few things are worth taking a risk for- love, family and the prospect of a first kiss” to me this means that you can take a risk for love, family or a first kiss. I don’t completely agree with this because there are more important things in someone’s life then a first kiss.

I would only recommend it to teenagers from intermediate age to end of College because younger children may not understand some of the stuff said in this book. Even I found it hard to understand some of it. Also I would recommend it to girls more then boys because of it being a love sort of book. Overall it was a really good book and I would like to read more of Rosie Rushton and to read Jane Austen’s book ‘Sense and Sensibility’ to see what they went through during the 19th century. Also I really loved how they had secrets of love here is one written by Jane Austen herself “If a women doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to Yes, she ought to say No, directly." -Jane Austen