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Book Review Term 4

 * Tittle:** Read My Lips **Author:** Teri Brown
 * Date Started:** 29th October
 * Date finished:** 30th October**No. Of Pages:** 238

Read My Lips is about a girl called Serena. Serena is deaf and she can read lips, really well. She moves different houses with her parents and starts at a new school. The It Girls at the school find out about Serena’s lip reading, and they get her in their group to make her spy on others, she finds out lots of juicy gossip. But the problem is Serena likes her old life, skating and hanging out with boys. She has a crush on Miller, he ignores her at school but Serena finds out he really likes her and that he just wants her to have more friends. But Sonya is looking for revenge to keep Serena out of their sorority and split Miller and Serena up.

Read My Lips is a great novel by Teri Brown. I really enjoyed this book, it felt real. It wasn’t a type of book with strange creatures in it, but it seemed real because some people are deaf and can read lips. Serena just wanted to fit in for once, even though she knew that some of them were just using her, she still tried to fit in. A lot of people try to be someone they’re not and that’s one of the reasons I liked this book, it proved that you don’t have to dress in pink shirts to fit in, just be yourself.

My favourite characters were Rachael, Miller and Patrice. I really liked Rachael and Patrice. They were apart of the secret sorority but unlike Sonya, Patrice and Rachael were nice to others girls and they stuck with Serena all the time, even though she was deaf and they didn’t care what other people thought about them hanging around a deaf girl. They took her as she was deaf and all, Serena did decide to change her style a bit but that was because of her mother more than her friends making her change. My other favourite character was Miller, Serena’s boyfriend. He was caring and thoughtful. Even though he did ignore Serena at school, that was because he wanted her to have other friends than him, he didn’t want her to be embarrassed my him. I would like to have a thoughtful friend like Miller in my life. I also liked Serena, even though she was deaf, she tried to fit in and she never gave in, she had a good attitude towards everything.

My least favourite character was Sonya; she was a stuck up It Girl. She tried to get revenge on Serena and was not nice to anyone, except her It friends. She made people choose between her and Patrice. Sonya would have made a perfect girl in the movie Mean Girls.

I really enjoyed reading this book and I would recommend it to anyone. It’s a great book and I am sure most people will agree with me. Not only would I recommend this book, but I would also recommend the Author as well. I look forward to reading more books written by Teri Brown. Altogether I would rate the book a 9.5/10.

Author: Stephanie Meyer Genre: Teen romance, action and fantasy Date started: Thursday 27th August Date Finished: Wednesday 2nd September No. of pages: 434
 * Title: Twilight**

Twilight is about a teenage girl called Isabella Swan, she moves from Phoenix, Arizona to live with her father, in Forks, Washington. Her life rapidly changes as she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen. Bella almost got squished by her friend Tyler, while he swerved out of control into a crowd of students, slamming his brakes on and all of a sudden Edward comes out from no where and stops the van from hitting Bella. Curious to how her hero got to her side so quickly, Bella tricks a family friend, Jacob into telling her what Edward and his family really are. Vampires. Bella realises that she is totally in love with him. Edwards’ family takes Bella out to play baseball, when another group of vampires interrupt their game. Edward and Bella go to leave when a sudden gust of wind carries Bella’s scent across to the intruders and they get a whiff of it. James, another vampire smells it, and suddenly Bella and her Dad are both in trouble!

My favourite characters were Edward Cullen and Alice Cullen. I felt like Edward was a very interesting character, I think that being a vampire made him that little more interesting as well. He wasn’t the normal type of person, well other than the fact he was a vampire but his characteristics just made me wish that he was real. I felt like that if he was a person and not a vampire, he could have had any sort of characteristics like class clown or even a geek. I also adored Alice Cullen. She was really interesting and bubbly, everything she did felt very normal for her to be doing. My least favourite character was James, he was a vampire. He tried to kill Bella and he tormented her. He wasn’t the type of person I would like as a friend. As well as tormenting Bella, he threatened Edward, his family and Bella’s family. James seemed like he would have been the trouble maker in kindy, or something along those lines.

My favourite part in the book was the day when Bella and Edward were in the meadow. Edward had his shirt undone to show Bella what he really looked like in the sun and why he couldn’t come out in the sun in public. I also liked that same night and the next day. That same night Edward stayed at Bella’s house with her, and the next day Bella meet Edwards’ family. I really enjoyed these parts. But I loved the entire book, so the whole book is my favourite.

In conclusion I think that this is a really great book and I would recommend this book to anyone who has a great ability in reading and anyone who enjoys teen romance, filled with lots of action and fantasy. So get your reading glasses on and get the book from the library or even by it!

**Reflection:** I think that I did a good job with my book review, because I felt passionate about this book and really enjoyed reading it. Like I said I would recommend it to most people. It is a very cool book and loved doing a book review about it. With what I wrote I think that I did do a good job. In the beginning I explained what the book was about and made it sound as realistic as I could. I felt like I did explain the beginning well because I tried to describe what the book was about and what was going to happen, but I also tried to make it want the reader read the book them self. I tried not to make the starting paragraph to big, but in the beginning I forgot that I was writing a book review, so I had to erase most of it to start again, so it wouldn't be so long. I had the review done straight after I read the book. I did do spelling and grammar checking but I think that I might have missed a few typo errors. Altogether I think that I did a good job with this and it didn't turn out as bad as I thought it would.

Reading Task 1 Term 3 2009
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