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__ Genie Us   __ Title: Genie us   Author: Steve Coleman and Linda Chapman ISBN: 978-1-862-30343-0 Publisher: Red Fox Genre: Magical, Mystical, and Funny Genie us is a book about two families whose mother and father are living together so they have to live together now. They move to meet-away-mores so their parents can open a book store. The children then find a book about how to be a genie. They start off not believing in genies then they think they will do it for fun and go to many different places and wreck many different things in the making. They are now becoming full genies but will something stop them...   I really liked this book because it was a different kind of book to the many others I have read. I really enjoyed how the characters acted and the full plot of the story because it was a mysterious but very magical story. I really liked the character skribble who was a book worm because he was always against the oldest child Michael. He was sometimes really grumpy but you could always tell his favourite child was Millie. He always was nice to Millie but he was also very naughty and he ate the pages of the book that he didn’t want the children to read. Jess was another one of my favourite characters as se was very out going and was like most other teenagers as she wanted to always fit in. In This book Jess was always looking out for her brothers and sisters but she was also always a step ahead of them. I really liked Jess because she was creative and thought outside the box she also wasn’t afraid of what others thought about her and that is something that many teenagers want to be like. Millie was another character that i liked the personality off as she was always thinking about the positive outcome of things and never put anyone down. She was the one who often made them pass their genie stages. She was always on top of the work and she liked how skribble was a book worm. I really liked this book and I think that overall I would give it a 10/10 and that it is an awesome book that I would recommend to any teenager who loves reading a mystical or magical book with a fairytale twist to it as it is one of the best books I have read! By Georgia

Reading Task 2 Term 3 2009
Author: Karen McCombie Genre: Funny, Romantic, and Imaginative No. Of Pages: 235 ISBN: 043995956x Publisher: Scholastic
 * Marshmallow Magic and the Wild Rose Rouge **

This book is about a girl called Laurel Ferguson who lives in a town called Balgownie. She is kooky and weird and full of laughter but lemmie’s life hasn’t always been happy and bubbly. Lemmie used to go to a different school and at that school she had three great friends which were Carys, Nicola and sammi, but then the dreaded Sian Ellis turned up at her school. Now Sian was looking for friends there was sammi and Nicola and Carys that would make perfect candidates so Sian edged her way into their group and persuaded Carys, Nicola and Sammi that Lemmie was just kooky and weird. So now Lemmie is at Balgownie and has her friends Morven and Jade by her side, but then one day she sees a familiar face in the window of a car could it be the one wicked princess that she dreads seeing read this book and find out. I think this is a really interesting book with lots of funny and sad moments. I liked how this book was like a real life scenario with things that happen at every school everyday. I also liked how you could relate to the characters in this book. For example Lemmie you could see how she thought she didn’t fit in and that her family didn’t get her. She liked dressing her own way and overall liked being an individual and you could tell that by her personality and the way she acts. The one character I disliked was Sian she was an evil character and edged her way into everything. The main thing I didn’t like about Sian was that she was one person that got a joy out of humiliating and hurting people not physically, but emotionally and that she always was pretending to be nice because she wanted to be friends and that she always researched or planned out how to do it by manipulating people into believing she was right. The main character in the book I liked was Jade. She was a funny little person who caught onto everything and wasn’t as dopey as her friend Morven, but she still stayed Lemmie’s friend and didn’t say anything to Lemmie about her knowing that Lemmie was telling lies or that she didn’t always believe her because they were friends and Jade did like Lemmie as did everyone else at Balgownie and they wanted her to stay. My favourite part in this book is when Lemmie stands up to Sian with her imaginary spacesuit on. I thought this was the most peculiar way to deal with a bully by thinking that no-one can touch you or harm you in any way by wearing a spacesuit even if it was just for a second. I think that it was a good way to show how the character felt about being treated this way by someone and what they thought they had to do to feel safe. I think that this was an extraordinary book and I would recommend it to anyone who like books with creativity and imagination and also any readers that have been bullied this is a well written book and I think it was made for great purpose. Overall I would give it a 10/10.

Reading Task 1 Term 3 2009
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