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**__ Will __** Will is a cheeky seventeen year old at high school and who is usually getting into trouble for pulling pranks. But flashing the girl’s school bus seemed to be the final straw. He was looking at being expelled until his extension English teacher comes up with a punishment that could ruin his reputation permanently-Being involved in the band for school musical. On the way he makes friends with a gorgeous girl, a year 7 geek and a gay footy player. He and his friends battle emotional and physical battles like the nerds that beat up Zach because they didn’t like his sense of style or how people wouldn’t talk to Mark because he was gay. In the end Will ends up with new friends, new experiences and a ruined reputation. He must choose to keep his reputation or help his new friends what path will he take?
 * __Author: Maria Boyd__**
 * __Publisher: Random House Australasia__**
 * __First published: 2006__**
 * __No. of pages: 312__**
 * __Date started: 31/10/09__**
 * __Date finished: 31/10/09__**
 * __Gene: Teen fiction__**

The thing I liked best in Will is that it was based round a scenario that was possible and could happen. I also liked how the author included Will’s thoughts so it made you sort of live his life while you were reading it. The other thing I liked about it was that it was like Will him self had written it so you didn’t know what was going to happen until it happen like there was no “little did he know they would meet again” sort of thing. My favourite character is Chris because he didn’t give Mark a hard time or tell any body Mark was gay. He was also always there for Will like when will was crying about how his dad had died.

The thing I would of changed in this book was that it was longer or there was a series of it because the author left some of my questions unanswered e.g. like how Will’s dad had died and what happened afterwards with his relationship with Elizabeth? My least favourite character is Elizabeth because she didn’t want to go out with Will anymore because her parents didn’t like him. I also didn’t like the nerds who beat up Zach because he was different.

I would recommend this book to people who like to read teen fiction that are aged between 13 and 17. I will give this book an 8/10 because it was a good read but needed to be longer. I think the moral of this story is that no matter how bad things are theirs always a tomorrow and its ok to be different.

By Jordan

Reading Task 2 Term 3 2009
A nomad tribe is about to attack London in a huge moving stronghold. Only Fever Crumb can save London from destruction by using memories she never had. Fever Crumb is a teenage girl engineer. Girls aren’t meant to be in the league of engineers because the bald unemotional men think that they are unreasonable, foolish and irrational. Her adventure starts when she is sent to an archaeologist home but gets lost in London and a skinner sees her and thinks she’s a patch skin a creature that has a human’s structure but high cheek bones and spots like a leopard. The skinners had a riot 40 year//__s__// ago and wiped out most of them and skinned them. She is sent to an archaeologist’s house that has a very mysterious site that only Fever can explain.
 * **__ Fever Crumb __**
 * Author: Philip Reeve **
 * Publisher: Scholastic Ltd **
 * Printer: GGP Media GmpH Published in: 2009 **
 * Pages: 321 ** ||

//Fever Crumb// is one of the best books I’ve ever read. I liked how it was set in our world but in the future. All the technology from today has been lost and a jumble of new tech has been put together. It had me captivated the whole time and had a lot of events such as her fighting paper assassins and when one of her friends died he turned into a stalker warrior. My favourite character was Charley Shallow because even though he had been treated badly all his life he never complained and he was only trying to kill Fever because that is what he thought was the right thing to do.

If I had to change one thing it would be that Fever did not run away in they end but stayed instead because this would make a happy ending. But I suppose the author did that so he could continue it in another book. Also I would not like Kit to turn into a stalker when he died because he was a good man and I don’t think he would want to become one. My least favourite character is Ted Swiney because he was cruel and corrupted as he enjoyed watching people be hurt and killed. He was also the one who treated Charley so badly. I also disliked the Skinners because of their motto “This Ain’t Genocide! This Is Rock’n’Roll”.

Phillip Reeve is an amazing author who has written many famous books and series such as the //Mortal Engines// series, the //Buster Baylist// series, //Larklight//, //Starcross// and //Mothstorm//. He has won the Cilip Carnegie Medal, Blue Peter Book of the Year, Nestlé Book Prize-Gold, and the Guardian Children’s Fiction’s Prize. He has also been short listed for the Whitbread Children’s book of the year and the WHSmith People’s choice award.

I would recommend //Fever Crumb// by Philip Reeve to any one between the age of 11 and 14 and for people who like reading Fantasy/Action books. The themes of the book include racism, prejudice, mob violence and identity. For example when rioters raided Godhawk’s head and when Kit became Shrike the stalker warrior when he died.