Over the last month, third class have been studying some of the works of Roald Dahl. Rather than the usual approach of the whole class reading and responding to the same novel, we decided to try a theme based approach to explore the novels. The class was divided into 3 groups with each group reading a
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6th Class are just completing a class novel called “Faraway Home” by Marilyn Taylor. It tells the story of two Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Austria called Karl and Rosa who are sent on a Kindertransport to Millisle Farm in Northern Ireland. We organised an interview with the author, Marilyn Taylor. We each came up with three questions about the novel on our class blog
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The name of the book is Snakehead. It is about a fourteen year old boy called Alex Ryder. He was recruited by MI6 to work as a spy. The author’s name is Anthony Horowitz. Alex Ryder’s parents were killed in a plane crash when he was only a baby. His uncle Ian Ryder adopted him but he was killed in a car crash when
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My book review is on a book called The Cinnamon Tree written by Aubrey Flegg. It is about a thirteen year old girl called Yola Abonda who lives in Africa. Her father is the chieftan of their tribe. One day she steps on a landmine and her leg has to be amputated. She has an argument with her stepmother (her father has three wives)
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The book I’m reviewing is called “Lord Brocktree”. It is part of a brilliant series, written by someone called Brian Jacques. The series is called “Redwall“, and you learn what this is by reading all the books. I have read nearly all of them, as most are in the County Library. Instead of human characters, it’s about (please don’t laugh) animals, and it’s set
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I just couldn’t put it down! The standard of writing is brilliant! I would absolutely recommend this book to my friends. Thirteen year old Finbar is from Queenstown, Co.Cork. His father is the staff captain of a huge liner called the Lusitania. Finbar’s father has to work all over the world and Finbar misses him greatly whenever he has to go. He decided to
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We enjoyed reading “The owl who was afraid of the dark” by Jill Tomlinson. The story is about an owl called Plop and Plop has a problem. He is afraid of the dark and owls are night birds so he has a real problem. Plop wants to learn about the dark so he sets on a journey to learn more. First he meets a
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