If I Could Fly

Tittle: If I Could Fly
Author: Jill Hucklesby

Award: Waterstone's Children's Book Award 2011
Total Number of Pages: 292
Genre: Novel
Pages Read This Week: 69-190

The man's name is Dair and they started being friends. She gave him haircuts, they went to expeditions at the garbage and took whatever was useful especially books so she could make her own small house inside her room. While she was building, she saw a face at the window that popped up every day t the same time but she wasn't sure what it was. Dair told her that he found a children's hospital but he doesn't want her to go there because there is a new virus and there are not enough medicines for everyone and the environment is getting worse in the hospital so he is afraid for her. After weeks of hiding she wants to talk with her mom but she has no way since the telephones are bugged and the FISTS are reading the mail before it goes to its receiver. Minwhile, Dair found a rabbit and he wanted to kill it so they can eat it but Calypso didn't let him cause it might have the virus so she kept it as a pet. the rabbit named, furbal became her you gal friend and she tells her: "my brain won't tell me why I ran away". Dair fell down the stairs so she went to call an ambulance. When she returned without an ambulance and with a fire burning down the hospital.
She prays every night for both Dair and furbal to go home so we figure out that she is a Buddhist. She wanted to go home to her mom so she hid in a trucked till the boarder sand then she walked home. Unfortunately there was police in her house so she had to run back to her new house. In the morning when she opened her eyes, she saw a boy, about her age that went to 9grade just like her called Alfie that was THE FACE in the window. Since the building was destroyed, Alfie helped her to move her books at the first floor so she could leave faster if needed. Since many books were destroyed from the fire they needed to go and find some more. When she is with Alfie, she never think of Dair or furball or where they are. She just enjoys it as much as she can. After she is done with her house, she has an opening. She invites Alfie and they dance with the music of a music box. The next day, she went to the launderer and met a young women called Maisie and she seems to know more about calypso than she actually told her.

The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner

Author: Khaled Hossenini

So far this book has been really interesting! Amir and his father were now living in America. He had finished collage he has met a lovely girl Soraya and has married her. Also his dad died. Amir has gotten a phone call from his dads old friend Rahim Khan he has given him some letters that Hassan had sent to him. And told him that he had a beautiful  family a lovely wife and a son who could read and write and was deadly with a slingshot. But the taliban had shot him and his wife. His son Sohrab had been sent to an orphanage. Amir wants to find his friends son, he goes to Kabul to find him Kabul is nothing like he remebers everyone is beggers and the streets are just ruble and dust. He meets a nice begger who knew his mother. When he goes to the orphange he asks the director for Sohrab he says he doesent have him but Amir is able to get him to open the door by telling him all these things of how he knows this boy. The director lets them but says the Tablian have taken him and have given him money for it, he said they always want kids and if they dont get one they will take ten, he feels terrible about it but then they can hurt the kids and they will get no money for food for the kids. Now Amir is on his way to go find the boy. 

To me I feel as if Hassan is not dead I want him to still be alive, maybe he is! I just hope so I think Rahim Khan lied to Amir, and I hope they find the boy aswell. Also the begger who told Amir he knew his mum said this and I think it is really lovely, 'The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.' 

Its sad but at the same time beautiful.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Title:The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Author: Stephen King

Pages:264

Awards:

Bluegrass Award

Evergreen Young Adult Book Award

Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year

Volunteer State Book Award 

The first part of the book I red is really interesting.Its mostly talks about the main character ,Trisha.It also talks about  how her parents got divorced and how are the kids ajusting to the divorce.The first things you should know is that Trisha is a 10 year old girl who loves the baseball player Tom Gordon, as well as her dad.Trisha misses her dad a lot becaus she and her dad had a special bond.Trisha has a doll named Mona and a baseball cap which she loves because it was her dads.Trisha's brother,Pete, is a type of person that complains even when there is nothing he can complain about.He is 13 years old and loves computer games.Quilla(Trisha's mum) is a hard woriking,pacient person that loves spending time with her family.

During the divorce of Quilla and Larry the kids where a nervous reck because they didn't know if they were staying with their dad or moving with their mum.Saidly,they got to move with their mum.They have just entered the experience of being new in town,new in school;they got to live in a new house,sourrounding,life styles.Trisha and Quilla were trying their best to try and fit in but Pete didn't want to,but even when he did he didn't like it.Quilla and pete arrgue all the time because Pete cannot fit in and dose not like it there,he wants to go back to his dad.While Quilla is focusing all of her emotion and enegry into helping Pete she ocationaly forgets to devide her enegry equaly for both Pete and Trisha.Since almost every weekend Quilla orgaizes something for them to do this weekend they were supposed to go highing.Pete did  not like the idea but Trisha did.When the day finaly came they got packed and sat in the car.Pete And Quilla were fighting all the way while Trisha was amagining meeting Tom Gordon.When they got there and started highing Quilla and Pete coutinueded the fight.Trisha felt she had to go pee and wanted to ask her mum if and where she can.She yelled out 3 times mum but Quilla did not hear her.Trisha decides to go alone,hoping she will know a way back.....

What will happen?

Find out for the next blog post!

Title: Olive's Ocean
Author: Kevin Henkes
Number of pages: 217
Genre of Novel: Classic
The main character of this book is a girl called Martha, who went on summer holiday with her grandmother. Just before the school year had ended, a girl Martha had known called Olive, had just died in an accident. Olive and Martha were not really friends, however after the tragic event, Martha grieved she was never knew Olive properly. After receiving a letter with Olive's wish to have at least once seen the sea, Martha sets out to fulfil her wishes.
Martha had always loved her grandmother more than any one else in her family, and she was the only one she could really trust. She could have counted on her to tell her every secret, such as that she wanted to become an author. Martha decided to tell a story about Olive, how she wanted to see the sea and how her life was changing. As the time drew on, Martha saw how it was to be betrayed. She often thought of Olive, how everyone thought of her strange, how no one wanted to be her friend. When the end of the summer holidays came she finally decided what she would do. She would fill a glass with the water from the sea, and give it to Olive's mother. Hopefully it would reassure her a bit, and it also showed Olive's big wish. 
I liked this story because it's really about friendship. Even though Olive died, and wasn't Martha's real friend, she thought of her still and tried to fulfil her biggest wish. Even though Olive was dead, Martha could not forget her. It shows how, even when one dies, one does not forget the person, nor their wishes.

Hoot

Hoot is a classic novel and I have heard about it many times, this is the first time I have been given the opportunity to read it. I like it so far. Hoot is about a boy named Roy and a cop, Officer Delinko. Roy is a boy who has just moved from Montana to Florida, he wants to go back but he knows he can't his dad is also a cop and they move a lot. Officer Delinko is a cop from Florida and he is working on a case about vandals who are setting a construction project behind. Hoot is a very interesting book and I like it very much.

Twilight 2

Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
498 pages of 498 pages
Fantasy+Romance

Quote from the book: “Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.” This quote was in the preface of the book and I chose it because I thought that it meant something completely different than what I thought before I read the book. I thought that it had something to do with Edward, but it’s actually about Bella.

What happened until now: Bella and Edward are in love- BIG TIME! They are together as much as possible and talk a lot. Bella finds out, how Edward became a vampire and that he has a special skill- he can read other people’s minds. But Bella is the only person unreadable he ever came across.
Bella also meets his family and they all like her, except Rosalie, the beautiful blond. Right after Edward introduced Bella, his family invites her to come play baseball with them. Of course, vampire baseball is different! Bella really enjoys watching the Cullen family play, until a group of three other vampires find them. One of them is a tracker and he enjoys the smell of Bella’s blood nearly as much as Edward, which means he won’t stop searching for her, until he gets what he wants. Edward doesn’t want this to happen so his whole family helps him hide Bella. Still, James (the vampire) is clever and tricks Bella into thinking he has her Mum.           
Will Edward be fast enough to save Bella? Or will the last face she sees, be James’? Find out and read the book!

In my other blog post I said that I really like this book but now I think that there was too little action. It was interesting and all, but from a book that received so much praise, it wasn’t special enough. Still, I enjoyed it and will read the next book!

Thumbs up :)

Storm Catchers

Title: Storm Catchers

Author: Tom Bowler 

Copyright date: 2002

Pages: 208

Genre: Mystery/Thriller 

 

 

Storm Catchers is a Rather interesting book written by Tim Bowler. I had already read a book by Tim Bowler called Apocalypse and I really enjoyed it so I thought I would read another one for my award winning book project. This book is based in the UK where a, I assume, rather wealthy family live in huge house with secret passages close to the sea. One night , the parents of the three children go out leaving Sam, a three year old, Ella, a thirteen year old and Finn a fifteen year old by themselves. Fin decides to go out against what his parents said and leaves Ella alone with Sam. Ella is scared of the house and when she hears the sound of something tapping on the window she creeps down to check what it is. It turns out to be something unimportant. But when she sees a huge boy creeping up behind her she tries to run away but he catches her in the end and kidnappes her.

 

The next day Finn is feeling horrible and to make matters worse they get a call from the kidnappers saying that the father has to pay a hundred thousand pounds by lunchtime the next day, or she will die. At this point I assumed that the some other family may have some kind of score to settle with the father and that's why they kidnapped the daughter. Throughout the half of the book that I have read so far other strange things start happening, for example Sam, the small boy keeps on seeing a beautiful girl his age that only he can see that keeps luring him towards the cliffs saying that she wants to play. And at one poinnt in the book Finn realizes that he can use a strand of his sisters hair attatched to some of her jewelry to try to find her. He asks it yes or no questions and it turns clockwise for yes and anti-clockwise for no. Also the dad seems to be seeing some kind of tramp who is hated by the law. As you can see this is a pretty gripping and rather weird and I guess kind of spiritual book, but don't get me wrong, I can't wait to keep reading!