HIGHLAND LITERACY READING BLOG

‘GOAL II’ the book is about a boy called Santiago Munez starts playing for newcastle united but then he meets a man from real midrid. the man gets him to come and meet the manager off real. Then the manager puts in a offer to him and he accepts. thats as far as i have [...]

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 This book is about a girl who is used to the sun and shopping of California.Her grades were slipping so her mother has sent her to St Jude’s Boarding school in Scotland.Her Mother says that she can come home when her grades are at a suitable standard.When Gina gets to the school she is put [...]

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The author of this epic story is written by none other than Neil Gaiman.

These fabulous illustrations were carefully drawn by Chris Riddell.
The book was published only last year in 2008 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
This book only costs £12.99.
 
 
This fantastic adventure story is about a young boy named Nobody Owens, or ‘Bod’ for short, who lives his [...]

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Coleen Rooney – welcome to my world is all about her life growing up as an ordinary livepudlian teenager to meeting Wayne then to how her life changed forever. It is also good as Coleen doesnt just write about herself and how lucky she has been to get herself into the life she is in now [...]

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Walkabout is all about two children who are in a plane crash on there way to see thier uncle in Adalaide. The characters in the book are called Mary who is 13, Peter who is 8 and a black Abariginal boy. The black abariginal boy was on his walkabout when he came across the two children and the [...]

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We have been reading the Magic Fairy books and wanted to find out about the author.
It ended up as a Mystery!!
 
 
The first thing to say is Daisy Meadows
the children’s author is saying her name is Daisy Meadows well, we have did some research on her and we would like to share it with you.
We [...]

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Divided City, is an excellent read. It shows that when it comes to friendship, differences dont matter. The book also shows discrimination is wrong and the  the author has portrayed this well by using so many different characters to show how bad the division in Glasgow is, she also showed this by bringing two boys who should have [...]

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 Cupid Cakes is about a young girl who’s mums died a few years ago. Now that its been some time lulu(girl) wants her dad to be happy and to fall in love again. Although not everything goes to plan when her dad starts to fall in love with completly the wrong person. Now its lulu’s turn [...]

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“Goal” is about a young Mexican boy called Santiago. He is playing for his local team when he is scouted by Newcastle. He has to leave his family to play for Newcastle, this is hard for Santiago to do but he just does it becuase he loves his football so much. I thought reading Goal! was [...]

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Dancing in my nuddy-pants by Louise Rennison is about Georgia Nickholson`s diary and her friends Jas,Rosie,Ellen and Jools. Georgia meets a boy called Robbie who she calls SG who she falls in love with and her best friend Jas falls in love with Robbies brother Tom. It is a hilariously funny book as it follows Georgia`s [...]

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