The Dead of Night

The Dead of Night is the second book in the John Marsden Series Tomorrow When The War Began. The story continues with the group teenagers stuck in the mountains in Australia defending their country from the invading army. Ellie, the main character, is an 18 year old girl who went on a camping trip with a few of her close friends. When they were out in the bush a foreign power, not specified in the novels, attacked Australia and over powered their small hometown of Wirrawee. The 7 friends have to fight their way through to survive. Will they make it? Will the Australian Military comeback and save Australia from this foreign invasion? Read the book to find out!  

Tomorrow When the War Began

Tomorrow When the War Began is the begging of an amazing and shocking journey that a group of teenage students have to endure. After they return from a short camping trip in the bushes up the river they realise they have came back to hell. Realising that there old lives are gone they have to hide out. The plot of the story is an invading country takes over Australia. Starting with Cobblers Bay they roll in their tanks and march in there soldiers all over the country side. Ellie and her band of friends decide they aren't just going to sit there and hide under a rock until this all blows over, they decide to be active and become guerrillas. I really like this book for a lot of reasons, for starters is Australian so I understand the strange language they use and also I like the idea of kids not taking adults to think of them as babies. That is the reason I like books about child spies and kids who take charge. I strongly recommend this book to strong readers like you (ms. Patrice) because it has a really good plot line and has seat edging suspense.

Flight 29 Down

This book based on a hit television series in 2007 is a great book. I started reading because I saw it at the shops and remembered I had seen the show once. I decided to read it as a quick fun read. After I started it I couldn't put it down. When I finished the book I realised that there are 6 more but I cannot find any of them. I began watching the TV show one Friday afternoon and it took me into their world. Their world is a bunch of kids and an adult crash on a deserted island somewhere in the pacific (supposably near Guam). They need to survive and wait for rescue while the pilot and three of the children go inland to try to find civilization. They have little food and water and they argue about everything. Each person keeps a video diary to tell their side of the story. After the competition between the two wannabe leaders (Nathan and Daley) die down they found an underground spring. That sparked hope and they began to build their lives there. They build shelter, find food, make fire and much more. I think that they are very clever especially the little genius called lex. I love this book and it is a great short read.

Scorpia Rising- Anthony Horowitz

Well I finally finished the Alex Rider series and all I have to say is wow. The series has inspired me to become a great reader and because of Horowitz I am now a read-a-holic. I started Alex Rider series a long time ago before we came to Vietnam but it was way to hard for me because I was a terrible reader. From the start of the academic year I have read all 9nine and now have finished. Scorpia Rising was very well written and probably one of my favourite ones of the whole series. It was written in two parts, from Scorpias view and from Alex's view. I was breath taken when there are changes that effect the way I see the whole series and how I will see certain people. Very important people die and never comeback even though I was in doubt that they died initially. If I ever read any of the other Alex Rider books I will not read them like I originally did because I know the secrets behind people. Alex Rider is lured into a trap by a new Scorpia member who intentionally wants to mentally torture him before blaming him, a British spy, for the assassination of the Head of State in Egypt, ruining the American-British alliance. After Alex re-meets with his genetically cloned twin, Julius Grief, Alex lost all sense of pity and killed many people in cold blood. Alex is described by Sabina's dad as having death in his eyes and the need to kill. I think that Scorpia Rising has to be one of the best books I have ever read and I am devastated to see the end.


                                 

Snakehead

I have completed the 7th book of the Alex Rider series in under four days. This 388 page book was soo suspensful that I read for over 4 hours each day and completed it. The book went the England Autralia Indonesia and bangkok. His Asian spy tour took him through boat rides, living spare part camps and Bangkok street fights. It started out with him landing near australia and getting picked up by an American boat. he accepted a mission to go undercover as an Afgan boy and infiltrate the Snakehead. His godfather, his partner, helped him through it all but then at the end turned to be a traitor and had been the one who places the bomb on Alexs' parents plane. Scorpia returned and planed to destroy the G8 summit discussing poverty along with half of Australia Alongside it. Alex stopped the bomb being detonated on the Tectonic plate border which would of cause a Tsunami.The Alex Rider series has really changed my thinking of how i read and has made me want to read more of it and others like it. I am planning to read Cherub, Maximum ride, Hunger Games, Tommorrow when the War Began and some other series. I really love reading Alex Rider and I am sad that it is going to end.

ARK Angel

I have finished yet another Alex Rider in a very small amount of time. I started this 330 page book about 4 days ago and already finished it. ARK Angel is the 6th novel in the adventourous series. It is about Alex Rider- a fourteen year old boy- got shot near the heart. After being in hospital he gets himself tangled with one of the worst terrorist groups on the earth. He ends of saving a Russian billionaires son and gets invited on a three week holiday to the Caribbean. He uncovers the truth of the Russian billionair called Dervin who is in leauge with the Russian Mafia and a bunch of other large terrorist groups. He plans to knock the first space hotel- that he created with help from the british- into Washington and destroy the city, along with all his permanant records held in the Pentagon. He launches a rocket that is unstoppable after the island is taken by the CIA. Alex is sent into space on a second rocket and had to move the bomb to a different place in the hotel so that it wont plumet towards Washington. Alex encounters the head of Force Three and has a non gravity battle in the hotel. After allowing the sun to blind his opponent and stab him the man dies. Alex succedes and falls back into the ocean near Australia. I am eager to find out how the next book starts and i wonder what his mission will be. I really like the series and i am  going to read everyone of the books.

Man vs Beast

I have finished yet another CHERUB book called Man vs Beast. this is the 6th book of the series and is about  a animal protesting group that protest for the rights of animals. Like every other book in the CHERUB series this is very well written and i cant put it down. I have to admitt the first few chapters took me around two weeks to read but after that i read it really fast and got into it. CHERUB is based on a young boy who works for a branch of MI5 in England. This special agency called CHERUB specilizes in under 17 year old agents and use them to their advantage. No one ever excepects a child to be spying on them. James, Kyle and Lauren are sent into stop the destruction caused by the AFM (Animal Freedom Movement) and AFA (Animal Freedom Army). They are working with the starter of the zebra allience (a peaceful admil protsting group) wh wants to get them selves into positive light again. After the kiddnapping of a very famous television cheff. Kyle and James have to save the cheff from having to drink his own washing product   (which is posonous) and get him to saftey. Cherub is one of my two favourite series, next to Alex Rider. I love books that are about young spies and that have such seat edging suspense that you cant put the book down. I already am looking for the next one of this exdrodinary seires, The Fallen. I want to read the rest of these series and even the branch series, Henderson Boys and Peoples Rebublic.