I don't like Gloria

This review comes from Laila. The book is called I don't like Gloria and is written by Kaye Umansky and Margaret Chamberlain.

This book is about a cat named Gloria. She goes to live in a house where there is a dog named Colin. Colin does not like Gloria because she eats from his dish, she sleeps in his basket, and even worse she has taken over his garden. When Gloria ate from Colin's dish he growled at her and got told off. Then one day a big cardboard box arrived and Gloria and Colin both tried to look inside the box but they both got pushed back. They managed to see what was in the box, it was a fluffy rabbit named Jeffery. Now Colin and Gloria no longer got all the attention. They still didn't like each other but they agreed on one thing, that they REALLY didn't like Jeffery. 

I really like this book and I first read it a long time ago in our local library. I am very happy that I now have my own copy at home. 

My favourite part is when they both agreed on not liking Jeffery the rabbit. 

I will read this book again very soon as I really enjoy reading it. 

Thank you for reading my review.

Laila aged 7

Penguin

This review comes from Aadam. The book is called Penguin and is written by Polly Dunbar.

Someone called Ben got a present and inside was a penguin. 

Ben asked the penguin to play but the penguin said nothing. Ben tried everything he could to get the penguin to play or even speak to him but no matter what he did the penguin said nothing. Ben tried doing a funny dance, launching penguin into outer space, blowing a raspberry at penguin but still penguin said nothing so Ben tried to feed penguin to a passing lion but the lion didn't want to eat penguin. Ben got upset and shouted SAY SOMETHING!!! and the lion ate Ben for being too noisy. Then penguin bit lion on the nose very hard and the lion spat Ben back out again. 

Ow! said the lion 

Wow! said Ben 

and penguin said........Everything!! 

I really liked this story and enjoyed reading it. I thought it was very funny. My favourite part was where Ben tried to feed penguin to a passing lion. 

I would like to read this book again. 

Thank you for reading my review. 

Aadam aged 9 

Zahra's Great Debate

This review comes from Aleigha and the book is called Zahra's Great Debate and is written by Sufiya Ahmed.

Zahras great debate was about her going back to school after she had been suspended and so was her friends.

Her friend said welcome back I missed you. When zahra came back to school there was an incident where some other girls locked zahras friends cousin in the freezer and zahra and her friends wanted to get revenge so they put spiders in the girls plate when they were in the cookery room making shepherds pie.

Zahra and her friends ended up being the ones who got into trouble for taking revenge. The girls all kept trying to get revenge until one day they decided to put a pot of paint on the top of a door so that when someone opened the door the paint would fall on them, but the trick went wrong because the paint ended up falling into someones eye and she was rushed to hospital and everyone got into trouble.

In the end Zahra and her friends said they will never take revenge again so that they don't make accidents happen and they all was friends again.

When I was reading the book I didn't think it was the right way for muslim sister to act in the way they were acting, I was happy in the end when they said they would all stop acting in a bad way to each other.

I found the book interesting to read because there was girls my age that saw they was doing something wrong and they started trying to do things in the correct way.

The book was a bit too long for me to read as I don't like to read long books but I think it would be a good book for other girls my age to read.

Thank you for reading my review.

Aleigha 12 years old

Wannabees and yum-worms

This review comes from Ayah. The book is called Wannabees and yum-worms and is written by Duncan Richardson.

The book was about a girl called Holly and it was her first day at school and her teacher asked her about her family and holly told her about yum-worms.

A few weeks later Holly brought yum-worms in her packed lunch box and her teacher saw the lunch box moving, holly opened the lid and her teacher came closer, Holly bit the tail off the yum worm and the teacher fainted. When she opened her eyes she thought she must be dreaming. She asked Holly some questions and Holly said her parents had been stolen by burglars, so the teacher went home with Holly that day, lots of strange things happened and in the end the teacher found her mum and dad tied up on 2 chairs and she set them free.

I thought holly was lying about the burglar stealing her parents but it turned out to be true.

I liked the book especially the part when Holly thought the sock-roaches where animals on her foot but they was really just her socks.

If you want to laugh then you should read this book because it was funny.

Thank you for reading my review.

Ayah aged 8

Number Jumble

This review comes from Sakeenah. The book is called Number jumble and is written by Wendy St. Germain.

The book was about numbers, there was a boy who was doing maths and he made a wish that there would be no more numbers.

A fairy came and made the numbers go away.

The numbers were fighting, and the zero got sad because he said that everyone always forgets about him. People were getting confused because they couldn’t go shopping because they couldn’t count their change. The zero went in the forest but then he went back because he missed his family. In the end the fairy made all the numbers come back because everyone new that numbers are important.

I thought this book was fun and I learned that everyone needs numbers.

Thank you for reading my book review.

From sakeenah and I am 6 years old