Percy Jackson and The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan

At his new school, Percy Jackson discovers that two of the cheerleaders are empousai, a dangerous kind of female demon that have one metal leg and one goat leg. One he manages to kill, but the other one lets the music room go up in flames, so Percy has to flee.
At camp Half-Blood, his friend, Annabeth, has been chosen to lead a quest through the legendary labyrinth, built by the inventor Daedalus. Enemy troops are trying to find Ariadne's string, the only way to navigate the labyrinth. All Percy and his friends have to do is to find  the string and come back to camp Half-Blood. But this quest turns out a lot more dangerous than Annabeth, Percy, Grover and Tyson think.
A dangerous adventure packed with pure action, nothing more...

By Jake Panther

Inheritance - by Christopher Paolini

This is the fourth and last book in the Eragon series. It took Christopher Paolini 12 years to write it, and it just came out in November 2011. It begins with a battle at some city. The Varden are protesting against the evil king Galbatorix's way of ruling. One night, the Varden leader Nasuada gets kidnapped by Galbatorix's servant, Murtagh, and his dragon Thorn.Nasuada gets taken to Uru'baen, the city where Galbatorix lives, and Galbatorix tortures her. Now Eragon has not only to kill Galbatorix, but he also has to save Nasuada. Luckily, the elves Blodhgarm, Arya and ten others agree to help. But the great dragon Shruikan makes numerous attempts to kill them, and so slows them considerably. After many captured cities, and many killings, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira finally reach the capital, Uru'baen. And the great battle commences...

Pages 1-9, Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

I've only read 9 pages of this book, but I'll give you all the information I already know. Right now, the setting is in a place called Jordan College.

Boy - Going to Norway & The Magic Island by Roald Dahl

In these 2 chapters, Roald Dahl talks about what he did during his summer vacations. He sais that he always went to Norway. He doesn't know how his mother managed to do all the packing. 6 trunks plus loads of suitcases she had to pack!
First, the Dahls took a train to London, then another one headed for a town of which I've forgotten the name, then they continued by boat to Oslo (a.k.a. Christiania). There, they stayed for a night at their grandparent's house. Their grandparents were called Bestemama and Bestepapa. The next day, Dahls family took a smaller boat to a tiny, nameless island where a primitive old hotel run by some old people waited for them. Those old people always greeted them like they were old friends. The hotel was so primitive that they didn't even have a proper toilet! Imagine that! The only thing that came close to a toilet was a small outhouse. there, you sat on a hole in a wooden board, and what you did there dropped into a pit ten feet below. Disgusting, isn't it??? Dahls family always went to this tiny island even tinier than the one they were staying on, using an old rowboat, and there they would stay for a few hours and swim. When the kids were older, Dahl's mom purchased a not-so-seaworthy motorboat with a ridiculously old engine. That way, they were able to navigate to even further islands and much quicker than with the rowboat.

Boy - Mrs. Pratchett's Revenge by Roald Dahl

Because the boys put a dead mouse in the Gobstopper jar, Mrs. Pratchett wants revenge. Roald and his friends are called to the Headmaster's office to get a caning. Every boy gets 4 strokes, plus an extra one every time they straighten up. Thwaites has to go first, and, somehow, Roald ends up at the back. He describes the waiting as an even worse torturethan the actual caning. Mr. Coombes is and expert in caning, he is so good that he can hit on the same spot every time.
Then, at bath time at home, Roald's mom sees the scarlet marks with  the blue bruising in between that were caused by the cane. She goes to see the Headmaster to tell him that she doesn't want her son to be treated/punished like that.


I don't think that this punishment was appropriate, even though the boys did something that deserved a punishment. Physical punishment should not be applied, even if the student or students did something very bad. Caning is just painful, plus it could stop the boys from doing PE.


I think that punishment should be differnt for every single individual. Teachers should take away something that the student really likes, something he/she is depending on. For example the student's telephone, school privileges, etc. Or, teachers should make students write a sentence 100 times (or maybe not that much). If the student broke a window, the teacher should make him/her write "I will not break any more windows, nor will I do anything that might result in a broken window. When I went to school in France, they used to make us do that, no matter what we did. The number of sentences varied depending on what we did.


Roald Dahl made this chapter engaging by using similes and adjectives. Like, when Thwaites was caned "he straightened up like elastic". Or, Mr. Coombes "was like an athlete spurred on by the cries of the crowd" He also used some dialogue, which made the reader think thaey were actually there, listening to what was going on, for example when Mrs. Pratchett was shrieking and yelling to hit the children harder.

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

The book is about this boy named Percy Jackson. He has no father, but he has a very nice mother. Percy is going to a school called Yancy Academy. Percy was kicked out of school 6 times in 6 years. He has dyslexia (a learning disability that stops him from being able to listen and read fluently) and ADHD (where he is hyperactive, meaning that he finds it hard to concentrate in school. One day, the school is taking a field trip to a museum. After the visit, they eat their packed lunches outside the museum on the front steps. Percy and his friend, Grover, are sitting on the fountain, when the schol bully comes up and starts annoying them. Percy gets very angry, but suddenly, the water semmed to grab the bully and pull her into the water! The teacher, Mrs. Dodds, comes up immediately, thinking that Percy pushed the bully in the fountain.

I'll continue as soon as I have some more time.

Boy - Mr. Coombes by Roald Dahl

Now, Roald and his friends want to go see if the mouse is still in its Gobstopper jar, but when they come to the shop, they see an ominous sign hanging on the door: CLOSED. They all think that Mrs. Pratchett must have died from the shock of finding a dead mouse in the Gobstopper jar. At school, after Prayers, the Headmaster Mr. Coombes tells everyone to go outside and not ot talk, even though he doesn't tell anyone the readon for this unusual event. Then, Mrs. Pratchett herself comes in and starts going along the rows and rows of students lined up in the recess playground. When she gets to Roald's friends, she starts pointing at each of them in turn, until she'd pointed out every boy that had been to the sweet shop the day they had put the mouse in. Then, Mrs. Pratchett walks out of the school.
I think that next, Mrs. Pratchett will take her revenge by hitting them with a stick/cane.


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