Monthly Archives: April 2019

The Girl who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill

This book is about a girl called Luna, who is left in the Forest as a baby to die. The citizens of The Protectorate, who left her out in the Forest, didn’t know that there was a witch waiting to carry the baby to safety.

This book is about an extraordinary magical adventure that changed her life forever…

I like this book because the characters are interesting in the way that they interact with each other. The book is set on a world where half of the world is The Bog, a quarter is the Protectorate and the Free Cities, and the rest is a dangerous Forest and a volcano that had been stopped up hundreds of years ago to stop it erupting. I also like the way that the book switches between different genre’s and tenses; most chapters are written in the present tense in a story format. However, some are written as a poem or in the past tense. I like this because it makes it more interesting to read.

My favourite character in this book is Luna because she is a mystery and has no idea that she has been ‘enmagicked’ by drinking moonlight. Luna is a girl who senses that someone is not telling her something that she should know, and she can’t think what it could be. Every time she sees, hears or reads anything to do with magic, her eyes, mind and memory go blank and the things she’s seen, heard or read go whizzing out of her brain and she never remembers them.

In conclusion, I like this book and would rate it 4/5 stars. I would recommend this book to readers my age.

I reviewed this book as part of the 7 for 7 challenge. Here is a link to that blog post.

928 Miles From Home by Kim Slater

928 Miles from Home

This book is about a boy called Calum Brooks who is forced to put up with a stranger called Sergei Zurakowski who is moving into his flat along with his mum, Angie. When Calum gets run over, the two of them must work together to solve the mystery of who is vandalizing the Expressions community centre and who ran Calum over.

I particularly liked the book when Sergei and Calum are forced to work together and befriend each other. My favourite character was Sergei because the school bullies kept picking on him, and he was patient and kind with Calum when he was in an attitude. The story is full of mystery and adventure you never know what’s coming next. The story makes you feel really emotional through the speaker’s feelings. And you just wanted to keep reading the book because you can’t wait for what’s coming next!!!

I didn’t like the fact that the book ended because it just makes you want to know what happens next in his life.

I’d recommend this book to more able readers because of the words and vocabulary in the book. People who are fans of drama, comedy or mystery stories would like this book. I would compare this book to The Goldfish Boy and The Light Jar by Lisa Thompson.

The Goldfish Boy The Light Jar

This is part of my 7 for 7. To see the blog post about 7 for 7 click here

7 for 7

At school, there is a book challenge called 7 for 7. It is designed to make participants better at writing about what they are reading. To complete the challenge, specially chosen Year 7’s (including me) have to read 7 books and write reviews about all of them.

The books are

To see my reports on these books click on the name. If it doesn’t work I haven’t done a review on that book yet.

Arr, Me Hearties

Earlier, I made a coding website with tips about coding. Well today, I made an extension which translates what you type into pirate speak. Click here to open the extension. I made this extension with help from a tutorial which helped me a lot when making this website. I hope you like talking like a pirate with this handy helper. The phrases that will be translated are:

Hello
You
Stop
Yes
Loot
Turn the ship around
Bottom of the sea
Goodbye and good luck
Look out, cannon fire
Get out of the way
My crew
Throw that overboard
i’m not sure you’ve thought through this course of action

There is also a unique sentence starter when you start typing.

Magnificent Minecraft

Not long ago, I started playing Minecraft again and got really into it. Every chance I get, I’m designing new things on paper, which I want to build on Minecraft like mazes and places where you kill different animals and monsters (mobs) to get experience points which you can use to upgrade armour, tools and weapons. You can also make machines using redstone dust (electricity based substance) and repeaters and comparators which can act like circuits in a computer chip.

Minecraft also boosts imagination and lots of other useful skills. This makes Minecraft a fun tool to help you learn important skills.

These pictures are things that I’ve built on Minecraft and are useful mechanisms to help life on Minecraft easier. The 1st picture above is for a stone generator and the second a machine to block lava.