Book reviews by George Dean, age 14Book reviews by George Dean, age 14
‘Tunnels’ by Roderick Gordon £6.99
Tunnels is the story of Will Burrows, a little nobody who’s hated at school and around the neighbourhood by everyone other than his best friend, Chester, and his father whom will shares an unusual fascination with digging. But after Will’s dad disappears Will’s skill at digging becomes more than an unusual hobby, it becomes a vital skill key to the survival of both Will and Chester as they race down a mineshaft where Will’s father was last seen sniffing around, and at the bottom of this deep dank hole they will soon both discover an amazing secret that has little to do with Will’s father and everything to do with Will.‘Wolf Brother’ by Michelle Paver £6.99
The book Wolf Brother is used to tell the story of Torak, a young hunter-in-training who is now on the run from a demon-possessed bear whilst having to take care of a young wolf cub that Torak cannot bring himself to abandon.
But Torak cannot just keep on running for long because when he and the bear met each other for the first time the bear took something very special away from Torak and Torak wants revenge, but no matter how many times Torak wishes for revenge he has to face up to the fact that he just cannot find a way to kill this bear, well, directly at least.
‘Half Moon Investigations’ by Eoin Colfer £5.99
The story of Half Moon Investigations is the funny and unusual tale of Fletcher Moon, the pint sized detective with a whole load of attitude, the story of Fletcher moon is the story of how the aspiring police detective has to make do with the stealing of small unimportant objects as solvable crimes rather than the bigger actual crimes which he isn’t allowed to do because his parents wont let him. But after he is framed for a number of small crimes that when all put together could actually cause his future prospects quite a lot of damage, so with a heavy heart Fletcher reluctantly teams up with a member of the local crime ring, the Sharkeys, and tries to figure out how they can get out of this mess without ending up in a young offenders prison
.Here is what George has to say........
"I have been doing work experience here at Burway Books for the last 2 weeks and have thoroughly enjoyed it, what my general plan for the day is to come in for 10:00am and then help unpack our daily delivery of books, sort them all out and place all of them in their necessary places depending on whether or not they are customer orders, after that I will usually do any odd tasks that are asked of me . Then I have l my sandwiches and crisps. Once I have eaten these I usually sort through the 3-5 year olds books to see whether or not they need to be repriced, are fine as they are or even placed in the discount bin.
All in all I think that my experience here has been very productive and that it will definitely help me get a part time job at a place like Burway Books or even at the land of bookish wonder itself. " |
