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The book i have recently read was called the water horse it was about a little boy who was down at the shore and he found an egg. He took the egg home and it cracked open and there was a water horse in it but not an normal sized one a giant one! So he kept it in the bath with water but he couldnt tell his mum. So if she wanted in the bath he would put the water horse dowm the toilet! But his mum ended up finding out and he had to go and put him back in to the sea and he was crying very much!
by Claire Murphy.
I have recently been reading a book called Wayne Rooney by John Townsend.I like this book because it tells you about when he started playing football and when he was born and when he started playing with england.I think other people shoud read this because it tells you about fottball.
by luke campbell 1p6
The book i read was an autobiography about Ryan Giggs
it was about when he was young until he is old playing for manchester united he played for england when he was young when he was acctualy welsh but when he was professionel he became a player for his first country Wales
it took you through a journey from a young ryan giggs of 10 years old untill the 32 year old playing for united today.he talks about players such as teddy sheringham and ole gunner soljiear.and the night they won the european cup.It will appeal to Manchester United fans.
by Christopher hamilton
this book is about football from 2005 that tells you stuff about football and footballers when they were young and the top skills for diffence and match makes up a story at the end of every book
The book I have read is called Amir Kahn. It is about a guy called Amir Kahn and he is a boxer and he fought in the olimpics and that is how he became a boxer. Amir Kahn is a really good boxer. I like this book because is a good fighter and he is cool.
by daniel dixon
I have recently been reading a book called match of the day you can get it every week. I think you should read this book because it tell you a lot about football. If you wont to learn about football you should get this book.
By Luke Campbell 1p6
This book is about wayne rooney and his life time story he got scouted when he was nine years old and then he got offered a place at the youth academy he grew up in liverpool and was born in 24th october 1985 he plays as a forward and he now plays for man utd and his strip number is 10 and for england it is 9 he made his debut against spurs.Hea has noe grew up to be one of the best players in the world he might even be the best in the world right now and has a great career in front of him
The book i have read is called rules of the game by Clive Gifford This book is about football and tells you how to play football by the rules and how to stay on the park without getting sent off people who wants to learn more about the game should take this out of the library.
Conner Fraser 1p6.
The book I have been reading is called Sports Cars. The book tells you all about cars and it tells you the speed nand were there made. I think people should read this book because it is very intresting.
by Luke Campbell 1P6
The book I have recently read is the offical manchester united annual 2005 by Adam Bostock. The book is all about Manchester uniteds history and who they signed. There manageris called Alex Ferguson. Man utd sigen lots of good players such as Ronaldo,rooney,roy carroll,Ruud van nisterlrooy.
The book I have recently read was about Alan Shearer. He started his career at southaption scoring 23 hgoals and 188 apps. He signed with blackburn rovers for £3.3m. His fist goal for england was scored against france in a 2-0 win.I liked the book because it tells you about his life and his football career.
by kieran heaney
Book-Midnight
By-Jacquelin Wilson
I liked this book because it was about a we grile called vilot. She is a nice and kind grile she helps her mum round the houd and dus stuff for her. Vilot has a big brother called Will and Will is so lezie but he is 17 and that is wat 17 yearolds are like. There mum and dad go out one night so vilot is stuck with her big brotherl. He cant cook so he order a dinner for them at this really posh place and he dusin yous his muney for this he youses his dad and Will spen like £50 on food for him and his sister to have something to eat. I really liked this book it was funny when Will had alwas got into trible and niver got aloud to go out so I think you shoud tack the book and read it because it is grate.
I have recently read top cars JAGUAR by Lee Stacy. It has loads of facts about six classic jaguar cars like the legendary E type and the XJ220.
Only 281 XJ220 exist, and one belongs to Elyon John, and Ford took over jaguar. the XJ12 HE was the most successfull saloons that they made.
I recomend reading this because it tells alot about jaguar cars.
by Robbie Howard
The book i have recently read was called the shark project. This book is about different kinds of sharks. My favourite shark is the great white.There is about 100 shark attacks worldwide. Shark attacks mostly take place in Brazil. Sharks mostly eat sea lions or small fish.
I read a book called do we negotiate with terrorists. Its about the 9/11 bombings and the Lockerbie bombings and negotiations taking place at meetings like the sectarinism between IRA and the UDA and britain trying to sort it out,and the war in Iraq and trying to find Osama Bin Ladan.
by Christopher Hamilton
This book is about football managers and what they do before a match and after.managers are picking the team they want to play at the weekend or mid week match managers have a few scoutsto go and watch some young talented players managers are to busy to go and watch the young players so they take them to the reserve team to see what there like every player last about 3 year in the reserve team.By KieranHeaney
I have been reading a book called Man united annual it tells you all about the history of the club and its gives you useful facts about the players and the managers. I think people should start reading this book if the like man united because it tells you all about the man united players and when they started playing football.
by luke campbell 1p6
The book i've recently been reading is the Arsenal football club Encloypedia its the a-z on Arsenal since they were formed and they mention the acadamy that Cesc Fabragas, Nicklas Bendtner, Fabrice Muamba, Sebastian Larrson and Jeremie Aliadiere have came through. They mention there legends like Tony Adams,Lee Dixon,Theirry Henry,Emmanual Adebayor,Alan Ball and Cliff Bastin. Theres a big page for an amazing player called Dennis Bergkamp and also Sol Campbell and he has signed again for Arsenal 2 days ago, Arsenal once had to play there European games at Wembley because the old highbury was too small. Arsenal moved to the Emirates in 2006 and there captain is Cesc Fabragas.
by Chris Hamilton
The book i have rencently been reading was Amir Khan by Paul Harrison. This book is about Amir Khan who is a profesional boxer. It tells you different things about his life and what he has won. A like this book because i like boxing and a think Amir Khan is a good boxer.
by KieranHeaney
The book i have recently been reading is the Match Of The Day annual 2009, its all about the best players, the best goals, the funny parts of the season, the bad parts of the season. A full page on The world cup of 2010. The African Cup Of Nations. Kaka and Cristiano Ronaldo. Kaka transfers from AC Milan to Real Madrid for 56million pounds and Ronaldo from Manchester United to Real for 80 million. Also David Beckham going on loan to AC milan and Inter paying 30 million for Gabriel Milto and Zlatan Ibrahimovic transfering to Barcalona for 40 million and Samual Eto going in the opposite direction.
Chris Hamilton
The book i have recently read is Match Annual 2005. It has loads of facts about lots of diffrent football players. Such as Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldino, Luis Figo and Pavel Nedved.
Daniel Dixon
The book i have been have been reading is called Ultimate cars BMW it is all about all about the history of the bmw cars and all different cars. Here is a list new cars, old cars and F1 cars. I liked this book because it tells you all about cars.
by luke campbell
The book i have been reading is all about man utd and what they won in 2005. Man utd made a fantastic start to the season by beating bolton 4-0 with giggs scoring 2 and scholes and van nistelrooy with 1
scholes and nistelrooy was the same with there goals when they played newcastle and won 2-1.in 2004 man utd was beat to the win the league with chelsea in 2nd place and arsenal 1st.they won the fa cup by beating millwall 3-0. that was a good season for united amd 2005 was better. by kieran heaney
it,s about a large war between astria-hungry,america and britian
in it there was other cilvinans and lots of young teenagers on it as well most died in the middle of the war but some came back tough it was a tough battle beween the that was called the first world war it is a nice book to read.
The book I have reecntly read is Match Annual 2005 it is about foot ball facts and other cool things like Match cartoon, Wanye rooney the story so far, Midfield megastars, Posters, Quizes, The Euro 2004 Diary, and Top Tips for defenders.an dits has all of the transfer news from 2004-2005.it also has my proudest moment.
by Daniel Dixon
The book i've recently read is The Story Of Rangers Football Club.It began 130 years ago , four friends - brothers Moses and Pter McNeil, Peter Campbell and William McBeath decided to start a football team.Moses suggested Rangers to be the name as he had heard a rugby team called that. So they had a name......but not a ground or a strip or a ball. The first home game was played at Glasgow Green,not far from where Celtic Park now stands.Rangers drew there first match 0-0 against a team called Callandar FC.Rangers had found there proper kit by their second match....the famous light blue they wear today. This proved well as they beat Clyde 11-0.In 1889 William Wilton.William was strict he wanted his players to dress smartly. A tradition that remains strong today.In 1920 William died in a boating accident.The legend Bill Struth took over. Bill became the most succesful manager in Rangers history.He was in charge for 34 years and signed many good players, the best was Alan Morton from Queens Park in 1920.He was a left winger.More recent tales include the little general.....Dick Advocatt.This meant a new start for Rangers in 1998. With the financial backing of chairman David Murray, he could make big signings like the 3.5 million signing of barcalona midfielder Giovanni Van Bronckhorst and Advocaats first signing from PSV Eindhovan Left Back Arthur Numan and Andrei Kanchelskis from Russia. He alson brought in Ronald De Boar and Frank De Boar and Michael Mols for 4 million from Ajax. He won the treble and money took over scottish football.Now manager Walter Smith in 2010 is heading towards 2 league titles in a row and Rangers are still the most succesful club in the world
by Chris Hamilton 1p6
The book i have been recently reading is called Underwater Killers. I think people should read this book because its all about the oceans, seas, and rivers of this planet teem with animals that kill in order of life. Many underwater prredators are more that mysterious and more fesred than those that live on land.
The book i have recently read was Porsche. I chose this book because i like cars and porsche is one of my favourite ones. People should get this book because it gives you alot of facts about them.
By scott mackie
The book I have recently read is The story of Celtic. The book is about celtics history,famous football ledgends,Old firm between celtic and rangers and The managers celtic had
by Daniel Dixon
The book i have recently read is called Underwater Killers it is about The oceans , seas, and rivers of this planet teem with animals that kill in order to live. Many underwater predators are more mysterious and more feared than those that live on land. Sharks cause most people to shiver . But what about killer wales , octopuses, crocodiles, piranhas, and jellyfish? Or stonefish, electric eels , and snapping turtles? Elegant or ugly, fast or slow, all of these animals are marvelously adapted to the places where they live and to the prey they seek
Picture libis a major series of visual reference books whitch uses exciting colour photography to illustrate topics of popular interest.The pictures are accomplained by simple livelyt text a glossary and an index
by Kieran Heaney
The book i have read is called The Sharks. I thike people should read this because it gives you all the info about all the sharks and there are all differnent types of sharks like the basking shark and the great white shark which is a shark that eats other fish. There are other sharks aswell like the lemon shark and nurse sharks.
by Luke Campbell
i have recently read a book called The Creature in the Case by Gareth Nix.
This book was about a young boy and girl which were fostered by a drug addict but they didnt know there parents where a drug addict and there parents enjected there kids.
by Shannon Marshall
I have recently read a book called Football. This book tells us about all the key hints and tips of being the best. The book also tells us about the world cup in 1998. The book is about Football obviously but it tells us about the history like Who won The European Cup and Uefa cup.
By Liam Lorimer
Ally MCcoist
Potrait of a hero
by Alistair Aird
This book was really good it was about Ally MCcoist and his whole life. He was the best scottish goal-scorer in the last 30 years. He got 61 caps for his international team scotland. I would recommend this to anybody who likes football.
I have recently beeen reading a book called The bad beginnings , it was about three children whos parents died in a fire. They then got a distant relative to look after them , he is called Count Olaf. Count olaf tried to marry one of the children to steal their fortune , but it didnt work out and Count Olaf got away then they were all sad.
by bryonykenmuir :).
I recently read an encyclopaedia about the football club Arsenal FC, the club are from the north side of London but have not always been there. The book was a good read for me as I am an Arsenal fan. It was the 2008 edition and it had a foreword from the manager Arsene Wenger. I would recommend this book to all Arsenal fans, as it gives a good insight into the club's history.
I have just read the book Vicious Vikings by Terry Dreary.It is book out of the Horrible Histories sequel.It is about the viking era but in a more gruesome and funny way.It tells you how they would make up songs about how they killed their enemy that day.It also describes how the weather that they had to go through when crossing the English Channel on a wooden boat.
Even if you don't like books about history it is a great read.
By Harry Connelly
I have recently read a book called WhatThey Don't Tell You About World War I by Bob Fowke.From terrible trentches to stinking submarines this book tells you everything that your teacher would never even known about.Things in this book like you were not allowed to eat crumpets,feed dogs bread or even throw rice at weddings.if you do reed this book you find that everything I have said is true.
johnathan hume said....
The book i have recently read was called superbikes. It is about motorbikes and how there made.
the bike that i read about was called the Kawasaki ninja zx-12r
it reaches an amazing speed of 190mph ohhhhhh!. did u know ?the zx-12-r has the widest back tyre af any sportsbike.it is a massive 200mm wide and the scoop under the headlight forces air into the ENGINE, witch drags extra fuel in.
this gives the zx-12r even more power.it is a very good if u like bikes like me and if u would like to know more you will just have to get the book and read it and there are other books from the wild about manufacturars.
John Gallacher said...
The book I have recently read was called top gear.
It was about super cars like the new lamborghini for instance.
It has a5.2 litre V10 engine.
It won't be relesed till 2011.
It was a good book because it is fun lerning and has lots of awesome
pictures.
Ducks-Stephen Savage
The book i have read is about ducks. The book tells you about how ducks live and how they get there food.this book wasent thats intresting.This type of book would be good for pepole who like animals.
anonymous said...
the book i have just read is called
tales of horror vampiers.it tells you about vampiers in history and how they lived
The book I was reading was Special Forces it is about Special Forces that are all over the world it mostly talked about the Delta Force Rangers, Navy Seals and most importantly the S.A.S the Special Air Service it is written by Franklin Watts. It tells you about who they are , what do they do, where do they fight, tough training and much much more. It also tells you about the skills they have the weapons tactics and gadgets its also tells you how they would paracute out of an aroplane by using h.a.l.o and h.a.h.o halo meaning high altitude, low opening and haho meaning high altitude, high opening .This book would be a good book if you are intestide in war and guns or anything round that sort of thing and if you do not know what any words mean there is a Glossary and if you really want to there are some websites and the back if you want to learn more about the special forces. If you do not know any facts about what they do or what they have done in the past there is a fact file telling you information about the special forces.
by Andrew Murray
1 Delta 1 P7
johnathan hume said.....
the book i have recently read is called tales of horror monsters by jim pipe.
The monster im going tell you about
is called the grren giant the hulk
the scene is a mad scientist's
lab. Ahuge corips lies on a slap .
Lighting leaps from across the room
It sends a jolt of elecricity throgh the still body.Uderneath the
sheet,somthing titches. The monster is alive!1
shy and scary
Monsters may be nasty and scary,
But they can also be shy. Many avoid the towns and cities. Where is the best place to find them?.
My book is called Lizzie Zipmouth by Jacqueline Wilson. It is about a girl called Lizzie who refuces to speak, she gets new step brothers called Rory and Jake she doesnt want to speak to them. She doesnt want to speak to her new step dad either and she wont even speak to her mum. But when they go a visit to see Sam (her stepdads) , mother she makes freinds with her and she starts visting the gran more often and they play with her antique dolls.
by bryony(: ...
I have recently read a book called Indigo Blue by Cathy Cassiday.
It is about a girl called Indigo, she lives with her mum, her mums boyfriend (Max) and her little baby sister Misti.Her best friend is called Jo. One day she woke up and her mum was down stair sleeping on the couch as she went to go to school her mum go up and watched her go out the path she noticed that her mums face was covered with bruses, her mum told her that she would pick her up from school and they were moving this is a very good book.
I have recently read the book from the Horrible Histories sequel called Horrible Histories The Vile Victorians.It is mostly about Queen Victoria and how she would rein and mourn for over 40 years after her husband Albert died and how successfully avoided 8 attempts
to assassinate her.It also tells you how the Queen was like when she was little.For example she had friend called Jane and she said to Jane I may call you Jane but you cannot call me Victoria and she wouldn't share her toys with anyone else.Also when she appeared in public she woudn't wear a crown she would wear a black dress and a widows black hat (only when she would appear in public,and that was not often).Off of Victoria now and it tells you that the Victorians invented the first motorcar and the first telephone but that was no use until a second phone was made.Also a chap called Henry Besemer invented Molten steel.
A great read and a very funny book
By Harry Connelly
I have just finished the book "lake river monsters and other crazy animals" by Mitchell Clark. It explains how the horrible creatures live and survive in the murky rivers of the Amazon and other rivers in the south americas. One of the river animals is the gouge catfish which can grow to an astounding 6 metres in length. This animal feeds on the corpses of dead humans which have been set to rest in the river or lake.Another is a massive tuna called Paribas cangulas which feeds on small fish.The biggest has been recorded a massive 2 metres.
This book will give lots of facts about animals that will have never of heard of and it is very interesting at the same time.
By Harry Connelly
I recently read a book called Bad company by Catherine Macphail.
Its about a Girl called Lisa. Lisa's world has turned upside down for the second time, The first time was when her father was sent up to jail. The second time was when he comes home. Lissa had got used to the tauntsat school when her father was away. But not that he has come home it has made lissa realise how angry and betrayed she feels.she cannot forgivre him- nor can she forgive her motherfor, as she sees it, accepting him back too easily.
Diane connel, thre new girl at school, is the only person who understands. And diane always has good ideas to solve lissas problems. But diane is not so straightforward herself, as lissa is about to find out.
They have done a terrible thing diane and lisa, and dont know how to change it. Lisa cant tell anyone the truth, noone will understand except diane. lisa feels like crawling in to a hole and dying.
By Rachael Quinn:).
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