reading log 2012

  • George's marvellous medicine

    George's granny isn't a sweet little old lady. In fact, she's a real horror and when she comes to stay at the family farm, which George's harried parents run with his help, she expects her grandson to wait on her hand and foot. Even then she never stops complaining.George makes his own special medicine and gives Granny a teaspoon with remarkable results.
  • Fantasctic Mr.Fox

    Fantasctic Mr.Fox
    This story is about a fox named Mr Fox. In order to feed his family, Mr Fox steals chickens, ducks, and turkeys, each night from three mean and wealthy farmers: Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. The farmers are fed up with Mr Fox's theft and try to kill him. One night, the farmers wait outside Mr Fox's foxhole in an attempt to ambush him. When Mr Fox emerges from his home, the farmers fire at him. However, the farmers only succeed in blowing off Mr Fox's tail.
  • matilda

    matilda
    matilda is about a young girl that is very smart and goes to a school with a lovely teacher called miss.honey. her parents are rude , she enjoys reading but her parents hate reading and their eyes are stuck on the tv. meanwhile days go on and the school get a new principal called trunchbull and shes a living horror. she ends up teaching matilda's class and matilda and miss.honey have an adventurous adventure going through trenchbulls house.
  • the BFG

    the BFG
    Big Friendly Giant! This BFG doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows.
  • james and the giant peach

    James Henry Trotter, seven years old, lives with his loving parents in a pretty and bright cottage by the sea in the south of England. James's world is turned upside down when, while on a shopping trip in London, his mother and father are devoured by an escaped rhino. James is forced to go and live with his two horrible aunts, Spiker and Sponge, who live on a high, desolate hill near the white cliffs of Dover.One day he was very happy managing to find a huge growing peach near by.
  • the other facts of life

    There are some things Ben doesn't understand, so his dad is sent in to explain the facts of life. But it's the other facts that are worrying Ben and he decides to find his own answers. He's deadly serious and the results are very, very funny.
  • grizzly trap

    grizzly trap
    Sam Fox is on a cub scout trip to North America when their bus crashed down a canyon. But as soon as Sam helps everyone off the the bus, he is confronted by a huge, growling bear! And that's just the first wild animal Sam will have to face if he's to get the other cubs to safety...
  • worm story

    Who likes stomach acid and sludge farming and wants to find a friend?Wilton the worm.
    Who likes running away and hiding and wants to save the world?Algy the microbe.
    What's huge and scary and the first thing they see outside? Underpants.
    The hilarious tale of two tiny parasites and their very big adventure
  • Double Fudge

    Double Fudge
    Any fan of Fudge knows that he never does anything halfway. And so it should come as no surprise that when he discovers the value of money, he goes whole hog-making his own "Fudge Bucks," dressing as a miser for Halloween, and thumbing through catalogs to choose his birthday presents years in advance. His older brother, Peter, who's just starting seventh grade, finds it all highly embarrassing, as usual. But things change into a stage set of a wacky, wild school year.
  • teachers pet

    Ginger is named after a cat. Some people reckon she's more like the fierce stray dog she takes to Pets Day.
    Ginger tries to be good, but it's not easy when your mum puts cat food in your breakfast bowl.
    It gets even harder when the school principal starts trying to kill your best friend.
  • devil danger

    devil danger
    Sam Fox is on a skiing trip to compete in the Devil's Run Skiing Championships in Tasmania, when a baby falls out of a cable car overhead. The baby is Crown Prince Thomas, four-month-old son of European Princess Monica, and the fall is a result of a bungled kidnap attempt. Sam catches the baby (saving it from certain death) and is chased by the kidnappers. After various escapes and explosions, he is captured and taken to their hideout - an abandoned sawmill in isolated forest - where Prince Thom
  • Boy Overboard

    Jamal and Bibi have a dream to lead Australia to soccer glory in the next World Cup. But first they must face landmines, pirates, storms and assassins. Can Jamal and his family survive their incredible journey and get to Australia?
  • Mett The Zombiesons

    Mett The Zombiesons
    The Zombiesons are just your average family. Their brains are exposed. Their dog has three heads. Zigi Zombieson was kicked off the soccor team because his foot flew off. Granny Zombieson's brain has gone missing. But that's nothing out of the ordinary, right?
  • girl underground

    girl underground
    Bridget wants a quiet life. Including, if possible, keeping her parents out of prison.
    Then a boy called Menzies makes her an offer she can't refuse, and they set off on a job of their own.
    It's a desparate, daring plan - to rescue two kids, Jamal and Bibi, from a desert detention centre.
    Can Bridget and Menzies pull off their very first jail break, or will they end up behind bars too?
    Sometimes, to help a friend, you have to dig deep.
  • super fudge

    super fudge
    Nothing is easy for 11 year old, Peter Hatcher. It's hard enough to have an impossible little brother like Fudge, but now there's a new baby coming. And if this baby is anything like Fudge, that's it – Peter is moving out! Just when he thinks it can't get any worse, Peter finds out that Fudge will be in kindergarten at the same school where he'll be in 6th grade!
  • Toad Rage

    Limpy is desperate to save his family from ending up as placemats. Somehow he must make humans see how nice cane toads really are. Risking everything, he sets off on a journey that is mucus-chillingly dangerous and wart-tinglingly daring. It's also very funny.
  • boy overboard

    boy overboard
    Jamal and Bibi have a dream. To lead Australia to soccer glory in the next World Cup.
    But first they must face landmines, pirates, storms and assassins.
    Can Jamal and his family survive their incredible journey and get to Australia?
    Sometimes, to save the people you love, you have to go overboard
  • twits

    twits
    Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two ugly, smelly, nasty, stupid people who spend their lives playing nasty tricks on each other. They also enjoy being cruel to animals, which they do by luring birds to glue-smothered trees so they can be baked into bird pie, and tormenting their pet monkeys, Muggle-Wump and his family, by getting them to stand upside down, one on top of the other. They hate children, and Mrs. Twit often carries a walking stick in her right hand that she uses to hit children and animals.
  • crocodile attack

    A robger has kidnapped Sam Fox and his cousin Nissa during a tropical cyclone. When the getaway car crashes into the raging Crocodile River, Sam and Nissa must face one ordeal after another to survive against incredible odds. Sam fights to keep his head above water and Nissa out of the jaws of certain death. As the waters rise and the crocodiles close in, Sam must push himself to the limits of endurance.
  • Charlotte's Web

    An affectionate pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. In this story of friendship, hardship, and the passing on into time, White reminds readers to open their eyes to the wonder and miracle found in the simplest of things.
  • The Tales of a Forth Grade Nothing

    Life with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter Hatcher feel like a fourth grade nothing. Whether Fudge is throwing a temper tantrum in a shoe store, smearing mashed potatoes on the walls at Hamburger Heaven, or trying to fly, he’s never far from trouble. He’s an almost three-year-old terror who gets away with everything, and Peter’s had it up to here! When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter’s pet turtle, it’s the last straw. Peter has put up with Fudge for too long. Way too long!
  • The Water Horse

    This book is about a kind and friendly boy that found an egg in a rock pool at the beach and takes the egg home. This egg hatches after a while and the creature inside causes quite a bit of trouble. He finds out its a water horse. The water horse grows too big and is to big for his bath so he takes the water horse to the sea and visits it every day. People are getting angry about this water horse. The water horse might get killed !!!!!
  • Mary Poppins

    From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. This classic series tells the story of the world's most beloved nanny, who brings enchantment and excitement with her everywhere she goes.
  • Toad Away

    How does a young cane toad discover the ancient secret of living in peace with humans? First he has to dodge the killer trucks and supermarket trolleys. Then he has to stop his cousin declaring war on the entire human race.
  • Killer whale

    Sam Fox goes on a trip to Antarctica in the holidays. Sadly their ski plane crashes on the ice. Sam and his younger brother become seperated from the rest of the group. Before long they find themselves stranded on a wobbly icefloe. Just when things couldn't get any worse, a massive creature emergers from thr deep sea. Acreature with huge jaws, and rows and rows of enormous teeth................
  • Crocodile Attack

    A robber has kidnapped Sam Fox and his cousin Nissa during a tropical cyclone.When the get away car crashes into a ranging crocodile river. Sam and Nissa must face one painful or horrific adventure after another to survive against incredible odds.Sam fights to keep his head above the water and Nissa out of the jaws of a certin death. As the waters rise and the crocodiles close in, Sam must push himself to the limits of endurance.
  • Little house on the prairie 1

    A family travels from the big woods in Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie. They build a house, meet Indian neighbours, build a well, and fight a fire.
  • Little house on the prairie 2

    The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods in Wisconsin and set out for Kansas. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their little house on the prairie. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild ducks and turkeys, and gathering grass for their cows. Sometimes pioneer life is hard, but Laura and her folks are always busy and happy in their new little house.
  • holes

    The scene of the ominous Camp Green Lake is set. It is a desert, not a lake. There is no shade except over the Warden’s hammock. There are rattlesnakes and scorpions that occupy holes dug by the campers. But most disturbing are the deadly yellow-spotted lizards. If one bites you, There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore.
  • Spider Bite

    When Sam Fox’s twin brothers, Harry and Jordan, are carried off in a runaway hot-air balloon, Sam tries to save them, only to end up trapped himself! What starts as a joy-ride turns into a life and death struggle when Jordan is bitten by a deadly funnel-web spider. Will Sam be able to land the balloon in time to save his little brother? And how do they end up in the Kodiak bears’ enclosure at the Sydney zoo?
  • Shark Bait

    While holidaying with his family on the Great Barrier Reef, Sam Fox and a young Japanese tourist are washed into the sea by a freak wave. A strong current pushes them out into open water. First Sam must prevent his new friend - and himself (Sam’s foot is in plaster) from drowning, then, as night falls over the inky black ocean, the underwater predators start moving in!!!!!
  • Monkey Mountain

    A class trip to Borneo starts with a bang of a visit to a real-life volcano. But when Mount Bako erupts, Sam Fox is left stranded with his teacher, Mr Griffin, who’s suffering from a heart attack. Chased by a tide of red-hot lava, they make it down to the cool blue sea, only to be hemmed in by bloody-thirsty sharks.
    And that’s just the start of their problems …
  • Tiger Trouble

    Sam Fox is in India to see his big brother Nathan play cricket for Australia. At the end of the big match, Sam’s bag is stolen , with his autographed cricket ball inside! A chase through the streets of New Delhi leads him to Rani and Raju – a pair of baby tigers who are about to be illegally smuggled out of the country.
    Sam is determined to rescue them. But he soon discovers that a sack full of tigers can be a whole lot of trouble…
  • Scropian Sting

    Sam Fox is on a caving expedition in the desert when the roof collapses, trapping his brother Nathan beneath tonnes of rubble. Nathan is in a bad way, and Sam’s his only hope. But when he reaches the cave exit, Sam discovers a sea of huge, angry scorpions! And that’s just the first deadly obstacle he will have to face if he’s to get his brother out alive…
  • Bushfire Rescue

    It’s the holidays and Sam Fox has gone to the high country to stay with his grandparents. While trying to stop cattle rustlers from stealing a stud bull, an injured Sam is isolated in the mountains during a horrific bushfire. To survive, he must rely on his courage, ingenuity, and the help of Chainsaw - the meanest, crankiest, most dangerous bull in the history of Australian rodeo!
  • Danny the champion of the world

    Danny was only four months old when his mother died and lived with his widowed father William in a Gypsy caravan, where William operates a filling station and garage. When Mr. Victor Hazell threatens Danny without cause, William refuses to serve him; whereafter several inspectors visit the station, presumably at Mr. Hazell's direction. When Danny is only nine years old, he discovers that William has habitually taken part in poaching pheasants from Mr. Hazell's estate.
  • Meet the vampiresons

    The Vampiresons are just your average, everyday family Yes, they fly around the neighbourhood on wings. Yes, they live in a crumbling bell tower and have a fruit bat for a pet. Yes, Vonda's sticky toffee sauce has everyone sticking to everything. Mrs Vampireson specialises in monster dentistry. Now there's a giant pair of shark false teeth missing and no-one knows where they've gone!
  • Meet the Supersons

    The Supersons are just your average, everyday family Yes, they have super strange superpowers. Yes, Seth's dubious drawing skills are landing him in hot water. Yes, the whole family is off to Superhero School for the summer. And yes, there's a super villain joining forces with a mad comic genius!But that's nothing out of the ordinary, right? Welcome to Freak Street, a street like any other . . . until you take a closer look!
  • Meet the Aliensons

    An average everyday family, as long as you can overlook their appearance. With purple skin and one eye, this family comes from Valvax-7, a planet far, far away. In this book the family must deal with their out of control robot housekeeper – the Butloid 8000.
  • Meet the humamsons

    The Humansons are just as offbeat as all the other families on Freak Street. They are “a bit more stupid than your average, everyday family” and their behaviour is more than a little bit unpredictable. They wash their car with a hose from the inside, train their pet slug to belly dance and eat their banana custard with chopsticks. When the time comes to find a new family pet they head to the local zoo to find something inappropriate.
  • The crocodile Nest

    Luke Evans never knew his father; he'd cleared out before he was born. So when his internet skills track down someone living at a luxurious resort in tropical Queensland who could be his dad, Luke's imagination runs wild. Luke soon learns that no one is perfect, and the world can.
  • Whale pot bay

    Jake lives with his father in a remote part of the Wairarapa, where he can surf and watch the whales. But then Jake's dad begins a relationship with a new partner, who moves in with her daughter Stephanie, and at the same time a local photographer starts stalking their next door ...
  • Belly Flop

    Mitch needs help. Everyone hates him, but he's got a plan that'll make him the most popular bloke in town. If his plan doesn't kill him, he hopes his guardian angel is listening.
  • Toad Surprise

    Limpy has a dream, where cane toads and humans live happily together. This time Limpy will be able to show humans how nice cane toads can be. After all, it is Christmas. And isn't Christmas a time of peace and goodwill to all men....And cane toads..........
  • Pizza Cake

    Save ten lives with a safety pin, discover how a big banana can ruin your sister’s holiday, make a new friend in a bin, develop a taste for sheep’s spleen and chips , bounce on a vampire’s bed, rescue your dad from a dog and a spider, use a toilet paper roll to get justice, upset the neighbours with a axe, eat a pizza that makes you fearless, and imagine a earth where teachers earn more money than a rock star .
  • The Temple of Baboon

    This story is about Gerald,Gene and Fleabag monkey face that go on a really grose adventure with many obsticals through the grosest place on the planet..............
  • The Twits

    Mr. and Mrs. Twit are two ugly, smelly, nasty, stupid people who spend their lives playing nasty tricks on each other. They also enjoy being cruel to animals, which they do by luring birds to glue-smothered trees so they can be baked into bird pie, and tormenting their pet monkeys, Muggle-Wump and his family, by getting them to stand upside down, one on top of the other. They hate children, and Mrs. Twit often carries a walking stick in her right hand that she uses to hit children and animals.
  • Callie For President

    There are lots of things Callie singer would like to change about her middle school. But when she finds herself accidentally in the running for student council president, she doesn't take the race too seriously. After all Brianna Blake ( the most poipular girl in the school) wants to win. Then Brianna humiliates Callie in front of the whole school........
    Then Brianna steals Callies BFF. Callie might be the underdog but she's not going down without a fight!!!
  • George's Marvellous Medicine

    (I read this book for prose to see what I should read)
    George has a terrible grandma,George is incharge to give his grandma her medicine, George wants to get back at her grandma by cooking up a marvellous mixture that turns George's grandma world through the roof!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • The BFG

    Big Friendly Giant doesn't seem all that F at first as he creeps down a London street, snatches little Sophie out of her bed, and bounds away with her to giant land. And he's not really all that B when compared with his evil, carnivorous brethren, who bully him for being such an oddball runt. After all, he eats only disgusting snozzcumbers, and while the other Gs are snacking on little boys and girls, he's blowing happy dreams in through their windows.