Book Reviews 

8A Term 1 2011 

Toorak CollegeA

Harry Potter is no ordinary boy.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone             By J.K Rowling

By Tess

Just Listen Sarah Dessen

Created by Zoe

Sometimes keeping the truth contained can eat you away. For Annabel Greene, there is almost nothing left.

The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott. Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby: fabulously rich

and fabulously unfulfilled... An imperfect love story in the dazzling

world of the 1920's

 By Erin 

'I'd Tell You I Love You But Then I'd Have to Kill You'By Ally Carter 

                         Created by Skye 

What would you do if you could never tell the one you love, who you really are?

ONCE

ONCE, Morris Gleitzman.

What would you do if your friend's parents were killed?

What would you do if someone you loved was one of the most dangerous people ever to walk the earth?

TwilightStephanie Meyer

Created by Georgia 

MarkedA House of Night Novel

So the bad news was that I'd have to move into the House of Night, a private boarding school known by all my friends as the vampire finishing school, where I would spend the next four years going through bizarre and unmentionable physical changes, as well as a total and permanent life shake-up!  And that's only if the whole process

didn't kill me.  

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Guitar Highway Rose By: Bridgid Lowry

Sometimes you have to get away from the world, to find what is really important in life.

By: Lydia

ONCEBy Morris Gleitzman

How would you feel if your parents left you in an orphanage and

promised they would come back for you, but never did?  They left you to Escape. They left you to deal with

the Nazis.How do you cope?

 Jordan  

By Isy

Surf School – Laurine Croasdale -

A book like                  a seven foot wave

The Boy in the Striped PyjamasBy John Boyd

"We're not supposed to be friends, you and 

me. We're meant to be 

enemies. Did you know 

that?"

Marlya

What would you do if you had three wishes? 

Three ways to get it right a million ways to get it wrong.

Careful What You Wish For.By Maureen McCarthy

By Sammi

When your high priestess turns against you and your school, a fallen angel has broken free after hundreds of years of entrapment and you're the only one who can save everyone,what would you do?  By Tori.

 Hunted

by P.C Cast and Kristin Cast.

Plagues and Federation: The Diary of Kitty Barnes Vashti Farrer

A young girl with a big dream...

Amy

Tiger Eyesby Judy Blume  A family, a loss, and new

adventures...

           Sara

Fifteen LoveBy R.M. Corbet

By Yasmin 

Will and Mia are secretly in love with each other, but can

they sort their problems out to form a

relationship?

The Au PairsBy Melissa De La Cruz 

Created by Aynsley 

Taking care of children is supposed to be easy! But as these three girls find out, taking on the full-time job as a babysitter to these four children in a place as luxurious as the Hamptons is more then just a Summer job.

Created by Rhiannon 

A Series of Unfortunate Events 

Lemon Snicket 

Three orphan children are ready for an ADVENTURE!

MOLLY

A boy, a wizard, a wand and a destiny

he has to fulfill! 

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

J.KROWLING

What happens when you have to leave something

you love?Blueback,Tim Winton 

Created by Lily

A Series Of Unfortunate Events/The Reptile Room

By Lemony Snicket

By Emma Follow the Baudelaire children on their adventure with reptiles!

100 Most Important Science IdeasMark Henerson

"Acceleration is produced when a force acts on a mass. The greater the mass  the greater the amount of force needed"

By Jess

I am Nujood age 10 and Divorced.

Nujood Ali always wanted to be a normal 10-year-old. Yemen customs beg to differ...

     By     Nujood Ali &     Delphine Minoui

By Sammi

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