5. Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons:
This story is both humorous, sad, as it talks about the journey of a girl trying to find her way in life. In other words it is mysterious, surrealistic and heavily symbolic. The story unfolds as the 13 year old Salamance Hiddle is entertaining her grandparents by telling them the story of Pheobe, who is a friend of hers. The story has a strange air around it and is certainly entertaining. If you are interested you can find it in our school library.
4. Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey:
It wouldn’t be accurate to call this book unknown, but it is probably one of the least known of Austen’s books. Northanger Abbey is a gothic parody telling the story of 17 year old Catherine Morland as she becomes an adult. The book, like all others by our dear Jane Austen, has all the complicated relationships and love stories with the addition of having imaginary ghosts and murder stories. To me, this book is perfection in itself, so you can't expect anything but positive reviews on it from me. If you wish to disagree with me, you’re still going to have to read the book.
3. Diane Setterfield - The Thirteenth Tale:
"You have given nineteen different versions of your life story to journalists in the last two years alone."
She [Vida] shrugged. "It's my profession. I'm a storyteller."
"I am a biographer, I work with facts."
As you can see, the story is wrapped in mystery and history, two of my most favourite things in the world. The novel tells the story of Margaret Lea a historian writing the biography of the famous novelist, Vida Winter, who has kept her life a secret from everyone. However, Vida is not the only one spilling the beans about her life. See, it is only fair for it to be one secret for another.
2. T.H. White - The Once and Future King:
To be fair the once and future is not strictly a novel it actually is a series of stories one of which is more than just known (that is the sword in the stone the second? Story in the series) however as whole series it is still not that widely spread. Basically the book tells the story of King Arthur from his simple childhood as the adopted Wart to his escape from his own castle which lead to everybody thinking that he was dead. Now, if you like stories about valiant soldiers and wizards and dark forests you are defiantly going to want to add this books to your library.
1. Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451:
This book is one of my favourites, and personally, I find it somewhat prophetic. The book is set in future America, where books are forbidden and instead people only watch TV. To make matters worse, no one thinks for themselves, and instead the people follow everything the government says. The story stars a fireman called Guy Montag, who burns books with the rest of the firemen in the city. Guy, due to a number of events I’m not telling you about but you can find out by reading the book, rebels against this system and, well, one can say that things take an unexpected turn. In short, we love the book and so will you. It is the perfect piece of proof to convince somebody that books are of utmost importance.
Written by:- Shatha Degachi, 10
With the help of:- Jude Khashman, 7
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