Week 8

I had a look at web-based applications via Zoho Writer and Google Docs. I decided to register with Google Docs as I liked its layout. So I've 'published' some of my book reviews and added their book jackets. I just need to add the titles links to our catalogue:

What have I been reading?

I am the great horse

By Katherine Roberts

A thrilling read. This was a book I didn’t want to put down.

Bucephalas, Alexander’s great war horse recounts their dazzling campaign through the Ancient world, from Macedonia to Babylon. Weaving fact, that is Alexander’s epic journey , Katherine Roberts has used her knowledge of horses and her skill as a fantasy writer in this fantastic recreation of the actual battles and created characters, who bring it all to life.

Adventure / horse stories.

Readers : 9+ years

Life as we knew it

By Susan Beth Pfeffer

What would happen to our lives if a disaster changed the world? How would we cope without electricity, without the normal everyday things we take so much for granted?

Miranda keeps a diary which begins with the usual teenage rantings, but gradually she comments about how the weather changes begin to affect her life and the lives of those she loves.

Science fiction stories

Readers : 12+

Notes from the midnight driver

By Jordan Sonnenblick

What happens when a teenager gets drunk, steals his mother’s car and wrecks it in the process of demolishing a garden gnome ? If you are Alex and your mother is a nurse, you get assigned to a rest home to look after a cantankerous old man that’s what.

Humorous but a story with a moral in the telling. Another great read.

Humour

Readers : 12+