Novel

The title of my book that i am currently reading is called DEAD Reckoning by James McQueen. The physical description of the character is a young boy that is about 13-14. He is short but had a normal sized build. There life in the story is about him and his older sister trying to find their dad after he dissapears one night. The issues that they face are when they are serching for there day they find new scary things out about his life. They are being narrated in the novel.

I havent read enough of the book to find out why the author has created this character. I am still reading to find out why the author has written about the type of family they are in.

The stroy would not really change much if the main character was changed from a male to a female as a female can do everything a male can do to try find there dad. A female in this case could maybe even be better as they think about things like that better than males do.

I think that people would rather do a blog because then you can get peoples opinions on what you have written. Also a blog is written for an audience where as a diary is personal. I think that it depends on the situation but most people would prefer to write for an audience. The best thing about writing a blog is that people can give you help when they write a comment.



I think that a diary differs from a blog because a diary is personal where a blog is for an audience. In a diary you put in personal and possibly inbassasing moments were as a blog you would avoid this because anyone can read it. A blog is once again for people to read and a diary is for only you and who ever you want to share it with.

i read a book by a guy named tom he wrote about the book Lockie Lenard. he wrote about it becasue it looked like an assignment. it is a book report and he is only 13 so i think that there whole class has to do a similar thing to our class. The young lad dosent have a collection of readers and only has 1 comment. I think he updates it everytime he has finished a book

Story 2

The secon short story i read was called Holes by Louis Sachar. The book was about a boy named Stanley Yelnads and his good mate that he meets at the camp his name is Zero. He is called Zero at camp because he says nothing but later Stanley finds out that his real name is Hector Zeroni. The Story is about a camp where young bouys go for when they have done something wrong like break the law. They have to dig holes for there worden she is looking for something from a long time ago when she went on a killing spree. The camp is in the middle of the desert and no one runs away because there is no were to run to. Stanley and Zero run away and they nearly die of starvating and dehydration. Stanley remembers that his grandpa told him that is you climb up the only mountain that you can see there will be onions and water at the top which there was. The boys return to camp and recieve a punishment of lots of diging. The boys find the case that the warden was looking for. Stanley and Zero are rescued by Stanleys parents because they find out about the history of the warden and the warden never gets to see whats in the case.

I liked the whole story line it was a book that was hard to put down and i really enjoyed reading. Holes is a book that most kids have read. The book is very interesting and keeps you guessing what is going to happen next.

I dont think that the book could have a lot of improving although, it could been made a better book if there was a conflict between the groups that were formed, ie stanleys and zeros group could have a conflict with another group then they could be mean to each other by getting each other in trouble and getting punished for things they didnt do.

The book was more a novel than a short story. But i would read anothr book from the same author as i really enjoyed reading the book Holes.

Short story book 1

Hey everone i have recently read a book called The Wombat King written by Philip Neilsen and Mark Wilson. The book is about a young boy that is not a normal kid. He enjoys sneaking out of his house at night to go to the near by forest. The reason he does this is because he likes to see the animals active and he believes that the wombats are still in the area, where as his dad and mum tell him that there is no wombats. The young boys name is christopher he leaves not on the fridge each night pretending to be the Wombat King his paents have no idea where the notes are comming from. One night christopher gets caught escaping from the house and his parents put bars on his windows so he cant escapse. His mother says that he should go out in the forest and stay the night in the forest with his dad. they do this and they dont find a wombat. but christopher goes out a night after this and sees the wombat he was very happy.



I liked the book becase it kept you guessing what was going to happen next. and also it wasnt a very long book and i found it very easy to read.

This book could have been better if it had a little bit more of a problem in the book and if it was a little bit more in depth The book was very basic but i think that i could have had a few more events in it to make it more interesting.

I enjoyed reading short storys because for me it felt like i was actually getting through a book which i dont ever really experience. I thought they were better than novels becaue they were much easier to read. I would select another book from this series becasue i enjoyed reading a book that i felt that i could read in the time we had set

Myself as a reader

Hi my name is steffdog 1

i recon that i am a very slow reader and this is probably because i dislike reading and i dont do it enough. I find it hard to concerntrate on reading as i find it very boring and there for i dont ready many books at all. The only type of book i really enjoy reading are sports books and crime books. I have never liked reading because i play lots of sports and dont enjoy sitting around with my head stuck in a book. The only time i ever read is when we have to in class or for homework otherwise i choose to do other things with my life. the last book that i liked was called deadly unna i enjoyed reading that because it envolved my favourite sport AFL. It also used slang language which i find easier to understand. I hope to inprove my reading in Englsih.