Great Books for Year 6

Over the next few weeks we will be presenting our favourite Fiction and Non Fiction books to the class. Our aim is to come up with a list of FABULOUS BOOKS for Year 6 kids to enjoy. Keep checking this blog page as our list grows........

Running Wild

by Michael Morpurgo

Will and his mum are on a holiday and Will is having fun on a elephant ride down the beach. But when a tsunami comes the elephant runs in to the jungle and doesn't stop......

Reviewed by Renee

The Famous Five -Treasure Island

by Enid Blyton

Famous five is a series of books that involve four children and a dog who go off on lots of adventures involved with treasure,villians,mysteries and lots of trouble.

Reviewed by Satori

Go Ahead, Secret Seven

By Enid Blyton

This story is about seven kids and their dog,Scamper. The kids have lots of adventures and in this story they go looking for some thieves who are stealing pure bred dogs. But the thieves catch 6 of the kids and lock them in cages. Lucikly Scamper and George save them.

Reviewed by Tom

The 39 Clues - The Vipers Nest.

By Peter Lerangis.

The 39 Clues is a series which involves 2 kids called Amy & Dan. They have to search all around the world for clues. Once they find all the clues a special power is given to them, although they are not the only ones searching for it... Join Amy and Dan in their quest to find the 39 clues.

You might like this book if you like adventure and mysterious type books, with just a hint of cruelty.

This is book seven of the full series.

Reviewed by Connor Nisbet.

Zac Power

H.I.Larry

Zac power is a book about a boy that works for G.I.B. It is a spy company and Zac does all the missions and his techy brother does all the computer work and supplies the gadgets for Zac. In this book its about Zac not knowing his enemy and he meets agent Cougar. He takes Zac to the mystery base where all the agents are stuck in the laundry room. They find a big ship with a laser gun that will destroy the world and at the end Zac finds out that his enemy is his clone.

There are four mega missions

reveiwed by Connor Dunick.

The Black Tattoo

By Sam Enthoven

This story is about 2 boys who randomly get taken by this guy named Nick and they get taken to an old theater where they meet Esme and Raymond. Thats where they take a test to decide the fate of the world. Then later on in the story they take a real scary adventure to a deadly place HELL

Reviewed By Josh R

Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse

By Rick Riordan

This book is about a boy called Percy Jackson who has to save the world from a half lion and half human. I enjoy this book because it has action in it.

Reviewed by Heke

The Subtle Knife

By Philip Pullman

The second novel in Philip Pullmans epic trilogy . The first book is The Golden Compass, after that it is The Subtle Knife and the third is The Amber Spyglass. The Subtle Knife is about Will and Lyra and Will's fate is strangely linked with Lyra"s. Together they must find a powerful secret object which people from many worlds would kill to possess.

Reviewed by Dominic

The Famous Five Survival Guide

By Enid Blyton

This story is about 4 kids and their dog who are staying at their uncle's house, little do they know there is a big mystery to be solved. But it's up to the reader to solve the royal dragon of Siam mystery. This book includes their attempt to crack the code and tips on solving and finding clues with useful info about surviving outdoors.

Reviewed By Bridget

Stay Out Of The Basement

R.L.Stine

Dr.Brewer is doing a little plant-testing in his basement. Nothing harmless really. But Margaret and Casey Brewer are worried about their father. Especillay when they meet some of the plants he is growing down there. Their father is becoming all weedy and well planty I guess. It is part of their fathers HARMLESS experiments or has the basement turned into another little shop of horror?

Reviewed by Olivia

Asterix in Corsica

By Rene Goscinny

Asterix and Obelix are off on another trip into Roman Terrirtory. Before they go they fight their way to victory 'Roman vs Gaul!' AS a result of winning they get their magic potion and they're on their way.

Reviewed by Corben

My Sister The Vampire-Switched

By Sienna Mercer

Olivia Abbot , a teenage girl moves away from Malibu to go to Franklin Grove.

While she is there she meets her long lost twin , Ivy ,they become the best of friends.

Ivy and Olivia seem to switch a lot because if they get each other into something then they have to get out of it.

Ivy has a secret , but it won't stop the girls from getting to know each other.

After all , blood is thicker than water and it's certainly tastier.

Reviewed by Jordyn

My Sister Jodie

By Jacqueline Wilson

Sisters Jodie and Pearl's parents get new jobs at the posh Melchester College and the sisters

have to now start a new life. Usually it's Jodie who is the leader but now it's Pearl who is getting all the friends and Jodie seems to be getting into more and more trouble.

Pearl doesn't think she needs Jodie anymore but Jodie needs her.When the fireworks night comes around a tragic event occurs, Pearl then realizes quite how much she does need her big sister...

Reviewed by Emily

The Whale Rider

By Witi Ihimaera

The Whale Rider is about a girl called Kahu.

Her grandfather is caught up with the the problems

facing the tribe. He does not think that Kahu could take over his

job of leader of the tribe. Out of ten I would give this book a 8.

Reviewed by Te Iwa

Gorilla City

by David Fickling

Gorilla City is about a eight year old boy that goes for an adventure. But he gets lost and has been trying to get home for FOUR HUNDRED YEARS!!!!!!! In this book you can learn to speak GORILLA! This is his first journal. My friend recommended this book to me and I think you would enjoy it too.

Reviewed by Ben

THE wizard ,the ugly and the book of shame.

By PABLO BERNASCO

Leitmeritz the wizard solves every one's problems with the help of his red book of spells.

but he cant help his assistant, Ugly. One day when the wizard was away,

Ugly asks the Red book of spells to make him handsome.

Read this book to find out what happens.

Reviewed by Nadun

Goosebumps - Into the Jaws of Doom

by R.L.STINE

Talk about a jaw breaker!

This novel is so scary, so mind bending, it will leave you with goosebumps.

It is a bout a boy who gets lost on a school trip to the museum and has to find his way

out! Read this book to find it how it ends. there are 20 different spooky endings

reviewed by Cullen

Captain Underpants and the Preposterous Plight of the Purple Potty People

by Dav Pilkey

One foolish attempt to use the purple potty two times in a row sends George Beard and

Harold Hutchins to an opposite dimension. For instance, mean people are nice people - you get the idea.

George and Harold have evil clones so "what will we do?" They must rely on the one the only person to be known to toilet paper his own house ..... Captain Underpants!

Reviewed by Harlen

Skypoint (Torchwood)

by Phil Ford

Skypoint is about an apartment building that is haunted by a see-through monster that can fly through walls. The monster's boss lives in the apartment on the top of the building.

The main characters are; Gwen Cooper/Williams, Jack Harckness, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, and Ianto Jones.

Torchwood is a sci-fi series about a group of people who deal with strange murders, mostly by aliens.

Review by Joshua D

Artemis Fowl

by Eoin Colfer

The book Artemis Fowl is also a series. It is about a 12 year old boy who has his own butler that does almost anything he asks. One day they find this fairy book and learn all about the fairies and everyone else under the ground. Artemis Fowl is a science fiction book. It is all about fairies and trolls etc.

Reviewed by Jackson

Seekers

by Erin Hunter

The book Seekers is a series about three young bears called

Kallik [polar bear], Toklo[grizzly bear], Lusa[black bear].

They are guided by the Pathway star that shines in the sky.

This is the first of the series called The Quest Begins.

Oka, Toklo's mum abandoned him because of her other son Tobi[a week bear] dies,

then she went to the bear bowl next to Lusa, who is asked to find her son Toklo in the wild and say she was sorry.

Kallik is the Polar bear that watched her mother be perished, while her brother is seperated by the melting ice.

The next book is called The Great Bear Lake Erin Hunters 2nd book for the series.

Reviewed by Rosie.

James and the Giant Peach

by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake

This book is about a boy who lives down by the beach. His parents go to the London Zoo and get killed by a rhino. So he has to live with his horrible aunts. A man gives him seeds but James drops them. Then a peach grows to the size of a 2 story house and he goes on an anventure with these giant bugs.

Reviewed by Cayden

The BFG

By Roald Dahl

This book is about a BFG (big friendly giant) who puts nice dreams in the kids minds. Then a little girl, Sophie, sees him one night. The BFG has to take her away back to giant country where they eat little kids for breakfast. But Sophie and the BFG become best friends and they set out to rid the world of mean giants.

Reviewed by Cole

Famous Five

By Enid Blyton

This book is about four kids and a dog. They go to a island were there is ingots and they buy the island.

Reviewed by Aimee