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Adele says this book is about a community of tuis under threat from malevolent magpies. All the action takes place in trees – as you’d expect – but Adele says it’s fascinating looking at the world from a bird’s perspective. She says the book’s a really good adventure but full of interesting information about birds, too. She says she’ll never feel the same about magpies again.
Dreammaster Arabian Nights
This is the fourth book in the Dreammaster series…Adele’s read them all, but especially likes this one because she’s been having a big Arabian Nights phase…in this story Cy meets up with Shahr-Azad, the clever princess who told all the Arabian Night tales. Just imagine a haughty, clever Arabian princess from a thousand years ago coming into your ordinary daily life, says Adele, and you get
the picture. Chaos….
Angel Mae
Adele loves Angel Mae because she was an angel once in a Christmas play in Brunei. Angel Mae is one of the Trotter Street Stories (my favourite is Wheels). Adele says her favourite part is when Mae forgets she’s supposed to be acting and waves hello to her Dad at the back of the school hall.
Under the Autumn Garden
Adele says this is about a boy who is excavating his back garden looking for relics as part of a history project. Just when he's about to give up he finds something remarkable. Adele says the thing she likes the most about Jan Mark (she's read quite a few of her books) is that she writes really well about families. The boy in this story is kind of ignored by his family - he's much younger than all the rest - but he notices everything that goes on. Adele says he reminds her a bit of her little cousin Tito who's the youngest of 7. Also, Adele says this book has made her very interested in archaeology.
The Game of Silence
This is the second book about Omakyas and her family. Adele says you don't have to read the first one, but she will anyway because this one is so good. The Game is one that the Ojibwe children play (Ojibwe is the name of the Native American tribe they belong to) - they have to be silent for long periods while the adults meet and plan the future of the community...it turns out that their future is moving to the West, because the chimookoman are taking over all their land. Adele says she just loves how Omakayas and her family and friends make do with the most basic things: for instance, they play with stones instead of dolls - three stones of different sizes makes a 'doll'. She says she loved reading about how they harvest their food - gather rice, hunt for meat, and then store everything for the long, cold winters.
The Outcasts of
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Schuyler Place
Adele loves this writer – she’s read all her books and her favourite so far is (George). This one is pretty good, too, she says – especially Margaret, the heroine, who is extremely stubborn and clever and works out how to save the fantastical towers her uncles have been building in their back garden for 45 years. She says it’s extremely satisfying the way Margaret gets the better of mean-spirited adults in the story – by using her tongue and her wits.
She says the girl gang at summer camp have to be read about to be believed…
The Astonishing Stereoscope
by Jane Langton
Apparently a stereoscope is a kind of binoculars that makes two two-dimensional pictures seem like one three-dimensional picture…it’s an old-fashioned kind of toy. In this story Eddy and Eleanor’s uncle, Prince Krishna, sends them new stereoscope cards which take them on more weird journeys when they look through the stereoscope lens…Adele says there are three more books in the series and she’s desperate to get them from the library.
The Star of Kazan
I recommended this one to Adele because it has heaps of food in it…It’s about a changeling girl who lives in Vienna last century. She lives with three professors and their servants. Adele says the food
is fantastic – pastries galore, but bread and soup and unusual Hungarian dishes, too…and there’s a great surprise at the end of all the adventures. Bryon is reading this next, partly because of the food, but also because it has a map – like his favourite author, Jack Lasenby’s books…A changeling, by the way, is a child whose parents have given her away…my Dad says it’s entirely possible I could be a changeling…
One Thousand and One Arabian Nights
by Geraldine McCaughrean
Adele says Geraldine McCaughrean is her new favourite ever writer and she’s going to read everything she’s ever written starting with this one which is all the famous Arabian Night stories – Ali Baba, Sinbad, Aladdin and heaps more. Adele says, in her opinion, this is the best version ever written. She says her ambition is to be as clever and fascinating as Shaharzad, though she is not keen to wear a veil.
Think smart, Hazel Green
h (Adele’s favourite author)
Adele loves Hazel Green books because there are so many good pastries and sweets in them and she plans to be a chef. But also because Hazel is exceptionally smart – like Adele.
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