Book Club Reviews #4

Hetty Feather by Jacqueline Wilson

Reviewed by Caitlin L in Grade 7

Little Hetty Feather is not really Hetty Feather...well that's what she thinks. Hetty is a orphan at the Foundling Hospital. But until she's old enough to learn she has gone to live with a foster family.  Her brothers and sisters suddenly start disappearing and for weeks after that Mother is in tears. Before Hetty and her brother Gideon know it, they are swept away to the Foundling Hospital. 'I promise I will look after you Gideon' Hetty thinks but when she is separated from her only friend every thing that seems normal and loving is taken away forever. As Hetty is on the search for her real mom she is swept away on a whirlwind of adventures.

Caitlin says: This was a funny, sad and exciting tale. One minute I would be in tears but the other I would be laughing my head off.

The Magic Puffin by Sue Bentley

Review by  Gina  in Grade 5

The  magic  puffin  is  a  magical   adventure  about  a  little  girl  who  goes  to  visit  her  uncle  and  cousin  on  an  island  where  they  live. She  has  to  live  with  them  while  her  parents   are  at  a  tennis  tournament. She  really  does  not  like  her  cousin  but  in  the  end  it  turns  out  just  fine.  A  little  puffin  gets  blown  off  course  on  his way home from a special mission and lands on their stoop while the little girl was outside getting away from her cousin. The rest of her stay with her uncle and cousin was not so bad because she has her new best friend to keep her company.

Gina says: If you like magical adventures then you will really like this book. I really, really loved this book because it was just so cool. I really could not put it down.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Reviewed by Cassidy in Grade 6

This book is about a bratty girl who moves from her home in India. She moves to England to be with her uncle. She is only allowed to go in certain places but she finds a secret garden. She plants seeds and she tries to make it beautiful again. Then one night she hears crying so she walks down the passage, she gets closer and closer, finally she walks in one of  the rooms and she sees a boy. She finds out that her uncle has a son who is kept hidden because he is thought to be ill. She showed him the secret garden he could not believe his eyes. His father was so happy to see him standing up again. 

Cassidy says : I loved the book it was the best book I've ever read!