Grace's Book Blog

The best of Pippi Longstocking       By Astrid Lindgren

The five and the stately homes gang      By Claude Violier

Anne of green gables      By L. M. Montgomery

Sophie is small, but very determined.  She loves animals-snails and cats and rabbits and dogs and pigs-and she wants to be a farmer when she grows up. Her best friend is Great-great aunt Al from Scotland, who looks a bit like a bird, and her worst enemy is a girl called Dawn.

Adopted as babies by Great Uncle Matthew, Pauline, Petrova and Posy Fossil lead a sheltered life until they begin at the Children’s Academy of Dancing and Stage Training.

Only then do they discover their special talents and extraordinary ambitions.

I love this book.

I really like this book-its about twins

This book is just brilliant.

I started this book on Monday and finished it on Wednesday.  The main characters are Lady Grace, Lord Robert, Lord Worthy, Sir Gerald, SirCharles, Sir Charles’s evil brother, Queen Elizabeth I, Ellie, Lady Sarah, Mary Shelton, Masou and the boy who sails the boat. The book is all basically a diary, so for instance an entry might be dated “the Sixteenth day of February in the Year of Our Lord 1569″. So it is all written as though it all happened a long time ago.  I really liked this book and rate it 10 out of 10!

Lady Grace is Queen Elizabeth’s favourite Maid of Honour.  She is sixteen and her mum and dad have both died.  Her mum was poisened and her dad simply died – I don’t know how. They said she should marry at 16 so the Queen has chosen three men for Lady Grace to choose from to marry. Each of them gives her a gift and she has to guess who gave each gift. The dagger is Sir Gerald, the flask was Sir Charles and the pearl necklace (she loves pearls) was Lord Robert.  She chooses Lord Robert who gave her a pearl necklace. Sir Gerald’s uncle, Lord Worthy, is very angry that she has done that so he tries to murder Lord Robert with poison in his drink.  But Sir Gerald drinks a lot and takes Lord Robert’s drink to drink from.  And then Sir Gerald gets poisoned.  Then someone tries to stick a dagger in his back. His blood flow has already stopped so no blood comes out. When Lady Grace and Elllie and Masou realise he’s already been poisoned, Lady Grace goes to look more closely and she realises it is dark-wart poison that her mother got poisoned with. Lord Robert get’s arrested because he has a family symbol (like on a ring or necklace) and someone cut a quarter off one of them and put it next to Sir Gerald so they think he’s the murderer. So she goes looking in everyone’s bedchambers for dark-wart posion but she doesn’t find anything that is like the yellow stains on Sir Gerald’s lips. But they find green powder in Lord Worthy’s room. They go the Queen and she tells them that dark-wart is green until it is mixed with wine – when it goes yellow.  Lord Worthy gets arrested – meanwhile Sir Charles has been kidnapped by his evil brother who has swapped over with him – and his evil brother was the one who stuck the dagger in Sir Gerald’s back.  And so then by going into Sir Charles’s bed chamber and hiding under the bed when Sir Charles comes in they realise from his boots and talking and his servant that he isn’t really Sir Charles.  They find out where Sir Charles is imprisoned and go in a boat across the river to save him.  So they break the window of the house he’s being imprisoned in and pull him out and bring him to the Queen and tell her what has happened.  Sir Charles’s evil brother get’s arrested too. When they were in Lord Robert’s bedchamber they found a letter to his mum, it says that he asked his mum what girls like, so it wasn’t his idea to give her the pearl necklace. It says something else that isn’t very nice too so she decides not to marry him.  So they go to the Queen to tell her and she says she doesn’t have to marry one of them after all.

I’ve read quite a lot of books this summer, which are:

Awful End by Philip Ardagh

Stormchaser (The Edge Chronicles) by Chris Riddell and Paul Stewart

A Dog So Small – Philippa Pearce

The Diary of a Kiler Cat – Anne Fine

The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley (I haven’t quite finished this)

The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat by Chris Riddell

Flying Solo by Ralph Fletcher

Ruth Of St Ronan’s by Angela Brazil

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

The Lost Island of Tamarind by Nadia Aguiar

Ugenia Levender by Geri Halliwell

The Secret Island by Enid Blyton

Clarice Bean, Don’t Look Now by Lauren Child

Princess Georgia and the Shimmering Pearl (The Tiara Club) by Vivian French

Pony from the Farm by Mary Gervaise

The Five Versus the Black Mask by Claude Voilier

The Secret of Platform 13 by Iva Ibbotson

Muddy Paws & Don’t Look Now by Sue Bentley

Matilda by Roald Dahl (I re-read this because I love it)

Five and the Strange Scientist by Claude Voilier

Summertime Blues & Pale Moon (My Magical Pony) by Jenny Oldfield

The Five in Deadly Danger by Claude Voilier

The Five and the Z Rays by Claude Voilier

I really liked The Bad Beginning. I liked it the same as the other one I’ve read, which is The Reptile Room.

Lots of nasty things happen to the Baudelaire children. The one good thing is that there is a very nice lady next door who has a big library of books. The children’s names are Klaus, Violet and Sunny. Klaus likes reading, Violet likes inventing things and Sunny likes biting things. In the book the three children are playing on the beach when they hear horrible news: their parents had died in a fire that had destroyed their house. So they went to live with a relation, called Count Olaf. Count Olaf was mean and horrible: he kept thinking of clever plans to get their parents fortune off them (Violet could have it when she was of a certain age.) After that, all the rest of the series are about the Baudelaire children and how they JUST manage to live.

This is the only book of the trilogy that I have read.  The title of the book is Awful End but actually it is nothing to do with someone coming to an awful end – it is actually the name of a house. It is a really silly book, for instance people go inside a float which is a cow.  Loads of the children at the orphanage where they live pile inside it and Eddie Dickens pushes them out of the orphanage.  This is a really good thing because they get away from the orphanage which is awful. Eddie’s parents have a disease which makes them yellow and crinkly round the edges which is very contagious. So Eddie has to be sent away to his aunt and uncle who strip him of all his clothes except his underwear. He ends up in an orphanage because, while they are driving in a carriage to Awful End a policeman stops them and has a ride.  He tells Eddie Dickens that he is an actor and makes Eddie promise to pretend to be an orphan. So Eddie does but the policeman then says he is an orphan.  He looks back at the carriage and decides to continue pretending to be an orphan.