Reading+Log

Little house in the big woods is a great book to read if you enjoy easy reads and good books about an 1800's childhood it has sad parts and happy parts and funny parts but it is amazing how much house work the children did back then dusting,mopping,sweeping,making all the beds,cleaning the windows,fetching water from the well,bringing in the firewood leading the cows to drink, milking the cows and so many more other things ! It gives you a good taste of the time back then when children did lots of housework instead of watching the T.V.The Ingalls family live in a big log cabin in the woods miles away from any neighbors or town.Hardly ever did they see anyone or go visiting to anybody's.

Book:Little house in the big woods Author:Laura Ingalls Wilder Pages 103 pages Start 19th May 2011 Finish: 21st May 2011



Harry Potter and the half blood prince is one of the 7 amazing books by J.K Rowling.This book is about when Harry is in his 6th year at Hogwarts school for witchcraft and wizadry.Harry is now taking special classes with his headmaster Professor Albus Dumbledore a world famous wizard. Dumbledore is showing Harry memories of Lord Voldemort (The wizard who murdered hundreds of people including Harrys parents) and the people who knew him, who was friends with and was related to him because (you find out later in the book) that Voldemort has split his soul into 7 horcruxes,horcruxes are when you split your soul into pieces this happens you have to murder someone with very,very dark magic.At the end of the book Harry and Dumbledore go to find a horcrux and Dumbledore is forced to drink a potion to get to the horcrux (that the later find out is a locket) making him very sick.

Book:Harry Potter and the Half blood prince Author, JK Rowling Pages: 607 Start: 4 Th. February 2011 Finish: 11 Th. February

Little house in Brookfield is a book based on a 1800 childhood the little girl Caroline (who later becomes the mother of the famous writer Laura Ingalls Wilder.)The point of the story is to show the type of things that happened in the American back then.My favourite chapter is the first chapter "Hot cakes and syrup" when she talks about how much she enjoys watching the butter slide down the side of the hot cakes.Caroline lives with her 2 sisters,3 brothers her grandmother and her mother.Caroline loves to listen to her grandmothers stories of her father (who was drowned while traveling in a ship) when he was a boy,the particular story she told that time was every time her grandmother made a dozen sugar cookies and fresh butter to last for the month,she would sit the biscuits out to cool and the butter to soften up on the table and went off to do her days chores but when she got back one biscuit and a hunk of butter was always missing!One day she decided to catch the thief and so when she had left them to cool she pretended to walk away but instead hid behind the door.A few minutes later she saw Carolines father crawling underneath the table when he was got there he lifted his hand up and grabbed a biscuit and got his finger and took a big hunk out of it ! then she came out and caught the him and was told he was not aloud to have any butter or biscuits for a whole month!

Book: Little house in Brookfield. Author: Maria D.Wilkes Start: 3th February. Finish: 6th February. Pages:298 Harry Potter and the deathly hallows is the 7th and final book of the series by J.K Rowling.Harry has left Hogwarts since Professor Dumbledore died after Severus Snape (the potions teacher) killed him,Harry and his best-friends Ron and Hermione to find the rest of the horcruxes (Dumbledore had already found 3) so they set out in secret because Harry is the desirable number one with the Ministry of Magic ( the wizard government) owing the fact that they are being controlled by Lord Voldemort during their journey,their friendship,knowledge and skill we be tested to it's breaking point.I personally think that it is the best one of the 7 and is a great book to read.

Book:Harry potter and the deathly Hallows. Author: JK Rowling. Start: Friday 11th March 2011 Finish: Friday 18th March Pages:607

Conrad is a great book written for the younger audiences with lots of funny jokes.The main characters are Conrad the factory made boy who was sent to Mrs Barlottie by mistake,Mrs Barlottie the slightly crazy woman in her late 50s who knows nothing about parenting or how she ordered Conrad but she expected she did because she always is sending coupon forms to buy strange things, Mr Thomas the local Chemist owner who not long after Conrad arrived decided he should be like a father to him because Mrs Barlottie's husband died many years ago and there was nobody to be like a father to him and last but not least there is Kitty,Kitty is the girl who lives just down a few floors below him she secretly has a crush on Conrad and is very nice to him since nobody else was because they called him a Nerd and know it all because he was fabulous at everything.Conrad is a great book and is extremely interesting and has lots of strange twists that you would never expect! Book: Conrad the factory made boy

Author:Christine Nostlinger Pages: 142 pg Start: 14th March 2011 Finish:16th March 2011

Piano rock is about the childhood of the author Gavin Bishop.Its very interesting reading about all the things you would and wouldn't expect in a New Zealand childhood it's a very fun book and it is quite an easy book but extremely good as well as extremely funny.There are some words you may not understand if you have not been brought up in New Zealand but,Mr Bishop has had a bright idea to put a glossary at the back so with the words you may not understand you will!He writes about that he rarely ever used any form of transport apart from horse and just basically walking because it was extremely expensive to afford a car or take the train,that explains why it only mentions he drove twice in the book.I think it is a sensational book to read if you like biography's like i do! Book:Piano Rock Author:Gavin Bishop Pages:115 Start:21st March 2011 Finish:22nd March 2011