Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte in 1845. Wuthering Heights it is a very complex book about the Lintons and the Earnshaws and their life on the Yorkshire moors.

Everyone thinks this book is a love story, however i think that it is a revenge story following the life of Heathcliff. The book is set in the Yorkshire Moors and the Lintons and Earshwas both live on the moore. Heathcliff is a orphan and finds this house and it taken in by Catherine's father. Heathcliff is brought up as Catherine was, and they soon fell in love. However it is not all a happy story.

The book starts with a flash forward then it looks back into Heathcliff's life, and his regrets and the only women he loved Catherine. Catherine loves him too however she married into the rich Linton family (she was part of the Earnshaw family) and had a daughter called Cathy.

I enjoyed the book even though it it quite old and written in 1845-47. I would rate this book a 8/10 because it was really interesting to read.

By Emily Kiely :)

The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas

This book was very interesting, it informed me about a childs perspective of world war II and the holocaust. It was completely different from the film and what i imagined it to be like. It was a very moving book and at places (mostly the end) i was brought to tears.

Charaters..

Bruno - small german boy (main character)

Mum- naiive

Dad- army officer

sister-bruno's sister

shamule- small jewish boy (another main charater)

maria - the house maid

The mother is my favourite character because she is very niiave and she doesnt know about the holocaust and she believes her husband is doing the right thing for his country and family. "aryian race"

I really enjoyed this book because it was hard hitting and very emotional.

i would rate this book a 4/5

it was really good

:)

"The Snow Goose"
by Paul Gallico

This is the story about Mr Philip Rhayader, a deformed but kind and talented man who lived in 1930. He buys a lighthouse and the surrounding land on the Essex coastline. His hobbies are to paint birds and lots of natural animals in their habitat.

He generally only visits the village of Chelmsbury once a fortnight to buy his food supplies other than that he is cut off from the rest of civalisation. He has hunchback and a withered, claw like hand and this makes people frightened of him, but he is a sensitive and gentle man and understands their fear. Although no-one befriends him please begin to learn that he is kind to wounded creatures and takes care of them.

Then one day a young girl, frightened and dirty, nervously brings a wounded white goose and asks for help to make the bird better. Fritha, the young girl was wary and and a little frightened of Ryayader and she was also fascinated watching him care for the goose and bring him back to health.

Then, in 1940, a year after the start of the 2nd world war some news reached Mr Rhayader that the British service men are trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk in France and also that the German forces are attacking them from the planes in the air and from all sides. The British government were using radios to call for help and who had a boat to cross the channel between England and France and rescue as many people as possible. Dispite Fritha begging him not to go, Philip Rhayader took a boat out on this desperate mission. The now healthy snow goose circles over head on his journey. Philip repeatedly picks up stranded men from the beaches and ferries them to waiting ships that took them back to the safety of England. The wounded men look at the snow goose and like its an angel of mercy. Sadly, sometime during Philip's rescue mission he is gunned down and killed and for a while the snow goose circles over his head forbidding anyone to come near him. Eventually when the boat sinks the goose flies off.

Fritha stays and lives at the lighthouse for while and cares for the birds sadly hoping that Philip will return one day but he never does. She finds a picture of herself that Philip has painted when she first brought the snow goose to him. The snow goose returns to the lighthouse for a while but flies away again. Fritha knows that Philip won't return now.

As the story goes on, each day she continues to visit and feed the birds until one night a German bomber drops a bromb on the lighthouse and blows it in to oblivion.

In time the sea corrodes and the land around the lighthouse becomes very derelect. when Fritha returns as a grown women there is noting to see but desolation and the seagulls swooping overhead. This is where the story ends.

About the author...

Paul Gallico was born in America on the 26th of July 1897 and was of Italian and Austrian descent.

He started his career as a sports writer but "The Snow Goose" made him a well known world wide and it was written in 1941. He wrote many books after that and eventually died after living through two world wars on 15th July 1976.

Al Capone does my shirts...

Al Capone does my shirts written by Gennifer Chelenco...

Mathew Flanagan (Moose) is forced, against his will, to move his family to Alcatrez, an island prison for felons too dangerous to be housed in normal prisons. His sister Natalie had autism, although this was not recognised in 1935 when the novel is set. Their mother Helen is desperatly trying to get help for Natalie who leans to heavily on Moose. Moose cares deeply for his sister and does his best to protect her from the crulety of others. Their father, Clam, has taken a job on the island as both an electrition and a sercurity guard, he is always tired from his two jobs and from trying to keep the peace between Moose and his mother.

The notorious gangster Al Capone and the other prisoners do the laundry for the staff and their families who live on the island. Moose quickly meets the children of the other guards and Piper the daughter of the island's warden. Piper is a tease and dispite her father's warning to Moose not to discus the prison or it's occupants, when he went to school on the mainland, she forces Moose to join her in running the laundry service where the other school children will pay to have their washing done by Al Capone.

This results in trouble for Moose, the worse being the disapointment he sees in his father's eyes. Despite everything being agaisnt Moose's happiness he manages to make friends with Scout, like Moose a baseball fan and Scout soon realises how difficult things are for Moose. When Natalie is turned away yet again from the school their mother thinks is bets for her, and will help her education the most. Moose, will help Piper and the other children enlists the help of Al Capone himself to have her accepted at the coveted school. And here the story ends although it is no clear just how Al Capone achieved this and whether or not Natalie benifited from the new school.

Carrie's War - Nina Bawden - Book review

In September 1936 England went to war with Germany. Many of the children caught up in the Blitz were evacuated to Whales, some families that the children were sent to were nice to the children although others made them work and they werent very nice to them. Nina Bawden's story begins with Carrie, who's husband has died and she is taking her children to Whales for a holiday. She is driving and she begins to tell her children about her time as an evacuee, when she met Mrs Gotobed, Mr Johnny, Hepzebar Green and Albert Sandwich. Who has been evacuated to stay with them. Her children dont believe such people exsist, Carrie tells them about how her brother Nick had been taken to the station by their mother with just a change of clothing and a packed lunch. They were put on a train not knowing where they were going, and are evacuated to a small home of Mr Evans a grocer and his sister Louise. "Aunt Lou" as they are told to call her, she is kind, although they are frightended of her brother. One day they are sent to Mr Evans sisters house Dily Gotobed and her son Johnny who seems to be autistic. Suddenly life becomes worth while becuase Dily is a loving person.

Hepzebar the housekeeper, is sometimes regarded as a witch, she makes them welcome and introduces them to Albert Sandwich, another evacuee staying at Druid's Bottom. Albert tries to tell Carrie how he loves her although she doesn't understand becuase she is to young, when the war is over and the children are returning to London Carrie smashes the skull and as the train takes them away she see's the castle burning, and believes that she has killed everyone there.

Now when she takes her children to Whales she is welcomed by Hepzebar, and she tells them that Albert has bought Druids Bottom (where they stayed as children) and he is due to visist that morning. As the story ends Albert walked into the house and there was a happy ending.

Thank You for reading my book reveiew.