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His father had his arm amputated when he was only 12, Roald had his nose completely cut off in a car accident and had to have it sewn on when he was only 9 and more funny, sad and sometimes slightly disgusting facts about the famous writer! || Back to my Page
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 * 1 || Around the World in 80 Days || Mr Fogg wagers his friends ₤2 000 that he can get around the world in 80 days, which would have been hard back in his time (1800s) because there was no such thing as a plane, so people had to take boats, bikes and any other type of transport available. A Scotland Yard detective is on his trail, though, because an important bank in London has just been robbed and Mr Fogg looks like just the right suspect. Around the world in 80 days is an entertaining book that I guarantee will have everyone wanting to read more! ||
 * 2 || Boy: Tales of Childhood || The sort-of-autobiography of Roald Dahl. It is a very funny book with all sorts of stories about what happened to Roald Dahl when he was a young boy until the stage where he was a businessman. Some facts from the book are:
 * 3 || Cross my heart and Hope to Spy || Cameron Morgan and her friends go to the Gallagher Academy, the best spy school for girls ever! But then Cammie finds out about another spy school called Blackthorne, which is for boys! Even worse, some of the boys are coming to the Gallagher Academy!!!! Cameron goes on a daring mission to stop the boys from ruining her school, but falls in love with one of them called Zach along the way. A funny, well-written and sometimes sad book. Definitely keeps the tension going! ||
 * 4 || Rodrick Rules || Greg Heffley has an extremely embarrassing secret that he does NOT want the whole world to know, but Rodrick knows his secret, and with him knowing, there's a slim chance the secret's going to be a secret for very long! ||
 * 5 || Flitterwig || Ella always thought she was weird, but when she get a pair of magic spectacles and enters the world of Magus, a magical land that needs her help to save them from the Duke's evil plan to bring machines into the pristine kingdom of Magus, she just knows she is. She is the only person that can help, because she is a Flitterwig, a human with magical blood. She makes friends with an emotionally unstable pixie named Dixon to help her along the way. ||
 * 6 || Utterly Me, Clarice Bean || Clarice Bean and her [utterly] best friend Betty Moody want to win the school book review competition. They have to choose a book and tell what they learnt from the book and make some sort of display. Then Betty Moody disappears off to some other country and Clarice starts her display with the naughtiest boy in the school, Karl Wrenbury, but then Betty comes back and there is a **BIG** mix-up between friends. Will Clarice ever get her best friend back? Read this AWESOME book to find out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ||
 * 7 || The Witches || A young boy, who's name isn't mentioned in the book, goes to live with his grandmother in Norway when his parents are killed in a car crash. His grandmother is, I've got to say, the weirdest grandmother I've ever encountered. She smokes an extremely black pipe and knows all about witches. They are bald, have no toes, have claws instead of fingernails and have blue tongues. The boy finds himself at a witches meeting and he gets turned into a MOUSE! He's got to stop the witches from taking over the world, though, mouse or no mouse. ||
 * 8 || Dead Giveaway || Lola, the Hunter family's dead grandmother, leaves them a weird will with all sorts of wacky clues to inherit her 5 million dollar will. But to add to the challenge, they must uncover nearly all the clues by the time the new baby is born into the family, because he must hold the silver spoon to uncover the last clue. ||
 * 9 || Nancy Drew: Dressed to Steal || Nancy's friend Alicia is opening a new dress shop called Swoon 2 (she's already opened a shop called Swoon), but then someone is determined to vandalize her whole store! Or is it just a distraction so the person can commit some other crime that's much worse? Read Dressed to Steal to find out the answers! I know I'm going to! No, wait. I've already read it. Oh well, I may as well tell you about it. Nancy and one of her best friends, Bess, go to the opening of Alicia's new shop, Swoon 2, but a young teenage girl is pushed through the window! ||
 * 10 || Song of the Wanderer || Cara Hunter is unfortunately one of the Hunter family, led by Beloved, who is determined to kill all the unicorns in Luster! Beloved has been kept alive by a piece of unicorn horn wedged in her heart for hundreds of years, and though it causes her incredible pain, she refuses to take it out because she wants to rid the magical world of Luster of unicorns before she dies herself! Cara has to find the Queen, known also as The Old One. Cara's grandmother Ivy Morris finds out that she is actually the long-lost granddaughter of the Queen, Amalia Flickerfoot. When the Queen fades (dies), Amalia has to take over being the queen, which is a pretty hard job, considering that she's only just found out that she's a unicorn. Cara has to save Luster and all its inhabitants before Beloved invades!!!! ||
 * 11 || Star Child || Thebe Battye's family is OBSESSED with astrology, well, all except for Thebe's big sister, Pat, who's more interested in boys and make-up. According to Thebe's horoscope, she's going to be Zodiac Girl this month, which means she gets a very special visit from the planet people, who are supposed to be giving her a special message, but Thebe doesn't get it. Her whole month as Zodiac Girl is NOT going well, until she meets Uranus, who just tells her to chill. Being a Virgo (her star sign), Thebe is ultra-organised, always cleaning and making things look good. She finally gets the message and tries to chill, but can't help screaming when she sees a dust particle or anything out of place. Thebe Battye is a Virgo, and a Virgo is a organisational freak! ||
 * 12 || Have Courage, Hazel Green! || Hazel Green overhears Mr Davis saying to Mr Egozian, the cartaker that he doesn't like Mr Egozian's type of person. She is appalled, and goes to all lengths to fix Mr Davis's mistake. She even has a fake fight in front of Mr Davis with her Russian friend, a mathematics freak called Yakov. She is unfortunately overheard by the biggest tattletale and exaggerator in the whole building (Hazel lives in a block of apartments called the Moodey Building). A story gets spread that Hazel actually tried to strangle Yakov and almost killed him, had it not been for Mr Davis jumping in to the rescue. No one believes her truthful sideof the story. As a punishment, she is banned from going to the Frengels (the kind old delicatessers) party. Hazel being Hazel, she goes to the party with Yakov, who didn't want to go, and Mr Egozian, who wasn't allowed to go, being just a caretaker. She angers Mr Davis, making him shout into the microphone saying, //"I don't like your kind of people, Mr Egozian,"// to prove that Mr Davis did actually say that. A happy ending for Hazel, maybe not so much for Mr Davis! ||
 * 13 || Juliet Dove, Queen of love || Juliet Dove finds an old magic shop that she's never seen, which is weird, since she's lived in Venus Harbour all her live. A woman gives her a magic amulet, which makes every boy she sees fall madly in love with her. Worse still, the clasp at the back has disappeared, ad the chain has shrunk! SHE CAN'T TAKE IT OFF!!!! When she goes around the back of her house, she meets a goddess, and the goddess makes Juliet so dreamy that she walks the wrong way around the house and finds herself in a land with ||
 * 14 || Little Women || Jo is a tomboy who has no intention of being a little woman. Meg is a fashion princess. Amy is the best artist in the family. Beth is an absolute angel. They all have ||
 * 15 || Bartlett and the Forest of Plenty ||  ||
 * 16 || Alanna, the First Adventure || Alanna and her twin brother Thom both want to do the thing that the other twin is doing. Alanna disguises herself as a boy called Alan and goes to learn to be a knight at Court. It is hard to hide that she is a girl, though, because she is growing into a woman and she's scared somebody is going to find out. She has to save her best friend the Prince Jonathan from dying from the Sweating Sickness using her sorcery. Her favourite teacher, Sir Myles, takes Alanna to some old ruins and she finds a magic sword, which she names Lightning. She and Jonathan go to a place with their friends and Jonathan takes "Alan" to the Black City and they find the Nameless Ones who are apparently immortal. she and Jonathan have to use all the magic inside them to kill the Nameless Ones, especially the oldest two. This is an extremely well written book and I recommend it to everyone. ||
 * 17 || Alive in the Death Zone ||  ||
 * 18 || Always Jack ||  ||
 * 19 || Amelia Dee and the Peacock Lamp ||  ||
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