Twisting Tails

Twirling Tails by Sue Bentley

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

There are seven different books of Magic Puppy and Twirling Tails is the seventh. On the back of each book shows the books of Magic Puppy.

The puppy in Twirling Tails had its name as Storm and his real self was just a silver wolf. He's going to become the leader of the Moon-Claw pack. The evil Shadow wants to become the leader and he's using his evil magic on normal dogs, but you can tell them from ordinary dogs because they've got pale eyes and extra sharp teeth.

I am going to get more Magic Puppy books from the library. The first one I'm going to get is going to be School of Mischief.

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Hawkite, Arrow of the Air

Hawkite, Arrow of the Air by Adam Blade

Marcus didn't finish this one.

I'm not interested in this one any more.

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Little Brother's Haircut

Little Brother's Haircut by Joy Cowley

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

This only gets one star because Little Brother was too terrible.

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The Adventures of Alfie

The Adventures of Alfie by Marjorie Gee

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Alfie is a kaka, a special type of parrot. Alfie is a nice parrot and he's been in 3 cages (though the 3rd cage was just being free). My best part was when Alfie stole someone's sandwich! I would like to meet Alfie at the Karori Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellington where he lives.

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Revenge of the Living Dummy

Revenge of the Living Dummy by R.L. Stine

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

Marcus didn't finish this one.

Too scary.

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Muro the Rat Monster

Muro the Rat Monster by Adam Blade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It was amazing because when Muro was defeated the giant body of his rat-form turned into hundreds of tiny rats.

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Tintin in the Congo

Tintin Au Congo by Hergé

We read the English version of this book, which isn't on GoodReads but it was in our library. As parents, we could see the problems with the book, but any racism passed totally over our six-year old son's head. He's smart enough we're not worried about him reading it. - Marcus' Mum

Marcus says: They hunted down lions and leopards and elephants and even a snake.

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Tintin and the Lake of Sharks

Tintin and the Lake of Sharks by Hergé

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Tintin escaped thousands and I think a few tens of pirate sharks. (They weren't real sharks, just evil people.) The submarine that the sharks were in got stranded on a rock and Tintin and the Captain and Snowy all together caught them and made them prisoners. Kids helped them too, and guess what? First the sharks made Tintin and the kids prisoners, then they had them prisoners! Funny, huh? When the water had thrown the giant ball onto the little switch a bomb exploded and guess what? The sea made a ginormous spout. The Captain thought Tintin and the kids were dead, but they had gotten life-jackets on just in time.

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Terra, Curse of the Forest

Terra, Curse of the Forest by Adam Blade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Tom nearly got eaten by Terra, but he survived. The thing that Tom needed to get (which was the ingredient he needed to help his Mum survive) was a lovely white flower. Terra's teeth dripped with black sap.

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High Tide in Hawaii

High Tide in Hawaii by Mary Pope Osborne

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It was all about surfing, and here's the best parts of all - Jack saved his friends, Annie, Kama and Boka, from a gigantic tsunami that nearly washed them all out to sea and they became Magicians of Everyday Magic.

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Komodo the Lizard King

Komodo the Lizard King by Adam Blade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

When Tom grabbed Komodo's tail, Komodo ran off just when Tom jumped onto his tail, but when Komodo ran off, Tom was staying in one place and still holding the tail! (It was because Komodo was no other than the lizards that could have their tails put off by themselves when something grabbed it.) When he got defeated, just like Muro the Rat Monster, he turned thousands of tail-breaking off lizards.

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Explorers on the Moon

Explorers on the Moon by Hergé

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

All Tintins have 5 as well as Beast Quest.

Snowy and Tintin nearly died in a very, very, very slippery cave.

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The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America / Cigars of the Pahraoh / The Blue Lotus

The Adventures of Tintin: Tintin in America / Cigars of the Pharaoh / The Blue Lotus by Hergé

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Cigars of the Pharaoh was cool because Tintin and Snowy survived so much bad things.

The Blue Lotus was cool because there was a dragon!

I don't remember about Tintin in America but I know I liked it.

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Bringing Up Baby Dragons

Bringing Up Baby Dragons by Dugald A. Steer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

It told us a lot about dragon care. There were different types of eggs we could do and different types of breeds. Dr Drake, the author, has got a dragon named Torcher. I'm going to make a knuckler dragon (the knuckler is the dragon with the long neck). I think Kerry would love the knuckler because it's so cutey. I saw a dragon who laid such a cool egg. It was called the lung dragon. It had a ball shaped egg that went in water.

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Chasing the Tunnelling Trickster

Chasing the Tunnelling Trickster: Dinosaur Cove 13 by Rex Stone

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really liked this because it is about dinosaurs, which are my favourite animals besides dragons. The tunnelling trickster was a lystrosaurus and it has powerful claws that can dig a tunnel. The tunnelling trickster took Jamie's rucksack to use it as a bed! Ha ha ha! The tunnelling trickster also ate sume of the pickle sandwiches. Funny! Do you think pickle sandwiches would taste nice? I wouldn't think that would be nice!

Jamie and Tom use an ammonite to get to different places, but first they have to go in the sandbox and dig up the ammonites and they have to look for the right one for where they want to go by looking at the big glass case that has got ammonites in it that are labelled. There are: Permian, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous.

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