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Deadly Unna by: Philip Gwynne

Summary: Blacky team has made through grand final. Blacky’s real name is Gary everybody else come him Black. He has a brother in the team he calls him team man because he think he is the best team mate and real name is Tim. They have never won a Premiership. Carol cockatoo is the first ruck man, he is an Aboriginal and he is from the point. Blacky says that he is the best footballer in the peninsula. They coach is Mr. Robertson but he call’s him ‘Arks’ behind his back of course because he says arks instead of ask. Arks put his son Mark the captain and he also says arks. Black is now the first ruck because carol is not playing any more for the club. Blacky opposition ruck and which he fears the most is Thumper. Blackly struggles to kick connect with the ball. The coach can see that the team is going to be in trouble. So Arks used to pick Blacky after school and train him to become a better ruck man. One day at his training session he meets a boy name Dumby Red. At first he though he can not play footy but later saw him playing and one of friends said he can real play. Dumby Red was starting to annoy him and he was also jealous because he was so talented. A couple of months later they were playing against tangaratta. They had Made Dog he was a hopeless player but he was strong and always start a fight with someone. Blacky’s teams win after the game and they look around the town. Mad Dog headlocks Blacky and Blacky starts yelling and Dumby Red saved Blacky from Made Dog. Blacky begins to like Dumby and become friends. Blacky felt sorry for her sister Sharon because she was the tidy and the reste. Blacky’s mum loved the footy. She would come down and watch Blacky and the rest of the team and play football and Blacky’s dad didn’t like he would come on Sunday and Christmas day for dinner at home he would be always at the pub he would have his dinner there. Blacky always speaks to Darcy is an old man who is retied form army. Blacky’s relationship wasn’t good with his father. One day Blacky with his father and brother team man go to fishing out in the boat suddenly found fish, but caught in a storm. Blacky was sacred and told his dad he wanted to go back home .They made it back ‘safety’. His dad now calls him gutless wonder because sacred in the storm and told that he is never going to take him again to fish. Blacky picked and there other friends have a place called the black rock and now they call it black burn rock. The night before the grand final Blacky couldn’t go to sleep because he was nervous. In the morning he took a shower and got dressed, read for the final and the final was always in Wangaroo.  In the final Blacky’s team were leading by five points and all they had to do was stop Wangaroo. Wangaroo had to kick a goal to win in about thirty seconds. Blacky’s was in front of the goals Thumper had the ball running fast as he could to the goals. The crowd was going come on port and Arks said ‘please Blacky’ his voice was gone cause of yelling. Thumper was get closer and bigger to the goals. Blacky didn’t want to stop Thumper, because he was going to get injured and he had an in side voice its juts a game of footy Blacky and then he got out of Thumper’s way. The last thing he remember he was in the bed. He weak up in and saw his mum, Arks, Best Team man and he said am I okay and ‘Just a concussion’ said Arks smiling. Everybody said that was a gutsy effort Blacky and thumper had kicked a goal. But he slowed Thumper down and the siren went so the goal was counted.  And they had won the grand final and he slipped back in to unconsciousness. The next morning Black and his family went to the perm expect his dad. Everybody was there, when they got there Blacky saw Dumby red along rest of the team.  Crowd started clapping, yelling out stuff ‘Onya Black’, ‘gutsy effort’ and he felt embarrassed because he didn’t meant to stop Thumper. Blacky also was Dumby Sister Clarence and the talked about stuff for a few minutes and the lifted. then they went to the jetty to smoke  and in the jetty he saw some graffiti said ‘BOONGS PISS OFF’ the  hole time he was thinking about the graffiti. They went back to the hall and Big Mac was already on the stage, he was the president of the club. The were presenting trophy for the best Team-man, Blacky though that his brother was going to win the trophy, but Blacky won and he wanted tell people he didn’t deserver the trophy his brother  did. Blacky’s dad called Blacky and that his was proud and wanted to give him another chance. After presenting best Team-man they presented B.O.G Best on ground, Blacky knew for sure the Dumby Red was going to win it and the B.O.G was given to Mark Robertson. Blacky though they have made a mistake, everybody was clapping and cheering and he said “the whole place is apeshit and left the hall in went out side. When he went out he started screaming and said up your arse and he through his trophy because he was so angry. Then Blacky slipped into unconsciousness.  Its summer now, Blacky and his friends at the anchor and then the saw a late-model Ford ‘campers’ said Dazza and they hated them. They hated them because they where from city and a girl came out of the car about they age.  The girl started asking form Blacky and his did ask they all if the knew where the McDermott lived. They camper were going to site their and they showed the way they went and Pickles asked “she is a spunky eh” Blacky said nothing and walked home.  Blacky and Pickles went to the Bar to play eight balls. Mick given them two drinks and chips, then Tommy, Dumby dad come. He had a real good character; he said a few jokes and everybody lunged. Then a few minutes later Tommy left and Big Mac started a joke about boong and the priest and everybody knew about boong and the priest. But Big Mac started to tell it anyway.  ‘Hey, Mac man’s not a camel.’ ‘And the priest says to the truckie, don’t worry I got the black bastard with the door!’ and he repeated the joke again if some one missed it.  They all laughed, Blacky had laughed at this joke before but he didn’t laughed now. Blacky though this joke had to do with Dumby, Clarence and Tommy. Blacky liked Cathy, he went the jetty ever time see Cathy and he always was thinking about lying down next to Cathy. Then one day he sites next to Cathy and they stared talking and Cathy asks Blacky if he can rub sun cream on her back and he said sure and they continued talking and become friends. Cathy told Blacky to come on Sunday to have tea party. Then he when home and his father told him on Sunday that they are going fishing. A few days later Cathy and Blacky saw Clarence with a few more Clarence cosine and Pickles says is that your girlfriend. One day Blacky wake up team-man was standing in front of him and says ‘there’s been a shooting and Dumby Red has been killed!’. Everybody was talking about the rubber and the black are bad people. Blacky did not believe that Dumby is killed in a rubber.  Next morning Blacky was reading through the newspaper and finds out that Dumby Red’s funeral on Sunday. Blacky asked his mum can he go to the Dumby Red’s funeral on Sunday but his mum told him to ask his dad. He went to ask his dad if can go to the Dumby’s funeral on Sunday and he said ‘no if no butts’ your coming with me to fishing. Blacky’s mum had to go to Perth to see his fatherbecause he was sick . Blacky then sacrifices his relationship with his friends and family when he sneaks out of the house and makes the long trip to the Point for Dumby Red’s funeral. When he came back from the funeral he was hiding from his dad. At night he went to his dad garage to get some paint to paint off the graffiti. His dad came in the garage said to him ‘what the boodle hell are you doing paint’. There was someone in Blacky’s dad car his dad ran towards the car and sipped. Blacky took the paint to paint off the graffiti and the rest the family went with him and the painted the graffiti one by one and the slipped in the jetty for the night and sing.                      

Would you recommend this book for a friend? Why or why not?

Yes, I would recommend this book to my friends if they love Aussie rule.

The Time Machine By: H.G Wells

Summary:

A group of people are listening to the time Traveller discuss his theory that time is the fourth dimension. The time Traveller created a very small time machine and makes it disappear into air. The next week, the guest’s return, to find their hosts trip in, looking untidy and tired. They sit down after dinner, and the time Traveller begins his story.

The time Traveller had finally finished work on his time machine, and it rocketed him into the future. When the machine stops, in the year 802,701 AD, he finds himself in a heavenly place world of small little creatures called Eloi. They are not strong and peaceful, and give him fruit to eat. He looks around the area, but when he returns he finds that his time machine is gone. He decides that it has been put inside the stands of a nearby statue. He tries to pry it open but cannot. In the night, he begins to catch view of strange white ape-like creatures the Eloi call Morlocks. He decides that the Morlocks live below ground, down the wells that dot the landscape. Later he saves one of the Eloi from drowning, and then they become friends. Her name is Weena and the time Traveller finally has the ability to go down into the world of Morlocks to try to get back his time machine. He finds that matches are a good defense against the Morlocks, but not for log they chase him out of their kingdom. Then he takes Weena and tries to find a place where they will be safe from the Morlocks'. And the He goes to the Palace of Green Porcelain, which turns out to be a museum. There, he finds more matches, some plastics, and a lever he can use as a weapon. That night, a quite place from the Morlocks through a giant wood, he accidentally starts a fire. Many Morlocks die in the fire and the fight that happens after, and Weena is killed. The Time Traveller returns to the statue to find that it has already been proud open. He steps in feeling confidence, and just when the Morlocks think that they have trapped him, he springs onto the machine and goes back in to the future.

The Time Traveller makes several more stops. In a distant time he stops on a beach where he is attacked by giant crabs. The swollen red sun sits still in the sky. He then travels thirty million years into the future. The air is very thin, and the only sign of life is a black blob with flexible. He sees a planet eclipse the sun. He then returns, tried, to the present time. The next day, he leaves again, but never returns.

Would you recommend this book for a friend? Why or why not?

Yes, if they like reading adventures books.

An Enemy of the people by: Henrik Ibsen

Summary: The town in which the play is set has built a huge bathing complex that is bad for the town's economy. Dr. Stockmann has just find out that the baths' exhaust system is seriously diseased. He tells members of the community, including Hovstad and Aslaksen, and gets support the community and thanks for making his discovery in time to save the town. The next morning, however, his brother, who is also the town's mayor, tells him that he must stop his statements, because the necessary repairs would be too expensive. The mayor is not convinced by Dr. Stockmann's findings. The brothers have an angry argument, but Dr. Stockmann hopes that at least Hovstad's newspaper will support him. However the mayor convinces Hovstad and Aslaksen to oppose Dr. Stockmann.

The doctor holds a town meeting to give a talk about on the baths, but Aslaksen and the mayor try to keep him from speaking. Dr. Stockmann then begins a long angry speech in which he tell the people of the town. The people find his speech unbelievable and the next morning the doctor's home is damage. He and his daughter are fired. The mayor was not happy that the doctor's actions were simply a secret to receive more of Morten Kiil's money, and Kiil himself soon comes to suggest just such a plan to Dr. Stockmann. However, the doctor given up all such ideas and decides to disobey the right and remain in town. His family is supportive, and he says that the strongest man is the man who stands alone.

Would you recommend this book for a friend? Why or why not?

Yes, I would recommend this book for my friends.

Holes  By: LouisSachar

Summary:One day Stanley Yelnats IV is walking home from school. A pair of shoes suddenly falls out of the sky and hits him on the head. Because of his father's project, Stanley decides to keep the shoes thinking they were meant as a sign of some kind. He is then arrested because the shoes were stolen from a homeless shelter, where they had been donated by baseball player Clyde Livingston for a charita auction. Stanley is sent to prison for stealing the shoes and he is for 18 months at Camp Green Lake.At Camp Green Lake, in the middle of a desert and he must each day dig a hole five feet deep. However, if he finds anything interesting in his hole, he can get the rest of the day off.The woman in that owns at the camp is known as the Warden. Other officials include "Mr. Sir" and Stanley's counselor Mr. Pendanski. Stanley is in "D" tent, with several other boys. The boys are X-Ray Theodore, Alan, Ricky, José, and Zero. A couple of weeks later, Stanley finds a tube with the sign "KB" and gets a day off.One day the water truck comes with Mr. Sir driving. Magnet steals his bag of sunflower seeds from the truck and is passing them around when Stanley drop them all in his hole. Mr. Sir returns and Stanley takes the blame by saying that he took the bag from the truck. Mr. Sir suspects that he is covering up for one of the other boys and takes him to see the Warden, but she does not punish him. When Stanley returns he finds that Zero has finished digging his hole for him.Zero reveals that he cannot read so he and Stanley tells Zero will dig part of Stanley's hole and Stanley will teach Zero how to read. They become best friends.then one day, the Warden finds out about Stanley and Zero's arrangement. She is angry that Zero is helping Stanley with his holes. There is a fight in which Zero smacks Pendanski with a shovel.    Zero smacks Pendanski, because he was telling him that he could not read or write.  So Zero runs away from the camp and the Warden orders all records of Zero removed to cover up his file. Stanley finds out his friend will soon die in the desert without help. A few days later, Stanley escaruns away to find Zero. He finds Zero hiding under a boat, eating peaches, which he calls sploosh, but Zero does not want to return to the camp. During this time, Zero tells Stanley that he stole Clyde Livingston's shoes, and it is his fault Stanley got sent to Camp Green Lake. Stanley, they knew that fate is on their side, decides to return to Camp Green Lake. They dig in the spot where Stanley found the tube and finally unearth a suitcase.However, the Warden, Mr. Sir, and Mr. Pendanski finds  them in the hole. They cannot escape the hole as the poisonous yellow spotted lizards suddenly crawl all over Stanley and Zero, but the lizards strangely do not harm the boys at all. The next morning, a woman hired as Stanley's lawyer arrives at the camp, with an order for his release. She had come earlier to show that new evidence has been found that prove Stanley during the time  Stanley in the came. Stanley and Zero escape from the hole, while the lizards ignore them. The Warden then says that the suitcase Stanley and Zero found is hers and that Stanley stole it. She is speechless when Zero points out that the suitcase has a sign the name "Stanley Yelnats" and, therefore, belongs to Stanley. Stanley's lawyer explains that Stanley's father at last finds a breakthrough, finding a cure for foot odor. The suitcase that had been found contains of Stanley Yelnats I, almost two million dollars in stock and jewels. Stanley and his family share the money with Zero, and they each becomes wealthy. However they also make a lot of money from the foot odor cure, "Sploosh" which smells like spiced peaches, that Stanley's father invented.

Would you recommend this book for a friend? Why or why not?

Yes, I would recommend this book to my friends because it has a good story line.

 Jackson’s Track by: Daryl Tonkin & Carolyn Landon

Summary: The story is about his life at Jackson's Track in the Gippsland area of south-eastern Victoria. Daryl Tonkin and his older brother Harry arrived there in 1936, when Daryl was 17, after working on the north Queensland milking cows. They headed for the rich hottest forests of Gippsland. There some of the largest trees in Australia grew. The brothers bought 550 acres of deserted farmland and growth forest. Then it was the Great need of money instead, the brothers were going to work off the money. They made a timber mill, with axes and cross-saws they filled said filled and the huge hardwood trees of the Gippsland forests. The men who worked with them hailed from all over the country. One of these bush workers was an Aborigine, Stewart Hood, who had been kicked out of a church-run mission station for fighting with the authorities. The brothers decided to help him and collected his family to bring them to live on the property. Then later they needed works Word soon got around to lots of Aboriginal communities that at Jackson's Track there were “plenty of work, good water and firewood”. Aborigines from all over Victoria began turning up. About 150 Aborigines lived in there. The Tonkin brothers had a core of workers, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, who worked with them on their mill, and a friendly relationship workout with the Aboriginal people living on the Track. Those who wanted paid work could chop wood on piecework adjust while those who didn't want to work were under no work to do so. Then one day Daryl fell in love with one of Stewart Hood’s daughters, Euphemia. This led to a break between the brothers. While Harry was happy to work with Aborigines, he felt it wasn't proper to live with them. The brothers' sister Mavis was particularly worried about public opinion, egged him on. After a few months Harry tried to kidnap Euphie, taking her to relatives in another town. Daryl just brought her back. However, he respected his brother's wishes by setting up camp just outside their property in the neighbor state forest. The tension created by the opposition to his relationship grew to the point that he finished working for the timber mill and set up his own business, cutting fence posts for surrounding farms. In 1957 Harry and Mavis decided to take over a timber yard at the coast near Melbourne and Harry invited Daryl to take over the running of the mill on their property and become their supplier. From this point the brothers began to develop a relationship which was unfortunately cut short by Harry's early death from a brain tambour. For over two 20 years Daryl and the Aboriginal community lived in relative peace. But by the late 1950s, changes were taking place in the rural economy. Powerful social forces made them felt around Jackson's Track. Developers wanted to open up the area for large-scale farming and the local shire council decided to lay and become straight the track by cutting through Daryl's property. Suddenly the Aboriginal huts that had been curl in the privacy of the bush were found out to the road and the long steady look of passing traffic. In 1957 the state government made a new body called the Aboriginal Welfare Board to oversee the Aboriginal community. Next came the Aborigines Housing Act, announce public in 1959, which provided the Aboriginal Welfare Board with houses in towns and town areas. Soon people talk with the Jackson's Track residents became final demand. The rural and church people decided to bulldoze the huts. They gave the week to leave, while promising them new homes with all features in local towns. Those who stayed behind were transported to a four-acre paddock where church volunteers had built a single two-roomed house. Six families were had to live there with no toilets or electricity. Then one day these families were particular purpose to live in the surrounding towns. Within two years many of the elders from the Jackson's Track community were dead. Alcohol became a major problem for the surviving families. Daryl, his nearest family and the mill workers stayed on but the heart had been taken from the property. About one year later, in the depths of his despair, he agreed to sell the bulk of his land, not imagining that anyone could basic change the character of the environment because of the importance of the forests. However within two years the trees had been bulldozed down and the area completely cleared. Daryl writes: “When I agreed on the clearing, I had forgotten what it was like to live out in the open away from the protection of the trees. The birds disappeared. I had never dreamed it would go like this. I thought there would always be bush.” Daryl Tonkin still lives on Jackson's Track although the community has spread across Victoria. He and Euphie had 12 children, if I counted correctly. Several became state badminton champions while another Aboriginal child born on the property, Lionel Rose, became a world champion boxer.

Would you recommend this book for a friend? Why or why not?

Yes, if my friends like history of Australia.

  The Simple Gift By: Steven Herrick

Summary: Billy’s good fortune is because of his kind heart. Billy’s a sixteen year old boy who one day finally gives up living with his father. So one day, he decides to run away off to anywhere, to a better place, people, respect, happiness, love. Who leaves his home and says good bye to his family to look for some place better and happiness.

“See ya dad. I have taken the alcohol, drink this instead. To celebrate my son’s leaving home.” The way his father treated him caused this Billy was away from his suburb and his dad.“How fast trains go when you’re got no window to close a wind and rain hits you in the face of a fathers punch. He finds himself in the town of Bendarat where he meets new people, and faces new problems. Billy’s alone person who needs a father love and because he can’t have it he is trying to find it in others. Billy’s is kind hearted to old bill and cailint. Billy saw an old man outside his carriage with long grey hair and beard sitting on the train track looking at the beer stain on the wooden sleeper. “I didn’t know whether to leave him or not” Billy remembers that he stole the cigarettes from his dad to angry him. He rushed back in to the carriage and got the cigarettes. He gave them to old bill. His name was bill so he decided to call him old bill. Billy got a bout and filled it with Wheet Bix and milk for old bill. He knocked quietly and went inside but old bill was shielding his eyes from the light and he growied. “Piss off son pisses off, leave me alone” Old bill was a homeless old hobo not unlike him Billy self. Old bill is a drunk who drinks away his sorrow; tear from reality by the death of his only child Jessa a year later his wife dies. Old bill drinks to keep his ghosts alive and to keep the past. Old bill finds a new future and good friends. Billy and old bill live together in the same carriage, and they have a strong friendship. Old bill help him from the cops. Old bill gave him a key to his house to live there. Caitlin is the rich, spout girl, she lives with her family and she go to Bendarat Grammar school. She works at McDonalds, despite her wealth, mopping floors. As she mops notices a young boy, a bout sixteen. Waiting for leftovers of other people’s food, and wonders whether to get the manager or not. And I smile to him that I hate moping he come to me said “good night Caitlin”. So that’s how Billy and Caitlin meet get when she was cleaning his table she found a note. Caitlin found a man that had lost every thing but still he showed her love and support. They all come from different places but they are going in together. Billy’s change has life and whatever needs he founds. Bills found a better place to live and friend and girl friend. Caitlin got the loving boy friend that cares about her. Old bill found a friend and a new life the he can never think a bout that. The message for me was that every one can get freedom that it is available to every person. Do not site there to wait someone come to help you getup and find the way of your life, it is also abut givens a new life for a person who nearly diet.

Would you recommend this book for a friend? Why or why not?

Yes because it has a nice story and it is interesting.

Boy Overboard by: Morris Gleitzman

Summary: There was an afghan boy living with a dad and a little sister. He had many wishes he wanted for him and his little sister to become famous soccer players but he wasn’t allowed to do that in Afghanistan. His name was Jamal and his younger sister was called Bibi. They had not known what was coming in front of them. Then one day they had gone to a soccer stadium. He had wanted to watch a soccer match but it had finished and so Bibi and Jamal had snacked in. He had saw many women their and their faces were covered. And their were many army men standing their. Suddenly there was a Bang! It was some one driving a taxi (it was Jamal and Bibi’s dad) the taxi knock out all the guards and he told one of the women to get in the taxi it was Jamal’s Mum then later on Jamal’s dad tells them Jamal and Bibi to get on the taxi they were going to Australia. They had already booked a ticket (on a boat) and they were going to Australia but something bad had happened to his mum and dad had to go on different boats. (So the kids were on one boat and the parents were on the other). So after the boat trip they had found some friends and when the boat trip was over they had received news from the boat driver the news was that the other boat had sunk. But Jamal and Bibi didn’t give up that easy. But suddenly the other boat appears from no where and then Jamal and Bibi see’s there parents. Once they saw their parents they went everywhere (they had reached Australia). They also (Jamal and Bibi) started thinking about their future (soccer).

Would you recommend this book for a friend? Why or why not?  

Yes! This book is a great book! I loved it and my friends would too.