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This is the blog spot for the King's School Library "Dads and Lads, Mums and Sons" Book project.
We’d like you and your son to read 10 books in the 2008-09 school year, and tell us about it!

SIMPLY...
1. Choose a book to read together. You could start with your son’s choice. Then follow with your choice. Then back again. The school library can support you by doing our best to find a second copy so that you don’t have to wait for one person to finish before the other one starts.
2. When a book is finished, like it or hate it, simply write a short review each from your own perspectives and send or e-mail it into the library. We'll publish it here.

At the end of the year we’ll award the prize to the best set of reviews.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO LIVE TOGETHER TO READ TOGETHER.

It doesn’t matter what you read, fiction or non-fiction. We would like to hear from you.
If you are interested in taking part please contact the Librarians, and we’ll put you in the picture.
Book suggestions for the mystified also available on request
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Wednesday, 12 November 2008

Siobhan Dowd "The London Eye Mystery"


I really enjoyed this book, I literally couldn't take my eyes away from it. It is about this boy who goes up in the London Eye whilst his cousins are watching him but doesn't come back down again. Then his cousins Ted and Kat have to find him. The police can't find anything so it's up to them. They do everything possible: go back on the eye, go around London but they can't find him. I give this book 9/10 because evertime I had the chance I read it.

MB 8D


This was a fascinating book. The story is written from the point of view of a child who is from the description given autistic. It gives a clear view of how the child thinks and behaves differently from those around him and the communication struggles that he has. The story revolves around the disappearance of the lead characters cousin whilst riding the London Eye. It goes through the experience of trying to work out how this child managed to go missing from a sealed capsule. It was a very good book and the style is excellent especially in the description of the interations between the lead character and those around him who do not know how to respond to this child who in his own words is 'hard wired in a different way'. 9/10

JB

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