Interview with...Mrs Ridley

What book are you currently reading?

I'm reading 5 different books at the moment. For myself, I've just started The Duke and I. With my children: - The Famous Five, Animal Park Llama Rescue, anything Julia Donaldson and with my youngest, anything with diggers, tractors or noisy things!

What is your favourite book of all time?

My favourite book is the Secret Garden. I can remember when I was about ten, I totally got lost in this book and was desperate to visit this magical place. (I can also remember my mum telling me off for trying to eat breakfast and get dressed whilst holding onto the book pleading to be allowed to just finish the chapter)

Where do you like reading?

I love reading on holiday at the beach or next to a pool. However, things are not quite the same now I have 4 children (and a few soggy books!)

What is it about reading you like?

I love that I can get lost in another place, whether it be a different time, place or with different people and that I no longer have to think about everyday things. It's a brief escape from day to day life.

Reading

Rocks

5th February 2021

Hello and ………

Welcome to our new Reading Rocks newsletter! Each week we aim to share with you the books that our pupils (and staff) are reading as well as reading tips, quotes and general updates

from school.

Miss Quinn

Year 5 - Myths, Legends and Fables

The Ice Bear Miracle - Cerrie Burnell Mythologica: An Encyclopedia of Gods,

Monsters and Mortals from Ancient Greece - Dr Stephen Kershaw

Icarus was Ridiculous - Pamela Butchart Lightning Chase Me Home - Amber Lee

Dodd Malamander - Thomas Taylor Who Let the Gods Out – Maz Evans

Dragon Rider – Cornelia Funke The Girl of Ink and Stars - Kiran Millwood

Hargrave The Orchard Book of Greek Myths -

Geraldine McCaughrean Greek Gods & Heroes - Sylvie Baussier

Almasty Beasts of Olympus: Beast Keeper - Lucy Coats

The Ancient Greek Mysteries - Saviour Pirotta & Freya Hartas

Tales from China - Cyril Birch Tales from Africa - Kathleen Arnott

Outlaw: The story of Robin Hood - Michael Morpurgo

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)- Rick Riordan

The Hidden Oracle: The Trials of Apollo, Book 1 - Rick Riordan

Bad Mermaids - Sibeal Pounder The Lost Fairy Tales - Isabel Otter Roman Mysteries Series - Caroline

Lawrence The Lambton Worm - Joan Henderson

How to Train your Dragon - Cressida Cowell The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkien

Beast Quest series - Adam Blade Horrible Histories- Groovy Greeks - Terry

Deary (non-fiction)

Year 7 - Crime and Detection

Street Child – Bertie Doherty Gaslight – Eloise Williams Cogheart – Peter Bunzl

100 Facts Victorian Britain – Jeremy Smith Holes – Louis Sachar

The Good Thieves – Katherine Rundell The Highwayman – Alfred Noyes

A Photographic View of Crime & Punishment – Alex Woolf

The Tulip Touch – Anne Fine Millions – Frank Cottrell Boyce

Hacker – Malorie Blackman Murder Most Unladylike – Robin Stevens Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Scarlet –

Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes The Sign of Four – Arthur

Conan Doyle The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur

Conan Doyle Agatha Oddly and the Secret Key - Lena

Jones High-Rise Mystery - Sharna Jackson

Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer The Highland Falcon Thief - M.G. Leonard The Girl Who Stole an Elephant - Nizrana

Farook The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd Lockwood & Co: The Screaming Staircase-

Jonathan Stroud Witch Child - Celia Rees

Flesh And Bones - Alan Durant Look Into My Eyes (Ruby Redfort, #1) -

Lauren Child If You Were Me - Sam Hepburn

Smart - Kim Slater Urban Outlaws - Peter Jay Black

She Is Not Invisible - Marcus Sedgwick Death Cloud (Young Sherlock Holmes) -

Andy Lane The London Eye Mystery - Siobhan Dowd

Recommended Reading

Reviews

Cogheart is a book I recently got and finished. It is a really good book for anyone into mystery and adventure. The book starts off with a 13-year-old

Lily who goes to an all-girls boarding school, the other girls are very ladylike whilst Lily is the exact opposite. She gets some very unexpected news

about her father and the next thing she knows is she’s on an airship back to Brackenbridge Manor. All is eerie and mysterious when Lily meets a boy,

Robert, and along with her mechanimal fox Malkin, goes on a long adventure. Soon she finds herself mixed up in a house in London with her Godfather Professor Silverfish, but all is not what it seems…...The characters are a mix of hybrids, (a mix of human and mechanicals) Human or Mechanicals/mechanimals. The book rating is said to be 8+ but I highly disagree with

that as it gets into a bit of injury detail; I’d say probably 10+ and reading capacity 10+. I liked it because it is my genre type of book and the way it is

written. -Molly- 5GR

This is the book that i am currently reading! I got this book once we had finished reading Wonder in class because I was curious on how good of a read it was. It is soooo good! It is probably one of my favourite books now and I'm in the last section- Charlotte's bit. My personal favourite was the part which

was all about Julian and how he felt about Auggie. This is because i kind of felt sorry for him at the end of it and i never thought i would feel sorry for

Julian Albans! It's a great book and I 100% recommend it to people who haven't read it yet! - Zoe 7PA

I read this the other day and already it is definitely one of my favourite books! It is packed full of adventure and is very tense. If you haven't read this book already you definitely should. Katniss Everdeen's sister’s name is

pulled out for her to enter the hunger games where there is only one rule: kill or be killed. Katniss volunteers to enter instead of her sister and is sent off to the capitol with Peeta Mellark (the other district twelve entry). She has

to defeat many tests of strength. Winning will make you famous: losing means certain death… - Phoebe 7PA.

This book is by Enid Blyton. She also wrote the books, The Faraway Tree and The Wishing chair collections. The Famous five is a whole collection of twenty-one Famous five books! The first book Five on Treasure island is

about two boys, two girls and one dog. The children and the dog (Timothy) go onto tom boy George’s little island. The island has an old castle and

shipwreck nearby which they explore and have adventures on. The reason I like this book is because the descriptive writing makes it feel like you are

really there and also I love the adventure in it! - Alexander 6JK

1) “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose."

2) “He’s the strongest man in the world.” “Man, yes,” said Pippi, “But I am the strongest girl in the world, remember that.”

3) “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

4) “‘Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ 'You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.’”

5) “Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

6) “A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

7) “There’s no place like home.”

8) “Well, maybe it started that way. As a dream, but doesn’t everything? Those buildings. These lights. This whole city. Somebody had to dream about it first. And maybe that is what I did. I dreamed about coming here, but then I did it.”

9) “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense.”

10) “I like people who make me like them. Saves me so much trouble forcing myself to like them.”

Look out for the answers in next weeks edition!

This Weeks Inspirational Quote

“What do you think is the biggest waste of time?" "Comparing yourself to others", said the mole. = Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

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