Book Club

Welcome to the Student Life Book Club where you can review and share your thoughts on fiction, poetry and comics.

Books to review this month

• New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

  For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is even more dangerous than Bella could ever have imagined...

• Young Samurai I - The Way of the Warrior by Chris Bradford

  August 1611. Jack Fletcher is shipwrecked off the coast of Japan - his beloved father and the crew lie slaughtered by ninja pirates.

  Rescued by the legendary swordmaster Masamoto Takeshi, Jack's only hope is to become a samurai warrior. And so his training begins...

• Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl

  Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all.

  But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own...

• Slapstick Poems by Roger McGough

  There are poems for everybody in this wide-ranging collection. Rib-ticklers and riddles, crazy recipes and ghostly tales, cowboys and tofu-eating tigers.

  Touching and thought-provoking, his new poems will make you laugh, cry or simply say "Wow"!

• Wonder Woman by Jodi Picoult, Dodson, Johnson, Diaz

  The action begins when Wonder Woman, in her disguise as Special Agent Diana Prince of the Department of Metahuman Affairs, is assigned to capture... Wonder Woman.

  How can she accomplish this impossible job without revealing her secret identity?

Book reviews

• Brisingr, reviewed by Simona

  
  

  Brisingr is an amazing achievement. Brisingr takes you on a journey with Eragon a dragon rider as they battle the evil King Galbatorix. You get to meet the...

• Ghostbusters - Ghostbusted, reviewed by Hassan

  
  

  This book was a comic book format, but never the less it was gripping. I am a big fan of Ghost busters so when I saw the book Ghost busters...

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