Ballerina Dreams:Dancing with the stars
Ballerina Dreams
Dancing with the stars
The Author’s name is Ann Bryant
The main characters name is Jasmine with her friends Poppy, Rose.
Dancing with the stars is a book about a young girl who loves to dance and was asked to go to Audition for the Junior Royal Ballet School. She really wants to but her dad thinks it isn’t important and all he wants her to do is go well at school and be a doctor. She is not allowed to and one day when she was shopping with her mum she runs into her Ballarina star-Anna and gets to go with Anna to class. She gets to join in and loves it. It terns out that Anna’s teacher was very pleased and talked to Jasmines dad. Jasmine ended up being able to audition
I liked this book very much and enjoyed it because of its descriptive writing and the story line.
Three words that I would describe this book with would be creative, imaginative and descriptive.
Signed – Meg J Year 7S
Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science
Case Files: 40 Murders and Mysteries Solved by Science
A fascinating look at how scientists solve today’s mysteries and centuries-old “cold cases.”
Savvy investigative work and scientific knowledge combine to answer perplexing questions and to uncover long-unknown truths. Using a trail of evidence – clues, careful observation, laboratories and new testing protocols – scientists reveal intriguing answers to such questions as: What really killed Beethoven? Are the Hitler diaries real or fakes?
The stories and sidebars show how scientists collect clues, analyse them, test theories, and arrive at solutions – or gather enough evidence to support further investigation. The cases involve branches of science as wide-ranging as astronomy and biochemistry to geology and physics (Courtesy of SCIS online at http://opac.scis.curriculum.edu.au/).
Children of the King
Children of the King by Sonya Hartnett
Three children have been sent to live in the countryside, safe from the war in London. When they find two boys hiding in a castle, the past and future come together to make an extraordinary adventure. A hauntingly beautiful story from one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers for adults and children (Courtesy of SCIS online at http://opac.scis.curriculum.edu.au/).
Top Gear: 100 Maddest Cars
From amphibious automobiles to record-breaking supercars, Top Gear’s 100 Maddest Cars is a truly bonkers collection of the craziest cars we’ve ever encountered. From the amazing and ambitious to the downright rubbish, this book is packed with facts and stats on the strangest things on four (and sometimes more) wheels. Even the Stig looks normal in comparison…A truly bonkers collection of the craziest cars the Top Gear team has ever encountered, from amphibious automobiles to record-breaking supercars. This book is packed with facts and stats on the strangest things on four (and sometimes more) wheels (Courtesy of SCIS online at http://opac.scis.curriculum.edu.au/).
Ruby Moonlight
Ruby Moonlight, byAli Cobby Beckermann
Is a verse novel of the impact of colonisation in mid north South Australia around 1880. The main character, Ruby, refugee of a massacre, shelters in the woods where she befriends an Irishman trapper. The poems convey how fear of discovery is overcome by the need for human contact, which, in a tense unravelling of events, is forcibly challenged by an Aboriginal lawman. The natural world is richly observed and Ruby’s courtship is measured by the turning of the seasons.
Night Beach
Night Beach by Kirsty Eagar
Imagine there is someone you like so much that just thinking about them leaves you desperate and reckless. You crave them in a way that’s not rational, not right, and you’re becoming somebody you don’t recognise, and certainly don’t respect, but you don’t even care. And this person you like is unattainable. Except for one thing …He lives downstairs. Abbie has three obsessions. Art. The ocean. And Kane. But since Kane’s been back, he’s changed. There’s a darkness shadowing him that only Abbie can see. And it wants her in its world. A gothic story about the very dark things that feed the creative process. From the winner of the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for young adult fiction.
Divine Clementine
I blow her a kiss. She catches it and puts it in her pocket for later like she always does. And then it happens. Why doesn’t she look? Why doesn’t the bus brake? Why is my body frozen? When 16-and-a-half-year-old Clementine Footner witnesses the tragic death of her eccentric aunt Stella, she feels as though her world will never be the same again. Clementine idolised her aunt, and their intimate bond was something she treasured deeply. But after finding and reading Stella’s diaries, she learns about a very different woman – an unstable, erratic Stella. This Stella suffered from Bipolar …and the whole family knew about it. Feeling betrayed and angry, with her life spiralling even further out of control, Clementine trudges through grief, despair, and the middle of nowhere to discover what truly matters
