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Advantages: Adventure from beginning to end
Disadvantages: A little gross in parts

...***Interesting Trivia*** (Taken from How to speak Dragonese) The rights to the Horrible Horrendous the Third Series have been bought by Dreamworks Animation, the creators of Shrek with the view to releasing the first of the three films , How to Train your Dragon in 2009. ***About the author***(Taken from How to Speak Dragonese) As a relatively new addition to the world of successful Children's books authors, there isn't a lot known about Cowell. ...
...other Hiccup the Horrendous Books, How to Train your Dragon and How to Speak Dragonese ***Who is Hiccup Horrendous?*** This is the third book in the series. If you have read any of the Hiccup Horrendous books you will be familiar with Hiccup and his friends already. For those of you who haven't let me explain. Hiccup is son and Heir to the Chief of the Hairy Hooligan Vikings. Unfortunately, Hiccup is not the natural warrior Stoick (his father) ... Read review

Advantages: Great all around adventure
Disadvantages: A bit gross

...***Interesting Trivia*** (Taken from How to speak Dragonese) The rights to the Horrible Horrendous the Third Series have been bought by Dreamworks Animation, the creators of Shrek with the view to releasing the first of the three films , How to Train your Dragon in 2009. ***About the author***(Taken from How to Speak Dragonese) As a relatively new addition to the world of successful Children's books authors, there isn't a lot known about Cowell. ...
...other Hiccup the Horrendous Books, How to Train your Dragon and How to Speak Dragonese ***Who is Hiccup Horrendous?*** This is the first book in the series and where we meet Hiccups companion Toothless Hiccup, son and Heir to the Chief of the Hairy Hooligan Vikings. is a student at the local Viking school where he does not excel. His father Stoick is constantly disappointed by his son's disinterest and inability to be a great Warrior who will ... Read review

Advantages: Worth £5.99
Disadvantages: There is none!!!

This is the second book in the mediator series! ************************************************************ In the first book, called Love you to death, it tells you who suze is, and what she does! These books are in a series called the mediator! Genually you would think she was an ordinary school girl with normal problems. But you'll be completely wrong. She's a Mediator. A Mediator is someone who can see ghosts! She eventually finds one and ...
...to kill her the hard way! Back to this book! ********************************** Now in the first book, Suze manages to get a boy friend. Well apparently he wasn't as fit as jesse... Anyway she manages to get another one!!! Except this one is also caught up with this mediator stuff!!! A ghost comes to her at the middle of the night and she wants to tell someone called red it wasn't he's fault that she died! Suze's mission ************************** ... Read review

Advantages: Funny, adventurous, imaginative
Disadvantages: maybe a bit gross for some parents

...releasing the first film , How to Train your Dragon in 2009. ***About the author*** As a relatively new addition to the world of successful Children's books authors, there isn't a lot known about Cowell. Before establishing herself as a highly successful author, Cressida worked as an illustrator and was short-listed for the Macmillan Prize for Illustration, and indeed, she provides the limited illustrations throughout this book as well as doing ...
...other Hiccup the Horrendous Books, How to Train your Dragon and How to be a Pirate ***Hiccup Horrendous Background*** The Hiccup Horrendous the Third series was inspired by memories of family holidays Cowell took with her father, sister and brother to a tiny island in the Inner Hebrides. The children in the family, including Cressida spent time at a camp on the island that she describes as being just "Rock and Heather" cut off from the outside ... Read review

Advantages: fascinating, nice and easy, not too long, developed
Disadvantages: excessive use of clauses and commas

A five-hour car journey can be quite a bore without a good book, so I decided I had to buy something to read in time for Easter weekend, and went into the bookshop, fortunately with a voucher left from World Book Day, to browse the latest titles. Now, I can be quite awkward when it comes to books; I'll read almost anything, but I have to be in the right mood. It didn't take me long to find a book that seemed quite appealing. One of my favourite ...
...titles recently which I had yet to read, so I decided to give one of them a go, and opted for 'Hidden Child', by Anne Cassidy. The cover didn't give too much away; an image of a teenage girl half-hiding herself with her sleeve. The blurb simply asked a question or two, not going into too much detail, yet somehow managing to lure me in. After purchasing and reading the first two pages, I was itching to continue, but thought it was best to wait until ... Read review