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Advantages: Clear plotline; interesting ideas; involving characters
Disadvantages: Will make you sad

...our current history. The noughts in this tale have only recently been freed from slavery and are still treated as second class citizens. One of the key events early on in the book is the attempted integration of Noughts into Cross schools; the ways that teachers and pupils react is simultaneously understandable, disgusting and intensely sad. As Callum struggles to make something of himself in a hostile world, Sephy tries to find a way to reveal ...
...allows you to realise how poisonous racism really is without feeling that you are being preached to. The technique is particularly powerful because we follow Sephy and Callum's relationship and attitudes as they grow from innocent young children into increasingly angry teens. Written simply in first person throughout, the story is convincing but increasingly horrifying as Blackman also suggests the powerful effect families have on their members; ... Read review

Advantages: A great insight
Disadvantages: Very sad!

I am reviewing Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. I read this novel in my English class at school and I am going to explain what happens in the novel, who the characters are, what I think are the best and worst bits and why, and what I would do personally to the novel to make it a better book. The main character in this novel by Michael Morpurgo is Thomas Peaceful because the book is written in the first person as if he is telling the novel. ...
...talk to the author of Private Peaceful - Michael Morpurgo, I would ask him why he felt the need to end the book the way he did. I would also ask him, why didn't you start the book, the way you ended it? A few people would give up because they thought it was boring, and stop reading. I would ask: Why did you decide to write a book about this particular topic? Do you enjoy learning about the war? I would, also ask Michael Morpurgo about how he found ... Read review