Hooked on Books is coming to Northwest Christian School again on 14 March!!!
Look below for the list of books which will be performed:
JUNIOR
Book Name:
Hippospotamus.
ISBN:
9781849394161.
Author:
Jeanne Willis.
Description:
It’s hilarious and mysterious. The lot-of-us have gottomus get to the bottomus of the spotamus on Hippopotamus!
Book Name:
The Bippolo Seed.
ISBN:
978000743844-0
Author:
Dr. Seuss.
Description:
The rarest of things: A collection of stories by Dr. Seuss lost for over 50 years. Wonderfully entertaining and beautifully written. Rediscovered treasures indeed.
Book Name:
The Abominators.
ISBN:
9781907411625 .
Author:
J.L Smith.
Description:
Its break time at Grimely East Primary School, but five children have no time for running, skipping or hopping. They have more important things to think about: chaos, mayhem and filling the toilets with strawberry jelly. They are the Abominators, the naughtiest children in Year 5.
Book Name:
The Crocodile who didn’t like Water.
ISBN:
9781447214717
Author:
Gemma Merino.
Description:
Once upon a time there was a little crocodile that didn’t like water. He hated swimming, detested diving and would rather be climbing up a tree than floating down a river. Makes one wonder whether he really was a little crocodile at all.
Book Name:
Stinkbomb & Ketchup-Face and the Badness of Badgers.
ISBN:
9780192734495
Author:
John Dougherty.
Description:
Welcome to the world of Great Kerfuffle! It’s really great. And there’s usually a kerfuffle. Come and join our intrepid heroes Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face as they set off on a highly dangerous silly andnail-biting mildly perilous adventure trekking to the palace cottage of King Toothbrush Weasel while singing a strawberryblueberrymulberry jammy song.
Book Name:
The Complete Book of Nonsense.
ISBN:
9780099582663
Author:
Vintage Classics.
Description:
Nonsense poetry is a way of making new language. In this anthology, renowned masters of literature transform words, phrases, creatures, plants, landscapes and even time itself. Lewis Caroll, Roald Dahl, Julia Donaldson, Spike Milligan and Ogden Nash are but a few of the word- wizards it makes no-sense not to meet.The Book of Complete Nonsense… It’s not non-sense – its new sense.
SENIOR
Book Name:
Granny.
ISBN:
9781406305708
Author:
Anthony Horowitz.
Description:
There are no labels on her perfume bottles but this one might be called “Decomposing Sheep”. Nobody knows what make of lipstick she uses, but you can only get it off your face with a Brillo pad. At the sound of her footsteps approaching the front door – scrunch…scrunch…scrunch – the sun seems to have gone in and the shadows stretch out like a carpet unrolling. “Aren’t you going to give your GRANNY a kiss, then?”
Book Name:
My big fat Zombie Goldfish.
ISBN:
9781447227984.
Author:
Mo O’Hara.
Description:
Tom’s teenage brother Mark is Home-moanal. Which is probably why he’s moaning at home a lot. Now Mark was always ‘mostly’ evil, but lately he’s slid up the scale from ‘mostly’ to ‘nearly totally’. Tom didn’t know how bad he could be until the day Mark came home with a goldfish. That’s the day his big brother Mark turned into a real-life actual Mad Scientist (he even perfected the laugh).
Book Name:
Oliver and the Seawigs.
ISBN:
9780192734556.
Author:
Philip Reeve.
Description:
Most people would be a bit alarmed if they woke up to find that their parents had disappeared. Not Oliver. He barely batted an eyelid. With explorers for parents, Oliver had lived through worse (or so he thought), because Oliver’s biggest adventure is about to begin. A delightful tale of nautical hairdressing, short sighted mermaids, saltwater primates and wandering islands.
P.S. Beware the sarcastic seaweed… they could be hazardous… to your feelings
Book Name:
Roof Toppers
ISBN:
9780571280599.
Author:
Katherine Rundell.
Description:
On the morning of its first birthday, a baby was found floating in a cello case in the middle of the English Channel. Everyone tells Sophie she was orphaned in the shipwreck, but she is convinced her mother also survived. On the run from the authorities, Sophie finds a boy who walks tightropes and lives in the sky. Together they race across the rooftops of Paris, pursuing dreams and never ignoring a possible.
Book Name:
The Spin.
ISBN:
9781471400230.
Author:
Rebecca Lisle.
Description:
A shadow falls over him; he stops and looks up. The powerful draught from the creature’s wings throws him to the ground. The winged horse opens its jaws and a blast of flames shoot out… this is the chance encounter that turns Stormy’s life upside down. Sent up from the kitchen to the Academy, he uncovers a web of lies, deceit and neglect; at the centre of which lies the mysterious thirteenth horse. Can Stormy save the Thirteen and prove himself worthy as a sky-rider? Can he perfect… The Spin?
Book Name:
The Complete Book of Nonsense.
ISBN:
9780099582663.
Author:
Vintage Classics.
Description:
Nonsense poetry is a way of making new language. In this anthology, renowned masters of literature transform words, phrases, creatures, plants, landscapes and even time itself. Lewis Caroll, Roald Dahl, Julia Donaldson, Spike Milligan and Ogden Nash are but a few of the word- wizards it makes no-sense nót to meet. The Book of Complete Nonsense or it’s not non-sense – it’s new sense.
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