Running Wild

This year for book groups I choose a book by Michael Morpurgo called Running Wild. It is based on a boy called Will who is riding an elephant on an Indonesian beach line until a tsunami hits the coast. Will only survives because the elephant he is riding storms of into the dense Indonesian jungle away from the wave. Then for the next year Will survives in the jungle with the elephant which is called Oona until he finds a clearing in the jungle where he finds a woman in a straw hat that helps him find the rest of his family. We had a few problems when we had our group discussions like on the first week some of us in the group weren't listening and also on the second week I forgot to bring my book discussion notes. Another problem was that once we read six chapters in one go and for the next two weeks we only read 4 pages every time to make the book last so that we didn't finish two weeks earlier than the other book groups. I think what went well was that we all had mixed ideas of what was going to happen next which showed that we were all thinking about the story and not agreeing to what everybody else said. What I got out of this experience was that I found out that other books in other genres are sometimes good to read, I used to always read books filled with action such as the CHERUB series or the Alex Rider series and so on.

  

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy

The book I liked when I was young was Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy. The author of Hairy Maclary is Lynley Dodd. The book is written in a poetic style with stanzas. The plot is about a dog called Hairy Maclary who goes for a walk and gets followed by other dogs from Donaldson’s Dairy and after a while they see Scarface Claw who is the toughest cat in town. All the dogs run away because they are scared by Scarface claw and the story ends there. My Dad Used to read it to me when I was about five or six. I like the way that the whole story rhymes and all the unusual names for the dogs. There are lot of books in the series such as Hairy Maclary’s Showbusiness, Hairy Maclary’s bone and Hairy Maclary Rumpus at the vet.                                                                                                                        

Captain America 2 the Winter Soldier Movie

In the school holidays I went to watch 3 films at the cinema. My favourite was the captain America 2 the winter soldier. I went to see it with my brother James, Arthur, Anthony and Matthew Chu. The film was good and it had a lot of action and it kept everybody on the edge of their seats. It was about a government agency that was corrupt by an enemy agents and captain America's long lost friend was working for that enemies and captain America tries to solve the problem.it was a great film and I would rate it a 4 1/2 stars out of 5.

The second movie I saw was the amazing spider man 2 rise of electro. I went to see it with my brother James. It was about a person who is exposed to a lot of electricity and turns into a blue superhuman with the power to control electricity. I liked all the action in it but I did not like the unexpected death at the end. I would rate it a 4 stars out of 5.













The last movie I saw was the Lego movie.  I also saw it with James. The movie wasn't as exciting as the others because it didn't have a lot of violence and suspense. The plot was about a normal minifigure called Emmet that finds out that the person that rules his city in which he lives in has a plan to glue every block of Lego together. He finds himself dragged in to a world of master builders who all believe that he is the chosen one who is supposed to save them all. I would rate this movie 3 1/2 out 5.