Keeping Faith (blog by Latryce Douglas)

The book I chose to read is called ‘keeping faith’, written by Jodi Picoult. I was told about the kind of books Jodi Picoult wrote by a friend. I immediately wanted to read one. She suggested this book to me and so far I have wanted to read more and more! This book is about a 7 year old girl, Faith, whose mother, Mariah, has just been divorced and is falling into a deep depression, thanks to Mariah’s mother, she is pulling through. This happens around the beginning of the book when I started to get attached to it. During rough times with her mother, Faith starts to see an imaginary friend called her ‘Guard’, her mother is worried and takes her to a therapist and they say she is seeing a God. This guard is giving Faith the power to perform miracles such as healing a baby from AIDS and saving a mother from cancer, but from all this Faith is developing stigmata. This is all I have gotten to so far. I find this book very interesting and I can’t wait to finish it!

Latryce Douglas

youse two ( andrew daddo)

i chose this book because when i read the blurb and i was immediatly drawn to the book. the blurb was funny and made me want to read more and left you with unanswered questions that made you want to find out the answers. i would recommend this book to classmates as it is a typical teenage drama, suited for boys and girls, and is very funny!
 the story is about jack and josh pickering who are identicl twins, same but different.everyone wants them to have the twin thing, this weird telepathicity, but their not feeling it like their supposed to. when noona comes and stays the two brothers cant even have seperate bedrooms and an oppurtunity to a school camp comes around and their deffinatly not missing out on this chance. but when one of the school barbies' flicks her hair at the wrong twin everything goes wrong and confusion between the twins, somewhere between horse-riding, the midnight feast and mrs fitzgibbons remote control fishing expedition. there is no distinct asset either of the twins have and so there is determing the difference, so which is which? the only question remains will the jude tumbleten be able to tell the difference between the identicl brothers? the constant battle between winning and losing persists and twins are more competitive than ever.

this novel is a filled with humour and an all round great  book! Jessica Puntoriero Year 9

'High Society' by Ben Elton

I have begun reading a book called High Society written by Ben Elton. This book was recommended to me by a teacher, he told that the completely changed his view on illegal drugs. High society contains some disturbing themes e.g. in the start of the book two children who are left home alone while their sister is down the shop. They search the sister’s room and come across a box of ecstasy. The children oblivious to the effects of the drugs take them and overdose and die. The book explains how this could have been avoided by legalising drugs, all drugs. To understand this more I suggest you read the book. The book is set around several other people’s opinions and stories. Two I can think of are a simple backbencher trying to legalise drugs, and another, a drug lord using innocent people to transport illegal drugs.  
Hugh O'Dea Yr 9