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Response to 'Goodnight Mr. Tom' by Vicky from Wale

By Lucy, 10, Southampton, Hampshire, England

I TOTALLY agree. I think Goodnight Mr. Tom by Michelle Magorian is one of best books I have ever read. I am so glad that I go to The King's Primary School, because everyone has the chance to read the book in year 5. It is extremely touching and emotional, not in a lovey dovey
or terrible way, but in a way that you can join with the characters when they are joyful and when they sad, and as in all good books, you feel that you there with them through everything. I haven't discovered any other books by Michelle Magorian but if I did I would be sure to read them.
She is most cetainly in the list of my favourite authors - Michelle Magorian, Jaqueline Wilson, J.K.Rowling, Anne Fine, Roald Dahl and a few not so famous whom I can't quite recall. I recommend Goodnight Mr.Tom to anyone who wants to find a good book. Nov 2002

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Gary Paulson

By Ken, 11, Ringwood, New Jersey, USA

Gary Paulson is one of my favorite authors. He writes mainly about sports and involves a lot of comedy into his writing. Personally my favorite book of his is The Kid Who Became President - a hillarious book about a kid who was elected president of the United States and has to deal with manly conflicts. Last year, we had the chance of winning the lunch with an author that comes every year. Last year, the author was Gary Paulson and I was very excited, for he had already been one of my favorite authors and now I had the chance to learn more about him. I wrote an essay and luckily won! So I asked him many questions and learned alot more about him. The favorite book series he thought he had ever written was Funny Boy - books about a boy who has a vast imagination and saves the world. I would reccomend Gary Paulson books to athletes, people with a sense of humor, and anyone else because these books are really great. Nov 2002

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L.M. Montgomery

By Ashley, 11, America

L.M. Montgomery (Lucy Maud Montgomery) is in my opinion a very good author. She wrote the Anne of Green Gables series, which she is most noted and famous for. However, she has written several other books that have enchanted me as well. Go check it out!

C.S. Lewis has been mentioned before I believe, but he has written many other books besides The 'Chronicles of Narnia' which are wonderful.

Martha Finley and Lois G. Leapard are both Christian authors that help to strenghten your relationship with Christ. They are both in story format that intrigues you to be like the heroines, and Lois Leopard's book is full of mystery, while the other one is about a girl who grows through womanhood with difficulties but overcomes them with the help of her Heavenly Father and things turn out even better than she could have imagined. This book is a little more hard reading than the other, so you might want to wait until you think you are on a good enough reading level to understand it. They are both very interesting and I encourage you all to read them. :) Oct 2002

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Good Night Mr Tom

By Helen, 13, Dublin, Ireland

Good Night Mr. Tom is a really moving story. It is our English novel in school this year and on Friday our teacher gave us the first chapter to read. Now I am not the kind of person who can pick up a book read a chapter and put it down. I had to continue on. It's a long enough book but last night, Tuesday I finished it. (It might have something to do with the fact that I was reading it nearly all the time, every day because I was sick!) The book was really exciting. Sometimes it was so shocking it made you gasp, others it was so sad you wanted to cry and sometimes so happy and brilliant you wanted to jump for joy.
Seriously if you are thinking this is not the book for me, you are WRONG! Any person with half a heart would be moved and touched by this book. Although it is written in the language that English people spoke back then during WW2, all funny, slang words and clipped sentences, this is a book you must go and get from your local library or bookshop, NOW. Sep 2002

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The Princess Diaries

By Helen, 13, Dublin, Ireland

I just finished reading the first three Pincess Diary books by Meg Cabot and they are sensational! You may have seen the film, well the books are better. The books are also completely different (as books usually are to films) There are 4 Princess diary books out at the moment, a fifth one is due out in January then there is only one more to go. The film is all six books rolled into one. Writen in the format of the dairy of a young New York girl who just found out she is a princess to a small European country, I'd recommend this to anyone who likes a good, light, funny read. Sep 2002

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