Sunday, November 28, 2010

MED HEAD- medicine head

This is a biography on a little boy called Cory Friedman who sufferes from a hyperactive disease and it cannot be treated. Near to the start of the book, Cory went to see the doctor and gets locked up in the mental institutes. His parents protest at the hospital until he could be released. This story is a true, sad and touching book, as it describes how life is like being hyperactive no matter how hard he tries to cure it, the symtoms keep coming. Because of this illness, he has to live his life on drugs and medicine. All this medicines helps him to control is body, but also puts on weight. Since he is eating so much medication, his weight increases massively. At school, people always laugh at him as he cannot control himself in class and his behavior is completly absurb. Soon, he finds himself also talking nonsense to his parents and doing annoying things. Due to his non-stop determination, he managed to cure this illness, without the help of any medication.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Book review for - Small Steps- by louis sachar

The book small steps involves two of the characters from louis sachar's previous book- Holes ( armpit and x-ray) Armpit's pay was low, so he wanted to earn more money. X-ray then thought of many ways for him to earn money. One of the ideas was buying the ticket of The world reknowned singer, kiara- de lion's concert. After they bought the tickets, they sold them for a higher price. Armpit wanted the last two tickets to bring his friend, who had some mental problem, to the concert but x-ray promised to sell it already. In the end, X-ray gabve armpit fake tickets and did not even let him know. when they reached the concert, other people accused them that they had fake tickets and armpit got arrested. That was when his friend went crazy. No one but armpit could control her so they had to uncuff him and let him help her. The famous singer arrived and took pity on them and let them watched the concert from the back stage. After the concert, Armpit and his friend ginny got to meet and talk tho kiara. Kiara and Armpit met each other for several times and they started dating. One day when they were dating in paris, they broke up. Kiara went back to her hotel room and her own step-father tried to kill her to gain all her money. then her bodyguard tried to save her but he got killed. While kiara was unconcious, h er stepfather tried to kill her but armpit saved her life and stabbed her step father back until he was unconcious too. Later he called the police and made up together with her.

Nicholas the Kid

This story is aout a French kid named Nicholas who always mess around with his family and friends.One of my favourite chapter is when his family finally get a new telivision. His dad ordered an old television for his family, they had a talk about which chanel in the TV they should watch, but then Nicholas family got into a fight. His dad wants to watch football but his mum wants to watch the cooking show and Nicholas wants to watch cowboy where all his mates watch when they usually get toghther. When the delivery van came, the man brought the television through the pass, Nicholas' dad were shouting at their neighbour at the other side of the road showing the new television. Although when the delivery man got into the house, his parents got a fight about where they should put the television. Finally, they decided to put the television on the coffee table. They turned on the TV but there was no signal! The man said he'll get back to them with a signal thing! Two hours later the man came back to put on the signal, he was really supprise that Nicholas' family returned the television back to the company. Everyone was happy because now they dont have to get in a fight for who should watch the Tv first. Except form the delivery man, his face were very supprise also he was very angry.
There are lots more stories about Nicholas in the book but i like this one the best! :]