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As part of activities relating to National Reading Day, Wednesday 7th of September, class 8B English 2 of Kandos High School, NSW, Australia have decided to list their favourite reading material in the hopes of raising an interest in reading for other students their age.

Cameron Desch
Name of magazine: Bacon Busters

Name of Author: Ian Bostock

Description of content: It is mainly about dogs catching big pigs (mainly boars). A few people shoot the pigs too. Most of the pigs have good ivory.

What do you like about the magazine:All the pigs and sometimes seeing yourself in it.

What do you think they need to improve: It could give out more prizes.

Why MUST kids your age read the magazine: So all the kids that do not go out hunting know what it is about.

Ranking: 4 out of 5 stars

Melissa Harrison
Name of book: The Book of lies

Name of Author: James Moloney

Description of content: It is about a book that records lies and when the book is full it has a poem. Things start to turn around and a new life begins.

What do you like about the book: I liked that you did not know what was happening until the end.

What could have been better about the book: Nothing; it was brilliant.

Why MUST kids your age read the book: Because it is interesting and I think other kids will enjoy it.

Ranking: 5 out of 5 stars

Karrssia Sant
Name of book: Someone like me

Name of Author: Elaine Forrestal

Description of content: Tas meets a girl called Enya who moves in next door to him. She came from Northern Ireland where there were a lot of bombs. Her and her family moved away from all that but her uncle followed them and then Tas went to their house and then got shot accidently by Enya. And then when he was in hospital he was nearly strangled by Enya's uncle. And then when he was better he auditioned at a music school and got accepted. And in the end you find out something about him. He is .....

What do you like about the book: I liked how you didn't know what was going to happen next and some parts of it were funny.

What could have been better about the book: Nothing; it was cool.

Why MUST other kids your age read the book: They don't have to read this book but they don't know what they are missing out on.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Sharnee Hundy
Name of magazine: Dolly

Name of Author: Gemma Crisp

Description of content: Fashion, Dolly Doctor, Shops, Gossip on Celebrities, Peoples stories and designer advice and their clothes you can buy.

What do you like about the magazine: It gives you advice on personal things, you can write in, keeps you up to date with the fashion, newest clothes and gives you information on stars

What do you think they need to improve: To buy it you have to be thirteen or get mum to buy it for anyone under thirteen.

Why MUST other kids your age read the magazine: In case they need advice and have no where else to go.

Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Shay Cubis
Name of magazine: Dolly

Name of Author: Gemma Crisp

Description of content: It has heaps of different categories for everyone to read.

What do you like about the magazine: I like that it has got "Dolly Doctor" which helps people with their problems.

What do you think they need to improve: More stories from boys

Why MUST other kids your age read the magazine: Because it has some good stories and it might help you with your life

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Sam Miskle
Name of magazine: Bacon Busters

Name of Author: Ian Bostock

Description of content: It is full of stories about pigs. There are lots of pictures of women modelling caught and killed pigs. Full of great action dogs. A lot of the pigs in the magazine have good tusks. There are also sad stories about faithful dogs who were killed by pigs.

What do you like about the magazine:I like it because it is full of pigs.

What do you think they need to improve: Bigger boars.

Why MUST kids your age read the magazine: It is full of boars.

Ranking: 4 out of 5 stars

Stacey Lobley
Name of book: White Ute Dreaming

Name of Author: Scot Gardner

Description of content: Ernie is a dog with a good life with his owner Wayne. Unfortunately Wayne is not so lucky. His best friend and girlfriend move away and his favourite uncle dies. And just as you think things couldn't get worse they do.

What do you like about the book: It's funny, interesting and sad, a bit gross and deals with real issues.

What do you think could be better: It's a bit hard to get into but after that it's great.

Why MUST other kids your age read this book: Cause it deals with problems that you may find a bit weird about talking about.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Jaz Petersen
Name of book: Rowan of Rin

Name of Author: Emily Rodda

Description of content: The town of Rin's water hole dries up so seven people go up the mountain and of the seven people five of them come back due to the fact that they have to face their fear but they can't do it like Val was really scared about one thing they had to do was walk through a spider forest and Val just can't do it. Rowan found his way with Strong John and freed the water and saved Rin.

What do you like about the book: That the younger one saved the town and my year five teacher read it to us and I really enjoyed it.

What could have been better about the book: Nothing; it was great.

Why MUST kids your age read this book: It is really good because the book is great.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Michael Munns
Name of magazine: Dolly

Name of Author: Gemma Crisp

Description of content: Good magazine about fashion and make up tips, also about safe sex.

What do you like about the magazine: Girls

What do you think they need to improve: Get rid of the whinging people.

Why MUST other kids your age read the magazine: Because it is a good fashion magazine.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Jessica Hundy
Name of magazine: Dolly

Name of Author: Gemma Crisp

Description of content: It has got heaps of different categories for everyone to read.

What do you like about the magazine: The part I liked about the book best is 'Dolly Doctor' because it tells stories about what girls my age are dealing with.

What do you think they need to improve: There could be less fashion.

Why MUST other kids your age read the magazine: Because it gives you advice on how to deal with your problems.

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars

Mitchell Blewitt
Name of magazine: Bacon Busters

Name of Author: Ian Bostock

Description of content: It's about catching feral pigs/animals with dogs, guns, utes and quads.

What do you like about the magazine:The pigs, dogs and utes and catching the pig and shooting other feral animals.

What do you think they need to improve: The pigs could be bigger. Not make the stories so big in it.

Why MUST kids your age read the magazine: So they can learn new stuff.

Rating: 3 and 1 half out of 5 stars

Tom Dunn
Name of book: The Boy Pharoah

Name of Author: Jackie French

Description of Content: It is about a boy pharaoh who goes travelling in Egypt with a girl and a man.

What did you like about the book: The big adventure they went on

What would have been better: A bigger adventure.

Why MUST kids you age read the book: Because it is a great book and there are lots of exiting bits in it.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Shannon Zawiolkowski
Name of movie: Home Alone 3

Name of Director: John Hughes

Description of Content: The U.s Air Force has a new secret weapons - and he is only eight years old! From comedy legend John Hughes comes the hilarious, action-packed hit that's "lots of fun for the entire family!" (Kids news netword)

A band of international crooks has hidden a military computer chip inside a toy car, but an airport mix-up lands it in the hands of a whiz-kid Alex Pruitt (Alex d.Linz) who's home alone with the chicken pox in a quiet Chicago suburb. When the criminals zero in on Alex's house with their high-tech gadgetry, madness and mayhem kick into high gear as the pint-sized hero defends himself against the bumbling bad guys - armed with an outrageous array of ambushes and boody traps!

What did you like about the movie: They way they acted in the movie

What would you change about the movie: No, there is nothing that I would change in the movie

Why MUST other kids your age watch this movie: Because it is suitable for them to watch this movie.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Mr McDonald
Name of Book: Pawn of Prophecy

Name of author: David Eddings

Description of content: The book is about a young, orphaned farm boy named Garion and his two strange guardians - the gloriously beautiful Polgara and the wolfish vagabond Mister Wolf. The first book in a series of five, Pawn of Prophecy traces the travels of Garion as he begins to realise that in a world of kings and sorcerers nothing - and no one - is what it seems.

What do you like about the book: The engaging characters, subtle wit and epic story.

What could have been better about the book: Can't think of anything superficial in any case

Why MUST kids read this book: This is the book that sparked my avid love of reading and, in some ways, led me to become an English teacher - in the sense that it made me want to get students to love reading as much as I do.

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars