I try to listen to what he says, but it’s hard not to laugh when the pufferfish make him look like he’s got elephant ears. Mr Francis lifts up his hand and shows me three fingers. At the end of the story, I could not help but scream "aww." Dan and Alex were the two people that you would never expect to ever become friends, but Dan finally learned the right from the wrong and befriended Alex. The idea of their friendship blossoming from the raft Shooting Star was such a good symbol of the novel. In the end, Alex, Dan, and Ben ventures on Shooting Star, which to me represents that their friendship took time, hard work, effort, and understanding, but at the end, it turned out to be a great adventure of friendship. That’s not to say there is anything wrong with the portrayal of Alex. In fact, Stewart Foster has depicted Alex’s struggles skillfully. By writing in the first person, the reader is invited into Alex’s confused mind. We see his internal struggle laid bare, realizing how debilitating his condition can be. It is a highly accomplished piece of characterisation.

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all the things that could go wrong (Deluxe)’ is the deluxe version of Johnny Orlando’s fourth studio album ‘all the things that could go wrong’. Worst ending ever, but I loved the story and the imagery that led up to it. Lovely wording. Read moreArmistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments

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I absolutely loved the relationships in this novel. We have a very complex family dynamic going on for both protagonists which completely juxtapose each other. Alex has a strong bond with his little sister, Lizzie who is absolutely adorable and the writer was capable of successfully capturing that element of annoyance that all kids have which made her feel incredibly authentic. There are four hundred and forty different species of shark in the world and they’re split into eight categories; from the really small ones, like the catfish, to the medium-size hammerheads right up to the huge whale sharks in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.’ The actual plot line of Alex helping Dan with the raft took about one third of the book to get to, however, I really felt like that first third really helped to build the characters up and their relationships with each other, and show the extent of the bullying before diving in to Alex helping with the raft. It was definitely not boring in any way and I think it was rather important it was done this way. With a simple twist of fate and the two boys are thrust together to work on a project, it seems inevitably doomed. The victim and the bully? Disastrous. Or is it?Alex’s OCD makes him see and feel germs everywhere, so he wears gloves in public, which often makes him a target of bullying—his private “Worry Lists” don’t seem to keep his phobias from multiplying. Meanwhile, Dan adores and always followed his big brother, Ben, but when Ben had to go away (exactly why and where become a light mystery), Dan fell under the spell of bully Sophie, who makes Alex her primary target. Dan unconsciously tries to hide his hurt and anger about Ben by working on a raft the two had begun. In short, alternating first-person chapters, the two Year Seven British boys give readers access to their inner thoughts and pain. When their friendly mums arrange for them to work on Dan’s raft together, Alex must confront his debilitating phobias and Dan must hide the relationship from Sophie. As work together slowly turns into mutual understanding and finally, friendship, readers also see the causes and effects of both bullying and empathy. The high tension and realism (including pop culture, family dynamics, etc.) will keep the interest of avid and reluctant readers alike. Alex, Dan, and Sophie all appear to be white, and the book assumes the white default. Alex’s relationship with his parents was quite unique too and was amazing to see. Having a child with OCD mustn’t be easy and to see how the mother and father both react to Alex’s disease was fascinating to me. They contrast in their responses but I think this added to the authenticity and highlights the complexities of OCD. This is such an important story. It's easy to have compassion for Alex, but this also helps the reader have compassion for Dan. Yes, he's a jerk. But there's so much going on with his life that it's easy to understand why he's so awful. (Also, he gets better and I'm a huge fan of personal growth.) Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part One good quote that I highlight in this book is when Alex, in another scene when he is being bullied, looks very worried about Dan, the bully who gradually becomes his friend when he suddenly leaves school due to the stress climax he experiences losing his older brother. An exciting depiction of how pre-teen relationships, no matter how tough, are always filled with sincerity, tenderness, and warmth--something that might be difficult to find in our adult days.

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This book is set in year seven so the characters are on the younger side, but I feel like this book can be appreciated by all ages. It does mention Game of Thrones in at one point, nothing in depth, but simply stating the TV show, and personally, I'm not sure I would have really known too much about adult TV shows when I was that age (though I could be wrong), which I'm presuming is the target audience (though I could be completely wrong here as well), but now, slightly older than what I presume is the target audience I feel like that mention really added to the characters and who they are, which is why I feel it can be appreciated by older readers. I really enjoyed reading this book. It was a relaxing and easy read, which is something that I needed. Throughout the story, I felt sorry for Alex. He was getting bullied to the point where he was scared to report to any adults around. Then, as I learned more about Dan and what happened to his brother, Ben, I started to understand his aggressive attitude.A moving, humane, funny portrait of two very different boys discovering what connects us all' Kiran Milwood Hargrave, author of The Girl of Ink and Stars On the single, the Toronto-born pop musician recounts the story of encountering an unexpected savior at a time when it felt as though everything was going wrong. Here's a list of things that can and might go wrong at your event. If you know them now, it could save you later! Things That Go Wrong at Events I’ll just have one last wash before I go. I rub my hands together; they sting and they’re red-raw like a pomegranate. The guide points to his own teeth and they light up in the dark. Behind him, fish and tiny turtles are swimming around in a giant tank full of coloured lights. There are tanks all around me. It’s like I’m in the water with the fish. I could reach out and touch them if they’d keep still. A big yellow fish swims above my head, slows, twitches its tail and then disappears behind me.