Monday, August 18, 2008

Level 3 - Jan Mark


This is the space for submitting reviews of Jan Mark's books (just click on 'Comments').
Jan Mark was born in 1943 and died in 2006. Before becoming a full-time writer she was a teacher. She wrote over 50 books, winning the Carnegie Medal twice.
Books in the Library include: Turbulence, Riding Tycho, Useful Idiots, and Thunder and Lightnings.

1 comment:

Jarrod McKenna said...

The book i am going to rite about is called ryding tycho by Jan Mark , its about a girl on the mainlands and she dosnt know eneything about flying or gravity then she meets Iato morgan then he teaches her about gravity and that he then builds a kite for her i think it would be sutible for adults , childreen and teenagers they would all enjoy this book demitria has a very tough and hard loife with no dad and her big brother bullying her and her mum.Banshee (a big kind of light house)goes off because a prisone is trying to get to sleep.Then theres school she has to knit socks docks and gloves scarfs and hats her head teacher is real mean she make demetria put feas frozen peas in the foot of her shoes so that everytime she messes up the heal off the shoe.She'll know what it feels like and she is not allowed to talk to lato Morgan if she gets caught talking to him she will be in lots of trouble.Aventually they move to the mainlands and they are very happy there they move soon after she has finished knitting her batch of shoes.