Thursday, January 27, 2011

READING

HEYY


I just wanted to say how great reading was and is.   you are lost without a book, book teach you all new words and ways to enhance your writing.  Books are like songs they tell a story and once you start to write a story or read one you just cant stop.  I find reading relaxing. although finding a good book to read or waiting for the next book in your series is soooooo apraisingly painful you just cant help but look it up on the internet and try to get a sneak peek.


I love to read and soo should you!


XX MISSY

Back To School

HEYY


It is nearly time to go back to school.... so why not get in some last minute reading for the new school year. you could read the book for school or re-read a great book so when you go back to school you can tell all your friends about the great book you are reading!!!


So pick up a book today and maybe read ANGEL by L.A.Weatherly!


xx MISSY

Thursday, January 20, 2011

top 11 tunes that would suit the angel movie!

Here's 11 top tunes we think go perfectly with Angel.

Crawl - Kings of Leon


Rambling Man - Laura Marling


Many of Horror - Biffy Clyro


Fire - Kasabian


Cosmic Love - Florence and the Machine


Time Is Running Out - Muse


Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World


Forever - Fireflight


Go With The Flow - Queens of the Stone Age


Make Me Wanna Die - The Pretty Reckless


Iris - Jade Gallagher



What do you think? If you could make the ideal Angel

 soundtrack what would you put in there?


xx MISSY


for more info go to: http://www.facebook.com/angel.trilogy

Angel by LA Weatherly

L.A.Weatherly

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF ANGEL...


 to see her official page go to this link ---> http://www.leeweatherly.com/

Her name is Lee Ann Weatherly. Welcome to Bart’s Bookshelf, Lee! Can you let us know a little about yourself to start with?
Author Interview: L.A. WeatherlyL.A. Weatherly: I’m originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, and have lived in the UK for 15 years now. I live in Hampshire with my husband Peter and cat Bernard (the cat likes Pete better than me!), and have lots and lots of books.
I’ve always wanted to be a writer, from the time I was a very little girl, so I feel extremely lucky that I actually get paid for it and can do it full time.
I’m also sadly addicted to my iPhone.
Next, can you introduce us to your main characters, Alex and Willow, and tell us a little about what happens to them in the book?
L.A. Weatherly: The premise of the world is that angels, far from being benign and compassionate beings, are actually alien creatures who are preying on humanity. Alex is a 17 year old Angel Killer, part of a covert CIA groupAuthor Interview: L.A. Weatherlywho’s one of the few who knows the truth about angels in our world. He’s been trained from childhood to hunt down and kill angels.
Willow is a 16 year old psychic misfit, thought of as ‘Queen Weird’ by her peers in the small New York town where she’s from. Unbeknownst to her when the story begins, she’s actually a half-angel…and might be the key to destroying the angels once and for all.
When Alex is ordered to kill Willow, he realises that all is not what it seems. An epic road trip follows, where they must somehow avoid being killed while they try to work out why the angels want Willow dead…and along the way, the hunter and the hunted find themselves falling in love.
Both Alex and Willow are quite strong characters, did they ever insist that their storyline took a different path from what you were planning?
L.A. Weatherly: Yes, definitely! From the very start when I first conceived this story years ago, the one thing that I was absolutely certain was going to happen was that Alex would kidnap Willow to take her to New Mexico to speak to Cully, his old mentor. You will note a distinct lack of kidnapping in the finished book! The characters went along with it when I tried to write it, but so sullenly that I realised that element just wasn’t working. (They were right, as it turned out!)

Alex in particular has an interesting back story which Willow learns about as the book progresses, but they must had spilt some silly guilty secrets when they were holed up. Can you betray their trust and let us know one from each of them? – If they were guilty of anything in the last question, feel free to consider this your chance for revenge! Author Interview: L.A. Weatherly
L.A. Weatherly: Heh, revenge on my characters, excellent!
Willow’s is that when she was 7, she was being bullied by the popular girls in her class. She used her psychic skills to find out the ringleader’s secrets, and exposed one of these secrets to everyone in the class, freaking the bully out and stopping the behaviour immediately. She was probably justified, but as she got older she felt really guilty about it, and made a point of never betraying anything that she found out psychically since.
Alex’s is that when he and Jake were 9 and 11, they used to play stupid pranks on the other AKs at the camp, and one of these resulted in someone having a minor accident. They tried to hide their involvement and were found out, which got them into severe trouble from their father. Alex can laugh about it now, but for some months afterwards he felt pretty annoyed at Jake, who was very much the ringleader, even though Alex got half the blame.
Other than Willow and Alex, who do you think is the most interesting character (hero or villain) and what is it about them that intrigues you?
L.A. Weatherly: I love Jonah as a character. He sees himself as being spineless, but he actually has the moral courage to pursue questions even when he doesn’t want to know the answers, and then to take action about them. I find him especially intriguing because (minor spoiler alert!) he was actually meant to die at the end of book 1. He completely refused to, and (another minor spoiler alert!) is now in both books 2 and 3, becoming a fairly major character as the series goes on. He has a really interesting story arc ahead of him, and I’m very glad that he insisted on sticking around!
I know you probably can’t tell us much about what happens next to Alex and Willow, but of course I have to try! So is there anything you can tell us? Author Interview: L.A. Weatherly
L.A. Weatherly: What I’ll say is that the story has an urban setting, and that there are some new characters being introduced – one in particular who I’ve been dying to write about since I first conceived the series. There are also some major surprises in store for Alex and Willow, who are going to find both themselves and their love for each other tested in ways they never imagined.
In the bit I just wrote today, Willow is thinking of a line she learned in her English class about ‘the best-laid plans of mice and men’ … and wondering uneasily if the same is true of the best-laid plans of men and half-angels.


HOPE IT WAS FUN TO HER ABOUT LEE ANN WEATHERLY

xx MISSY

ANGEL - BY L.A.WEATHERLY - THE 2nd BOOK

OK the NEXT book is coming out October 2011 so this year!!! i CANT wait.... here is a sneak peek......


This is the thrilling second chapter in the electrifying "Angel Trilogy". Angels will never be seen in the same way again. Gorgeous, charismatic Alex has the courage and skill of a trained Angel Killer. Unique, dazzling Willow has the beauty and power that comes with being half-angel. As the power of the malevolent Church of Angels grows, now it's up to Alex and Willow to train a new team of Angel Killers. Willow soon finds her half-angel identity met with hostility by some of the other AKs, while privately, she must wrestle with the knowledge that her father, Raziel, is a depraved, evil angel. However, while life in the AK training camp is tough, at least Alex and Willow are together. But when Alex discovers that the death of his brother and fellow Angel-Killer, Jake, was linked to a secret CIA mission to defeat the angels, he is forced to leave the camp to complete his brother's work... without Willow. Alex promised Willow he would never leave her, but with the fate of the human race at stake, destiny has ruled that Alex and Willow must be parted once more






I hope you are as excited as i am!!!!! i hope it gets produced on to the BIG SCREEN


xx Missy



Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Top 10 Books for Senior 2010

Senior




Girl with a Pearl Earring
(Tracy Chevalier) 



Bridget Jones' Diary
(Helen Fielding) 



Before I Die
(Jenny Downham


Animal Farm
(George Orwell)

Jane Eyre
(Charlotte Bronte)

The Book Thief
(Markus Zusak)

Cloudstreet
(Tim Winton)
    
 

Tully
(Paullina Simons)

Beautiful Mind
(Sylvia Nasar)

Treasure Island  
(Robert Louis Stevenson)

Top 10 books for year 10 2010

Year 10




The Twilight series
(Stephenie Meyer) 



On the Jellicoe Road
(Melina Marchetta)



The Host
(Stephenie Meyer) 


The Guy Next Door
(Meg Cabot)

Pretty Little Liars series
(Sara Shepard)

Jillaroo
(Rachael Treasure)

Nineteen Minutes
(Jodi Picoult)
    
 

The Running Man
(Michael Gerard Bauer)

Kill The Possum
(James Moloney)

Scribbler of Dreams  
(Mary E Pearson)

Top 10 books for Year 9 2010

Year 9




P.S. I Love You
(Cecelia Ahern) 



Looking for Alibrandi
(Melina Marchetta) 



Saving Francesca
(Melina Marchetta)


The Ellie Chronicles
(John Marsden)

Lord of the Flies
(William Golding)

Pride and Prejudice
(Jane Austen)

Ten Things I Hate About Me
(Randa Abdel-Fattah)
    
 

Lord of the Rings
(JRR Tolkien)

Does My Head Look Big in This?
(Randa Adbel-Fattah)

Boy Meets Girl
(Meg Cabot)

Top 10 books for Year 8 2010

Year 8




My Sister's Keeper
(Jodi Picoult) 



Tomorrow When the War Began
(John Marsden



Pretty Little Liars series
(Sara Shepard) 


Mao's Last Dancer
(Cunxin Li)

The Devil Wears Prada
(Lauren Weisberger)

The Da Vinci Code
(Dan Brown)

Fifteen Love
(Robert Corbet)
    
 

Vampire Academy
(Richelle Mead)

The Alex Rider series
(Anthony Horowitz)

= 9th

 Bend it Like Beckham 
(Narinder Dhami)
= 9th