Class Information
Teacher – Mr J. Cherkowski
TA – Mrs M. Waite
Lightning Mary – Anthea Simmons
Room 13 – Robert Swindells
Beowulf – Michael Morpurgo
Percy Jackson and the Lightning Bolt Thief – Rick Riordan
Adventure: The Beast and the Bethany by Jack Meggitt-Phillips
Ebenezer Twitch is five hundred and eleven years old. He has reached this astounding age due
to an elixir of youth provided to him by a magical beast, which lives on the top floor of his
house. Ebenezer adopted the creature when it was tiny and was thrilled to find that it could
magically vomit up any item he desired in exchange for food. As the beast grew larger, so did
its demands for unusual dishes, until Ebenezer’s reliance on it to continue living caused him to
sacrifice some of the world’s rarest (and subsequently extinct) creatures.
Comedy: Dexter Procter the 10-Year-Old Doctor by Adam Kay
Dexter Proctor. He is different. He is ten years old. He has friends but he is so bright and
gifted. And by the age of ten, he is working as a paediatrician at Lilydale General Hospital!
But Dexter has a mortal enemy (Dr Drake) and a major problem – all the teachers are struck
down with dreadful diarrhoea! Dexter must step up to the challenge and try to save the
teachers and the school.
Historical Fiction: Arctic Star by Tom Palmer
Tom Palmer has taken facts gathered from the Imperial War Museum, among other sources,
to compose a gripping fictional story about three teenage Royal Navy recruits from Plymouth:
Frank, Stephen and Joseph. Their resilience, fortitude and courage shine as brightly as the
Arctic (North) Star against the surrounding darkness. Their very survival, both physical and
mental, is threatened by constant attacks from German U-boats, submarines, planes and,
most terrifying of all, the German battleship known as the Scharnhorst – not to mention
freezing conditions, fierce storms, shattered dreams and rocky relationships. The life-anddeath struggle is played out until the very last page.
