KPE Episode 362: "Hooligan Wreckit"

This is a VERY popular book at Pt England School and a number of children have chosen to podcast it over the past 5 years.

Have a listen to this rendition of "Hooligan Wreckit" by Vivienne and Brooklyn from Room 17.

Julian Eckett is trapped on the park's iron fence, late at night, with a dead goldfish in his bag and a police car approaching. The belt hook of his cargo pants lassoed the arrowhead of the ancient iron railings as he launched himself over them. He tried to look cool, like someone leaning on a fence, as the policeman's torch shone brightly in his eyes. 'I can explain, but it's a secret'.....

Hooligan Wreckit, Goldfisherman, by Liz Dickson

KPE Episode 361: "Budgie"

Jessica and Vanessa from Room 17 have podcast "Budgie" by Steven Woolman.

Lou's little blue budgie is her best friend. He keeps her company and cheers her up when she is sad. One day Budgie flies away, and she is devastated. She does everything she can to find her friend. Will she ever see him again?

KPE Episode 360: "End of the Alphabet"

We have another Fleur Beale podcast to share with you. In this episode Vivienne interviews Litia about "End of the Alphabet" - a book Litia has been reading in the holidays. You will find this a detailed and fun review of this book - we highly recommend you take a listen.

Ruby Yarrow is a 14 year old who lives in a busy, loving, chaotic family with her mum, stepdad, brother and two little stepbrothers. Ruby feels a bit like a doormat - she has to help out in the family a lot while her brother doesn't. He wins lots of prizes at school and she has a learning difficulty and needs a reader/writer to help her in exams. Ruby's surname Yarrow is at the end of the alphabet and when the roll gets called out she's always at the end and she hates it. She feels she's always at the end of the line. Not that she's a misery bag at all. She has great friends and loves clothes, fashion magazines and sewing and she's got a real knack for it. She's very keen to go on the school trip to Brazil and so gets a job to earn the money to go - works in a supermarket for an old grump, learns a bit of Portuguese, meets exchange students….

KPE Episode 359: "Grandma Joins the All Blacks"

You will enjoy this conversation between Donyae and Onosai about rugby! They discuss their own rugby, our own All Blacks and of course Grandma - the heroine of this story.

When Grandma finds out the All Blacks are sick and tired of training, she combines her famous zest for life with a hearty helping of her special marmalade, and soon has the team back on track for the big test match.

"Grandma Joins the All Blacks" is written by Helen McKinlay.

They have learnt from this that you should do good things to those who help you - that does sound like a familiar saying, doesn't it!

KPE Episode 358: Emily's Hens

Vanessa and Jessica from Room 17 have been reading " Emily's Hen" written by Rosie Boom.

This is one of several stories in a School Journal and is about a girl called Emily who wanted to keep hens. She gets her way and then quickly learns that hens require a lot of care and she has to look after them.

KPE Episode 357: "The Magic Wand"

Makalita and Alexandria have been reading "The Magic Wand" by Ursula Dubosarsky . This is a book in the Aussie Nibbles series.


"When Becky's little brother Ed annoys her, she puts a spell on him with her magic wand, and he disappears! Where is he? Has he really disappeared? Becky is worried."


They tell us the korero for this book is, "If someone is annoying, you shouldn't do something bad to them. Don't let your anger get the best of you!"

KPE Episode 356 :""The Dog I Share"

"The dog I share" by Janice Marriott is podcast by Chelsea and Te Roimata from Room 21

If you would like to read it yourself, check it out online here...

KPE Episode 355 :"My Dad, the All Black"

Crusader and Waata from Room 17 review the perfect book in the Rugby World Cup year - "My Dad, the All Black".

As New Zealand gears up for total rugby fever, these boys from Room 17 bring this classic from Sandy MacKay back to KPE.

Will McCann, 12 years old, is a top notch rugby player. Everybody says he gets his talent from his famous All Black father, but Will never knew his dad. After a game goes wrong, Will wonders if he plays rugby because he loves the game, or because everybody says he should?

When Will's grandad dies, Will meets Jim, his reclusive uncle with a troubled past. Why has Uncle Jim stayed away from Will and his mum for so many years? What really happened the night Will's dad died? While, on the other side of the world, the All Blacks battle for the 1999 Rugby World Cup, Will battles to discover the truth about the past. He eventually unlocks a secret that helps him decide things for himself.

Anyone who ever wanted to be an All Black should read this book!

KPE Episode 354 :"Seven Wheels of Power"

Ashleigh and Brooklyn are in Room 17 and they have been reading "Seven Wheels of Power" by  Dawn Barnes. 

Seven Wheels of Power is the first book in the Black Belt Club series of martial arts adventures, which follows four young karate students, Max, Maia, Antonio, and Jamie. In the Seven Wheels of Power, the four members of the BBC must use their martial arts to defeat the Death Master - the darkest force in the universe, which has threatened to end all life and create a world of horror and fear! Pretty scary stuff... even if you have ablack belt in karate. As the four work together to defeat the Dark Master, they must each use courage, intelligence and abilities they never even knew they had.

KPE Episode 353 :"My Dog the Dinosaur"

Vivienne and Litia from Room 17 have created another fantastic episode of KPE
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Take a listen and tell them what you think of this book and their podcast....

Gunk's dad wears fluffy chicken slippers.

His sister, Fliss, is into weightlifting and his mum is searching for aliens. 

Gunk has Spot, his pet dog or is it? (a dog, that it.) Spot has a long neck, a flat tail and eats lettuce. Lots of it. Come to think of it, Spot is the silliest-looking dog Gunk has ever seen. Spot is scared of cats, too, and Fliss′s motorbike. And then Spot starts to grow...

Will Spot ever learn to bark? What strange secret does Pete, the girl next door, keep in her shed? Can Gunk teach Spot to like dog food? Or, will everyone in the world want to take Spot away when they find out that he isn′t really a dog?