Saturday 25 January 2014

The Secret Message by John Townsend

The Secret Message by John Townsend

Well, it starts with a boy called Sam and a photograph of another boy. The boy and the photograph look like twins so it's very mysterious. When the picture was first taken, it was in the olden days. Maybe Sam and the person in the photo are related? There is also a strange diary. Freddy was a soldier in the First World War and he is an interesting person. There is a secret message that you have to work out but there is a moon alphabet to help you decode the secret message.

As well, there's extra things at the end which are good as well. One of them is called Secrets of the Moon which if you're stuck cracking the code, it's in the Secrets of the Moon. I think that's a little bit cheating, but if you're very stuck it's OK just to look at it for some help with cracking the code.

This a great book, recommended for ages 8+, and if you like war and army books this is definitely the book for you. My favourite part was when I had to crack the code, because it took a whole day for me to work it out. My favourite chapter was Sam's amazing discovery of the secret message.

This is a great year for The Secret Message to come out because it is exactly 100 years from the start of the First World War. It is good for people who don't know much about it to learn more, because it is such an important war.

Tyler Peel

Some of the brave soldiers from the war

1 comment:

  1. What a wonderful review Tyler! Have you read Tony Robinson's Weird World of Wonders- World War One. I think you would really enjoy that too, there is a lot of surprising information in there about the war.

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