
What's the Book About?
Ben Dormer doesn’t have a skateboard – he has a skateplank! Will he be allowed to compete in the skateboarding competition? And will his Dormer Stormer move help him to win?
Book Details
- Band:
- Scheme: Project X
- Type: Fiction
- Author: Peter Corey
Reviews from Our Readers
Ethan (Age 6)
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is about
Ben has a dream of getting a real skateboard. Right now he has a skateplank, which is made of a plank of wood with wheels under it.
He hears of a local competition and enters it, but he needs a proper skateboard to enter.
Ben tidies Mrs. Thompson's garden and does errands, but does not make enough money to buy a skateboard. So he asks his brother if he can have his skateboard for the competition. His brother, initially says no, but later says yes.
Ben goes to the shop to get a bottle of water and leaves the skateboard outside because it wasn't allowed in the shop. When he comes out of the shop, the skateboard is missing.
He goes to the skate park and uses his skateplank instead. The judge (Grumpy) says it is not a proper board. He sees what he thinks is Jake's (his brother's) skateboard near a tree and uses it to re-skate in the competition. However, it goes wrong when Jake shouts at him and he falls of the skateboard. Jake shouts because he has the skateboard and Ben realises that the skateboard he is skating on belongs to someone else; a teenage boy who is with his friends on BMX bikes.
The teenagers chase after Ben. When they catch up with him, he returns the board and they are okay about him having made a mistake and taking the wrong board.
Jake finds Ben and tells him to go back to the skate park to see who has won. Ben is the winner!
The main characters are
Ben and Jake.
My favourite part of the book is
When Ben is shaking and looks like he is fanning the teenage boy with his skateboard.
I would also like to say
I like how Ben went down the steps on his skateboard.
Ciaran (Age 6)
Rating: 5 / 5
This book is about
There is a boy called Ben Dormer and unfortunately he doesn't have a proper skateboard, but he has a skate-plank (which is a long piece of wood with wheels on).
He decides to part in a skateboard competition and has to use his Jake's (his brother) skateboard.
He wins the competition.
The main characters are
Ben, Cassie and Jake.
My favourite part of the book is
When Ben wins the skateboard competition.
I would also like to say
Ben tried to earn some money with Cassie to be able to buy his own skateboard, but he did not have enough so he borrowed his brother's one.
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