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Before the Harry Potter books were written by J K Rowling there was another book that I had read and liked and this book was called Storm Boy by Colin Thiele. But unfortunately it didn’t turn me into a reader although I could always read well but I remember doing a book review on Storm Boy in my English Class in high school and I got a mark like eighty two per cent on it.

Also as mum has always remembered me raving on about Storm Boy she saw the video on Storm Boy and mum and dad got me it for my birthday last year, and it is about a lonely boy who lives with his reclusive father on a beach in South Australia and after he meets a Aborigine called Fingerbone Storm Boy then finds three orphaned Pelicans and one of them he names Mr Percival. And it was Storm Boy’s responsibility to look after these baby Pelicans but then when he father thought they were old enough he tells his son that the birds are going back to the wild.

And so Storm Boy had to face the heart break of letting the young Pelicans go, but then after a few days Mr Percival returns as it seems that this is the Pelican that he had formed the strongest bond with.

Storm Boy also had to face other types of changes too, like going to school, and being invaded by hooligans, and also because Storm Boy taught Mr Percival to catch and hold onto things the bird was able to save some people on a boat during a Storm. Then Mr Percival gets shot and killed and Fingerbone found Mr Percival and buried him and he then went and got Storm Boy and after he showed him where he buried Mr Percival he then had something else to show Storm Boy and it was another lot of baby Pelicans. This book and movie had always appealed to me as it is a story about how friendships are formed and having to cope and accept change.