Maria's Island

A good book about leprocy for older children, Maria's island was short,detailed and overall a great read.

I didn't like this book because I didn't like the thought of people having leprosy. I thought that the story was a bit sad and a bit happy. My favourite character was the cat.

beautiful story extraordinary paintings

I loved this as it reminded me of my favourite holiday

Loved the adult version of this so I was so excited to find this book and I really enjoyed it. A fascinating story well told.

I loved this book because it was very interesting! It's about Greece which is the home country of my parents. My grand parents also live there and I saw myself in the story of Maria who is the protagonist of the book.

A beautiful book telling the story of Spinalonga through the eyes of a child. Telling the story of Greece leprosy colony, and how it affected a family, and the finding of a cure. Beautiful

I liked Maria the best because of the fact that Maria helped all the people with Leprosy and never had stigma. I found out that l couldn't put the book down it was so entertaining

I really enjoyed reading this book because even though it is fictional it has a strong, deep message that you really take to heart. I love how it is based on events that really happened, the vibrant Greek landscape entrances readers and the characters personality/morals really make feel more drawn to them.

I think this book is great, it was sad, interesting and factual.
It teaches people about leprosy and the island spinalonga.
It was factual and I enjoyed marias story.
I would recommend this to whoever likes to read factual books

I really liked the book and my favourite character is Maria. I would recommend it to others.

Really loved it.

You can learn about history in this book leprocy was a real disease and it killed people until they found a cure. The book was emotional because the mother died of leprocy before they found a cure. A fact was that when people caught leprocy they were sent to an island called spinalonga. Spinalonga is still there but know one goes there anymore. I would recommend this book to people. i really liked it but it’s sad and it made me cry.

I like this book inspires me to never give up

Sweet and romantic

It was a very good book

A beautiful poignant story, reminiscent of Michael Morpurgo, about love, loss and memories. It is also about fear of the other and how we can overcome it. A worthwhile read for children of 8-10.

This is such a good book. It is very interesting to read and emotional. I read this book non-stop.

Good

I enjoyed this book and my favourite character was Maria. I would recommed it to my friends

Amazing!

I thought the book was amazing it was so interesting learning about leprosy and how it effected peoples lives .

I really liked Maria and how nice she was but there was also some facts in it so enjoyed learning about that as well as reading it .

Yes I would

The book was really good, it was a good story and my favourite character was Maria. I liked it when Rita sat down to talk to her yiayia. I would recommend it because it is a really happy story.

I really liked this book I have given it a five star rating and I have read it around 10 times because of how good it is . I reccomend it to year 5s at the least .

Read for spoilers!!!!
I really enjoy historical fiction and this is my favourite!!
I am a super fast reader and first read this in half an hour.
Set in Crete, Greece, Maria is a normal girl with a really mean sister called Anna. A sad part is when her friend and mother get leprosy and have to get taken to Spinalonga. A island were lepers are isolated from the world.
Another sad bit is when Maria herself gets leprosy.
But there are plenty of happy bits like when Maria talks about how much she doesn't like snail stew.
My favourite bit was when she got engaged to be married at the end
I really recommend this as it's educational and fun at the same time.

My favourite character was Maria. She took a great risk to test the cure for leprosy with docter Kryritsis. This book was a little sad because some lovely people died. But, above all, there is a happy ending.

The most interesting incident in this book is when Maria catches leprosy and has to go to Spinalonga because she can’t stay in Plaka.

Really enjoyed this book. Based on 'The Island'. Suitable for UKS2- maybe Y5 Greek topic?

This was a great book with lovely story telling and explained more about what type of disease leprosy is and how people lived and were treated at that time .
The main character Maria is a strong , caring , brave and supportive young lady who always puts other people first even if she is sad or hurt .
It is a story that makes me feel lucky and hopeful as it shows us how love , hope , courage and friendship can overcome very hard and difficult situations.

I really enjoyed reading this book because it was about a girl who has has change where she lives and how to adapt to that life style