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The Thing
Name: Kyle Matravers
29 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
The Thing is a book that constantly leaves you asking questions. Throughout the book, we never find out just what is The Thing that just suddenly appears one day. We are left to use our imaginations. My Y1 children decided that it was an alien spaceship, an egg, a cocoon, a butterfly and most i...
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The Night Box
Name: Kyle Matravers
29 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
The Night Box is a truly wonderful tale of how day becomes night and night becomes day. Centred around the main character of Max, we see how day slowly begins to get ready to 'sleep' and how the environment around him begins to show these signs, too. What I really enjoyed was how the author mad...
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There is a Tribe of Kids
Name: Marie Berry
26 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
There is a tribe of kids is one of the most beautiful books I've seen in a long time! No doubt why this is a Kate Greenaway winner! Lane Smith has produced a stunning book that has endless possibilities for use with children. Firstly as a read aloud story - the gorgeous illustrations will create...
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Resurrection
Name: Daniel Katz
25 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
Three years after we thought we'd seen that last of them, Skulduggery and Valkyrie have returned for a new series of adventures! A secret order of dissident sorcerers is attempting to resurrect an ancient being to wage war on mortals. Skulduggery Pleasant, skeleton detective and sorcerer, is go...
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Diggersaurs
Name: Kyle Matravers
24 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
Diggersaurs is a bright and colourful debut picture book by Michael Whaite. This text is instantly appealing to boys through the mixture of diggers and dinosaurs and would be a great hook to lure in reluctant readers. The pictures are wonderfully created and the text layout compliments them wel...
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Aubrey and the Terrible Ladybirds
Name: Sue Wilsher
24 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
Aubrey's back, trying to solve problems caused by man's destructive impact on nature. The arrival of some foreign ladybirds in Rushing Woods causes problems with the locals. Soon, harsh words are flying around, questioning where different creatures come from and who 'belongs'. In the meantime, A...
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King of the Sky
Name: Sue Wilsher
24 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
Starting a new life in a new country is never easy. Living under grey skies where he feels like an outsider, a boy misses everything about his homeland until he finds comfort in the company of an old man, Mr Evans, and his racing pigeons. Given a bird to train as his own, the boy names it 'Re de...
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Who Runs the World?
Name: Amy Ward
21 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
I loved Virginia Bergin's Rain so was looking forward to reading this. Like Rain, Who Runs the World? is one of those books that takes an idea - a future world that is run by women, after a disease has killed most of its men - and really delves into what it would mean for those communities. It's...
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Naondel
Name: Carol Williams
19 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
This book tells the interwoven stories of 8 women in the palace of Ohaddin, in the fantasy world of Karenokoi. They are all connected to, and abused by, Iskan, the evil and cruel Grand Vizier, who has taken control of the realm. They are wives, concubines, servants, slaves, and we have the back s...
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Naondel: The Red Abbey Chronicles
Name: Catherine Purcell
19 June 2017;Genre: Adventure
Naondel (the prequel to Maresi, the first of the Red Abbey Chronicles) is the story of how the Red Abbey came to be founded by the First Sisters. They are briefly mentioned in Maresi but in Naondel their stories are explored. Weaving together the Sister's stories, it is the history of the Abbey's...
