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Radio Boy
Name: Jane Allen
24 January 2017;Genre: Friends and family
Radio Boy, by DJ and stand-up comedian Christian O'Connell, is a funny and also very real story about friendship, homework, and following your dreams. 11-year-old Spike's favourite hour of the week is when he's running his hospital radio programme, so when he loses his program...
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I Don't Know What to Call my Cat
Name: Jane Allen
24 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
This picture book takes a dilema children often face - the best name for a new pet - and takes it into very different directions. The pet in question is a very clever kitty who arrives on a young girl's doorstep one day, looking hungry, and she takes it in, delighted to have a new pet. There's ju...
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Harry Potter and the goblet of fire
Name: Selin Age 9
22 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
This book just makes you want to read on.There wasn't a single page that was boring.J.k.Rowling uses amazing vocabulary to describe the characters and settings in her story.I recommend this book to people that like magic and a bit of scariness.
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Name: Linda Brown
22 January 2017;Genre: Historical Fiction
Evie's Ghost is a low fantasy book written in the same vein as Tom's Midnight Garden. It tells the story of a young girl named Evie, who feels that life is being very unfair to her as her mom has recently re-married, gone on her honeymoon and left her with a very elderly godmo...
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Malory Towers
Name: Selin Age 9
21 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
I liked this book because the way Enid Blyton links the whole story together is just phenomenal. It just makes you want to read on more. I would say people that like adventure stories should read this book.
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The White Tower
Name: Sue Wilsher
21 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
When her father gets his dream job as librarian at Temple College, Livy finds herself struggling to fit in. Still lost in the grief of her best friend's death, the prestigious school and its elite students are completely alien to her. Drawn to the roof and the mysterious Sentinels, huge statues l...
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A Poem for Every Night of the Year
Name: Alison Kelly
20 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
Allie Esiri has set herself an ambitious task in undertaking to provide a poem for every night of the year. The introduction promises 'a sequence of beautiful poems to share at bed time, a journey through culture and history and the seasons'. Esiri's choices - there are 366 of them as it's a L...
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Who Let the Gods Out?
Name: June Hughes
17 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
Elliot is finding life difficult. His mother is ill, they have no money, final demands are piling up and the next door neighbour is after their farm. School is no better either as Elliot turns up in less than perfect uniform and falls asleep in lessons, but dare not tell his teachers of the diffi...
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Heartless
Name: Carol Williams
17 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
Inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice, this novel tells the story of Catherine, who will become the Queen of Hearts. So we know from the start roughly where the story is heading, and the author relies on the reader knowing a fair amount about Alice (which given the popularity of the book and its film...
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The Call
Name: Carol Williams
14 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
As the author writes in his acknowledgements, this is a grim book! The setting is Ireland in a dystopian future, where the country is isolated from the rest of the world, and the fairies are taking revenge for centuries of history, in a pretty gruesome way. Every teenager will at some point get '...
