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Uncle Gobb and the Dread Shed
Name: Jayne Gould
25 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Malcolm is an ordinary ten year old boy who lives with his mum and her brother, Uncle Gobb. Uncle Gobb has been a very important person for many years, and as a consequence is extremely bossy, as well as being very fond of worksheets, asking questions, correct answers and telling Malcolm do more...
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Herculfleas
Name: Jayne Gould
25 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Every month a monstrous giant called Yuk comes to the town of Tumber and eats its people. The first he munched were the parents of a girl called Greta, who is on a mission to save what is left of her town. Heroes have come to try and defeat the giant but all have met their own death. Greta takes...
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Delete
Name: Melanie Chadwick
20 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Delete manages to maintain the momentum, excitement and all out action of Shift, the first book in the series without falling short of sensible storyline. A group of teenagers were in detention when a flash of light shifts them to an alternate version of the world where they and their evil copies...
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The Last Summer Of Us
Name: Catherine
20 May 2015;Genre: Friends and family
This book came at the perfect time for me, I'd read a couple of books that had road trips in but they were either journeying away from suicide or toward them and there was a predictable amount of self discovery to be had along the way. Then The Last Summer of Us landed on my doorstep and I'm real...
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Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick
Name: Lizzie Steer
19 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Since it was published more than 40 years ago, Rosie's Walk has become a classic so it's a real pleasure to see Pat Hutchins' follow-up picture book, Where, Oh Where, is Rosie's Chick? The new picture book has many echoes of Rosie's Walk, including its style of story telling where the text tells...
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Because You'll Never Meet Me
Name: Catherine
18 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is the blurb; Ollie and Moritz are best friends, but they can never meet. Ollie is allergic to electricity. Contact with it causes debilitating seizures. Moritz's weak heart is kept pumping by an electronic pacemaker. If they ever did meet, Ollie would seize. But Moritz would die without his...
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Circus of Thieves and the Raffle of Doom
Name: Lizi Coombs
08 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Firstly; what a fantastic name (and idea!) for a book! I've not read any books like it, especially not ones that combine circus and civilians so easily! Within the first few pages, I'd realised this was a book that wants the reader to laugh. Although this was endearing at first, it wore thin. Ma...
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I'll Give You the Sun
Name: Jayne Gould
23 April 2015;Genre: Adventure
Jude and her twin brother Noah are close until a tragedy drives them apart. Now they are barely speaking - and both falling for boys they can't have. Love's complicated. In a passionate, sweeping novel Jandy Nelson explores love in a variety of forms with an intensity that makes the characters, p...
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Summoner: The Novice
Name: Lorraine Ansell
22 April 2015;Genre: Fantasy
This debut fantasy novel takes us on a journey to the distant village of Pelt where Fletcher lives with his adoptive father, the Blacksmith. Undercurrants run through the village with the mainly poor community struggling to avoid problems with the guards or visiting Pinkertons - lawmakers from th...
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Game Changer
Name: Caroline Mitchell
20 April 2015;Genre: Adventure
Life is hard for Mikey. He's frightened of open spaces and would much rather curl up in his room with a book, avoiding the reality of life outside his four walls. So going to a noisy, public place is a big deal, but with his sister Meggie by his side he feels the time is right to try - it should...
