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Railhead
Name: Melanie Chadwick
28 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
Philip Reeve's boundless imagination and superb gift for storytelling combine brilliantly once again to produce the amazing Railhead. From the mind that created nomadic, cannibalistic cities in Mortal Engines there now comes a fantastic new world of interstellar trains and dynastic intrigue. Zen...
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Borgon the Axeboy and the Prince's Shadow
Name: Lizi Coombs
21 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
'Soap - it smells like a flower threw up on you ...' I can think of many, many children I know who will enjoy this book! A sort of barbaric 'Goblet of Fire' for younger readers..., this book is action packed, humourous and easy to access. The historic setting makes it different from many books o...
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The Last Ever After (The School for Good and Evil, Book 3)
Name: Linda Brown
21 July 2015;Genre: Fantasy
I will never look at a fairy tale the same way ever again! The Last Ever After is the third book in the wonderful The School For Good and Evil series. It's darker and a little more menacing...
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Buffalo Soldier
Name: Carol Williams
20 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
Tanya Landman has written an important book here, one which, as the reviews say, examines the 'true meaning of freedom'. However, it is also extremely readable, and has a main character and narrator with who one immediately identifies, and whose narrative voice is authentic and likeable. Charlott...
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Name: Amanda Allen
15 July 2015;Genre: Family & Home
I didn't really expect too much from this book. I thought it would be quite a light read but I ended up enjoying it. Iris has grown up thinking that her father, Ernest, abandoned her and her mother; the truth is something quite different. When Iris and her money-grabbing mother return t...
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The Scandalous Sisterhood of Prickwillow Place
Name: Sue Wilsher
13 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
When their headmistress and her brother suddenly die during Sunday lunch, the pupils of St Etheldreda's decide to bury the bodies and carry on as if nothing had happened. Hiding the deaths soon proves to be much harder than they thought it would be and events quickly spiral out of their control....
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An Island of Our Own
Name: Carol Williams
12 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
I started reading this, thinking how many books for young people there are with 'non-traditional' families: single parents, divorces, families falling apart, and so on. Sally Nicholls' latest has a family of orphans, with Holly (13 and the first person narrator) and Davy (7) being looked after by...
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If You Find This
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
Nicholas faces many problems. He sees the world in a different way from others; he finds forming friendships difficult and is often bullied as a result; he is younger than his peers as he has been moved ahead in school. As if this weren't enough, his father loses his job and the family will have...
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Conversion
Name: Charlotte Revelle
30 June 2015;Genre: Adventure
Conversion, based loosely on true events, is best described as The Crucible meets Gossip Girl and if that combination seems implausible at first, you'll soon discover it's really, really not. Colleen is a high-achieving student at a prestigious girls' school, trying to juggle her grades, her shi...
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Stitch Head: The Beast of Grubbers Nubbin
Name: June Hughes
27 June 2015;Genre: Horror
This book is the fifth in the Stitch Head series by Guy Bass and will therefore find a ready audience in children already familiar with Stitch Head, Arabella and Professor Erasmus. Those children who have not yet been introduced to the monstrous world of Castle Groteskew will, however, not be at...
