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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...
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The Lie Tree
Name: Helen Swinyard
11 April 2015;Genre: Adventure
From a new Carnegie-shortlisted author comes some clever, well-researched and careful writing which tells the story of Faith's hunt to gain her father's favour and then to solve the mystery of his secret work and who wanted him dead to gain his secrets. Set in Victorian times, feisty Faith is a g...
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Secrets
Name: Gregorio
10 April 2015;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Secrets by Jacquline wilson illustrated by nick sharrat. I really liked this book because it was funy. My favorite bit was when she started dance classes. I would like to recomend this to friends that live close to my house.
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Foxy Tales: The Great Jail Break
Name: Lizi Coombs
10 April 2015;Genre: Adventure
I was excited to pick this up; I'm familiar with Alex T Smith, having seen him whilst doing my teacher training - I enjoy his Claude series, and so do my current class of year 3s! The story itself is entertaining. The characters, Foxy Dubois and Alphonso the Alligator, are well introduced and su...
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Pants
Name: Blake
10 April 2015;Genre: Humour
Pants by and illistrated by Nick Sharret. I really liked this book because it is funny. My favourite bit was when it says hairy pants. I would recommened this to a friend because it is funny and a good book.
