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Billie Templar's War
Name: Sophie Jowett
21 September 2012;Genre: Friends and family
This was a thoroughly enjoyable book: heart-warming and funny from start to finish and very easy to read. Billie Templar is a misunderstood 10 year old who lives with her Aunt and older brother in a military town called Merchant Stanton. Her Dad is fighting on the front line in Afghanistan and...
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Never Lie on a Lion
Name: Angela Allen
31 July 2012;Genre: Animals
A hugely entertaining picture book with wide appeal. Lively rhyming text and bright attractive illustrations. Never lie on a lion or creep up behind a sheep because all sorts of things can happen! The cautionary answers are told via the illustrations so there are lots of opportunities for child p...
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Sweetly
Name: Susanna Age 13
11 May 2012;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This is a great book, a mixture of horror, romance and mystery, written in first person, from Gretchens point of view. The storyline is gripping and I found it hard to put down. I think It's most suitable for people of the ages 12-16.
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Whisper
Name: Nathan Age 13
04 May 2012;Genre: Real life
Whisper is a true tale of grief,love and despair. It is compelling for these reasons, and draws you in from the first sentence. I would compare it to others such as 'My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece', and 'We can be Heroes'. It was a great read.
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Between Shades of Gray
Name: Kieran Age 12
03 May 2012;Genre: Books set in the past
Ruta Sepetys has written about a horrific, historical time that is hardly ever talked about. The beauty in this book is that hope, strength and compassion shine through against all the odds making the depressing subjects in the book more bearable.
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Between Shades of Grey
Name: Kate Age 15
03 May 2012;Genre: Books set in the past
The plot overall is an exciting one, the events progress at a fast pace. Which made the story much more thrilling. This pace also highlights the confusion and uncertainty that the people who encountered these events in real life felt.
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Between Shades of Gray
Name: Josh Age 15
03 May 2012;Genre: Books set in the past
The book is brilliantly written with imagery giving enough of a picture to get your mind started, and leaves it to generate the rest of the picture. Every patch of ground, every protruding bone, every emotion lightly flickering across a face, nothing is left un-addressed. The angle that is norm...
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The Midnight Zoo
Name: Matthew Gibson
03 May 2012;Genre: Real life
From the opening paragraphs it is clear that this book is written with a subtle beauty that takes the breath away, this is most definitely a book for teens but Hartnett proves that just because a book is for younger readers the quality of the prose does not need to suffer. What is more is that th...
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Everybody Jam
Name: Bernadette Cameron
03 May 2012;Genre: Adventure
I found 'Everybody Jam' both a shocking and a revelatory book. This book intrigued me from the start, being about a subject I previously knew very little about. Set in the Australian outback on a cattle station during the annual muster and seen largely through the eyes of Daniel the 13 year old s...
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Everybody Jam
Name: Florence Age 13
03 May 2012;Genre: Adventure
This book blew me away. The title fooled me at first, but beneath the cover is an amazing plot, full with wonderfully realistic characters, struggling to survive in a harsh world. They were perfectly described and developed, and I felt as if I really knew them. 'Everybody Jam' is so real, yo...
