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  • Secrets, Schemes and Sewing Machines

    Secrets, Schemes & Sewing Machines

    Name: Amber Age 12
    26 January 2015;

    Genre: Adventure

    I really liked this book; it's a bit boring at the beginning but after the first chapter I got into the plot. I especially liked the way that the chapters were split up by the things she had sewn.

  • The Calling (Endgame, Book 1)

    Endgame: The Calling

    Name: Helen Swinyard
    24 January 2015;

    Genre: Adventure

    Fast-paced end-of-the-world adventure competition. Descendants of twelve lines originally put on Earth by an alien race, these teenagers have been trained since birth and meant to fight to the death in order to save their bloodline from the destruction of the world while the rest of humanity is d...

  • Trouble

    Trouble

    Name: Clare Humphreys
    22 January 2015;

    Genre: Adventure

    Hannah is everything you would think a 'popular girl' would be, she enjoys going out at weekends and spending time with friends. She doesn't have a care in the world, that is until she discovers that she is pregnant and doesn't want to admit who the father is. Aaron is the quiet new boy at schoo...

  • The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

    The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender

    Name: Rabiah Age 13
    22 January 2015;

    Genre: Romance & Relationships

    I'd recommend this book because the opening grabs your attention with the story of her past and there are loads of murders in it! My favourite character is Ava because even though she is different, she still has the courage to try and fit in. I think this book is more for teenages because of the...

  • The Earth is Singing

    The Earth is Singing

    Name: Nina
    22 January 2015;

    Genre: Books set in the past

    Hanna Michelson is a fifteen year old Latvian girl who lives with her mother and grandmother. Her father is missing, taken by the Russians, and the Nazis have just marched into Latvia. Hanna lives for dancing but because she is Jewish, she is no longer allowed to go to school. The family are f...

  • Secrets, Schemes and Sewing Machines

    Secrets, Schemes and Sewing Machines

    Name: Mrs Armstrong-Harris
    19 January 2015;

    Genre: Adventure

    A typical school romance story; new boy to the school meets girl, they don't like each other to start with but all that changes as the story develops. The story takes place around the preparations for a school production where Grace, the main female character, is the wardrobe mistress and each ch...

  • Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, Book 1)

    angus thongs and full - frontal snoging

    Name: analeise Age 12
    16 January 2015;

    Genre: Humour

    very funny

  • The Fault in Our Stars

    the fault in out stars

    Name: Mollie Age 11
    16 January 2015;

    Genre: Romance & Relationships

    its a good book, it's funny sad.

  • Rabbit Stew And A Penny Or Two: A Gypsy Family's Hard and Happy Times on the Road in the 1950s

    rabbit stew and a penny or two

    Name: lilyann Age 12
    16 January 2015;

    Genre: Real life

    it is my culture and back then things were a little different

  • Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Book 1)

    diary of a wimpy kid

    Name: sean Age 11
    16 January 2015;

    Genre: Humour

    its a book that most people can read, it's got some humour and it's a general good book