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  • Waiting for Callback: Take Two

    Waiting for Callback Take Two

    Name: Sammy Age 13
    21 March 2017;

    Genre: Friends and family

    The story was clearly thought out well and I could tell the authors found pleasure in writing it. Overall this is an outstanding book.

  • Follow Me Back

    Follow Me Back

    Name: Tom
    19 March 2017;

    Genre: Real life

    This is full of fast benders and U-turn that will always keep you hook. Without the boring "wittering" that most books like this fall into. I like the way that this is told through Facebook chat groups and various points of view from all the main characters.

  • I Am Not A Serial Killer: Now a major film

    I'm Not a Serial Killer

    Name: Tom
    19 March 2017;

    Genre: Real life

    I would recommend this book because it offers a chilling insight into our society and how unstable it can really be.

  • Waiting for Callback: Take Two

    Waiting for Callback Take Two

    Name: Janet McCarthy
    16 March 2017;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Elektra Jones, 15, lands a starring role in a film but it doesn't go to plan. This is a heart warming story about teen romance, family and friendship. It'll make you laugh, feel angst but ultimately leave you happy and glad that you read the book. I really enjoyed it. Elektra finally gets toget...

  • The Witch's Tears (The Witch's Kiss Trilogy, Book 2)

    The Witch's Tears

    Name: Samantha Pett
    24 December 2016;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Sequel to The Witch's Kiss, I found The Witch's Tears a much more compelling read. The story focuses on Merry and her brother Leo in the aftermath of the events of The Witch's Kiss as they struggle to come to terms with their individual losses. Merry is reluctantly being trained by the Coven,...

  • The Witch's Kiss (The Witch's Kiss Trilogy, Book 1)

    The Witch's Kiss

    Name: Samantha Pett
    23 December 2016;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Merry is a 16-year-old with the usual family and school struggles except she's also an untrained witch, youngest in a bloodline of witches stretching back centuries. Unexplained dreams soon materialise into a 1,500-year-old family curse and love story linked with a powerful wizard who, with the...

  • Pig-Heart Boy

    Pig Heart Boy

    Name: Wesley Age 12
    28 November 2016;

    Genre: Personal Growth

    It has an amazing plot and can be humerous, dark, scary and very much true to real life.

  • Murder In Midwinter

    Name: Elizabeth Harris
    27 October 2016;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    In Murder in Midwinter, a busy Christmas shopping trip on Oxford Street turns into a nightmare for Maya when she sees a man threatening a woman with a gun. Horrified by what she has seen, her family notify the police. The investigation takes a dramatic turn when a body is pull...

  • What's a Girl Gotta Do?

    What's a Girl Gotta Do?

    Name: Karen Poolton
    17 October 2016;

    Genre: Real life

    Lottie is very angry with the way she is treated just because she is female. After a disturbing sexual harassment incident on the way to college, she resolves to start a project, highlighting and standing up to every single incidence of sexism she comes across for a whole month. Althoug...

  • The Secret of Nightingale Wood

    Name: Janet Fisher
    06 October 2016;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    The Secret of Nightingale Wood is a story about grief at the loss of sons, and its effect upon the mothers principally but also upon a girl left to fend for herself with the aftermath. Henrietta and her family, mother, father, baby Piglet and Nanny Jane have moved to a...