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The Colour Thief
Name: Fiona Collins
17 September 2014;Genre: Adventure
The Colour Thief is a delightful picture book about Zot, who comes from another planet where there is no colour. The story tells of Zot travelling to a colourful planet because he thinks that the colour would make the planet a happy place. Once on the planet he decides to steal all the colour, on...
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Battles of Ben Kingdom: City of Fear
Name: June Hughes
10 September 2014;Genre: Adventure
The City of Fear is the third in the series of books featuring Ben Kingdom and the Watchers and their battles against the forces of evil and wickedness, known as the Legion. It follows the pattern of the previous books, following the action over a period of five days. Little snippets of backgroun...
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Now You See Me
Name: Lorraine Ansell
09 September 2014;Genre: Adventure
When Danny Geller goes missing unexpectedly at the age of thirteen his family never give up hope of finding him and three years later he reappears, older, taller and very different from the young boy that disappeared. His best friend and neighbour, Hannah, cannot reconcile this new Danny with her...
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The Manifesto on how to be Interesting
Name: Lorraine Ansell
08 September 2014;Genre: Real life
At the start of this book I had written it off as another predictable 'chick lit' school book and was ready to hate everything about it including the garish cover. However I found myself being immersed in the world of Bree and it took me back to those anguished school days when it was easy to fee...
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Ogres don't dance
Name: Ashwina Age 8
06 September 2014;Genre: Friends and family
I Liked the part when the ogre went inside a dancing room full of humans dancing away through the sky lit night.
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Heartbreak Cafe
Name: Melanie Chadwick
06 September 2014;Genre: Friends and family
Teen girls will love this. Debbie comes from a wealthy American family and has everything- lovely house, flashy car, a boyfriend whos heading to Harvard after his senior year, posh school and a mother who does everything for her. Then everything changes when her father leaves to become a writer...
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Witchworld
Name: Janet Fisher
06 September 2014;Genre: Adventure
Flo has a problem grandmother who does not seem to want to live in the modern age and has a habit of arriving on her broomstick and causing havoc. Flo's very modern mother, the a high-flying magazine editor of Hocus Pocus, has offered her mother all mod cons including a spellstick - but to no av...
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The Falcon's Malteser
Name: Holly Age 11
26 August 2014;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I love the thrill of been able to try and work out the murderer without it being really easy!
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Sleepless
Name: Caroline MItchell
19 August 2014;Genre: Adventure
Izzy and her friends attend a school where second place just is not good enough. With exams coming up the group don't know if they can handle the pressure until one of them finds the solution "FokusPro". The pills turn up from a mysterious website and seem to be everything they promise until th...
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Frozen Charlotte
Name: Caroline Mitchell
19 August 2014;Genre: Horror
When Sophie and her best friend Jay use a Ouija board app on his mobile phone, the events which follow are darker than either could ever have imagined. Jay asks when he will die and the app responds "TONIGHT..." What starts out as a joke leads to death, mysteries and drama at every turn. This...
