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Name: Eleanor Smith
15 July 2014;

Genre: Adventure

Jenny McLachlan is a great new voice for young teenage readers. Her debut, like its title, fairly breezes along while she also takes the time to really explore what makes her main character, Bea, tick. This is the first in four planned titles in which McLachlan will explore how four one-time fri...

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Name: Carol Hall
15 July 2014;

Genre: Real life

Night Runner is a pacey psychological thriller with a believable and likeable central character who, step by step, finds himself embroiled in crime and a life-threatening situation through no fault of his own. Like most teenagers, Zinny wants his home life to be smooth and his family to stick...

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Name: Cosmas Age 9
14 July 2014;

Genre: Friends and family

Harry wants to make a zombie movie to save his family because his dad lost his job, but he doesn't have the money to do it. So he writes to famous people including the Queen and Harry Styles to ask for money. The writing is different - the story includes text messages, emails, letters and web cha...

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Name: Joy Court
14 July 2014;

Genre: Adventure

I must admit to a real soft spot for animal adventures, but at the same time I also have an abhorrence of anthropomorphic animals living in houses and wearing clothes! But here we have the real thing, in absolutely the very best tradition of Watership Down and Duncton Wood. Debut author Tom Moo...

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Name: Moly Cameron
27 June 2014;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

This book has an amusing characteristic to it and it's a fascinating story that is full of mystery and regret. Scarlett is a young girl who had a dad that was a thief and sadly he died and then she finds this small old rusty box that has interesting things in there. This object that she finds is...

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Name: Elizabeth Harris
28 May 2014;

Genre: Friends and family

Shouty Kid by Simon Mayle is a laugh-out-loud read. 10-year-old Harry is on a mission to rescue his family from impending financial ruin, after the failure of his dads film writing career. Harry plans to write and produce his own zombie movie, Eat the Parents. Meanwhile, he is desperate to impr...

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Name: Melanie Chadwick
27 May 2014;

Genre: Adventure

An action-packed thriller with wide appeal; it's got the guns and knives, the explosions, the near misses and the suspense, but it also has strong characters both male and female. This is the second book in the Bodyguard series, but it works well as a stand-alone novel. Connor Reeves is our all-a...

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Name: Tracy Hart
27 May 2014;

In this magical adventure, a tiny silver dragon is chased out of Patrick's storybook by a knight just as tiny. Bedlam then follows leading to Patrick shrinking and retreating to his toy castle for safety. Will he overcome the knight? A lovely story for younger children (3 - 7 years) which is orga...

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Name: Elizabeth Age 13
27 May 2014;

Genre: Adventure

WOW! IT'S SO GOOD! I WANT SUZZANE TO WRITE ANOUTHER BOOK! I HAVE READ ALL 3 AND HAVE WATCHED 2 FILMS! HAVE YOU????? ANYWAY... READ IT NOW! AFTER I HAD READ IT I JUST WANTED TO READ ANOTHER BOOK LIKE THE HUNGER GAMES!!!! GO ON READ IT NOW!!!!!

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Name: Graham Marks
18 May 2014;

Genre: Adventure

It is now a hundred years since World War 1 broke out, and this is the turbulent backdrop against which Bernard Ashley's latest novel takes place. It was a time of great change - Man had only very recently taken to the air and, with the world now at war, also a time of huge uncertainty. The story...

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