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Denton Little's Deathdate
Name: Catherine
17 March 2015;Genre: Adventure
'I don't think this is my bed.' And so begin the frenetic last days of Denton Little's life! ...which might sound like a sad read, right? Wrong! It's funny...we're allowed to laugh at death. It starts with the premise that, thanks to the field of AstroThanatoGenetics, everyone knows the date of t...
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The Brilliant World of Tom Gates
Name: Bailey Age 11
17 March 2015;Genre: Humour
I recommend this book because its very funny and will suck you in.
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Gone
Name: Jaime Age 12
17 March 2015;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
I liked it because it's strange and random and my friend is random.
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The Bell Between Worlds
Name: Carol Williams
16 March 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is the first in what promises to be an interesting series,The Mirror Chronicle. Sylas lives in our present day world, although his lonely orphaned existence has rather a Dickensian feel about it. After being given a mysterious book, Sylas is drawn by the tolling of a huge bell into an altern...
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The Winter Wolf
Name: Angel Hunter
16 March 2015;Genre: Animals
I really liked this book because I like adventure stories. The Winter Wolf is a story about a girl called Amelia who has an adventure finding a wolf's mother. In the story there is also a boy called Noah who wrote a diary which Amelia read. My favourite characters were Amelia and the wolf pup....
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Frida and Bear
Name: Natalie Plimmer
13 March 2015;Genre: Adventure
This lovely picture book is a celebration of art, imagination, and creativity as Browne collaborates with Bartholin to play his Shape Game, which has already been the subject of some of his previous books. Bear and Frida the elephant take it in turns to draw a random shape and then turn it into...
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Harry and Hope
Name: June Hughes
12 March 2015;Genre: Animals
Hope is twelve years old and lives in France with her artist mother, her mother's boyfriend, Frank, and Frank's donkey, Harry. An unusual set up, perhaps, but one in which Hope feels loved and secure, until Frank suddenly leaves and Hope has to take over the care of Harry. A strong bond...
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I'll Give You the Sun
Name: Karen Poolton
11 March 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is the story of a tragic period in the lives of teenage, American twins, Jude and Noah. It is about art, first love, jealousy, family and maybe, above all, about the relationship between the twins. The story is told alternately by Noah and Jude. Noah is an introverted 13 year old, his mothe...
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Black Dove, White Raven
Name: Melanie Chadwick
10 March 2015;Genre: Historical Fiction
Teo and Emilia's lives change for ever when Teo's mother dies in a flying accident and they are brought up as siblings by Emilia's mother, who moves the family from the USA to Haile Selassie's Ethiopia (the only country in Africa to have never been colonised). The children's close bond...
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The Dreamsnatcher
Name: Janet Fisher
09 March 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is an extraordinarily confident first novel, beautifully written and planned out. Moll Pecksniff lives with the gypsies but never feels she belongs. One night when she had planned to try to rescue her cob Jinx who had been stolen, she wakes from a dream to find herself out in the forest, on...
