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The Elephant Thief
Name: Alison Tarrant
27 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
This is a charming historical adventure, set in 1882, follows the fate of Maharajah, an elephant who is sold at auction, and a street boy (think one of Fagin's boys from Oliver Twist). Maharajah is bought by an owner of a zoo, and before they have left Edinburgh a bet has been placed between two...
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Knighthood for Beginners
Name: June Hughes
24 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Dave is a dragon, albeit not a very good one, and is about to fail his Dragon test, despite the best efforts of his despairing parents. Dave, a keen reader, has read about knights and decided this is the life for him, seemingly unaware that the main point of a knight is to slay dragons and rescue...
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Hamish and the Gravity Burp
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Coming home to find your family lying on their backs on the ceiling is a good clue that things are not as they should be - but Hamish is no stranger to weird and wonderful things happening in Starkley. To the PDF (Pause Defense Force), any strange occurance means one thing - adventure! Strange b...
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The Huntress: Sea
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Mouse knows her destiny; 'the great green fire spirits dance and ripple' telling her Tribe the future and Mouse is destined to be a captain just as her brother, Sparrow, is a whale-singer. Since the death of their Ma, she and Sparrow have grown up aboard The Huntress, their grandmother's ship, a...
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Giant
Name: Caroline Gosden
21 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Eleven year old Anzo has a problem; he is short, very short, which makes it difficult to be noticed in an extraordinary, noisy family who are all unusually tall. At school he is teased and even the teacher thinks it is a good idea to cast Anzo as all of the seven dwarves in the school play. If on...
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The Island at the End of Everything
Name: Janet Fisher
20 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Butterflies flutter through the pages of this story set in the Philippines in 1906. The island of Culion is a leper colony but there are children like Amihan born without the disease. She lives with her mother who is very frail and whose nose has almost disappeared because of the leprosy. Along...
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The Secret Keepers
Name: June Hughes
10 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Reuben lives with his mother in New Umbra, a place ruled by the unseen menace known as The Smoke, and his very much seen henchmen, The Directions, who always travel in groups of four and watch everything and everyone. The townspeople live in fear of coming to the attention of The Smoke and know t...
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King Flashypants and the Evil Emperor
Name: Lauren Maidman
06 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
King Edwin is the King of Edwinland and loves his people very much. So much so, that he buys them chocolate and sweets every day! King Edwin has an enemy Emperor Nurbison of Nurbisonia who doesn't particularly like King Edwin or his chocolate-loving kingdom. When Empreror Nurbison takes over it i...
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Beetle Queen
Name: Janet Fisher
06 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
I moved straight on to reading Beetle Queen having read the first in this planned trilogy, Beetle Boy. At the end of the first book the reader gets a glimpse of what Lucretia Cutter really is (and I won't disclose this!). She is designing and making dresses for actresses nominated for awards in...
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The Bookshop Girl
Name: Jayne Gould
04 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Property Jones got her name after being left in a bookshop when she was five years old and being put in the lost property cupboard by Michael Jones, the son of the shop owner. When nobody came to claim her, and being too small and confused to remember her name, Property just stayed. Now aged ele...
