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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...
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The covers of my book are too far apart (and other grumbles)
Name: Marie Berry
03 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
Vivian French has created another super book about the commonly mentioned issues when asking children to read. All the usual excuses about not reading are addressed in this book with lots of real reasons why they are not true. I love how each page of the book begins with a statement grumble fro...
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The New Adventures of Mr Toad: A Race for Toad Hall
Name: Alison Urquhart
02 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
I enjoyed this rip roaring adventure tremendously. As a child I listened to the Ladybird simplified version of the Wind in the Willows on tape over and over. I loved the characters, particularly Ratty and the very silly Mr Toad. This book introduces younger readers to the next generation of the...
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The Royal Rabbits of London
Name: Alison Urquhart
01 April 2017;Genre: Adventure
This is a truly superb book with great writing and fantastic illustrations. I was drawn into the story just a few pages in and felt the years drop away as I engaged with a story that captured me just like Brian Jacques' books did years ago. I am in no way drawing a parallel between the two as Rab...
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The Adventures of Alfie Onion
Name: Jayne Gould
24 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
Aggie Onion has always dreamed of living Happily Ever After in Great Luxury and so marries a seventh son, with the aim of her seventh son fulfilling his, and her, destiny. This child is named Magnifico and Aggie devotes her time to making him a hero, though this means leaving her eighth son to be...
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Bear Grylles Adventures: The Blizzard Challenge
Name: Emily Smith
21 March 2017;Genre: Adventure
This new Bear Grylls Adventures series pits children against natural survival challenges, supported by non other than Bear Grylls. As well as teaching children some possibly useful survival tactics, the books' real strength is in guiding them to think about how they can contribute as one of a tea...
