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The White Tower
Name: Sue Wilsher
21 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
When her father gets his dream job as librarian at Temple College, Livy finds herself struggling to fit in. Still lost in the grief of her best friend's death, the prestigious school and its elite students are completely alien to her. Drawn to the roof and the mysterious Sentinels, huge statues l...
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A Poem for Every Night of the Year
Name: Alison Kelly
20 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
Allie Esiri has set herself an ambitious task in undertaking to provide a poem for every night of the year. The introduction promises 'a sequence of beautiful poems to share at bed time, a journey through culture and history and the seasons'. Esiri's choices - there are 366 of them as it's a L...
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Who Let the Gods Out?
Name: June Hughes
17 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
Elliot is finding life difficult. His mother is ill, they have no money, final demands are piling up and the next door neighbour is after their farm. School is no better either as Elliot turns up in less than perfect uniform and falls asleep in lessons, but dare not tell his teachers of the diffi...
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The Snow Cat
Name: Rosaleen Palmer
08 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
This is a beautifully presented hardback , just perfect for winter reading with its snowy scene and silver lettering. It tells the story of 9 year old Bel whose grandmother has just moved into some sheltered accommodation which has been converted from an old Victorian mansion with extensive garde...
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Able Seacat Simon
Name: Nicki Cleveland
08 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
When an orphaned kitten is found hiding on the docks in Hong Kong, he is smuggled aboard HMS Amethyst to become the ship's cat, with the very important job of being chief rat-catcher. Based on real events, this is the story of what happened to the ship and its crew while on a peace keeping missio...
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The Pudding Problem
Name: Alison Urquhart
07 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
I was not sure whether I was going to enjoy this book as I find that there are so many 'we're like diary of a wimpy kid' type books out there that they all seem to blend into one. The other problem with some of those types of books is the amorality within them, where the lead character seems to b...
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The Jamie Drake Equation
Name: Alison Urquhart
07 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
I came to this book with high expectations as I am a big fan of Christopher Edge, having loved the Twelve Minutes to Midnight series. I was not sure what to expect, and in fact my 10 year old stole the book away and read it before I did. In one sitting! I was surprised by how quickly I was sucked...
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Me and Mister P
Name: Emily Beale
06 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
Arthur Mallows desperately wants an ordinary day, with an ordinary family and most especially he wants an ordinary brother. But the meltdowns, the unusually behaviour and the constant pressure of a brother who is different is all getting too much for Arthur. That is until a rather unexpected gues...
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Alice Jones: The Ghost Light
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
Alice is back to solve another mystery - this time in the theatre her sister is performing in. Spending the summer helping her mother and sister at the Beryl Theatre isn't Alice's first choice of things to do - there's a copy of Fermat's Last Theorum that needs reading for a start. But things st...
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The Fox and The Ghost King
Name: Miss Cleveland
03 January 2017;Genre: Adventure
The foxes love football, and foxes in every part of the country support The Foxes; Leicester City Football Club. Win or lose, they love them, and all the food scraps left behind by the human fans. When returning home from another defeat, across a car park that is being excavated, Dad and son fox...
