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The Wonder
Name: Fiona Collins
18 October 2014;Genre: Adventure
The Wonder is a story about a little boy who questions and day dreams. As the reader follows him to school the sepia illustrations reflect a rather sombre tone. The reason for this is that on his journey the boy meets various adults who seem to dislike his daydreaming; the park keeper sighs at hi...
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Ghosts of Heaven
Name: Dawn Woods
18 October 2014;Genre: Adventure
Described as a novel in four parts, each part able to be read in any order, this book describes essentially good people who are dragged into a spiral beyond their control. Their lives take unexpected paths, during which they discover more about themselves, although they struggle to understand the...
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Moshi Monsters
Name: abbie Age 8
08 October 2014;Genre: Young fiction
I like the part when they find their best friend because she had been kidnapt by a bad person who takes there dimonds from moshi. I don't like it when they don't get any food.
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A Flea in the Ear
Name: Eryn Age 8
08 October 2014;Genre: Animals
I liked the book because it has nice pictures and they are funny and when my mum read it she said it in funny voices and my mum used to read it to me all the time!
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the kitten that nobody wanted
Name: tom Age 8
08 October 2014;Genre: Animals
I liked it because a girl called Emily loses a cat but her best friend's cat has kittens and one is the odd one out. She names the odd one whiskers and her best friend gives her the cat and Emily is happy.
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Rihanna the sea horse fairy
Name: issy Age 8
08 October 2014;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
I liked it when kirsty and rachel saved the seahorse from those mean, horrible goblins!
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Mutant City
Name: Carol Williams
01 October 2014;Genre: Adventure
In a dystopian future, five mutants are called together. Created 13 years before in an illegal experiment, they have lived separate lives to hide and protect them but as their powers start to strengthen, they are brought together to become part of the resistance, while the government are hunting...
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Lies We Tell Ourselves
Name: Melanie Chadwick
30 September 2014;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
I found Lies We Tell Ourselves very difficult to put down. It's the first day at school and Sarah's understandably nervous. She's met at the gates by crowds of angry faces swearing, shouting and spitting at her telling her she's not wanted and she should go back to her old sch...
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Frozen Charlotte
Name: Lorraine Ansell
18 September 2014;Genre: Horror
Frozen Charlotte is a well written book that has the reader engrossed from the very beginning. After Sophie and her friend Jay try to contact her dead cousin, Rebecca, events take a disturbing turn and Sophie ends up going to stay with Rebecca's family on a small Scottish isla...
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Uprooted
Name: June Hughes
17 September 2014;Genre: Adventure
Lynne Reid Banks is well-known and loved for her many childrens books, including The Indian in the Cupboard but this new book is based very much on her own experiences during the Second World War. Uprooted tells the story of Lindy, who is ten at the start of the book, her mother and her cousin C...
