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Where the Wilderness Lives
Name: Kelly Buxton
04 February 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Where the Wilderness Lives is a story filled with adventure and nature, intertwined with magic and folklore but grounded by the trials and tribulations that accompany childhood.There are so many aspects this book lends itself to; vibrant descriptions take you on a...
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Adventures on Trains: The Highland Falcon Thief
Name: Kelly Buxton
03 February 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I thoroughly enjoyed going on a fact-finding adventure aboard The Highway Falcon, a locomotive on its final voyage. Hal, who reluctantly joins his travel-writer uncle, finds more than he anticipated when he is thrown into the role of unveiling a jewel thief. Brimming with twists and turns, thi...
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Nothing Ever Happens Here
Name: Lucy Russell
03 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Izzy lives in Littlehaven, a small town in the East of England where nothing ever happens. Until the day, that is, when Izzy's dad tells her that he is transgender, and is about to start living as a woman, Danielle. Reeling from the shock, Izzy attempts to get on with school, auditioning for t...
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Crater Lake
Name: Clare Wilkins
21 January 2020;Genre: Horror
A perfect middle-grade horror featuring zombie teachers, bug-eyed students and a school trip like no other! Lance and his friends are headed for Crater Lake, a supposedly new and innovative activity centre. With his nemesis Ms Hoche in charge and annoying Head Boy Trent for company, Lance feels...
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Name: Janet Fisher
12 January 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
This is the third in Catherine Fisher's trilogy about Seren and the clockwork crow, full of magic and Welsh folklore. I did review the first book The Clockwork Crow (2018), which was very good and this does not disappoint. Seren, Tomos and the Crow are still trying to find the Swan's egg and...
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Name: Mary Rees
10 January 2020;Genre: Science Fiction
Orion Lost is an incredibly enjoyable, fast-paced classic science-fiction adventure. The story opens with the Earthship, Orion, sending out a distress signal. Immediately, I was intrigued and desperate to find out what the fate of the ship was; however, the story then very cle...
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Name: Lucas Maxwell
07 January 2020;Genre: Science Fiction
A fast paced, engaging science fiction adventure. When Beth and a small group of other children suddenly find themselves in charge of Orion, a giant space ship, after a mysterious incident, floating in space is the least of their worries.There are strange alien ships to worry about...
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Name: Adam Rodgers
06 January 2020;Genre: Science Fiction
Set entirely on a deep space spaceship destined for the colonization of a distant world, something has gone wrong. All the adults have been put into stasis and cannot be woken up. The only available crew members are 13-year-old Beth Mckay and her four classmates. Newly deputized as the acting...
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Demelza and The Spectre Detectors
Name: Donna Burkert
31 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
It was on a late night forage into the greenhouse that Demelza first discovered that her beloved Grandma Maeve was a Spectre Detector - summoning up the spectres of the deceased for grieving families to get those last precious moments to say goodbye. Demelza's previous life of inventing the wi...
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The Tzar's Curious Runaways
Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 December 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
It is Russia in 1725 and Tzar Peter is dead. Three children from his Circus of Curiosities are forced to flee the palace and run for their lives. The three children, Katinka the ballet dancer, Alexei the giant and Nikolai the dwarf have to leave everything they know behind them and race across...
