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Where The River Takes Us
Name: Jacqueline Harris
24 March 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
There is a wild beast, possibly a big cat, that has been sighted in the mountains, and there is a reward promised for a photograph. Jason and his friends set off in search of the beast - and the reward. The year is 1974 and the country is in the grip of the miners' strikes and the three-day we...
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Where The River Takes Us
Name: Ella Louise Hopley Age 12
23 March 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
It was a very good and exciting book, I would suggest to read it when you have time.
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Into the Faerie Hill
Name: Jacqueline Harris
23 March 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Alfred moves with his father to stay with his grandmother, while his dad works on a building project. Alfred can't help feeling that there is something different about him that means he doesn't really fit in. Then he meets Saga, a local girl who is passionately opposed to the building project...
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Flock Horror (Dread Wood, Book 3)
Name: Linda Canning
21 March 2023;Genre: Horror
Anyone who has read my previous reviews of the Dread Wood series knows by now that I am a walking contradiction: I'm a self-confessed wimp, whilst simultaneously being a massive Jennifer Killick buff. I've found myself in the awkward quandary of being a horror fan, who hates h...
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Flock Horror (Dread Wood, Book 3)
Name: Beverley Somerset
20 March 2023;Genre: Horror
When Angelo is woken in the middle of the night and hears something hammering at his bedroom window, along with a strange tune being whistled, it's the start of another scary adventure for Club Loser. Angelo and his friends Colette, Gus, Naira and Hallie come face to face with their arch enemi...
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The Nowhere Thief
Name: Jennifer Caddick
18 March 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
This is an exciting, colourful sci-fi adventure that whisks the reader into parallel multi-universes (called Spheres), through an incredible kaleidoscopic portal. 12-year-old Elsbeth has, astonishingly, found that she can step through these portals and she does so for the most important of rea...
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Circus Maximus: Rider of the Storm
Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 March 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Dido is back in her third adventure set in Roman times. As with the previous two books, she is training and racing horses for the chariot races. Still at her uncle's house, she meets a man from her mother's past and learns more about her parents. When her cousin Abibaal is in deadly danger, Di...
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Alex Neptune, Pirate Hunter
Name: Elen
17 March 2023;Genre: Adventure
Alex Neptune, Pirate Hunter is the second book in the Alex Neptune series by David Owen. This is a pacey adventure with great characters, and a plot that will keep you guessing. There are also lots of laughs to be had through the story. When Haven Bay is attacked by pirates hunting fo...
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Tourmaline and the Island of Elsewhere
Name: Sue Wilsher
16 March 2023;Genre: Adventure
When Tourmaline overhears a conversation between two of her professors at Pellavere University, she learns that not only has her mother gone missing whilst on an archaeological expedition, but that no one will be going to search for her. Tourmaline is determined to find her and with the help o...
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Moonflight
Name: Jacqueline Harris
13 March 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Moonflight is a story of adventure and bravery, a quest, a cursed diamond and two little rat siblings called Tilbury and Nimble-Quick. Tilbury is the seventh born rat of the seventh born litter and that rat is always in want of adventure. Tilbury and Nimble-Quick have t...
