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Lies We Tell Ourselves
Name: Camila
06 May 2016;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
I do recommend this book and enjoyed reading it. The story explores many issues and is able to present the realistic characters in a way that truly gets you to understand their thoughts and feelings.
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There Will Be Lies
Name: Daisy
06 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
I really wanted to like this book. Unfortunately, I just could not engage with Nick Lake's writing style, so I found reading it to be a chore - an exciting one - but still. I found the story's twists completely out of the blue, which should be a good thing, but I just found them entirely out of p...
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Name: Kimea
06 May 2016;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
It is a great book at teaching about how white people first acted towards segregation. It is well written and has me entertained for the whole story. It can be a bit hard to read in sections because of the way some racist slurs are used.
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The Rest Of Us Just Live Here
Name: Kate M
06 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
This book was well written and overall - the parts I read - very descriptive. However I found it very hard to connect with the characters and at times I struggles with the story line. Especially the first paragraph of each chapter which was referring to a separate story line all together. This...
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There Will Be Lies
Name: Amanda Allen
06 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
I didn't like the start of this book, I am not a fan of books written in an American style with Mom etc. but his book soon became enjoyable. Shelby has been home schooled and brought up by her mother who is extremely overprotective, Shelby thinks that her dad died when she was a baby but when...
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The Lie Tree
Name: Amanda Allen
06 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
I was really looking forward to reading this as I loved Frances Hardinge's earlier novel, Cuckoo Song. I wasn't disappointed; the story was gripping and dark. It tells the story of Faith and her family who move to the remote island of Vane to escape a scandal surrounding her father's career. R...
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Broken Sky
Name: Lorraine Ansell
06 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
After The Final War had devastated much of the world a neutral organization, World for Peace, was set up to resolve conflicts by Peacefights, Tier 1,2 or 3. All other weapons are forbidden and countries send their pilots, one on one, to fight at designated places. Amity Vancour is a Tier 2 pilot...
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Tamsin and the Deep
Name: Lorraine Ansell
04 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
Tamsin and the Deep is a graphic novel, excellently illustrated by Kate Brown and published by David Fickling Books in partnership with The Pheonix Comic. As a prolific reader of comics and graphic novels (Calvin and Hobbes was a particular favourite) when a teenager myself I can honestly say thi...
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Riverkeep
Name: Catherine Purcell
03 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
Fantasy, friendship, gothic horror, humour, discovery, courage. What is the story about? Here's the blurb: '15-year-old Wulliam is dreading taking up his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the river and fishing corpses from its treacherous waters. But then everything changes. One night his...
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There's A Dragon In My Backpack
Name: Emily Beale
30 April 2016;Genre: Adventure
Pan the miniature dragon is back and he's up to even more mischief! There's A Dragon in my backpack is the hilarious fast paced sequel to Theres A Dragon in my Dinner, where we were first introduced to the loveable minuscule prawn cracker-guzzling dragon, when he is delivered to Eric's house with...
