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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...
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Name: Linda Brown
04 November 2019;Genre: Fantasy
It's only been a few weeks since the explosive but successful ending in book one of this wonderful fantasy series, Beyond the Mirror, but for Darwen Arkwright and his friends, Rik and Alex, it feels like forever. When Darwen takes a trip into Silbrica, he is delighted to walk...
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RISE UP! The Art of Protest
Name: Lorraine Ansell
31 October 2019;Genre: Non Fiction
RISE UP! The Art of Protest is a much needed book for today's society and children growing up in uncertain times. The book gives an introduction to this form of protest through art, exploring why it has been used and how it can help. Using six main areas of historical and continuing social issues...
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The Somerset Tsunami
Name: Janet Fisher
21 October 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
Set in the Somerset Levels in 1616, and based on the actual event of a tsunami in January 1607, Emma Carroll's The Somerset Tsunami tells of a girl, named Fortune, living in a village of women but for one male, her brother Jem. But these are difficult times and the Protestants...
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Wayward Son
Name: Lucy Georgeson
14 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after . . . So why can't Simon Snow get off the couch? What he needs, according to his best f...
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Name: Stephen Leitch
01 October 2019;Genre: Myths & Legends
Selkies, kelpies, changelings, ceasgs, an evil faerie queen and a magic stone all feature in this mythical and magical adventure novel The Stone of Destiny by Caroline Logan.Alisa, an outcast from society because of her birthmark on her face and an alleged changeli...
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Name: Joanne Hewish
30 September 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
I love a good historical fiction novel and this one did not disappoint. All Fall Down is a gripping narrative that will have you hooked right from the offset; the moment I read the blurb for this novel, I could already think of at least 10 of my students who will be queuing up...
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Name: Lynsey Southern
29 September 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
All Fall Down opens in the Yorkshire village of Ingleforn with the prophetic account of how that year it rained every day, the sheep died and the crops failed and how as the year progresses, the stories that the travellers to Ingleforn share with the news-hungry villagers chan...
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All Fall Down
Name: Jacob Age 11
28 September 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
Because it is fantastical and yet shocking about what had happened at the time of King Edward and how many were not immune to the illness.
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All Fall Down
Name: Erena Age 14
20 September 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
Personally I did not particularly enjoy this book as I found it very sad and depressing, it is not the sort of book that I would typically enjoy. However it was a well written book with well developed characters that you become attached to throughout, meaning that when misfortune happens you feel...
