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  • The Last Storyteller: Winner of the Newbery Medal

    The Last Storyteller

    Name: Donna Burkert
    15 September 2022;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    In The Last Storyteller, a comet is heading for Earth and an exodus of the chosen few has begun. Petra and her family are some of the ones chosen ones to board the three Pleiades vessels that will take them across the galaxy to a new planet, a new home. With their bodies place...

  • The Consequence Girl

    The Consequence Girl

    Name: Clare Parkinson
    13 September 2022;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    I was grateful to receive this from a ReadingZone competition, and looked forward to the children in my primary school library enjoying it. I confess science fiction isn't really my thing. We had read Orion Lost in a year 5 book group, and I had found it slight...

  • Wranglestone

    Wranglestone

    Name: Emelia Helliwell
    10 September 2022;

    Genre: Dystopian

    Wranglestone is set in a post-apocalyptic America after a plague has brought back the dead, and follows the lives of people surviving in a settlement. Peter and his dad are living by a lake when, one evening, Peter allows a stranger to come far to close, not realising the dang...

  • Nothing More to Tell

    Nothing More to Tell

    Name: Azra Age 14
    10 September 2022;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    I enjoyed reading this thriller. It is set in a small town where a much-loved teacher has been murdered and the world tries to move on - until a former student moves back and starts uncovering the secrets of the teacher and his murder. The author shows what is happening from the perspective of...

  • Spark (The Twitchers)

    Spark

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    09 September 2022;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    Twitch and his friends are back, solving a new mystery and birdwatching at the same time. This story, the focus is on Twitch's friend Jack, who is not certain he will ever make a good twitcher.  Instead, he decides to investigate a spate of shootings of cats in the local area, after discoverin...

  • Letters from the Lighthouse

    Letters from the Lighthouse

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    09 September 2022;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    The night Sukie went missing, she was wearing her mother's coat. Somehow her sister, Olive, still has the coat but she can't remember a great deal else about what happened. After all, she and Sukie were both caught up in a bomb blast and she's lucky still to be alive. The danger has fin...

  • STAGS 5: HAWKS

    HAWKS (Stags 5)

    Name: Azra Age 14
    05 September 2022;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    I loved HAWKS and I was disappointed when I finished it. The book is about the last battle between 'Medievals' and 'Savages' and is set in Scotland. It was thrilling to read and every paged kept me hooked on to the next. The book shows the darkness of privilege and how people will do anything...

  • Mia and the Lightcasters  (The Umbra Tales)

    Mia and The Lightcasters

    Name: Lisa Watkins
    01 September 2022;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Mia and The Lightcasters is a book that you cant put down! It is an exciting fantasy novel aimed at children from aged 8+. Mia, who lives with her little brother and parents, dreams of being an umbra tamer until a haunting encounter leaves her afraid and staying close t...

  • Spark (The Twitchers)

    Spark

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    01 September 2022;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    A new adventure for the mystery-solving Twitchers! When Jack finds an injured cat, he realises that the animal has been deliberately shot. After talking to a vet, he discovers that other animals have been similarly hurt, one fatally. He decides that the Twitchers should investigate these crime...

  • The Last Monster

    The Last Monster

    Name: Nathan Cox
    01 September 2022;

    Genre: Fantasy

    The Last Monster by Dan Walker is yet another brilliantly constructed adventure story. After reading The Light Hunters, the first book in the series, I couldn't wait to read the second book and I was immediately hooked once again into the world of the light hunters. The...