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The Ghosts of Heaven
Name: Dawn Woods
18 October 2015;Genre: Adventure
Described as a novel in four parts, each part able to be read in any order, The Ghosts of Heaven describes essentially good people who are dragged into a spiral beyond their control. Their lives take unexpected paths, during which they discover more about themselves, although...
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Nobody Saw No One
Name: Charlotte Revelle
01 July 2015;I must admit that when I first heard about this book I had considerable doubts - Oliver Twist meets Operation Yewtree?? It sounded like an attempt to out-dark a market already saturated by the grim and the gloomy. However, I could not have been more wrong. Nobody Saw No One deals with a depres...
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Herculfleas
Name: Jayne Gould
25 May 2015;Genre: Adventure
Every month a monstrous giant called Yuk comes to the town of Tumber and eats its people. The first he munched were the parents of a girl called Greta, who is on a mission to save what is left of her town. Heroes have come to try and defeat the giant but all have met their own death. Greta takes...
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When Mr Dog Bites
Name: Carol Williams
22 March 2015;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
When Mr Dog Bites is a Carnegie-shortlisted book, with Dylan, a Tourette's sufferer, as the main character. Dylan struggles all the time to keep the 'bad stuff' inside, with varying success; when 'Mr Dog' comes out, at moments of stress, he loses control, growls and swears, bu...
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Black Dove, White Raven
Name: Melanie Chadwick
10 March 2015;Genre: Historical Fiction
Teo and Emilia's lives change for ever when Teo's mother dies in a flying accident and they are brought up as siblings by Emilia's mother, who moves the family from the USA to Haile Selassie's Ethiopia (the only country in Africa to have never been colonised). The children's close bond...
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Rebel Science
Name: Lucy Russell
27 February 2015;Genre: Adventure
Attractively presented in hardback landscape format, this book is packed full of character profiles of scientists and their discoveries across the length and breadth of science and history. From ancients of old to the modern day, readers will find bitesize biographies of scientists from a range o...
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Code Name Verity
Name: Joy
26 February 2015;Genre: Historical Fiction
Growing up near Norwich, the home of Nurse Edith Cavell, I have always been susceptible to tales of heroic women in wartime and Code Name Verity is an absolute gem! Brilliantly researched and detailed this gives us a very real insight into active service for women during the W...
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A Song For Ella Grey
Name: Daisy Age 15
30 January 2015;Genre: Friends and family
Because it is told from an interesting stand point; an onlooker, not a main character. The imagery is beautiful and very emotional and it summarizes youth incredibly realistically. Almond clearly understands what it's like to be a teenager.
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A Song for Ella gGey
Name: Kimea
30 January 2015;Genre: Friends and family
I found this book ok. It was a bit too lovey for my liking, and some parts of it didn't make much sense from my standpoint.
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the art of being normal
Name: Lorraine Ansell
05 January 2015;Genre: Adventure
The Art of Being Normal is one of those books that has you hooked from the very beginning. David and Leo are two boys at the same school who stand out for different reasons but ultimately form a tentative friendship. Lisa Williamson has managed to introduce an extremely sensitive, largely unknow...
