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Pigeon English
Name: melanie chadwick
15 January 2013;Genre: Real life
A bleak and depressing look at life for a young teenager on a hard estate. Saturated with knives, crime, drugs and sexual exploitation it's no wonder that the children of the estate grow up to be violent. 11 year old Harri just about manages to keep his personality and some of his innocence for...
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Between Shades of Grey
Name: Kate Age 15
03 May 2012;Genre: Books set in the past
The plot overall is an exciting one, the events progress at a fast pace. Which made the story much more thrilling. This pace also highlights the confusion and uncertainty that the people who encountered these events in real life felt.
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Between Shades of Gray
Name: Josh Age 15
03 May 2012;Genre: Books set in the past
The book is brilliantly written with imagery giving enough of a picture to get your mind started, and leaves it to generate the rest of the picture. Every patch of ground, every protruding bone, every emotion lightly flickering across a face, nothing is left un-addressed. The angle that is norm...
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The Midnight Zoo
Name: Matthew Gibson
03 May 2012;Genre: Real life
From the opening paragraphs it is clear that this book is written with a subtle beauty that takes the breath away, this is most definitely a book for teens but Hartnett proves that just because a book is for younger readers the quality of the prose does not need to suffer. What is more is that th...
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Everybody Jam
Name: Bernadette Cameron
03 May 2012;Genre: Adventure
I found 'Everybody Jam' both a shocking and a revelatory book. This book intrigued me from the start, being about a subject I previously knew very little about. Set in the Australian outback on a cattle station during the annual muster and seen largely through the eyes of Daniel the 13 year old s...
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The Phantom Of The Opera
Name: Anastaisia Age 15
30 January 2012;Genre: Supernatural
Unlike most classics this book is easy to read. Many questions surround the infamous and mysterious Phantom Of The Opera, who is he and what is he? You always want to know what will happen next and if Rhoal can get any closer to saving the love of his life. It has a cleverly written and in-depth...
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Sister, Missing
Name: Ferelith Hordon
29 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Sister, Missing picks up the story two years after the events of Girl, Missing and once again the reader is catapulted into a breathless thriller. In many respects the action is a reprise of the first book as a kidnap and questions of parentage are again the centre of the action; in this case it...
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Claude on Holiday
Name: Alex Kingsbury
28 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Claude is a somewhat adventurous dog belonging to the busy Mr and Mrs Shinyshoes. Whenever they go out to work Claude embarks on an exciting adventure - in this book he visits the seaside. And, with a strong desire to find not just buried treasure but juicy bone flavoured ice cream too, Claude ce...
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Crescendo
Name: Maggie Boyd
28 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Disappointing sequel to Hush, Hush that continues the story of Nora Grey caught up in the world of fallen angels. The strong cover and intriguing prologue leads to the expectation of a tense exciting mystery with a delicious touch of gothic romance. Instead the reader is exposed to a poorly plo...
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The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse
Name: Amy Buck
27 October 2011;Genre: Adventure
This book tells of an artist who is unafraid to push through the boundaries of the normal, instead creating huge masterpieces of brightly coloured animals. The pictures are beautiful, each spanning a double page. The story has minimal writing, and is a book which my class come back to frequently...
