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The Truth About Celia Frost
Name: Caroline Downie
29 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Celia Frost suffers from a dangerous blood disease. It has made her mother over protective and secretive, she has changed schools so many times she can't remember and is continuously moving house. After an incident at school where she is taken to A&E, they move on again to a run-down estate on th...
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Money Run
Name: Alex Kingsbury
29 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Ash and Benjamin are best friends, but they're also partners in crime. As the most precocious teenage thieves in the world they've pulled off some impressive jobs, and now they're onto their biggest one yet: stealing $200 million from the headquarters of one of the most powerful companies on the...
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Lottie Biggs is Not Tragic
Name: Sophie Butcher
29 December 2011;Genre: Friends and family
Set in Cardiff, this book explores the life of sassy and complicated Lottie Biggs. Her best friend Goose is there to help her through any crisis, but is she having a crisis of her own and can Lottie help? Lottie's boyfriend Gareth seems to be trying to tell her something, but will he ever be abl...
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The Mystery of the Midnight Ghost
Name: Valerie Christie
29 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
On first glance at the front cover of this book I was reminded of the Enid Blyton 'Adventure Series', much enjoyed in my youth. In true Blyton tradition a group of children and their dog try to solve The Mystery of the Midnight Ghost, the second book in the Adventure Island Mysteries by Helen Mos...
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The Day Louis Got Eaten
Name: Ferelith Hordon
29 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Sarah and Louis are out riding their bicycles through the woods when, suddenly, Louis is swallowed by a Gulper and the stage is set for a funny, fast-paced and cumulative story. John Fardell has already established himself as an inventive picture book author-illustrator with his previous titles...
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Anna Hibiscus' Song
Name: Ferelith Hordon
29 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa. She is so happy she doesn't know what to do - so she asks around the family, but their answers though good, are not quite enough - until Anna Hibiscus finds her own answer. Anna Hibiscus has already appeared in a couple of longer stories ideal for bed time reading....
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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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Enemy Invasion
Name: Caroline Downie
29 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Following a meteorite strike carrying the 'Falling Virus', many people fall into a deep coma. But there are some children who are immune and who, after contracting the virus, develop superhuman skills, telekinesis, the ability to make themselves invisible etc. The virus is the weapon of an alien...
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Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
Name: Dorne Fraser
29 December 2011;Genre: Adventure
Amy Curry's year couldn't get much worse. Her father has been killed in a car accident, her twin brother is in rehab and her mother is moving the family home from California to Connecticut. Since the death of her father Amy has been unable to drive so her mother has arranged for the young son...
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Matched
Name: Alex Kingsbury
29 December 2011;In a Society that controls everything - jobs, life, death and even love - Cassia has the amazing luck to be Matched with her best friend Xander. She must now raise a family and spend her life with him. But a technical glitch shows her another possible Match: her friend Ky. As she becomes closer t...