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The Memory Thief Book Review Cover

The Memory Thief

Seth is a troll. Not the ugly, warty, smelly type of troll, but a troll that looks just like a .....

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Tiger Warrior Book Review Cover

Tiger Warrior (1) Attack of the Dragon King

Jack is playing his favourite computer game when his grandfather (Yeye) tells him something amazing but incredibly strange. Yeye reaches .....

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The Phantom Tollbooth Book Review Cover

The Phantom Tollbooth

Milo is a boy who doesn’t know what to do with himself. He plods through his days, going through the .....

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How to Make a Pet Monster 2 Book Review Cover

How to Make a Pet Monster (2) Flummox

Artie loves his little monster Hodgepodge. Finding an ancient book about making monsters brought Hodgepodge into his life, but Artie’s .....

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The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S Book Review Cover

The Mysterious Disappearance of Aidan S

Aidan had tricked his younger brother Lucas before. Lies about Santa, the tooth fairy and even unicorns in the backyard .....

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Lightfall (1) Book Review cover

Lightfall (1) The Girl & the Galdurian

Beatrice (Bea) lives with her grandfather in the land of Irpa. She helps her grandad make his potions that he .....

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These Witches Don't Burn Book Review Cover

These Witches Don’t Burn

Life is very complicated at the moment for Hannah. Not only is she trying to get over a painful breakup .....

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Strangeworlds Travel Agency Book Review Cover

The Strangeworlds Travel Agency (1)

Flick (Felicity) knew there was something different about the scruffy little shop with the neat red and gold sign. What .....

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Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows Book Review Cover

Wednesday Weeks (1) and the Tower of Shadows

Wednesday loves Science, but she’s having trouble passing her School Science tests. Lately, every time she performs a class experiment, .....

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Lightfall 2 Shadow of the Bird Book Review Cover

Lightfall (2) Shadow of the Bird

Bea and Cad are still looking for her Grandfather, the Pig Wizard. After their dangerous adventure together they have discovered .....

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Lightfall (3) The Dark Times Book Review Cover

Lightfall (3) The Dark Times

Bea, her grandfather the Pig Wizard, and her Galdurian friend Cadwallader are in a group of refugees fleeing the battle .....

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Shadow and Bone Book Review Cover

Shadow and Bone (1) Grisha Trilogy

Alina Starkov and Malyen Oretsev have been practically inseparable since growing up together in an orphanage in Ravka. Now teens, .....

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Siege and Storm Book Review Cover

Siege and Storm (2) The Grisha Trilogy

Sailing on the True Sea and far from The Fold and all the havoc and death she helped The Darkness .....

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Ruin and Rising Book Review Cover

Ruin and Rising (3) Grisha Trilogy

After escaping The Darkling yet again, Alina, Mal and the scant remnants of her 2nd army, are holed deep below .....

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The Tunnel of Dreams Book Review Cover

The Tunnel of Dreams

Twins are special and identical twins even more so. Little do identical twins Arlo and Stefan know they contain powerful .....

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The Thing at Black Hole Lake Book Review Cover

Sticky Pines (2) The Thing at Black Hole Lake

Cripesauce, Crudberries & Fudgesicles! Something strange is STILL happening in the small town of Sticky Pines. Budding cryptozoologist Lucy has .....

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The Paper Bag Princess Book Review Cover

The Paper Bag Princess

Princess Elizabeth is very much in love with her Prince – Ronald. They were destined to be married, until… A .....

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Wolf Girl 7 Crash Course Book Review Cover

Wolf Girl (7) Crash Course

After saving hundred’s of animals, and now in charge of a train, Gwen appreciates the much faster way to travel. .....

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The Left-Handed Booksellers of London Book Review Cover

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London (1)

Now that Susan is 18, she is determined to move to London to find her father. Over the years her .....

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The Sinister Booksellers of Bath Book Review Cover

The Sinister Booksellers of Bath (2)

A few months have passed since Susan’s search for her father revealed another world that lives alongside our own. With .....

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The Boy who Grew Dragons Book Review Cover

The Boy who Grew Dragons (1)

Have you ever wanted your very own dragon? Maybe you’ve dreamed about flying on one high above your town or .....

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The Boy who Sang with Dragons Book Review Cover

The Boy who Sang with Dragons (5)

There is no shortage of dragons now from Grandpa’s garden Dragon fruit tree, and Tomas’ new little dragon Zing is .....

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A Monster Calls Book Review Cover

A Monster Calls

A Monster has come walking. A Monster as old as time. He expects an answer to a question. He wants .....

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The Dragon Defenders (1)

Paddy & his older brother live on an island with their parents and little sister Ada. They have never seen .....

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Dragon Defenders (2) The Pitbull Returns

The Pitbull (menacing leader of the gang that raided Paddy and Flynn’s island in book 1), is waiting for his .....

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The Dragon Defenders (3)

The Pitbull is intent on claiming his revenge. Paddy & Flynn have made him look a fool, outsmarting him yet .....

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The Dragon Defenders (4) All is Lost

The adventures continue with Paddy and Flynn, and their new friend Briar along for the ride. Enjoying the island and .....

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Brasswitch & Bot Book Review Cover

Rise of the Remarkables (1) Brasswitch and Bot

If Wrench (Wren Chester-Harris) hadn’t saved dozens of lives including her own, she wouldn’t now be sitting in an electric .....

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Starfell (1) Willow and the Lost Day

Willow Moss is the youngest in her family of witches. Her mother can speak to the dead and her sister .....

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The Thaumagician's Revenge

Rise of the Remarkables (2) The Thaumagician’s Revenge

Wrench is still reeling from her battle with Plum and an Old God keen to rip their world apart. Her .....

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