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Rabbit and Bear (6) This Lake is Fake Book Review Cover

Rabbit and Bear (6) This Lake is Fake!

Rabbit and Bear have woken in their cave. It’s smelly and messy and Rabbit isn’t happy. Bear points out they’ve .....

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The Screaming Staircase Book Cover Jonathan Stroud

Lockwood & Co (1) The Screaming Staircase

50 years ago, an upsurge of spirits and ghosts took over Britain, spurring new laws, night time curfews, ghost lighting .....

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Lockwood & Co - The Whispering Skull Book Cover Jonathan Stroud

Lockwood & Co (2) The Whispering Skull

Lucy and George are back in the second book in this series, with their enigmatic but slightly deceptive boss – .....

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Lockwood & Co (3) The Hollow Boy

Lucy’s special skill with ghosts is growing stronger, and with it her confidence as part of the team of three .....

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The Pug Who Wanted to be a Unicorn Book Review Cover

The Pug who wanted to be a Unicorn

Peggy the pug’s owner can’t cope with her puppy ways anymore and she is abandoned at a dog shelter. Luckily .....

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The Train to Impossible Places Book Review Cover

The Train to Impossible Places (1)

At 11 yrs old, Suzy Smith is smart. She loves science, especially physics, always keen to know how the world .....

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The Creeping Shadow Book Review Cover

Lockwood & Co (4) The Creeping Shadow

After her shocking decision to leave her job and home Lucy has a new place to live, albeit a very .....

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Lockwood & Co The Empty Grave Book Review Cover

Lockwood & Co (5) The Empty Grave

Lucy wouldn’t normally trust what her sarcastic, cranky, skull in a jar says – but the information he’s given her .....

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I Killed Father Christmas

When Jo-jo’s parents have the biggest argument on Christmas Eve, he hears the words – “You’ve killed Christmas.” Instantly believing .....

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Mortal Engines (3) Infernal Devices

16 years have passed. Hester and Tom have lived happily at Anchorage raising their daughter Wren. Wren has grown up .....

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Jane Doe (1) And The Cradle of All Worlds

Jane Doe has grown up looking after her bed-ridden father and told she brings bad luck to her town of .....

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The Raven Boys

Blue lives in a house full of psychics, her mother being one of them. Blue doesn’t share her mother’s gifts .....

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Hilda and the Hidden People (1)

Hilda lives in a magical valley inhabited by trolls, deer-fox (half deer, half fox), little wooden men and giants. She .....

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Liars – The Truth App

A brown ute comes out of nowhere and smashes into Jarli and his dad in their car. To make things .....

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Five Nights at Freddy's Book Review Cover

Five Nights at Freddy’s (1) The Silver Eyes

It’s been 10 years since it happened. 10 years of putting it out of her mind, concentrating on everything but .....

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Yours Troolie, Alice Toolie

Alice Toolie is mortified. Her arch enemy Jimmy Cook has found and read her diary. This is the final straw, .....

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Real Pigeons Fight Crime

Rock Pigeon loves to dress up. Is it a rabbit? Is it a chicken? Or is it a pile of .....

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Elementals (2) Scorch Dragons

Anders is now with his sister Rayna at Drekhelm, her new home among the dragons he always thought were the .....

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Elementals - Battleborn Book Review Cover

Elementals (3) Battleborn

Ice wolf Anders, Dragon and sister Rayna, and a mix of both dragon and human friends have fled from the .....

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The Hazel Wood

Alice and her mum have always been on the move. Bad luck seems to plague them wherever they try to .....

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The Wild Robot Protects (3)

Roz the robot is happy back in her island home, especially when her gosling son, Brightbill returns with his flock .....

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Mission Unpluckable – The Bad Guys (2)

The pictures and antics of these characters had me laughing out loud. Mission Unpluckable – I enjoyed this episode of .....

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Captain Jimmy Cook Discovers (2) X marks the Spot

Jimmy is at it again. Doing stuff he shouldn’t, causing chaos and mayhem and not understanding what the fuss is .....

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Flying Furballs (7) Breakout

Just when Claude and Syd are planning to celebrate their latest mission, news arrives that their comrades in the White .....

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Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja (1)

Chase Cooper is glad his cousin Zoe goes to his new school, otherwise he wouldn’t know anyone. Zoe is a .....

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The Illuminae Files (1) Illuminae

This novel is entirely made up of military type transcripts of interviews, emails, surveillance footage summaries between all of the .....

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Clover Moon

11 yr old Clover Moon doesn’t go to school. She has to stay home and look after her many step .....

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Chook Doolan The Newest Pet Book Review Cover

Chook Doolan – The Newest Pet

Simon Doolan has a nickname – Chook, which is another name for chicken. He is scared of everything. When his .....

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Timmy Failure (5) The Book You’re Not Supposed to Have

Timmy is in disguise at the start of this book. His mum has banned him from his detective business – .....

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The Crooked Sixpence (1) The Uncommoners

The world of Lundinor that has been built by this author is exceptionally clever. A touch of Diagon Alley, a .....

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