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Smuggler’s Kiss
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultNautical
Set in the Georgian period, the story centres around wealthy 15-year-old Isabelle, who finds her circumstances dramatically changed and, in despair, tries to ...Read Review
The Positively Last Performance
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The Theatre Royal, Seashaw, has been closed for two years and mould is wreaking havoc with the décor. Only ghosts live here ...Read Review
Song Hunter
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40,000 BC, and an Ice Age looms. The Stonemen, a small Neanderthal clan, have just killed a mammoth in preparation for winter, but, though ...Read Review
A Little Princess
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London, 1905. Sara Crewe, heiress to a diamond mine, leaves India and her beloved Papa to go to Miss Minchin’s School for Young ...Read Review
The Girl in the Mask
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Sophia is an intelligent, energetic girl who reads Aphra Behn’s plays, rides horses and is a crack shot. She also has a ...Read Review
Sigrun’s Secret
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Sigrun’s Secret is a good read, particularly suitable for 12+ girls. Set in the Viking era, it focuses closely on the life of ...Read Review
The Museum’s Secret
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip
Eleven-year-old Tom Scatterhorn has problems. His mother has gone to Mongolia to find his missing entomologist father, and Tom must stay with his ...Read Review
Wolf Cry
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In a village in Norway 880 AD, Toki, son of Jarl Ohthere, is left in charge of his village and is caring for his ...Read Review
The Eagle of the Ninth Chronicles
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMilitary
It is pleasing to be able to report the re-issue of Rosemary Sutcliff’s trilogy, The Eagle of the Ninth, The Silver Branch ...Read Review
Hazel
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In 1913, thirteen-year-old Hazel Mull-Dare has a comfortable, yet unconventional life in London with a mother who is obsessed with dogs and a father ...Read Review
