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One for Sorrow

By Philip Caveney - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Philip Caveney continues his time-travelling series with a well-plotted, fast-paced story that sees our hero, Tom Afflick, returning to 1882 Edinburgh to encounter the ...Read Review

I Was Only Nineteen

By Craig Smith (illus.) - By John Schumann - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

This picture book tells its moving story in simple verses and beautiful water-colour illustrations. The text is composed of the words of a ...Read Review

Behind the Walls

By Nicola Pierce - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This novel tells the story of the siege of Derry in 1688, at the time of the accession of a Catholic monarch, James II, ...Read Review

Black Beauty

By Anna Sewell - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This re-issue of a classic Victorian children’s novel tells the story of Black Beauty – a beautiful black horse whose life takes him ...Read Review

Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods

By Rick Riordan - Published 2014

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Rick Riordan, writing as his no-nonsense hero Percy Jackson, has pulled off a funny and informative introduction to Greek mythology. Of course, the ...Read Review