What is it with series? I always seem to make the mistake of starting one and then finding that I have set myself up for another few novels, usually very long, or that they have not finished the series and I have to wait another year for the conclusion or the next part!
In this case, [...]
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One of our avid Year 8 readers told me about this the other day so I dutifully bought and read it over the weekend. The things we do!
It continues the story which ended on the VERY LAST PAGE CLIFFHANGER of Six Ancient Stones featuring Jack West and concerns the discovery of the Pillars which [...]
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Phillip Gwynne is the award-winning author of such books as Deadly Unna? and this is his latest. Like Deadly Unna?, it deals with a male teenager who has to find himself and come to terms with issues of family and love. There is no race discourse in Swerve and it seems to be less complex [...]
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This is the second in the Hunger Games trilogy and it is as great as the first! For those late to the scene, the Hunger Games are a set of colosseum-like challenges set in an arena for the benefit of wealthy spectators in the Capitol of this dystopian world. Katniss and Peeta, the heroes from [...]
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The latest blockbuster novel has arrived and I have done my duty, finally finishing the 500+ pages last night. I will try not to reveal anything about the novel’s plot here but it basically follows a similar line to The Da Vinci Code, except it is set in Washington DC, not Rome/Europe, and is [...]
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Arrival is the latest in a line of teen-action books that have graced our shelves. It is fast-paced and concerns a small group of teens who have ended up in a small purpose-built town in the Australian bush. The mystery involves the town’s purpose : why is it there? what do the strange officials do? [...]
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Most of the fantasy I read is fairly typical of the genre: young men dashing around the countryside, fighting demons or dragons or other such beasts, going on quests, looking for mystical gems and so on. They really appeal to boys (or men who were once boys!) in their content and their covers.
How refreshing then [...]
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