By Julian Gough, with illustrations by Jim Field (Hodder Children’s)
Woken early from hibernation by a robber leaving her cave, Bear discovers a snowstorm raging outside. Well, if she can’t sleep, then she may as well do something she has always wanted to – build a snowman!
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Murder Most Unladylike – Robin Stevens
AR Level: 5.8
Back to the golden age of murder mysteries!
By Geraldine McCaughrean (Oxford University Press)
A swashbuckling adventure set in the 1700s.
‘Cold gnawed on him like a rat.
Around him, the dun and grey blankets of the other beds rose and fell like the swell of a bleak, dirty sea.
Nathan had no idea what had woken him – he was still exhausted – and yet some upheaval had washed him up above the waterline of sleep. He was afraid, without knowing why.’
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