By Abi Elphinstone (Simon & Schuster Children’s UK)
‘A voice is a mighty thing, Eska. When everything is taken from you – your family, your home, your friends, your dignity – you still have a voice, however weak it sounds.’
Tag: friendship
Give It A Go! Gaslight | Review
By Eloise Williams (Firefly Press)
Rescued by her uncle Sid after her mother disappears, Nansi lives a miserable existence doing turns in the theatre and thieving for her benefactor, in the hope of one day being able to afford to hire a detective to find her mother.
Out Now: The Chocolate Factory Ghost
By author David O’Connell, with illustrations by Claire Powell (Bloomsbury Publishing)
When Archie McBudge finds out that he is heir to a sweet-making dynasty, it takes him and his Mum completely by surprise.
Everything from now on should be perfect; after all, isn’t it every child’s dream to own a sweet factory?
Out Now: Letters from The Lighthouse
By Emma Carroll (Faber & Faber)
Set in World War II, this thrilling and tense mystery adventure will keep you guessing to the very end!
Give It A Go! Rabbit and Bear: Rabbit’s Bad Habits
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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Give It A Go! Murder Most Unladylike
Murder Most Unladylike – Robin Stevens
AR Level: 5.8
Back to the golden age of murder mysteries!
Great Reads Revisited: Plundering Paradise
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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