Melvin Burgess |
Andersen Press |
1842701800 |
Jun 2006 |
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Archives for July 2006
On the Summer House Steps
Anne Fine |
Corgi |
0552552690 |
Jun 2006 |
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Anne Fine’s first two novels for children, ‘The Summer House Loon’ and ‘The Other Darker Ned’ are conflated with a brief bridging interlude under the new title ‘On the Summerhouse Steps’. |
Becoming Bindy Mackenzie
Jaclyn Moriarty |
Macmillan Children’s Books |
0330438840 |
May 2006 |
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Think of the laughs with Louise Rennison’ think of the angst in Jacqueline Wilson, then’ think again! Jaclyn Moriarty is endowed with an all-too-rare ability not only to write convincingly using the voices of teenagers with their curious mix of laconic wit and personal anguish, but also to weave around this devilish plots that keeps readers caught dually between delight and deduction’ |
The Spook’s Secret
Joseph Delaney, ills. David Wyatt |
The Bodley Head |
0370328280 |
Jul 2006 |
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Located firmly amidst the legend and lore of Lancashire, Joseph Delaney’s ‘The Wardstone Chronicles’ are curios amidst the trend for series fiction. Whilst each of the stories is inter-connected, sharing at heart a base of the same characters, a ‘local-to-Lancashire’ setting and the premise that the dark is growing in power, each story also very much stands on its own. |
Deogratias
J. P. Stassen, Transl. Alexis Siegel |
First Second |
1596431032 |
Jun 2006 |
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Stassen beautifully captures the colour and the sense of calm of the Rwandan environs by day and by night in ‘Deogratias’. There is an appalling juxtaposition between this and the horrors perpetrated against the Tutsi as the Hutu vie for supremacy of the land in the aftermath of colonial ‘divide and rule’ tactics. |
Stink and the Incredible Super-Galactic Jawbreaker
Megan McDonald ill. Peter H Reynolds |
Walker Books |
0744583691 |
Jul 2006 |
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Tashi and the Forbidden Room
Anna and Barbara Fienberg ill. Kim Gamble |
Allen and Unwin Children’s Books |
174114731X |
May 2006 |
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The twelfth book in the series about Tashi, ‘Tashi and the Forbidden Room’ sees the hero regale his audience, within which readers become cleverly included, with two further tales from his time back in the village’ |
Do Not Read or Else
Pat Moon ill. Sarah Naylor |
Orchard Books |
1846160820 |
Jun 2006 |
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The amorphous, ponderous style of Finch’s narration and its informal typography belie what is at heart a sophisticated instalment in the self-chronicled life of Finch Penny. As with the previous two novels in the series, ‘Do not read this book’ and ‘Do not read any further’, the novel is written in diary form with zany, child-like illustrations provided by Sarah Nayler. |
Scarlett
Cathy Cassidy |
Puffin Books |
0141320222 |
Jun 2006 |
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The Death Gene
Malcolm Rose |
Simon and Schuster |
0689875096 |
Jun 2006 |
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”all these amazing twists of fate couldn’t happen purely by chance. They were firm evidence of a God who was orchestrating everything. And that would convince them that the were carrying out His will. Karl believed more in bad luck than in God.’ |