Category: YA & Children’s
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Review – Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Paperback: 563 pages Publisher: Scholastic Publication date: 01 May 2005ISBN13: 9780439709101 One cruel night, Meggie’s father reads aloud from a book called INKHEART– and an evil ruler escapes the boundaries of fiction and lands in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie is smack in the middle of the kind of adventure she has only read about…
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Review – The Cat Kin by Nick Green
Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Lulu Press Publication date: 01 Jan 2005ISBN13: 9781411664234 Everyone who came across the strange gym class was looking for something else. What they found was Mrs Powell – mysterious Mrs Powell with her silent feet, unnerving stare and merciless warm-up exercises. What they found was pashki, a lost art from an…
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Review – Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Indigo Publication date: 6 June 2013 ISBN13: 9781780621418 First Line – “The Servants called them malecnchki, little ghosts, because they were the smallest and the youngest, and because they haunted the Duke’s house like giggling phantoms, darting in and out of rooms, hiding in cupboards to eavesdrop, sneaking into the kitchen…
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Before I Fall – Lauren Oliver
They say ‘live every day as if it’s your last’ – but you never actually think it’s going to be. At least I didn’t. The thing is, you don’t get to know when it happens. You don’t remember to tell your family that you love them or – in my case – remember to say…
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Numbers – Rachel Ward
Since her mother’s death, fifteen-year-old Jem has kept a secret. When her eyes meet someone else’s, a number pops into her head the date on which they will die. Knowing that nothing lasts forver, Jem avoids relationships, but when she meets a boy called Spider, and they plan a day out together, her life takes…
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Darkangel – Meredith Ann Pierce
The Darkangel, a vampire of astounding beauty and youth, can only summon his full power when he finds his 14th and final bride. But for Aeriel, whom he kidnaps to serve his brides, there is something about him – something beyond his obvious evil – that makes her want to save him rather than destroy…
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Graceling – Kristin Cashore
In a world where people born with an exceptional skill, known as a Grace, are feared and exploited, Katsa carries the burden of a skill even she despises: the Grace of killing. She lives under the command of her Uncle Randa, King of the Middluns, and is expected to carry out his dirty work, punnishing…
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The Cat Kin –
Everyone who came across the strange gym class was looking for something else. What they found was mysterious Mrs Powell with her silent feet and unnerving stare and pashki, a lost art from an age when cats were worshipped as gods. But Ben and Tiffany wonder: who is their eccentric old teacher? What does she…
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Inkspell – Cornelia Funke
Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of the extraordinary events of Inkheart, and the story whose characters strode out of the pages, and changed her life for ever. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater, torn from his world of words, the need to return has become desperate. When he…