1. The Recruit – Robert Muchamore
2. Out of Shadows – Jason Wallace
3. The Bride’s Farewell – Meg Rosoff
4. White Crow – Marcus Sedgwick
5. The Death Defying Pepper Roux – Geraldine McCaughrean
6. Rise of the Heroes – Andy Briggs
7. Stolen – Lucy Christopher
8. Diary of a Wimpy Kid – Jeff Kinney
9. The Last Straw – Jeff Kinney
10. Dog Days – Jeff Kinney
This book has been on our Number One list so many
times. Definitely a favourite of all the students. Having
just read it myself I can definitely see why. Lots of action
and adventure. If you haven’t tried it yet and want a
gripping read make sure you take it out. There are
currently 12 books in this series. Mrs Phelan
Displays
New Books and Jenna Burtenshaw
Authors
Need some inspiration
Check out the display on new
books and authors
There are some
fantastic new titles in
Author of the Wintercraft Series
the LRC at the moment
Facts about the author
She will also be visiting a group of
English students to talk about her
book and how she got published.
Well this was a real tough one and the judges had
a really hard time picking the winners. All of your
pets were absolutely gorgeous, but in the end
these were the winners:
Cutest Pet
1st Place No. 16 Indy – Owner Miss Wade
Runner Up No. 1 Henry – Owner Mrs Dickinson
Best Shot Photograph
1st Place No. 12 Rolo – Owner Pippa Hastell
Runner Up No. 6 Freddie – Owner Mrs Palfrey
Please could the winners come and collect
their prizes and I have a little something for all
the students who took part also.
Do pop up and have a look at all the
pictures, they are great.
New Book Additions –
Ten years ago Kate Winters’ parents The Mortal War is over, and Book 1
were taken by the High Council’s sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is Imagine you're the only boy in a
wardens to help with the country’s back home in New York, excited town of men. And you can hear
war effort. about all the possibilities before everything they think. And they
Now the wardens are her. She's training to become a can hear everything you think.
back...and prisoners, including Shadowhunter and – most Imagine you don't fit in with their
Kate's uncle Artemis, are taken importantly of all – she can plans... Todd Hewitt is just one
south on the terrifying Night Train. finally call Jace her boyfriend. month away from the birthday
Kate and her friend Edgar are But nothing comes without a that will make him a man. But
hunted by a far more dangerous price. Someone is murdering his town has been keeping
the Shadowhunters who used to secrets from him. Secrets that
enemy. Silas Dane – the High
be in Valentine's Circle, are going to force him to run...
Council’s most feared man –
provoking tensions between
recognises Kate as one of the
Downworlders and
Skilled; a rare group of people able Shadowhunters that could lead
to see through the veil between the to a second, bloody war. And
living and the dead. His spirit was when Jace begins to pull away
damaged by the High Council’s
experiments into the veil, and he’s from her without explaining
convinced that Kate can undo the why, Clary is forced to delve
damage and allow him to find peace. into the heart of a mystery
The knowledge Kate needs lies whose solution reveals her
within Wintercraft – a book thought worst nightmare: she herself
to be hidden deep beneath the has set in motion a terrible
graveyard city of Fume. But the chain of events that could lead
Night of Souls, when the veil to her losing everything she
between life and death is at its loves. Even Jace.
thinnest, is just days away and the
High Council have their own sinister
plans for Kate and Wintercraft.
Book 2 Rowan Love is thirteen and full An orphaned boy escapes from
Fleeing before a relentless army, of good intentions ... so why the terrible dark cellar where he
Todd has carried a desperately does life keep going so wrong? is apprenticed to grind
wounded Viola right into the hands Her teachers think she's dippy spellstones, stones which can be
of their worst enemy, Mayor and disorganized, her best shaped to wield great magical
Prentiss. Immediately separated friend has new mates, and power. Escaping this shadowy
from Viola and imprisoned, Todd is nobody appreciates her unique world is punishable by death, but
forced to learn the ways of the fashion sense. Maybe keeping a when captured the boy claims a
Mayor's new order. But what diary will help Wander through stay of execution under an old
secrets are hiding just outside of Rowan's funny and fabulous and almost fogotten law. If he
town? And where is Viola? Is she journal and find out all about can reach the coast and flee the
even still alive? And who are the hero worship, fairy lights, country within eight days, he will
mysterious Answer? And then, one guardian angels, and making be free. But the boy's daring
day, the bombs begin to explode... hair accessories out of sweet escape has also come to the
The Ask and the Answer is a tense, wrappers! attention of the most powerful
shocking and deeply moving novel man in the land, the Protector,
of resistance under the most and he believes there must be far
extreme pressure. more to the boy than his humble
spellgrinding background. The
Protector is convinced that the
boy possesses some skill in earth
magic, the magic which the
Protector tried to irradicate and
replace with the unnatural and
unstable spellstone wizardry of
his own. If this boy can wield
earth magic, then maybe others
can too. The boy must be
captured at all costs - the
Protector must learn what the
boy knows, and whether he is the
harbinger of the Protector's
downfall. The chase begins.
Page-turning romance for teens -- When Paul runs away from When Naomi tries to piece back
books to make your heart beat home he plans to head down to the fragments of the last three
faster! Lucy knows she's really London and a new life, away and a half years of her life, she
lucky. Her boyfriend Josh is from his awful stepfather and discovers a lot. She has a
handsome, thoughtful and away from all the things that boyfriend but can't remember
sensitive, and even after two years make him unhappy in him, her mother and father are
together, they're still madly in love. Newcastle. But rather than divorced, and she has forgotten
But then Lucy meets Kyle. She running away from stress he that she is supposed to hate her
feels an instant attraction that's too runs straight into one whole lot mother. She also has a group of
hard to resist. Soon she knows she of trouble and into the arms of a friends which simply doesn't
just has to be with Kyle, but if she radical organisation intent on seem that attractive any more
leaves Josh, she'll be losing a part upsetting the country-wide and, despite having meticulously
of herself. She can't keep seeing surveillance system that kept a diary, she only mentioned
both of them... or can she? watches our every move. But what she ate every day in it! But
are the people as principled as it's not all bad, because when a
they would like Paul to think, or girl loses three and a half years
do they have dark secrets? she gets a chance to reinvent
herself. After all, who is to say
that everything has to be the
same?
Having fought attempts to turn her dad who also lives in to be fun...
into a mini-me popstarlett in book Manhattan, it should (officially)
1, Holly finds herself subjected to be the start of the summer
her mother's egomaniac schemes holidays, and there's always a
once again. Plucked from life and chance that teenage boys in
friends in London, Holly is New York will be more
transplanted to a 'designer' but far- enlightened to her charms than
from-homely penthouse in New boys in England...If she can find
York (the convenient epicentre for a way to get rid of her personal
her mother's music tour). Holly is tutor, give her bodyguard the
not impressed. But then when she slip, and keep her mother from
starts to take stock of her situation, coming up with any new crazy
Holly realises it may not be as schemes in the immediate
entirely awful as she first thought: future (no easy job), then
she'll be able to see more of her maybe things could even start