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MICHAEL BOND Micael bond was a British author famous for the paddington bear series, He also wrote monsier Pamplemousse about a French detective and The adventures of a guinea pig (Olga de Polga). He was born on the 13 January 1926 and died 91 years later. He started writing in 1945 in the army in Cairo. He was an amazing author and will be missed by all.
"I did try. He'd died for our country, people said. He was a hero." Rating: 11+ Pages:274 Published : June 1st 2017 Authors website: https://emmacarrollauthor.wordpress.com/ February 1941, Bomb blast .... A Chance encounter... Her mother's coat... This is all Olive can remember from the night her sister Sukie went missing. Unsafe or live and her brother at evacuated to the Devonshire coast to stay with mysterious lighthouse keeper. There Oliver must solve the mystery of her own strange coded Nick that seems to like to Suki to Devon to something dark and Impossible dangerous. My review: The thing that drew me in was the beautiful cover and the first words, some parts were sad, others tense and a couple so surprising. It is set in the world war about a girl called Olive and her brother Cliff who get evacuated to Devon and their sister Sukie who mysteriously disappeared in a raid. This is definitely one to watch out for and an incoming ...
"Stepping onto then shop floor was like stepping inside a chocolate box" You are cordially invited to attend the Grand Opening of Sinclair’s department store! Enter a world of bonbons, hats, perfumes and MYSTERIES around every corner. WONDER at the daring theft of the priceless CLOCKWORK SPARROW! TREMBLE as the most DASTARDLY criminals in London enact their wicked plans! GASP as our bold heroines, Miss Sophie Taylor and Miss Lilian Rose, CRACK CODES, DEVOUR ICED BUNS and vow to bring the villians to justice… rating:11+ pages:320 published: June 4th 2015 authors website: http://katherinewoodfine.co.uk MY REVEIW: This book other page turning mystery from children's literature I was hooked from this first sentence. It is all set around in 1910 London in a department store called sinclair's with the heroines Sophie Taylor and Lillian rose.The wonderful thing about this was the codes you could crack making you feel like you were part of the story.The story r...
"That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift" pages: 238 published: January 1st 1997 authors website: http://www.gailcarsonlevine.com/books.html rating: 11+ Ella can not wait to be free of lucinda's awful gift and finely be herself, but its intro that easy as she knows at an moment anyone can order her to Hop on one foot, betray her friend, marry a prince.... MY REVIEW: I decided to read this because I had watched the film. At first I loved the film but then I read the book and realised the film was terrible compared to the book. From the moment I read this first page I was completely hooked it took me two days (4 hours if I read non-stop) This was very enjoyable however there are slightly tricky words that I stumbled on a bit as this book is written in a old English style. ...
"Scarlet and I were mirror twins, Before we were born are mother thought she was having only one baby, but then I arrived-a slightly smaller weaker version of my sister, But a perfect mirror image" pages:304 published:May 3rd 2016 authors website: http://www.hapfairy.co.uk When shy Ivy's troublemaking twin Scarlet vanishes from Rookwood boarding school, Ivy is invited to "take her place." But when Ivy arrives, she discovers the school's true intention; she has to pretend to be Scarlet. She must think like Scarlet, act like Scarlet, become Scarlet. What on earth happened to the real Scarlet, and why is the school trying to keep it a secret? Luckily for Ivy, Scarlet isn't about to disappear without a fight. She's left pieces of her journal carefully hidden all over the school for Ivy to find. Ivy's going to figure out what happened to Scarlet. She's got to. But the staff of Rookwood is always watching, and they'll do an...
Since the accident, Lord Goth has taken to believing that children should heard and not seen." Rating: 9+ pages:220 published: September 12th 2013 Authors websites: http://www.chrisriddell.co.uk Meet Ada Goth. She lives in Ghastly-Gorm Hall with her father, Lord Goth, lots of servants and at least half a dozen ghosts, but she hasn't got any friends to explore her enormous, creepy house with. Then, one night, everything changes when Ada meets a ghostly mouse called Ishmael. Together they set out to solve the mystery of the strange happenings at Ghastly-Gorm Hall, and get a lot more than they bargained for... MY REVIEW: This book took me a while to get into but once I got into it ,it was great. Ada's father believe children should be heard but not seen and this is what the book is based around.Ada is a strong and independent role model and has a bunch of weird and wonderful fri...
"If you are interested in stories with happy endings, you would be better of reading some other book. In this book there is no happy beginning, there is no happy ending and very few happy things happen in middle." Rating:10+ Pages: 176 authors websites: https//www.danielhandler.com Dear Reader, I'm sorry to say that the book you are holding in your hands is extremely unpleasant. It tells an unhappy tale about three very unlucky children. Even though they are charming and clever, the Baudelaire siblings lead lives filled with misery and woe. From the very first page of this book when the children are at the beach and receive terrible news, continuing on through the entire story, disaster lurks at their heels. One might say they are magnets for misfortune. In this short book alone, the three youngsters encounter a greedy and repulsive villain, itchy clothing, a disastrous fire, a plot to steal their fortune, and cold porridge for breakfast. It is my sad dut...
Rating:11+ Pages:324 Published: 5th June 2014 Authors website: http://robin-stevens.co.uk/ " Daisy wants me to explain what happened up to the to time of the murder she says that is what proper detectives do." Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secret detective agency, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. (Unless you count the case of Lavinia's missing tie. Which they don't, really.) But then Hazel discovers the Science Mistress, Miss Bell, lying dead in the Gym. She thinks it must all have been a terrible accident - but when she and Daisy return five minutes later, the body has disappeared. Now the girls know a murder must have taken place . . . and there's more than one person at Deepdean with a motive. Now Hazel and Daisy not only have a murder to solve: they have to prove a murder happened in the first place. Determined to get to the ...