Books From The Stars

"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...

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 ...