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...

"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...

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 ...