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The Accident Season by Moira Fowley-Doyle – Book of the Week

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This week’s Book of the Week is an imaginative, almost dream-like story.

It’s the accident season, the same time every year. Bones beak, skin tears, bruises bloom.

The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara’s life for as long as she can remember: a month of mysterious injuries and tragedies, which casts a constant shadow over Cara and her family.

This year, the accident season will break more than just bones. Because Cara is starting to ask questions – and all her family’s secrets will rise to the surface.

Day 9 of the Library Advent Calendar

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hauntingThe 9th day on the advent calendar has gone spooky…

It’s Christmas Eve and a group of friends have gathered ’round a fireside. As a hushed anticipation falls over the group, the only sound is the hiss of logs on the fire. Warmed by their intimacy, the friends begin to tell tales – eerie tales of restless spirits eternally condemned to walk the earth. Tales that will haunt you long after you have closed the pages of this book…

The Creeping Shadow, by Jonathan Stroud – Book of the Week

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the_creeping_shadow_ukThis week’s Book of the Week is the latest creepy installment in the Lockwood & Co series – but Lucy is no longer part of the team…

A city besieged by spirits? A cannibal risen from the dead? There’s only one ghost-hunting team you need…

But Lockwood & Co. is an agent down – Lucy Carlyle is now a freelance operative.

And they have a lot on their plate: monstrous handprints on a window, sinister chopping sounds from a haunted kitchen… Not to mention the Creeping Shadow – a hulking menace that stalks a village churchyard, raising spectres from their graves.

The team desperately needs Lucy’s help. If she can be persuaded to return…

The Whispers Of Wilderwood Hall by Karen McCombie – Book Review

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the-whispers-of-wilderwood-hallI thought The Whispers Of Wilderwood Hall was really good, however it didn’t surprise me that much with the ending which was particularly predictable. All in All it wasn`t a bad book and it was a really nice story about learning to cope with change.

Jessica’s Ghost by Andrew Norriss, reviewed by misssallylockhart

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Jessica's Ghost

Francis has never had a friend like Jessica before. She’s the first person he’s ever met who can make him feel completely himself.

Jessica has never had a friend like Francis before. not just because he’s someone to laugh with every day-but because he’s the first person who has ever been able to see her…

Jessica’s Ghost is a fantastic novel by Andrew Norriss, which tells the tale of Francis a young boy who would rather spend time on his own rather with friends. That is until one cold February morning he meets Jessica, a young ghost who no one has seen for exactly a year until she sees Francis looking and talking to her. They begin to grow a close friendship as Jessica notices that only her new friend can communicate with her which makes her feel uneasy. The story is well written and I recommend this to anyone who loves books that are funny yet moving.

The Hollow Boy by Jonathan Stroud, reviewed by MG

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The Hollow BoyLockwood & Co return in the new book The Hollow Boy. A new mystery awaits with a paranormal epidemic spreading throughout London putting the team’s abilities to the test.

I would recommend this book to lovers of the paranormal and fans of the series. The two previous books the Screaming Staircase and the Whispering Skull are recommended reads as well. The Hollow Boy includes witty humour and ghostly surprises. Not for the faint of heart.

Book of the Week – The Piper, by Danny Weston

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The PiperThis week’s book of the week is a creepy, spine tingling, atmospheric story about a mysterious ghostly piper and the children who dance to his tune. It’s guaranteed to make you lose sleep…

On the eve of World War Two, Peter and Daisy are evacuated to a remote farmhouse. From the moment they arrive, they are aware that something evil haunts the place. Who plays the eerie music that can only be heard at night? And why is Daisy so irresistibly drawn to it? When Peter uncovers a dark family secret, he begins to realise that his sister is in terrible danger, and to save her he must face an ancient curse…

 

New Books in the Library – Valentine Joe, by Rebecca Stevens

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ValentineJoeValentine Joe by Rebecca Stevens is a ghost story, set in World War One and is one of the Branford Boase longlist books – I’m reading my way through them all, and we will eventually put them on display in the library.

He was 15. Old enough to fight. Too young to die.

Rose goes to Ypres in Belgium to visit the graves of those who died in the Great War. There, the name of one boy stays in her mind: fifteen-year-old Valentine Joe. That night, Rose hears marching and when she looks out of her window, she sees a young soldier…

Valentine Joe Strudwick (who is buried at Essex Farm, one of the places our Battlefields Trip visits) was a real person, a boy who signed up at the age of fourteen, and died before his sixteenth birthday. This story is based on the author’s grandfather and the real Valentine.

Book of the Week – Ghost Soldier by Theresa Breslin

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GhostSoldierGhost Soldier is the story of Rob and Millie who live in the Scottish Borders. Ambulance trains go through where they live heading for Edinburgh, and when one stops to take on water, Rob and Millie get on board to see if anyone knows where their father, who is missing in action, might be.blurb

The back of the book says:

The ambulance trains in this story were real. On the History Girls blog, Theresa Breslin has written a fascinating article about what she found out about them when she was researching for Ghost Soldier.