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Wolf Children by Paul Dowswell – Book of the Week

This week’s Book of the Week is a historical novel by Paul Dowswell, set just after the end of World War II.

1945. Berlin has fallen.

Hitler’s Third Reich has finally surrendered, leaving Germany’s capital in ruins. Sixteen-year-old Otto is living on the edge of survival with his brother and friends in a desperate, bombed-out city.

The war may be over, but danger lurks in the shadows of the wreckage. Caught between invading armies, ruthless gangs and the constant threat of starvation, Otto and his friends must learn to stay alive.

But the Nazi regime left psychological wounds that are slow to heal: rifts arise in their little group and terrible secrets surface when a sinister figure emerges from the darkness…

Other exciting books by Paul Dowswell in this library include Eleven Eleven, Wave and The Cabinet of Curiosities. Look for them in Junior Fiction.

Moth Girls by Anne Cassidy – Book of the Week

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This week’s Book of the Week is an exciting thriller from Anne Cassidy, about two twelve-year-old girls who go missing…

Helplessly drawn like moths to the flame.

Five years have passed since two young girls, Petra Armstrong and Tina Pointer, went missing. As the anniversary draws nearer, Mandy is haunted by the night her two best friends disappeared – what started off as a dare ended with them vanishing without a trace. As Mandy’s memories are ignited once again, disturbing details resurface in her mind and she realises she must seek out the truth.

“Black Cairn Point” by Claire McFall

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“Black Cairn Point” by Claire McFall, a book I read recently in the school’s book club, is an amazing read and I highly recommend it.

The story follows a young girl, named Heather, and her journey to prove to everyone that she isn’t crazy. After getting invited by Dougie, a boy she likes, and his friends on a group camping trip, she plans to get close to him. However after the two accidentally disturb a pagan burial site on the nearby beach the group, one by one, disappear and the two are left to fend for themselves against a dark entity.
Now, a year on from the incident, Dougie lies in a coma and Heather got away unscathed. Only Dougie can proved that Heather isn’t insane but will he wake up?

Black Cairn Point by Claire McFall – Book of the Week

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The third, and last, of the three shortlisted titles for the Scottish Teenage Book Prize to be featured as our book of the week is Black Cairn Point by Claire McFall. In this video the author reads from the book and talks about writing it.

Our Wednesday Bookclub is taking part in the Prize – they are currently reading the three titles and once everyone has had a chance to do so, and to talk about them, they will be voting for their favourite.

The blurb on the back of the book reads:

Two survivors, one terrible truth.

Heather agrees to a camping holiday with Dougie and his friends because she’s desperate to get closer to him. But when they disturb a pagan burial site above the beach, Heather becomes certain that they have woken a malevolent spirit. Something is alive out there in the pitch-black dark, and it is planning deadly revenge.

One year later Heather knows that she was very lucky to escape Black Cairn Point relatively unscathed, but she is still waiting for Dougie to wake from his coma. If he doesn’t, how will she prove her sanity, and her innocence?

New books in the library – The Double Life of Cassiel Roadnight by Jenny Valentine

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New in the library this week is a twisty little mystery by Jenny Valentine…

The blurb says:

I didn’t choose to be him. I didn’t pick Cassiel Roadnight out of a line-up of possible people who looked just like me. I just let it happen. I just wanted it to be true. That’s all I did wrong, at the beginning.

A fugitive teenager takes on the identity of another missing boy. But everyone has their secrets. Who will get to the truth first?

Book details taken from HarperCollins Publishers website.

Book of the Week – The Light That Gets Lost by Natasha Carthew

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Natasha Carthew’s books are bleak and enthralling, set in a near future but terrifyingly unrecognisable Britain (Cornwall to be exact). The Light That Gets Lost is the story of Trey, who as a child, witnesses something that no child should.

After his sentencing, Trey arrives at the camp in the same way all the kids there did: damaged, angry and criminal. He is hunting for the man who slaughtered his family years ago. If Trey must keep his head down and pretend that he has turned a new page, he will.

But then friendship and loyalties start to complicate things and before he knows it Trey is caught in the flames of something wild and mad that he can’t control…

I would strongly recommend both The Light That Gets Lost and Natasha Carthew’s other novel Winter Damage – both are on display in the library this week.

New Books in the Library – There Will Be Lies by Nick Lake

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New from Nick Lake, author of the exciting Hostage Three, is the thrilling mystery There Will Be Lies.

There will be two lies, then there will be the truth.
And that will be the hardest of all.

Shelby Jane Cooper is seventeen. She lives with her mom, a court stenographer who likes to do cross-stitch and wants to keep Shelby safe. So safe, she barely goes out. So safe, she has never been to school. Safe as a newborn baby.

When a car knocks Shelby down, it’s the beginning and the end of everything. Her mother drags her away from her old life. All she can rely on is the lies she’s been told. Without them, who would she be?

Find There Will Be Lies on the New Books Display at the front of the Library.

Book of the Week – The Shadow Cabinet by Maureen Johnson

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This week’s book of the week is the latest in the thrilling and chilling Shades of London series – we have The Name of the Star and The Madness Underneath in the library already, as well as the short and ghostly The Boy in the Smoke.

Seventeen-year-old Rory’s life as she knows it is gone. Heartbroken, shaken and feeling more alone than ever, she can’t see how she can pick herself up and carry on as before.

But something horrifying is stirring beneath London, and only Rory can stop it.

You can find all Maureen Johnson’s books on the teen fiction shelves – recommended for those who like to be scared!

New Books in the Library – Slide by Jill Hathaway

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Vee Bell hates having narcolepsy. But collapsing at school is nowhere near as bad as the truth – when Vee passes out she slides into other people’s heads and ends up seeing through their eyes. Then Vee finds herself in the head of a killer, standing over the body of a cheerleader.

Now another cheerleader is dead, and everyone is a suspect. Struggling to understand her terrifying and unwanted ‘gift’. Vee is tangled in a web of secret, lies and danger…

New Books in the Library – Mind Games by Teri Terry

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MindGames Mind Games is the new book by Teri Terry, author of the popular Slated trilogy.

Luna has a secret. She is different, but no one must find out.

Because in this world you must play their game, or it could cost you your life.

Will Luna discover her true destiny in time to save the ones she loves?