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Hi All, I  have decided to change blogging platform to Wordpress... if you happen to come across my blog you can now find me at: https://booksfromthestars.wordpress.com Enjoy! Hattie
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Michael Bond

          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.

Letters from the lighthouse by Emma Carroll

"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

The mystery the clockwork sparrow by Kathrine Woodfine

"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

Ella enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

"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. Ella is a great role model as she is caring and kind but also feisty and outgoing. I would definitely recommend this fo

Scarlet and Ivy by Sophie cleverly

"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

Goth girl and the ghost of a mouse by Chris Riddel

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 friends.The book itself is beautiful the pages are full of