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August 14, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Book of the Month for August

The Breakfast Club with a criminal twist? Intrigued? Click on Karen’s own website for more content; try Goodreads for honest reviews by peers. If you like this, you’ll love, Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard; for fans of teen tv shows, … Continue reading

Book of the Month for June!

June 5, 2017 by Miss Stewart | 0 comments

A mysterious island.

An abandoned orphanage.

A strange collection of very curious photographs.

It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow-impossible though it seems-they may still be alive. A spine-tingling fantasy illustrated with haunting vintage photography, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will delight adults, teens, and anyone who relishes an adventure in the shadows. – Blurb.

Our Book of the Month for June comes highly recommended by Mrs Rollo of the Maths Department! But don’t just take her word for it, just read some of the amazing reviews this novel has received:

A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story.” – John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars

“[A] thrilling, Tim Burton-esque tale with haunting photographs.” – USA Today

Parents and guardians! Looking for a great crossover ‘rec’ to read alongside your teenager? Look no further! 😉

Got a tweener child with a taste for creepy horror and time-travel stories? Send them Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” – McClatchy Wire Service

Art credit: All images used are copyright of the publisher, Quirk

May 3, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Book of the Month for May!

Jack’s Back! In honour of the return to our screens – well, Adult Swim anyways – of hunky, heroic cartoon samurai, known only as, Jack, Clishmaclaver has nominated volume 1 of Jim Zub’s graphic novel series, Samurai Jack to be May’s BOTM. 😀 This is … Continue reading

April 10, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Sneak peak…

As per previous post, Clishmaclaver’s BOTM for April is The Hate U Give. Fancy a wee taster of what’s in store for you if you read this incredible debut by Angie Thomas? Well, you’re in luck! The lovely people at … Continue reading

April 7, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Book of the Month!

April’s Book of the Month, is the ‘Book of the Moment’, is The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas. 🙂 Clishmaclaver has no budget left to buy a new BOTM unfortunately >sob< so I’m making my own personal copy of this … Continue reading

March 7, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Book of the Month for March!

Clishmaclaver’s Book of the Month for March is, The Lost Twin; Book 1 in a new spine-tingling series, ‘Scarlet and Ivy,’ by Sophie Cleverly. “Ivy, I pray that it’s you reading this. And if you are, well, I suppose you’re … Continue reading

February 3, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Book of the Month for February!

Our BOTM for February is a hilarious supernatural offering from Australian author M.B. Lehane: What if your daydreams were true? Fatherless Jack and Phoebe are completely non-identical twins. Jack’s so vague he has daydreams within daydreams. He dreams he’s a … Continue reading

January 9, 2017
by Miss Stewart
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Book of the Month for January!

New year; new heroes! January’s epic BOTM is DC Comics’ New Suicide Squad, Vol 1: Pure Insanity New Suicide Squad, Volume 1: Pure Insanity(New Suicide Squad #1) by Sean Ryan (Writer), Jeremy Roberts Setting the world’s most dangerous super-criminals against the … Continue reading

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