{"id":540,"date":"2013-10-09T10:18:09","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/AuchinleckAcademyLibrary\/?p=540"},"modified":"2013-10-09T10:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:18:09","slug":"the-seeing-by-diana-hendry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/2013\/10\/09\/the-seeing-by-diana-hendry\/","title":{"rendered":"The Seeing by Diana Hendry"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second world war is over in the quiet town of Norton. When wild, dangerous, break-all-the-rul\"\"<\/a>es Natalie arrives, thirteen-year-old Lizzie is drawn irresistibly to the new girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Desperate for Natalie’s friendship and respect, Lizzie soon discovers a side of the town – and of herself – that she had never imagined.
\nAs the girls grow closer, Natalie and her strange, eerie brother, Philip, reveal a shocking secret. For Philip has a second sight, and all around them he sees evil – ‘left-over Nazis’ lying in wait until the time is right for revenge. Natalie and Philip believe it’s up to them to root these people out of Norton.
\nLizzie is swept up in what starts as a thrilling game – but the consequences of Philip’s ‘gift’ quickly spiral into disaster.<\/p>\n

It was OK. Beginning was very slow & about the middle something happened which made me think that it mught actually become exciting but I was wrong. This book was boring and (did not) grip me at all. Suitable for ages 9 or 10 up to 13, I think.\u00a0 L (S2) **1\/2\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

It was a dark out of the ordinary book in a good way. I (S1) ****<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I thought the start was a bit creepy but it got more interesting later in the book. I (S1) ***<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is a good book but I don’t really like it because that isn’t the kind of book that I like. <\/em>J (S1) ***<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Exciting. Keep wanting to read on. J (S2) ****<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Good book but very slow. J (S3) ***<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second world war is over in the quiet town of Norton. When wild, dangerous, break-all-the-rules Natalie arrives, thirteen-year-old Lizzie is drawn irresistibly to the new girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Desperate for Natalie’s friendship and respect, Lizzie soon discovers a side of the town – and of herself – that she …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,97,6,48,98,17,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-for-boys","category-books-for-girls","category-hendry","category-historical-stories","category-scottish-fiction","category-suspense-fiction","category-teenage-fiction","category-thrillers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/ea\/rbalibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}