Book Review: Joseph Delaney’s Curse of the Bane
Deep in the catacombs of the cathedral lurks an evil force – the Bane, a creature the Spook has never been able to defeat. So evil the whole county is in danger.
Category: Middle-Grade readers
Book Review: Beverly Cleary’s Beezus and Ramona
The too active and imaginative Ramona makes it hard for her older sister, Beezus, to feel the love.
Book Review: Emily Rodda’s The Battle for Rondo
It’s an adventure packed with suspense, shocks and danger, as the friends do battle that will decide Rondo’s future forever.
Book Review: Sarah Prineas’ Lost
It’s the arrogance and certainty of youth that gets Conn banned from the city and sets him down the path to the city of the sorcerer-king and a horrid treachery.
Book Review: Chris d’Lacey’s Glade
Mum has never sold one of her special dragons before, but now Glade, the mood dragon needs to sleep someone.
Book Review: Sharon Creech’s Ruby Holler
“Trouble twins” Dallas and Florida are orphans who have given up believing there is such a thing as a loving home. Not even Tiller and Sairy can make them believe.
Book Review: Joseph Helgerson’s Horns & Wrinkles
Something rivery is going on, and Claire is determined to help her bullying cousin lose that rhino horn of a nose, and if it takes parleying with a bunch of river trolls, well…
Book Review: Joseph Delaney’s Revenge of the Witch
The county’s Spook is retiring, but who can take over for Old Gregory. Twenty-nine apprentices have failed, and Thomas Ward is their last hope, the last apprentice.
Book Review: Chris D’Lacey’s Gauge
Lucy’s mother intends to stop Councilman Trustable and the town council from demolishing the old clock. But can a timing dragon really help?
Book Review: Emily Rodda’s The Wizard of Rondo
After fiddling with the box while Mimi was away, Leo Zifkak and his cousin must put the world of Rondo to rights and find a missing wizard and free an innocent man.