|summary=Hunter Wild has always been head of her class at the Helios-Ra Vampire Hunter Academy. Her family takes vampire hunting very seriously – she's called Hunter, after all – and her Grandpa is one of the most infamous vampire hunters of his generation. He believes in staking all vampires, no questions asked. But then, he also believes it's a good idea for Hunter to cut off all her long blonde hair. Hunter isn't so sure on either count.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408807068</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Raven Mysteries: Vampires and Volts
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=It's October at Castle Otherhand. That can only mean one thing - a return to the traditional annual pumpkin hunt. Shame they're so damned elusive. But when, courtesy of a bit of unsubtle arson, a Hallowe'en Ball is redirected to be held at the Castle, and things that do more than go bump in the night gatecrash - why, they're even harder to catch. Unless, of course, you're a wry, arch, droll, antiquated old raven called Edgar.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556967</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Raven Mysteries: Flood and Fang
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Otherhand Castle, and all in it, is under threat, and only Edgar can save the day. Pity, perhaps, then, that Edgar is only a raven. But he's not your typical raven, for not only is he centuries old, and our narrator, but he is the only one who can see the connections between, and the danger involved in, a cellar full of rising floodwater, a horrific tail glimpsed in the vegetable garden, and some missing maids.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842556932</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Cathleen Schine
|title=The Three Weissmanns of Westport
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The novel begins with Joseph Weissmann, or Josie as he is known, deciding at the age of 78 that he no longer wants to be married to Betty after 48 years together. In an attempt to save Betty's feelings he cites irreconcilable differences, but the truth is he has fallen head over heels in love. Betty is devastated, her life in tatters, with even the beautiful Central Park apartment she adores soon lost to her.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015716</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=John Irving
|title=Last Night in Twisted River
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We start in 1954, in the middle of nowhere, in a log-cutters' encampment. The cook lives alone with his twelve year old son, in some kind of comfort - a decent job, familiarity with the harsh surroundings and the hardened people inhabiting it. But a pair of tragedies - one involving a fatal work accident with a young teenager new to the job, force the pair to flee. They leave behind a red herring that they hope will force the local brutal policeman to get the wrong impression, and a best friend in the shape of Ketchum, the most hardened logger in the camp as a kind of safety-net, but their destiny, spread over the next few generations, will prove to still be populated with tragedy, romance, despair - and the constant look over their shoulder to the tiny settlement of Twisted River.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552776572</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Brenna Yovanoff
|title=The Replacement
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Mackie lives in Gentry, a prosperous but quiet town. People are good and kind and the trials and tribulations of other places have traditionally been absent from Gentry. Recently, however, things have felt less secure. People are getting nervous and it just won't stop raining. Mackie isn't doing too well either. His allergies to blood and steel are getting worse and worse and his health is beginning to fail. It's getting more and more difficult to avoid the truth...
... because Mackie is different.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847388396</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=David Vann
|title=Caribou Island
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Irene and Gary went to Alaska many years ago and somehow they stayed there, probably through inertia, and they raised two children. Rhoda loves animals and is keen that her boyfriend, Jim the dentist, should marry her. She half knows that he's not that reliable but it's what she's set on. Irene and Gary's son, Mark, lives with his girlfriend, Karen and it seems that the only thing they're serious about is not taking life too seriously. It's probably understandable when you look at Gary. He's self-involved, selfish and dishonest with himself. Irene has her problems too. She's never really got over going home when she was ten years old and finding her mother hanging from the rafters.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>067091844X</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Lisa McMann
|title=Gone
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary=Janie's made it through so much. And now she's graduated from high school, has a guaranteed job with the local police after college, and a boyfriend who loves her like crazy. Her future should be bright, but it isn't. Because Janie's a dreamcatcher. She can - has to - inhabit other people's dreams. It's great for a career in crime fighting, but it's burning her out. Janie knows that within just a few years she'll be blind and crippled.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857070401</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Jenny Downham
|title=You Against Me
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''If someone hurts your sister and you're any kind of man, you seek revenge, right? If you're brother's accused of a terrible crime but says he didn't do it, you defend him, don't you?''
It all seems so straightforward, doesn't it? But it's not straightforward at all for Mikey and Ellie. Mikey comes from a tower block. His mother's an alcoholic and Mikey has to shoulder most of the parental responsibility in the house - getting food on the table, getting his littlest sister to school, fending off periodic interest from social services. Meanwhile, he's trying to make something of himself, training as a chef at a seaside pub.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0385613504</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Jennifer Donnelly
|title=Revolution
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Andi, a New York girl on a trip to Paris. She's a talented musician at a school for exceptional students. She's a wisecracking, quick thinking girl who acts on impulse. She's a brilliant people watcher, and her descriptions of what she sees will make you smile. She's also seriously depressed with a pill popping habit that is spiralling out of control.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408801523</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Giles Paley-Phillips
|title=There's A Lion In My Bathroom
|rating=3.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=This collection of nonsense poetry takes in all sorts of subjects, from wannabe magicians to armpits, and from failed cowboys to a girl with springs for feet. It's all very silly, all very nonsensical, and good fun. A proportion of profits are being donated to [http://www.beatbloodcancers.org/ Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research].
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0956503527</amazonuk>
}}
