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Author: Enid Blyton Illustrator: E.H Davie Rating: 8/10 Age: 9+ Genre: Fiction, mystery, adventure Pages: 163 Published in:   1940 Main Characters: Mike, Peggy, Nora, Jack, Prince Paul Synopsis: This story began with Mike, Peggy, Nora and their friend Jack as they headed off to their new holiday. They had all finished a long, tiring term at school and were ready to go to Spiggy Holes as a treat. The children soon found out from their parents that they were living in a small cottage by the sea with a lady named Miss Dimity. ‘Miss Dimity! She sounds sort of timid and mouse-like. I shall call her Dimmy.’ Peggy had exclaimed.                 The children had all excitedly clambered out of their train, and waited for someone to take them to their cottage. The cottage was called Peep Hole, what a peculiar name! Soon, they had all sat in the horse carriage, along a high, winding...

Author: Enid Blyton Illustrator: E.H Davie Rating: 9/10 Age: 9+ Genre: Fiction, mystery, adventure Pages: 167 Published in:  1938 Main Characters: Mike, Peggy, Nora and Jack Synopsis: This story started with 3 siblings with the names of Mike, Peggy and Nora. Since their parents mysteriously disappeared in an aeroplane crash, they had been under the care of their cruel and bad tempered aunt and uncle, named Harriet and Henry. Their unloving aunt and uncle made them to every single house chore that needed to be done, and scolded them viciously when it hadn’t been done to satisfaction. The children think that there is no more hope that their parents will return… will they live with their aunt and uncle forever? Luckily, the children were very good friends with a young boy named Jack. He was tall, but he didn’t look much older than the children. Nobody knew his age, because he didn’t know it himself. Jack lived w...

  Author: Louis Sachar Illustrator: Vladimir Radunsky R ating : 10/10 Age:9+ Genre: Fiction, Mystery, Adventure P ages : 233 Published in: August 1998 Main Characters: Stanley, Zero, Warden, Kate Barlow, Sam the onion seller. Synopsis: This story began with a young boy named Stanley Yelnats. Unfortunately, due to his bad luck, Stanley found himself stuck in Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp. Whenever something went wrong, the Yelnats family would always blame everything on Stanley’s no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. At this detention camp, the boys were forced to dig large holes in the dry, cracked dirt in the blazing hot sun every day. Once the holes had reached to the Warden’s satisfaction, then and only then were the boys allowed to rest. After some investigation, Stanley had realised that the Warden was not making the boys dig to ‘toughen them up for life’. He realised that the Warde...

Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 8/10 Age: 10+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Suspense Pages: 620 Published in: July 2007 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Voldemort Synopsis:   Harry decided that he should leave Privet Drive and join Ron Weasley at the Burrow to prevent Voldemort from tracking him down The Order of the Phoenix, led by Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody, arrived to take Harry to his new home at the Weasleys’ house, the Burrow. Six of Harry’s friends took the Polyjuice Potion to disguise themselves as Harry and act as decoys, and they all flew off in different directions. The Death Eaters, alerted to their departure by Snape, attacked Harry and his friends. Voldemort chased Harry down, but Harry’s wand fought Voldemort off, without Harry’s help. When Harry arrived at the Burrow, they all realised that Moody had been killed on the way. Harry had begun to get visions of Volde...

Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 9/10 Age: 10+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Magic, Suspense Pages: 607 Published in: July 2005 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Snape, Dumbldore,Slughorn. Synopsis:   This story started with Severus Snape. He met up with Mrs Malfoy (Draco’s Mother) and made an Unbreakable Vow to Narcissa, promising to protect Draco. One day, Dumbledore headed over to 4 Privet Drive to collect Harry from his cousin’s home. On the way to the burrow (Ron’s house) Dumbledore and Harry stopped to talk to Dumbledore’s old friend, Horace Slughorn, to work at Hogwarts again. Harry met up with Ron and Hermione once more!  When they were shopping for school books, Harry ran into Draco and followed him to Borgin and Burkes, where he overheard Draco threatening Borgin and insisted that he fix an unknown object. Harry is instantly suspicious of Draco, whom he believed to ...

  Author: Jacqueline Wilson Illustrator: Nick Sharratt Rating: 08/10 Age: 9+ Genre: Fiction, Friendship, Family, Humour Pages: 224 Published in: Jan 1995 Main Characters: Elsa, Mum, Mack, Pippa, Hank, Naomi, Famous Five Synopsis:   This story is about a young girl named Elsa, who was 10 years old. She loved to make up jokes and share them with others. But Elsa had a huge problem. She lived with her Mum, her stepdad named Mack (whom she liked to call Mack the Smack), her half-sister Pippa and her half-brother Hank.   She lived in a small flat which was big enough for the family to live in, and Elsa loved living there. One day, Mack got a new job which paid lots of money. Soon, they were all living in a house of their own! But this job didn’t stay for long. They had no other house to live in. Some people suggested they should buy a new flat, but nobody was selling any. All that was left to do ...

  Author: J.K Rowling Illustrator: Mary GrandPre’ Rating: 7/10 Age: 10+ Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, Magic Pages: 766 Published in: June 2003 Main Characters: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Umbridge, Voldemort, Dumbledore, Fudge. Synopsis:   Harry was spending another tedious summer with Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon. One evening, as he was roaming around in a park, Dudley’s gang had bullied harry yet again. Harry hadn’t taken notice of Dudley until he had spotted 2 dementors swooping around. After using magic to defend himself, Harry was whisked off by wizards to number twelve, Grimmauld Place, London. This was the home to Sirius Black also known as Harry’s godfather . Harry used magic to fight off the dementors, and since underage wizards were not permitted to use their wands outside of school, he had faced a hearing at the Ministry. With Dumbledore’s help with convincing the minister, Harry was cleared and permi...