Targeted Age Group:: 12+ After her stepmother Shelley walks out, Gemma Sutherland is happy to have her dad back to herself again. Life is good: she's playing football at Naylorsfield School and Tyrone Collins, who she used to fight with all the time, is now one of her best friends. Then Portia, Shelley's daughter, comes back to live with the Sutherlands because her mother feels too depressed to look after her. Even though she gets on better with Portia than she used to, Gemma isn't happy that … [Read more...]
Melody Madson – May It Please the Court? by Jodie Toohey
Weeks pass before Melody finally gets her big break when senior partner at Lazlo, Marshdon and Brown assigns her first real case. Melody’s relationship with her best friend, Jewel, becomes strained as her friendship with another associate, Maggie, advances and she develops romantic feelings for her boss’ son, Eric. Her feelings for Eric deepen, her relationship with Jewel sours, the key medical record in her case is lost, and Melody feels her life is crumbling. After working the entire … [Read more...]
The Hidden Realms of Firestone by Linda David
Still spoilt, still moody, but no longer lonely, Agathea Fulstropp, better known to her friends as Thea, is back for the first official term of the school year at the Firestone Academy on Planet Aruuliah. Very much looking forward to seeing her friends, Annalije and Jojan again, Thea, is soon to discover that her exciting adventures did not end with the previous Summer Term. A new friend soon becomes an enemy, old adversaries continue to make her life unpleasant and there is a sinister … [Read more...]
Interview with Linda David – Book Author
Author Bio: Linda David is a single mother of two and currently work as a college lecturer in childcare. She was born in Cyprus in 1967 to parents who both hail from the Caribbean island of Nevis, and has also lived in Germany as well as St Kitts and Nevis in the West Indies. The idea for the book, The Firestone Crystal, came about 10 years ago when she was on maternity leave, and started off as a short story that she would be able to read to her children when they were older. It continued … [Read more...]
Class Heroes book 2: What Happened in Witches Wood by Stephen Henning
In 1987, 16-year-old Katie Blake died in mysterious circumstances in a stream in Witches Wood. In 2009, a teenage couple enter the wood one hot, summer night and encounter her ghost. In 2011, James and Samantha Blake are staying at their grandparents’ farmhouse, close to Witches Wood, while they come to terms with their new superpowers. Those powers are soon put to the test. James comes face-to-face with the ghost of Katie Blake – his long-dead aunt – and discovers that she may be … [Read more...]
