Neil Gaiman has already won an impressive number of awards for his unique book, The Graveyard Book, which has just been announced the winner of America’s Teenage Booktrust Award. Other awards include America’s major children’s fiction prize, the Newbery medal, the Locus young adult award and the Hugo best novel prize. The Graveyard Book is also longlisted for the prestigious Carnegie medal, and shortlisted for the World Fantasy award.

Interestingly, Gaiman says ‘there were 25 years between the idea for the book and now. I had the idea and wrote a page and looked at it and decided that it was a much better book than I was a writer and that I would get good first as it deserved that. I got better and wrote a lot of stuff and then in 2004 – about 19, 20 years after I had the idea – I decided that I wasn’t going to get any better and I should probably start to write it.’ (guardian.co.uk Wednesday 18 November 2009).

 You can watch the trailer for the book here - it’s narrated by Gaiman himself. Even better, you can find the book on the library shelves.

Mrs Sweeney

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If you are interested in the Steven Saylor Roma Sub Rosa novels, this one finds Gordianus during the siege of 49 BCE. “The Finder” and his son-in-law, Davus, have come to find Gordianus adopted son, Meto, who was Last Seen in Masillia (present day Marseille). The pair of seekers encounter the army of Caesar besieging the city, which has aligned itself with Pompey. A fortification undermining tunnel allows them entry to a city on the brink. What follows is another compellingly authentic description and narration that takes the reader back into ancient times.

Ken Wheat

This novel is an interesting adventure about a boy living with aspergers syndrome (a form of autism) christopher finds his nextdoor neighbours dog dead and decides to make a recount of the act.

it is one of my favourite books as it is a different style to the 1st person.

9 out of 10

by reilly

A series of unfortunate events by lemony snicket is a classic non magical adventure storey full of twists and secrets. Three orphans named klause,violet and sunny are on a mission to protect thier family from the evil an infamous count olaf.in conclusion it is a great book and personally it is a 7 out of ten

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 This is the fourth book in the artemis fowl series. In this book the person who was leading the goblin clan in book two is back! She has sworn to kill whoever caught her. This means Artemis is in trouble. Artemis now has a good reputation with the fairy’s. He get’s caught by her and is hoping to get saved by his fairy freinds.

I rate this book 7.5/10

-BlueBlobProductions

 This is the third in the Artemis Fowl series, I have made reviews on the first and second book so read those if you want, just search my name. In this book Artemis makes a special “cube”
 from stolen fairy technology. Artemis shows this cube to main competeter in the computer room but he steals it. Artemis has to ask the fairy’s to help him get it back.

I rate this book 8/10 and i reccomend this book from 12-16 year olds

-BlueBlobProductions

This book is the Second book in the Artemis Fowl series. I have made a review on the first book so if you have not seen that you can see it by searching my user name. In this book artemis finds out that his father is alive and is a hostage to the Russian mafia. Artemis askes the Fairy population to help them but they have problems of their own. A goblin gang group led by a very smart fairy has made the fairy polices weapons useless. So Artemis Is going to help them in return, They have to help him get his father back. i rate this book 9/10

a great sequel to the first book.

-BlueBlobProuctions�

This book is way better than Harry Potter. Like Skulduggery Pleasent but mor advanced and waaaaaaaaay better.

Hugemonster

Ring is a modern day horror novel set in Japan. The story is based around the deaths of 4 teenagers in their senior year.  A journalist, Asakawa beRing is a page turning thriller, that enthralls the reader.

by and88

Maximum Ride is a fourteen year old girl with wings who is the result of genetic experiments at a secret lab to inject avian genes into human embroyos. Max is the oldest of the six members of her family, or as they refer to themselves, the flock. The others are Fang, a very steely and determined boy who is four months younger than Max; Iggy, who was blinded by experimentation to improve his night vision; Nudge, a young and very energetic girl who talks non-stop; and two young kids, Gazzy or the Gasman ass they call him, an eight year old boy with persistent intestinal problems and Angel, his six-year-old sister. The two were the only real siblings in the group. Max and her companions were kept in cages and subject to repeated scientific experiments during their life at the School (the lab where they were kept was called); they were eventually freed by one of the lab scientists (who are referred to by the flock as Whitecoats) named Jeb Batchelder. Jeb kept them at his mountain home and raised and educated them in se; but Jeb suddenly disappeared two years ago and the flock has been on its own since then. Suddenly, Erasers (experimental beings also developed at the lab who can morph into powerful vicious wolf-like creatures) raid the family’s mountain hideaway and kidnap Angel. It’s up to the flock to save her.

by scootter

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