Some More Book Reviews

Hey Everyone!

The weather is warming up, you have been lying on the trampoline and looking up into the sky, thinking of Christmas and summer holidays and what you are going to do with your friends.

In the meantime, you have been scanning this site, daily, wondering what the Library Elf is doing with his time. Wondering when he will get off his little green bottom and recommend some hot new titles for you to read.

Well, the time has arrived!


Revolution is not a dinner party
Compestine, Ying

ChangLing lives a very comfortable life with her parents, both dedicated surgeons, in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of Mao’s political officers, moves into their apartment, things begin to change for the worse. Set during the Cultural Revolution in China, this story is based on real life experience.

Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, book 2)
Cornish, D.M.

Continuing the story that began in Foundling, the young orphan Rossamund begins his job as a lamplighter. In a world where people and monsters are constantly struggling with one another, lamplighters risk life and limb by heading outside the city walls after dark to light lamps on the great roads of the empire. Rossamund must battle dangerous monsters, wicked men, and hideous beasts that are neither monsters nor men. A wonderful book, rich in detail that includes an in depth glossary to help understand the world in which it is set.

Expedition to Pine Hollow (The Outrider series # 3)
Decter, Ed

When Cam Walker and the Outriders gang hear that their favourite haunt, a mysterious tower in the wilderness, is about to be bulldozed by developers they decide to visit the site one last time. The locals have been lobbying for its preservation but with five days to go it is not likely they can stop the earth movers coming in. But Cam and his friends won’t give up without a fight, and this fight is going to get dirty.

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