Aurora and the Popcorn Dolphin is the third book in the Songbird Cafe Girls series for preteens about friendship, family and life.
The Songbird Cafe Girls: Aurora and the Popcorn Dolphin
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Adventure
Beast Quest Series
Beast Quest is a bestselling fantasy adventure series for 7-11 year olds that boasts over 130 books and millions of fans around the world. In series 1 the story starts in the land of Avantia, where the evil wizard Malvel has cast spells on the great protective beasts of the land, including Ferno the Fire Dragon who watches over Southern Avantia, protecting the water supply for all the people.
Loot: How to Steal a Fortune
Written by Jude Watson (Scholastic) Guest reviewed by Nathalie Hosten, Grade 8, Aka`ula School, Molokai, Hawaii Loot is one of my most favorite books of all time. If you met the main character, March, you would probably think that he’s a normal American teenager. He’s...
The Story Cure
No matter the life experience, adventure or challenge a child is going through, I always find myself thinking: ‘There’s a book for that!’ And now there is a book to tell you which book they should read.
Dead Man’s Cove
Dead Man’s Cove is the first of an exciting detective series about Laura Marlin, an 11 year old orphan. All her life, Laura has lived in a Children Home and she has always dreamed of finding a home of her own. When she moves to Cornwall to live with her uncle the mysteries start to pile up.
Dragon Slayers Academy series
The Dragon Slayers Academy is a fantasy adventure series about an unlikely hero called Wiglaf, the soft-hearted, oft-bullied youngest of a large, poor family. Wiglaf does all the work and gets picked on because he won’t kill any living thing. Then he learns how to be a dragon slayer. Filled with humour – this is a perfect beginner chapter-book series for reluctant readers.
Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts brings the wizardly world from England to the streets of New York. When Magizoologist Newt Scamander arrives in New York, he plans a brief stopover. He might have come and gone without incident, were it not for a No-Maj (American for Muggle) named Jacob, a misplaced magical case, and the escape of some of Newt’s fantastic beasts. Now both the wizarding and No-Maj worlds are about to collide and it looks like trouble!
Dinosaur Cove Series
A fun adventurous series about two young boys, Jamie and Tom, who come across a cave with a secret and magical entrance into the prehistoric past – the dinosaur cove!
The Marvels
Fans of Brian Selznick – author of Hugo Cabret and Wonderstruck – will be thrilled with his latest book – The Marvels. In this new adventure the Caldecott Award winner tells the tale of two boys linked through time, as two seemingly unrelated stories – one in words, the other in pictures.
Alex Rider – Mission 2: Point Blanc
“Most school boys dream of being spies. With Alex, we have a spy who dreams of being a schoolboy,” says Alan Blunt, M16.
The British secret intelligence agency M16 suspect something’s going on at the Point Blanc Academy, an elite prep school for rebels, so they send their best go-to-man, Alex Rider.
Alex Rider – Mission 1: Stormbreaker
The Alex Ryder books are a supremely successful spy series – children age 10 + love the mix of action and adventure, and the devil-may-care charm of a very worldly 15 year-old Alex. Think a young James Bond and you’ve got Alex Ryder.
Young Bond: Shoot To Kill
From the moment James arrives at a new school something crazy happens and he is being chased by other students who want to beat him up. The action continues when he is offered a place on an exclusive airship trip to America. The night before they take off another student shows him a movie clip he has accidentally received which shows someone being killed.
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