 | Rebel Angels by Libba Bray
Buy new: £4.86 / Used from: £2.36 Just as good as "A Great and Terrible Beauty". This trilogy is a big mix of difference genres: Romance, Fantasy, Drama, Historical...what more could you want from a book?!
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 | The Garbage King by Elizabeth Laird
Buy new: £3.96 / Used from: £0.01 Brilliant story about two boys from opposite sides of the track trying to survive on the streets of Addis Ababa.
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 | Wipe Out by Mimi Thebo
Buy used from: £0.01 This is full of colourful descriptions that leap off the page, but apart from that there isn't much going for this book...
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 | Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: 1847 (Dear America) by Hattie Campbell
Buy used from: £0.01 This battles with "All The Stars in The Sky" for my favourite Dear America book.
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 | Hacker by Malorie Blackman
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £0.01 This is a good book, but if you're not computer-literate it will leave you scratching your head and saying "What?"
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 | Jacky Daydream by Jacqueline Wilson
Buy new: £2.98 / Used from: £0.01 I despise Jaqueline Wilson's books, but I had to read this for book club. In a word: Awful. This wasn't the story of her (unremarkable) life so much as it was a description of her childhood toys.
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 | Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £0.01 This is an awesome book! It took me a day and constantly keeps you on the edge of your seat and you can't turn the pages fast enough...
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 | Siberia by Ann Halam
Buy new: £4.42 / Used from: £0.01 Sort of frightening, but absolutely brilliant.
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 | A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence (Dear America) by Sherry Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 One of the best books in the Dear America series and a good introduction to the Alamo for those who don't know much about it. But if you already do, I'm sure you'd still really enjoy it.
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 | Russian Disco: Tales of Everyday Lunacy on the Streets of Berlin by Wladimir Kaminer
Buy new: £5.10 / Used from: £3.81 Packed full of entertaining stories about the "real" Berlin.
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 | Down Under by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £0.01 Definitely not as funny as his others, and I gave up halfway through... read his "Notes From A Big Country" instead.
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 | The Knife of Never Letting Go (Chaos Walking) by Patrick Ness
Buy new: £4.50 / Used from: £0.60 This book is ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. Why did I not read it sooner?! It will have you on the edge of your seat shouting both "hooray!" and "Noooo!"
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 | Pirates! by Celia Rees
Buy used from: £0.01 I don't think this is as good as "Witch Child", but it's still an entertaining book that will keep you gripped all the way through.
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 | Translucent: v. 1 by Kazuhiro Okamoto
Buy new: £6.75 / Used from: £1.23 A quirky, sweet and every-so-slightly romantic manga that leaves you with a warm smiley feeling at the end :D
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 | Butterflies, Bullies and Bad, Bad Habits (Ally's World) by Karen McCombie
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 The Ally's World series rocks my socks!
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 | Dear America: Valley of the Moon: Diary of Maria Rosalia de Milagros by Sherry Garland
Buy used from: £0.01 A really interesting insight into the slightly forgotten world of Mexican-Spanish culture and traditions before the California Gold Rush.
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 | Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction by Lloyd Alexander
Buy new: £5.40 / Used from: £2.77 It's sort of hard to rate this anthology because some stories are amazing and others aren't as good, but it's definitely a must for any fan of fantasy.
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 | Castle (The Seventh Tower) by Garth Nix
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £0.01 Better than the first one, and enjoyable, although at the end of the book you can't help but think, "Ok, they got into the castle...what else did they achieve?"
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 | Last Chance by Sarah Dessen
Buy new: £4.16 / Used from: £1.69 Hooray for Sarah Dessen!!!
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 | Aenir (The Seventh Tower) by Garth Nix
Buy new: £4.46 / Used from: £1.05 Ok...Tal and Milla got on my nerves a bit in this book, but again it's not the Old Kingdom Trilogy, and maybe I had high expectations because I'd read those...
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 | The Portal by Andrew Norriss
Buy new: £3.54 / Used from: £0.01 One of the worst books I've read in ages. The characters were unbelievable 2-dimensional, the author's style was boring beyong belief and there was absolutely no plot at all.
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 | Sabriel by Garth Nix
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 I was re-reading this and it was even better than the first time...Garth Nix is the best fantasy author in the world!
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 | Friends, Freak-Outs and Very Secret Secrets (Ally's World) by Karen McCombie
Buy new: £3.34 / Used from: £0.01 These books are seriously addictive! Once you start reading them you can't stop.
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 | Torn Pages by Sally Grindley
Buy new: £3.97 / Used from: £1.41 Another story about not letting the hardships of life getting down by Sally Grindley, who also wrote "Spilled Water" (one of my favourite books ever) and "Broken Glass".
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 | The Fever and the Flame: "At the Sign of the Sugared Plum" , "Petals in the Ashes" by Mary Hooper
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £0.01 I'm re-read this...Mary Hooper is one of my favourite historical authors. The detail in her books is amazing.
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