Battle of the books 2015/16
Flights and chimes and mysterious times
By Emma
Trevayne
A boy
follows a magician into a clock tower and ends up in a different world made out
of clockwork.
Book rating:
8/10
THE IRON
TRIAL
By Holly Black
and Cassandra Clare
A magicians’
son is recruited for a school for magicians, where he discovers his secret
past.
Book rating:
10/10
THE
BOUNDLESS
By Kenneth
Opel
Will goes
onto a train where he is hunted down by a criminal.
Book rating:
8/10
MYSTERY OF
THE CLOCKWORK SPARROW
By Katherine
Woodfine
A teenaged
girl goes on a search to stop the leader of an east end gang trying to steal
Piccadilly’s military secrets.
Book rating:
7\10
THE
NETHERGRIM
By Matthew
Jobin
A young boy
and his friends set off on an expidition to stop a mysterious spirit killing
people in their village.
Book rating:
7/10
THE BOOK OF
THREE
By Lloyd
Alexander
A young male
sets off beyond his village to find adventure and ends up fighting the evil
lord of the undead.
Book rating:
6/10
CODENAME
ZERO
By Chris
Rylander
A young
prankster gets recruited by a secret agency to stop terrorists.
Book rating:
8\10
THE FINISHER
THE FORBIDDEN LIBRARY
By Django Wexler
A girl wanders into a library where she finds out about her powers.
Book rating:9/10
EMMA AND THE BLUE GENIE
By Cornelia Funke
A girl finds a genie and helps to refind his powers
Book rating: 4/10
DOG DAYS
by Karen English
A boy must earn money to replace his sisters souvenir from new York
Book rating: 6/10
PAPERBOY
by Vince Vawter
A boy earns money on a paper route but an unknown danger lurks nearby
WARNING: swearing and violence
Book rating: 6/10
THE GLASS SENTENCE
By S.E Grove
A girl goes out of her homeland to retrieve her uncle ( and save the world from freezing over)
Book rating: 6/10
THE DEAD MANS BOOT
By Eric Murphy
A boy sails to Halifax and ends up chasing an evil salesman and an infamous criminal
Book rating: 8/10
