Title: How to Free a Jinn Author: Raidah Shah Idil Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 3rd September 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 288 Price: $17.99 Synopsis: Fast-paced middle fiction fantasy featuring a curious girl discovering a big family secret. Full of intrigue, humour, warmth, action, jungle spirits, a perilous unseen realm and ghostly battles.… Continue reading How to Free a Jinn by Raidah Shah Idil
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Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria by L.M. Wilkinson
Title: Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria Author: L.M. Wilkinson Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Allen and Unwin/Albert Street Books Published: 3rd September 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 192 Price: $16.99 Synopsis: An epic Tail of Adventure! Can one gallant mouse find the Heartstone and save her homeland from destruction? A fully illustrated and brilliantly readable adventure full… Continue reading Bravepaw and the Heartstone of Alluria by L.M. Wilkinson
The Best Witch in Paris by Lauren Crozier
Title: The Best Witch in Paris Author: Lauren Crozier Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Text Publishing Published: 3rd September 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 304 Price: $17.99 Synopsis: Winner, Text Prize for Young adult and Children’s Writing, 2023 Luna rides a battered old broom that keeps crashing itself into the school pond. She has a witch’s hat and… Continue reading The Best Witch in Paris by Lauren Crozier
August 2024 Reading Round Up
We’re over halfway through the year now, and I have met my overall reading goal, but still have a few challenge prompts to tick off across the board. I have books planned for these prompts and will hopefully get to them all by the end of the year. My reading has gone down a bit… Continue reading August 2024 Reading Round Up
Nerra, Deep Time Traveller: The Winds of Waa by Tasma Walton
Title: Nerra, Deep Time Traveller: The Winds of Waa Author: Tasma Walton Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Scholastic Australia Published: 1st August 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 160 Price: $15.99 Synopsis: “Nerra, you are the next Deep Time Traveller, as your great-grandmother was before you.”After discovering that she has the power to travel into the Dreaming, Nerra is… Continue reading Nerra, Deep Time Traveller: The Winds of Waa by Tasma Walton
Something Special: 40th Anniversary Edition by Emily Rodda
Title: Something Special: 40th Anniversary Edition Author: Emily Rodda Genre: Fantasy Publisher: HarperCollins Australia Published: 3rd July 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 80 Price: $17.99 Synopsis: The award-winning classic by internationally renowned author Emily Rodda celebrates forty years. In the spare room, the second-hand clothes hang in rows, stirring in the sunlight. Sam walks through the… Continue reading Something Special: 40th Anniversary Edition by Emily Rodda
The Raven’s Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey
Title: The Raven’s Eye Runaways Author: Claire Mabey Genre: Historical Fantasy Publisher: Allen and Unwin Published: 2nd July 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 336 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: A gripping, beautifully-told fantasy quest set in a parallel medieval world. Three friends and a one-eyed raven find themselves up against the rulers who restrict the gifts of writing… Continue reading The Raven’s Eye Runaways by Claire Mabey
Beastly Beauty by Jennifer Donnelly
Title: Beastly Beauty Author: Jennifer Donnelly Genre: Historical Fantasy Publisher: Scholastic Australia Published: 1st June 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 336 Price: $19.99 Synopsis: What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything, too badly. That's the problem Arabella faces… Continue reading Beastly Beauty by Jennifer Donnelly
The Helios Book by Slade Carter
Title: The Helios Book Author: Slade Carter Genre: Science Fiction Publisher: MidnightSun Publishing Published: 23rd May 2024 Format: Paperback Pages: 224 Price: $17.99 Synopsis: Twelve-year-old twins Hugo and Kitty have an ultra-rare condition called heterochromia, which bestows them with different coloured eyes: one hazel, the other blue. On holiday in rural Australia, the twins befriend… Continue reading The Helios Book by Slade Carter
Dymocks Reading Challenge Mains Completed
As of the middle of June, I have completed the ten mains prompts. I enjoyed nine out of ten, and only reviewed a couple, as during the completion of this section of the challenge, I had a lot of review books to stay on top of so that was my focus when it came to… Continue reading Dymocks Reading Challenge Mains Completed
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