Book Review 9-12 Years Fiction

Cogheart – Peter Bunzl £5.24
13-year-old Lily has no idea why her father has worked so hard to keep her identity a secret. Having exhausted any number of governesses, Lily has been sent to the crumbling red-brick institution of Miss Octavia Scrimshaw’s Finishing Academy for young ladies, under the tutelage of The Kraken, a formidable witch of a woman who thinks young ladies should concentrate on learning to stand up straight and deport themselves properly.

The Tales of Beedle the Bard – J. K. Rowling £5.99
So begins ‘The Tale of the Three Brothers’; a fairy tale, a clue, a secret that unlocks the mysterious Deathly Hallows. Now readers can possess their own copy of the book that Dumbledore bequeaths to Hermione, as translated by her from the original runes. Read about the legacy of the Elder Wand, The Cloak of Invisibility and The Resurrection Stone – the ultimate magical talismans and the key to defeating death itself.

Stormbreaker – Alex Rider – Anthony Horowitz £5.99
In the first book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, fourteen-year-old Alex is forcibly recruited into MI6. Armed with secret gadgets, he is sent to investigate Herod Sayle, a man who is offering state-of-the-art Stormbreaker computers to every school in the country. But the teenage spy soon finds himself in mortal danger.