If you like a detective caper shot through with magic, Derek Landy’s Skulduggery Pleasant series is for you! 
A long-dead, wise-cracking magician teams up with a feisty twelve year-old girl, who is not all she appears. This fast-paced, action-packed adventure is full of thrills, spills and whip-smart funny dialogue. Highly recommended to anyone aged 9 and above. We’ve got the whole series in our library!
This exciting Victorian mystery takes us to a world of seances and dark magic, as three captured orphans try to free themselves from their sinister benefactor.
An intriguing, absorbing tale for readers aged 9 and above.
Welcome to the world of Nik and Norva, a pair of sassy sisters whose detecting hobby becomes deadly serious when their mentor is murdered and their own father is in the frame. 
A feast of vividly-drawn characters and crackling dialogue, it’s a fresh and funny whodunnit for readers aged ten upwards.
Maggie thinks being the middle child is rubbish: the oldest children, like her brother Jed, are revered and get all the best treatment.
In the eleven years of her life, Maggie has been taught that dangers lurk outside the boundaries of her small town — a place that is cut off from the rest of the world and where hardship is a part of everyone’s life.
But a chance encounter with a stranger sends Maggie down a perilous path, where the choice is between heroism and betrayal. As events spiral out of control, will Maggie the Middler measure up, or will she lose everything she holds dear?
This novel has a deceptively bucolic beginning, but hints of darkness soon combine to create a must-read climax. A cracking story.
What is going on in this part-submerged city?
Who or what is the monster that stalks its crumbling streets? Who is the boy with strange powers, who was washed up by the tide? Can the resourceful young inventor, Ellie, save him from a brutal execution, even if it means exposing her own dangerous secrets to the light?
The mystery and suspense keep coming in this compelling adventure, where nothing is quite what it seems. A proper page-turner.
Review by Storm, Y9
The Maze is a terrifying place, to which a number of teenage boys have been mysteriously transported. They have no memory of their former lives and no idea why they are in The Maze. The boys stay in the safety of a central area called The Glade, but every day “runners” go into the Maze to attempt to map it and find an exit. However, if they don’t make it back to the Glade by nightfall, they risk being trapped in the Maze and killed by the violent, mechanical monsters that patrol it.
Why do I recommend this book?
I recommend this book because it’s really adventurous and at the same time kind of scary.
What do I rate this book
I rate this book a 5 out of 5. It really encouraged me to read more of these types of books…I’m definitely going to read Maze Runner 2 (The Scorch Trials)
What springs to mind when you think of London? The museums? Buckingham Palace? Oxford street shopping? The West End?
You probably didn’t think of the families of Bangladeshi immigrants based around Brick Lane…
This is a beautifully told tale of a teenage bride Nazneen, taken straight from a rural village in Bangladesh, to marry an older man she has never met and live with him in London. That might not sound that captivating but her struggles – and those of her sister left behind in Dhaka – are extremely moving.
For those confident readers among you, this is a journey into the London that you probably never imagined existed. 
It begins as a quest to find an absent father, but turns into something else…
Written by Margaret Mahy, one of the New Zealand’s most prolific and best-loved writers, this Young Adult novel stars Angela, daughter of hippy single-mum Dido. In trying to find her father and, thus, herself, she comes to find something else in her best friend, the geeky, star-gazing Tycho…
It’s a lovely, uplifting read, for fans of John Green and Jandy Nelson.
Ever wondered why we measure the time from Greenwich? Read on…
This is a true story. It’s non-fiction. And it’s fascinating.
Before there were satellites and GPS, to know where you were in the world, especially at sea, you needed a range of tools and most importantly, an accurate, reliable watch.
Sounds simple, right?
Wrong!
In this brief but engrossing tale, Dava Sobel outlines the search for the means to know exactly where you were in terms of East-West (longitude). We learn of a humble watch-maker’s solution and his bid to win one of the greatest science prizes in the history of humanity.