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 Nonie loves fashion, Jenny is in a famous movie with the latest Hollywood heart-throb, and Edie wants to change the world. and then they meet Crow, a pretty little refugee girl wearing stranger clothes than even Nonie, and sketching a dress. Suddenly, their world is turned upside down as the little girl turns out to be as good a fashion designer as you get, at the tender age of ten. But Crow has had a tragic upbringing, a night-walker, an invisible child, walking to safety, a town miles away, each night to escape from the adults which capture children to use as child-soldiers and worse... Can all of their dreams come true? Can Nonie become an assistant to a famous fashion-designer? Can Jenny catch the eye of her famous co-actor? Can Edie change the world for the better? And can Crow make it in the world of fashion, and find her brother Henry, taken by soldiers back in Africa?
This book was amazing, I couldn't put it down. My only criticism was that it was quite predictable. I also didn't like Jenny.
9/10

TimeRiders

TimeRiders
Just before they died, three children are saved by a mysterious man with a promise of escape. A girl in a plane crash, a boy on the Titanic and a girl from a fire. They are TimeRiders, people whose work it is to correct time when people try to change it. Based in a time bubble in New York on the day on and before 9/11, they, along with Bob, the robot, are expected to detect a change, find what has changed, and travel back in time to correct it. But he small incidents of the past, are nothing compared to to what the week-old team is going to have to face - a change involving time travel, and a dangerous vision of a Utopia achieved using the Second World War and Adolf Hitler...
A creative book with an amazing essence of complete originality and imagination, with just a hint of history and normal life that gives a scarily realistic ring to the story...
7/10

Ruby Red

Ruby Red
Ruby seems like every other rich white African schoolgirl of her time - if very popular and beautiful. But her home life is far from the ordinary - her mother is a gallery owner who takes on and looks after the poor, black artists that no one else will, and her father is a defence lawyer for black people. Secret meetings regularly take place at her house, and she can never invite any of her friends round. She lives a life of play-acting and white lies, never showing her true beliefs in equality and freedom beyond her front door. Life seems tough enough, but then she falls in love with a handsome and compassionate Afrikaans boy from another school, and things only go downhill. Rejected by her friends and community, because she pushed the boundaries of the three groups of society, blacks, whites and Afrikaans, it looks like she'll never escape the the prejudiced community she lives in...
This is a truly amazing story of a girl who is not afraid to stand up for her beliefs. Easily earns a place on my 'favorite books' shelf.
9/10

The Declaration By Gemma Malley

The Declaration
Anna is a Surplus, someone who shouldn't have been born. Everyone who is a Legal takes Longevity, a drug that makes people live forever, but if they have children, the world becomes over populated, so the government came up with a solution. No one who takes Longevity can have children, but if they do, they are put in prison, and their child becomes a Surplus, living only to serve, to cook and wash and organise the Legals lives. Anna is all set to become a Valuable Asset, to live down her parents decision, and become Useful, when along comes Peter the rulebreaking boy who swears he kows her parents, and that they love her, and want her back...
This book is one which caught me in its amazing plot surrounding this terrible distopia, where noone new can have a happy life, and the old live on forever, way outstaying their time with Mother Nature...
9/10

RuneMarks By Joanne Harris

RuneMarks
Maddy Smith is a lonely and strange girl, blamed for everything that goes wrong in her village, all because of the rusty marking on her hand that the villagers call a "Witch's Ruin" a sign that she is strange and dangerous, lonely, evil, stubborn... and worst of all, magic. This is a self fullfilling prophesy, as Maddy, shunned and taunted never makes any friends. Until, that is, she meets One-Eye, a strange man with an eyepatch, who tells her she is magic, and shows her how to cast Runes, and speak incantations,  and use Glamour. He tells her stories of the Gods, and the old days, before the end of the world. And one day, she goes down into the World Below, and tings get even more magical than before.
This book is a brilliant story woven with old legends, and yet is something new and fresh.
9/10

North Child By Edith Pattou

North Child
Rose is supposed to be an East Child - quiet, studious, hardworking and happy to stay at home. But she is out for adventure, always away, and her only East Attribute seems to be her love of weaving and sewing. One day, the truth about her birth is finally told - she is a North Child, adventurous, wild and different. Only, she never expected to find out because of a talking polar bear turning up at the door, offering to cure her mortally ill sister and reverse her family's bad fortunes if she were only to come with him - with him to a castle in the mountains, filled with magic and mystery...
I first read this book many years ago, and instantly became entranced by this amazing story of Norse magic, trolls, superstition, courage and romance.
10/10

books to do

eragon seiries
blood ties and girl:missing
the help
the chosen one
envy
tanglewreck
the lion tamers daughter
tears of the salamander