Saturday, April 21, 2018

Reading - The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins



EVERY DAY THE SAME
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

UNTIL TODAY
And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

Reading - Tom Gates : Top of the Class (Nearly)

Tom Gates : Top of the Class (Nearly) by L. Pichon

A Junior Fiction



What are Tom's tips for being top of the class ?

Sunday, April 01, 2018

Reading - Shrinking Violet is Totally Famous

Shrinking Violet is Totally Famous by Lou Kuenzler

A Junior Fiction



Violet Potts is excited.  Celebrity stuntwoman Stella Lightfoot is in town.  Maybe Violet could actually meet her?  Then Violet shrinks .... and ends up at Stella's television shoot!  Being tiny on set can be scary, but Violet might just get to be a little bit famous, too.  Sometimes being mini is magnificent!

Saturday, March 24, 2018

Reading - Millions

Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce

A Junior Fiction


It was a one-in-a-million chance. A bag crammed with cash comes tumbling out of the air and lands right at Damian's feet. Suddenly the Cunningham brothers are rich. Very rich. They can buy anything they want. There's just one problem -- they have only seventeen days to spend all the money before it becomes worthless. And the crooks who stole the cash in the first place are closing in -- fast.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Reading - The 52-Storey Treehouse

The 52-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths

A Junior Fiction



Andy and Terry's incredible, ever-expanding treehouse has 13 new storeys, including a watermelon-smashing level, a wave machine, a life-size snakes and ladders game (with real ladders and real snakes), a rocket-powered carrot-launcher, a Ninja Snail Training Academy and a high-tech detective agency with all the latest high-tech detective technology, which is lucky because they have a BIG mystery to solve—where is Mr. Big Nose???

Reading - The 39-Story Treehouse


The 39-Story Treehouse by Andy Griffiths

A Junior Fiction



Andy and Terry are once again inviting readers to come hang out with them in their astonishing 39-story treehouse (it used to be 13 stories, then 26 stories, but they keep expanding). And this year they will have even more time to jump on the world's highest trampoline, toast marshmallows in an active volcano, swim in the chocolate waterfall, pet baby dinosaurs, and go head-to-trunk with the Trunkinator, since Terry has created the greatest invention that he―or anyone else―has ever invented . . . a Once-upon-a-time machine that will write and illustrate their entire book for them!

Reading - The 26-Storey Treehouse

The 26-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths

A Junior Fiction



Andy and Terry live in a 26-story treehouse. (It used to be 13 stories, but they've expanded.) It has a bumper car rink, a skate ramp, an antigravity chamber, an ice cream parlor with 78 flavors, and the Maze of Doom―a maze so complicated that nobody who has gone in has ever come out again. Well, not yet, anyway.
This time, the two friends have a whole week to finish their next book, and Andy even knows what it should be about―the story of how he and Terry first met. But, life is NEVER boring in the treehouse, and emergency shark operations, giant storms, and wooden pirate heads are just the beginning….