Tag: Adventure

The Last Thirteen Book 10

October 24, 2014 by mstuart720

James Phelan Publisher: Scholastic ISBN: 978-1-74283-193-0 RRP: $14.99 Age: 9-14 years Date of Publication: September 2014 After a dramatic sea rescue in Japan, Sam meets powerful friends. He sets off for Cambodia to find the last 13’s tenth Dreamer. Eva faces her worst fear in the Dreamer Doors competition. Meanwhile Alex is headed into unknown waters with Hans. At the legendary temple of Angkor Wat Sam must find the next gear.Can he succeed? The world cannot survive without him. To […]

Categories: adventure • Tags: Adventure, Scholastic Aus

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Paper planes

October 16, 2014 by dberger

Allayne L. Webster Omnibus Books ISBN: 9781742990699 RRP: $16.99 Genre: War stories Age: 12 + Date of Publication: September 2014 Reviewer: Donna Clark How resourceful would you become if war had broken out in your country and you had no running water, electricity and food was in short supply? Paper Planes by Allyayne L. Webster is a story about a family in Sarajevo whose lives will never be the same again. The story is through the eyes of eleven year […]

Categories: Omnibus Books, War, Young Adult • Tags: Adventure, Omnibus for Scholastic

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EJ12 Girl Hero – Ciao EJ!

September 23, 2014 by dberger

Susannah McFarlane Scholastic Australia ISBN: 9781921931666 Age: 8+ Published: August 2014 RRP: $12.99 Reviewed by Debbie Berger Ciao EJ! is the 18th book in this popular series and this one is set in Italy. This time, EJ12, who is Emma Jacks when she is not working as a spy for the Shine Agency, has to solve the mystery of who is destroying the great statues of Italy. Evil agency SHADOW is up to something and EJ12 needs to piece together […]

Categories: adventure, EJ12, Junior Novel • Tags: Adventure, Scholastic Australia, Susannah McFarlane

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The Maze Runner

September 23, 2014 by dberger

James Dashner Chicken House ISBN: 9781909489448 Age: 12+ Published: September 2014 RRP: $14.99 Reviewed by Debbie Berger Thomas wakes up in a box-like elevator and gets thrown into an unknown society, known as the Glade. The Glade is surrounded by stone walls that create The Maze, which changes every night. A handful of boys selected to run sections of the maze, known as The Runners, are sent out every day to solve the mystery of what is beyond the walls. […]

Categories: Dystopian, Young Adult • Tags: Adventure, Chicken House, Dystopian, James Dashner

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July 25, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Scholastic Australia James Phelan The Last 13 bk 4 ISBN: 9781742831879 RRP: $14.99 Age: 10+ Key Words: Action, Adventure, Thriller Published: 1st March 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Sam and Xavier are in dire straights. Sam is convinced this is the end – his at the hands of Solaris. Then rescue comes in a very unexpected way. He was sure Alex was dead but now it looks as though he is working with The Enterprise and Sam doesn’t know what to make […]

Categories: Middle Grade, Young Adult • Tags: action, Adventure, Dreams, James Phelan, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, The Last 13, Thriller

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Rock Mutant

May 27, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Mac Park Scholastic Boy vs beast bk 9 ISBN: 9781921931680 RRP: $7.99 Age: 5+ Key Words: Fantasy, Action Published: 1st March 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Kai Maters is a Border Guard, it is his goal to become a Border Captain then a Border Master. The rules seem to have changed in Beastium, the beasts have changed. It is no longer a simple case of one weapon to defeat the elemental creatures. The beasts have mutated. Kai’s first of these new challenges […]

Categories: Junior Novel • Tags: action, Adventure, Boy vs Beast, fantasy, Games, Mac Park, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell

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Cave of Wonders

May 27, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Matthew J Kirby Scholastic Infinity Ring bk 5 ISBN: 9780545387002 RRP: $14.99 Age: 8+ Key Words: History, Adventure Published: 1st Nov 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Bagdad has become a centre of learning in the Dark Ages. As well as merchants and explorers from all over the city houses many scholars. It is here that Sera, Dak and Riq find themselves for their next fix. They determine that they have to find a way to save the great library that is there […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: action, Adventure, history, Infinity Ring, Matthew J Kirby, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell

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Meet The Piratesons

May 4, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Knife and Packer Scholastic Freak Street Series ISBN: 9781742836706 RRP: $10.99 Age: 7+ Key Words: Fun, Pirates, Adventure Published: 1st Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell When you live on Freak Street the Pirateson’s are pretty much an average family. Sure their house is a boat, and they have a pet piranha. Patty Pirateson is more interested in skateboarding than doing pirate things and their dad is certain he will be the one to find a long-lost treasure map leading to the […]

Categories: Junior Novel • Tags: Adventure, Colourful, humour, Knife & Packer, pirates, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell

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Curse of the Ancients

April 15, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Matt De la Pena Scholastic Infinity Ring bk 4 ISBN: 9780545386999 RRP: $14.99 Age: 8+ Key Words: History, Action, Adventure Published: 1st June 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Sera, Dak and Riq find themselves back with the ancient Maya people. The Maya’s are a people who seem to know a great deal about the future but that doesn’t prevent them from being involved in one of the breaks that the kids have to fix. The only problem is they aren’t sure exactly […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: action, Adventure, history, Infinity Ring, Matt de la Pena, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, science fiction

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Ash Rover – Keeper of the Phoenix

February 21, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Aleesah Darlison Walker Books Ash Rover series bk 1 ISBN: 9781922179029 RRP: $14.95 Age: 8+ Key Words: Fantasy, Action, Adventure Published: 1st Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Ash Rover doesn’t want to be just looking after the cows, which goes someway to explaining how he was asleep on his post. He is rudely awakened by a rock dropping on his head, though it is no ordinary rock, this rock generates warmth. He takes it home but his mother is not impressed […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: action, Adventure, Aleesah Darlison, Ash Rover, fantasy, Mystical Creatures, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell

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Poison Boy

February 21, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Fletcher Moss Chicken House ISBN: 9781908435446 RRP: $14.99 Age: 10+ Key Words: Adventure, Crime Published: 1st July 3013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Dalton Fly has a job, it’s not one that guarantees a long life but for an orphan it is better than nothing. Dalton is a food taster for the rich. He has the unenviable job of testing to ensure food and drink on the tables of the wealthy is not poisoned. Dalton has had a narrow escape, his mate wasn’t […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: Adventure, crime, fantasy, Fletcher Moss, mystery, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell

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Mission One – The Catier Emerald

February 21, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Eileen O’Hely and Heath McKenzie Walker Books Kitten Kaboodle bk 1 ISBN: 9781921529931 RRP: $14.95 Age: 7+ Key Words: Crime, Mystery, Adventure Published: 1st Feb 2014 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Kitten Kaboodle is no ordinary kitten, in one part of his life he is Judy’s kitten Buttons, but in his other part he is a top agent for CAT. His mission this time is to infiltrate the DOG fortress disguised as a pedigree kitten and discover what it is that DOG are […]

Categories: Junior Novel • Tags: action, Adventure, animals, crime, Eileen O'Hely, Heath McKenzie, Kitten Kaboodle, mystery, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell

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Monster School

January 22, 2014 by kyliecalwell

DC Green Ford Street Publishing City of Monsters bk 1 ISBN: 9781925000078 RRP: $18.95 Age: 9+ Key Words: Adventure, Monsters Published: 1st Oct 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Thomas Regus is an endangered species, he is a human in a city of monsters. If he isn’t very careful he will end up as food for any one of various predatory species. The problem is he is feeling trapped. He is net in line for the human throne but he feels he knows […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: Adventure, Bravery, DC Green, friendship, goblins, Monsters, Mummies, Ogres, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Vampires

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Nowhere to Run

January 22, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Jude Watson Scholastic 39 Clues Unstoppable bk 1 ISBN: 9780545521376 RRP: $17.99 Age: 8+ Key Words: Action, Adventure Published: 3rd Oct 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Dan and Amy Cahill finally think it’s over and they can go back to having a normal kind of life, or at least as normal as can be. Then strange things start to happen, men attack them out of nowhere and suddenly their whole lives are under attack. A tiny mistake has lead them to a […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: 39 Clues, action, Adventure, Amy Cahill, Dan Cahill, family, Jude Watson, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell

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Flora & Ulysses – The Illuminated Adventures

January 22, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Kate DiCamillo Illustrated by KG Campbell Candlewick Press ISBN: 9780763660406 RRP: $19.95 Age: 9+ Key Words: Fantasy, Adventure, Friendship, Family Published: 24th Sept 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Flora Belle Buckman is a little different. Flora considers herself a cynic. She loves comic books, practices hard at ignoring her mother and misses her father who no longer lives with them. One day she witnesses something strange, a squirrel getting vacuumed up. She races out to rescue him and a most amazing thing […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: Adventure, family, fantasy, friendship, Highly Recommended, humour, Kate DiCamillo, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Super Heroes

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Claws of the Crocodile

January 22, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Bear Grylls Red Fox Mission Survival bk 5 ISBN: 9781849418423 RRP: $14.95 Age: 10+ Key Words: Adventure, Survival, Environment Published: 1st Aug 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Beck Granger has been in some tight situations all over the world, on this trip to Australia he has promised his Uncle that he will stay out of trouble. Then somebody lures him away from his uncle with information about the accident that killed his parents. Or at least that is what he thinks he […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: action, Adventure, Bear Grylls, Environment, Mission Survival, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Survival

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Trap Door

January 5, 2014 by kyliecalwell

Lisa McMann Scholastic Infinity Ring bk 3 ISBN: 9780545386982 RRP: $14.99 Age: 8+ Key Words: History, Adventure Published: 1st Feb 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Finally Dak, Sera and Riq are back in the United States, only the year is 1850 and the continent is divided on the issue of slavery. These are bleak times but the Underground Railway brings a touch of hope as it helps runaway slaves make their way to freedom. Things aren’t as they should be though as […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: Adventure, history, Infinity Ring, Lisa McMann, Slavery

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The Journey

December 8, 2013 by kyliecalwell

Coral Tulloch Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781922077615 RRP: $19.95 Age: 8+ Key Words: Adventure, Interactivity Published: 1st Nov 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Bernard wants some plum jam on his freshly made crumpets. This seems like a simple thing but it leads him to Mr Pip, who starts him on the most amazing journey to a place called the Pole of Inaccessibility. He meets some strange and interesting creatures (Pickle Lights) and people (the Cook). He hears some interesting stories, (how the […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: Adventure, Coral Tulloch, Fun, interactive, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell

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The Will of the Empress

December 8, 2013 by kyliecalwell

Tamora Pierce Scholastic ISBN: 9780545074551 RRP: $13.99 Age: 11+ Key Words: Magic, Friendship, Adventure Published: 1st Oct 2008 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Winding Circle is a long way away for our four mages, at least it is time wise and now they are all back together they find they can’t go back to the way things were. They all experienced things they don’t know how to share and this causes rifts between them. Then Sandry’s uncle asks the others to accompany her […]

Categories: Fantasy, Young Adult • Tags: Adventure, Espionage, fantasy, friendship, Highly Recommended, magic, Politics, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Tamora Pierce

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Melting Stones

December 8, 2013 by kyliecalwell

Tamora Pierce Scholastic ISBN: 9780545052658 RRP: $17.99 Age: 11+ Key Words: Magic, Nature Published: 1st Aug 2012 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Evvy has been an apprentice stone mage for four years now. She really doesn’t want to be on another journey with her mentor, Rosethorn but she finds herself accompanying her and Dedicate Myrrhtide, a water mage, to the Battle Islands. Something is causing the plants and animals to die and it is up to Rosethorn and Myrrhtide to find out what, […]

Categories: Fantasy, Young Adult • Tags: Adventure, Evvy, fantasy, magic, nature, Recommended, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Tamora Pierce

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Cold Fire

December 2, 2013 by kyliecalwell

Tamora Pierce Scholastic Circle Opens bk 3 ISBN: 9780590396561 RRP: $15.99 Age: 11+ Key Words: Mystery, Magic Published: 1st March 2003 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Daja Kisubo and her teacher Frostpine are wintering with friends of his in Kugisko. It is a port location made up of many islands. A strange place for fire mages to holiday. It is here though that a series of strange fires happen. Daja takes it upon herself to assist local firefighter Bennat Ladradun in fighting them. […]

Categories: Fantasy, Young Adult • Tags: Adventure, Circle Opens, Daja, magic, mystery, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Tamora Pierce

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Wild Born

December 2, 2013 by kyliecalwell

Brandon Mull Scholastic Spirit Animals bk 1 ISBN: 9781742839974 RRP: $6.50 Age: 9+ Key Words: Animals, Fantasy Published: 1st Oct 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell When a child turns 11 they are tested to see if they have the ability to bond with a Spirit Animal. It is a special gift that gives great powers to both. Some people come from long lines of bonded others are never expected to have the ability. Still all are tested. Things are unsettled throughout the […]

Categories: Middle Grade • Tags: action, Adventure, animals, Brandon Mull, fantasy, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Spirit Animals

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Princess Betony and the Rule of Wishing

November 8, 2013 by kyliecalwell

Pamela Freeman & Tamsin Ainslie Walker Books The Princess Betony Series ISBN: 9781921720253 RRP: $17.95 Age: 7+ Key Words: Princess, Friendship Published: 1st Oct 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Princess Betony is thrilled that she finally might have a friend. Rosie’s niece Clover Pink has come to stay next door for a while and Betony is really looking forward to finding out what a real friend is. It’s not as simple as all that when you are a Princess and your friend […]

Categories: Junior Novel • Tags: Adventure, friendship, Pamela Freeman, Princesses, Recommended, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, Tamsin Ainslie

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Briar Rose

October 19, 2013 by kyliecalwell

Jana Oliver Pan Macmillan ISBN: 9781447241096 RRP: $16.99 Age: 12+ Key Words: Romance, Fantasy, Fairy Tales Published: 12th Sept 2013 Reviewer: Kylie Calwell Briar Rose loves fairy tales, it’s a bit silly really but that’s how it is. She lives in the same town her family has lived in for generations, and is even involved in a honest to goodness family feud with the Quinn family. The whole thing is a bit strange, when they were younger Briar and Joshua Quinn […]

Categories: Fantasy, Young Adult • Tags: Adventure, Fairy Tales, fantasy, Jana Oliver, magic, Recommended, Reviewer - Kylie Calwell, romance

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The Last Thirteen Book 10

Paper planes

EJ12 Girl Hero – Ciao EJ!

The Maze Runner

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Rock Mutant

Cave of Wonders

Meet The Piratesons

Curse of the Ancients

Ash Rover – Keeper of the Phoenix

Poison Boy

Mission One – The Catier Emerald

Monster School

Nowhere to Run

Flora & Ulysses – The Illuminated Adventures

Claws of the Crocodile

Trap Door

The Journey

The Will of the Empress

Melting Stones

Cold Fire

Wild Born

Princess Betony and the Rule of Wishing

Briar Rose