Published by Tannbourne.

Emma’s Stormy Summer is a really heart-warming book about a girl and her friends facing hard times throughout the summer holidays.
Emma has a great bond with her three best mates, (Becca, Ruth and Charlie)but suddenly, Becca starts being horrible and bullying people at school!
Only to make things worse, Emma’s Dad loses his job and spends his time sitting doing nothing.  He was given pills that seemed to help but however he skipped taking them and he’s only ignoring Emma and Mum more and more…
Is there anyway Emma can possibly help?
That’s when she realizes her holidays are like a summer storm – Things seem bad at first but then everything will clear!
This is a fun book by author Miranda Newboult, perfect for readers aged 8 and up. It’s her first book and Emma’s Stormy Summer is also a special book because it is the first book to be published by the new publishing group; Tannbourne LTD.

After seeing how great this story was, I’m sure Tannbourne will soon become a really big publishing group!
Thanks to Jazzmine (@jreadsalot), I’ve been kindly introduced to these new publishers… and personally, I think they’re fab!

Georgia

Out now from Headline.

Ember Fury is one of the most action packed books I’ve ever read!

Teenager Ember,(otherwise known as Em) has been in rehab, prison and therapy classes because of her pyromaniac based problem.

But you can’t blame her – all she wants is a normal life!

Her dad’s a rockstar in a popular band called Slap!

Her mum was a famous talented artist before she died, and Ember’s new stepmum is the well known movie maker Charity Lane.

For the summer holidays, Em leaves London and her friends behind to visit L.A, where her dad and stepmum live.

The only problem is that she hates the paparazzi, being an icon and practically everything else about Los Angeles.  What can be done?

The only friend she has is an imaginary one – why is everything going downhill for her?

This is a great book for 11 to young adults and watch out for another book by the amazing Cathy Brett: Scarlett Dedd!

Georgia

Due from Indigo (Orion) 1st September 2011

An email from her murdered sister sets Alice Forster on a chilling path – to solve the mystery of Meggie’s death, and the even greater mystery of her life AFTER death. When a girl receives an email from her murdered sister, a whole new adventure takes place…

Alice Forster’s sister, Meggie, was a teen superstar on a talent programme (Sing for your Supper) up until she was found dead in her college apartment, her hair spread out.

Nobody could answer why she’d been murdered; her boyfriend, friends and neighbours were taken in for questioning but still gave no evidence.

Before Meggie’s funeral, her younger sister Alice received an email from her!

It gave her an invitation to visit the virtual paradise of SOUL BEACH.

After the funeral, Alice logs onto the website and sees a beautiful tropical beach.

After a while, long dead teens appear, including her sister!

Alice finds she can communicate with her sister through a site for teens in limbo, but who really did kill Meggie Forster, and could Alice be next?

This is a really great book: it’s essential for every teenager to read!

Georgia

Due from Indigo (Orion) 6th October 2011.

What would you sacrifice for someone you’ve loved forever?

Have you ever had the feeling that you’ve lived another life?

In a novel comprising seven short stories each of them influenced by a moon – flower moon, harvest moon, hunter’s moon, blood moon – and travelling from 2073 back in time to the dark of the moon and the days of Viking saga, this is the story of Eric and Merle who have loved and lost one another and who have been searching for each other ever since.  In the different stories the two appear as lovers, mother and son, brother and sister, artist and child as they come close to finding each other before facing the ultimate sacrifice.  Beautifully imagined, intricately and cleverly structured this is a heart-wrenching and breathtaking love story, but it also has the hallmark Sedgwick gothic touch with plenty of blood-spilling, a vampire and a sacrifice.

Here’s what Georgia thought of the book:

At first, I thought there was a mistake in this book – I was in the middle of reading about a reporter who goes to an island called Blessed, then suddenly it switched to a middle ages story!

Eric and Merle, in the first story, recognise each other from six past lives, and the book begins…

It keeps the same characters, Eric and Merle and in each of the seven stories, the two characters are close together; either as husband and wife, father and daughter or they have just met.

As you get further into the book itself, each makes more sense than the last story.

This book has such a unique and special twist, because I have never ever read a book like Midwinterblood! personally. I think that there should be lots more books with the same style as this one… keep on writing, Marcus Sedgwick!

Georgia

Alex Milway, best selling author, gave a talk at the Beckenham library for BecFest on Saturday the 2nd of July!

Alex Milway is a local, Beckenham/Penge based author who loves to write about adventures involving animals. His first books were the Mousehunter trilogy; starring a young intrepid girl called Emmeline. The plot is all about species of mice like the golden mouse and the elephant mouse. Mousebeard is the name of a villain in the second title, “The Curse of Mousebeard”. The series is very popular and highly recommended for ages 8 to 14.

Just out, are the all new Mythical 9th Division books!

At the moment the first two are in bookshops and a third title is underway! These unique books are all about three yetis called Albrecht, Saar and Timonen.  The yetis work undercover for the British Army and risk their necks to save the world from evil masterminds.  The first book in the series is called ‘Operation Robot Storm’ and following that is the sequel called ‘Terror of the Deep’.  These books by the wonderful Alex Milway are packed choc-a-block with his own illustrations and cartoon strips as well as his writing!  I personally would recommend this series for 7 to 12 year olds.

At the BecFest in Beckenham Library, Alex Milway made a special visit.   He has already given a talk once before at the same library, and with the help of some children, created the Mythical 10th Division.  This time me and some other children created the Mythical 11th Division!

The original idea was to design an army of mythical beasts to fight off evil and defend the planet, but strangely we ended up with an army of evil chocolate!

The experience was absolutely fantastic and all of the members of the library thoroughly enjoyed it.

Thank you Alex Milway, and keep writing more brilliant books!

Georgia

Published by Arrow

This is a brilliant story with lots of twists and turns, suspense and horror.

Age category between 9-14 year old readers, this is a fantastic book to own for boys and girls alike.

Daniel X is a superior alien-hunter feared across the galaxy.

He watched his parents being brutally murdered when he was three and, since then, he is out seeking revenge on the alien: The Prayer.

Daniel X has a list of the most wanted aliens in the universe.

Once he targets Number 6, a great war begins, but can the fourteen year old alien hunter survive it?

My five star rating: 4 out of 5.

Georgia.

Out now from Puffin Books

The Enemy is all about kids and their strengths because they have to cope with fighting zombies day in day out!

 When a terrible disease strikes everybody over the age of 14, Maxie and Aaron build up a child army in Waitrose.

 Suddenly, a guy in a patchwork jacket comes and tells them to come to Buckingham Palace.  Accepting the offer, the Waitrose gang team up with Blue and his gang from Morrisons and begin an amazing, action packed journey from the town of Holloway to Central London…

This is a must read for people who like things such as Doctor Who and Harry Potter.

My Rating: a ten out of ten for this one because of its everlasting suspense!

Georgia Walters

Out now from HarperCollins

This book has to be the most terrifying but brilliant book ever!

It’s full of twists and turns as 16 year old Tris goes to great lengths to discover where she really belongs.

Set in a world where you choose a faction, then test your abilities in order to literally keep your life.  Tris’ test reasults confirm her as a ‘Divergent’ which, when other few people have got this, they normally end up dead.

Choosing Dauntless, Tris performs life threatening stunts and even witnesses two deaths.

Suddenly, her mate Four discovers something only a Divergent can stop…

Read the book to find out what happens!

My rating: most definately a nine out of ten.

I hope there will be a sequel, because I really want to find out the next chapter of Tris’ life!

 Georgia Walters