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Colston, Fifi

Title of Book :Verity's Truth
Reviewed by : Mary Buckner - Staff
Category :Junior Fiction
Suggested Audience :9-12years

Every year Verity's family camp at Matipo Bay for their summer holidays. There she meets her summer friends, Danni and Sam and they enjoy the beach together. This year is different in so many ways.

This is a fast-paced mystery story with interesting twists and turns.   

Verity solves the mystery of a clairvoyant's ring and in the process discovers

lots about telling the truth, about growing up and how to get on with others

Cornwell, Bernard

Title of Book : Fallen Angels
Reviewed by : Book Club Member
Category : Fiction
Suggested Audience :

Having read “A crowning mercy” a tale of Puritan times and the Lazenders.  Fallen Angels takes us forward 4 generations to the French revolution.  The aristocracy in France are in danger.  A sect “The Fallen Angels” are responsible for the death of Toby Laxen’s bride-to-be.  He then mysteriously disappears.  Toby’s sister Campion has been in charge of the Lazen estates since her father’s death, but the sect wants the riches so they can foster revolution in England.  Can Campion find her brother?  Is he still alive?  Can she win out with the help of a mysterious gypsy?  Gripping to the last page.

8/10

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