Tag: Mystery

A booklist of reads based on actual events

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Booklists for you

I hope everyone is enjoying the month of March so far. My recovery is slow but steady. I’m hoping to start work in the next few days, so fingers crossed friends! This week’s bookish post will feature a selection of tween and teen reads based on actual events from history or from the author’s life. Are you keen to find out more?? 

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Five tween titles that bring happy smiles and laughs

Hi everyone, welcome to the month of October. We have not long to go until Christmas, and summer is not too far away for us here in New Zealand. That should have brought a smile to most of you who call Auckland home!! So, in ensuring you keep smiling, even those who are facing autumn or fall, here are five tween titles that kept me smiling and laughing, sometimes even out in public!!

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Classic reads and their modern adaptations

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Bookish advice

Hi everyone, this week I’m sharing a bookish advice post on the various adaptations we find these days based on classic reads. We get many different forms of media that provide our youngsters these days with not just graphic novels of classic reads but with adapted versions into musicals, movies, and all sorts of other streaming platforms such as Netflix and Disney plus. If you’re curious and want to find out more why don’t you press the button below…

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A booklist for Enid Blyton fans

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Booklists for you

Hi friends, today’s post is a booklist of read-a-like suggestions for fans of stories by Enid Blyton. If you are like me and grew up in the 1980’s then you most probably enjoyed these as a child I presume. Would you like to know about the modern equivalent to those stories you read? You would? Then this booklist is for you and your tween to enjoy…

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My Top Five Time-Slip Tales for Tweens

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Booklists for you

Hi everyone, I hope you are all enjoying the build up of suspense I’m planning for you this month of August. Well, as the title reads, this week’s post is a short booklist of my Top Five Tween Time-Slip reads to date!! If you want to find out which titles made the final list, go one, press the button below…

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History, health and tweens

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Booklists for you

Hello everyone, this week’s booklist features a selection of historical reads where our young protagonists have overcome some form of health-battle or illness. Be warned friends, some of these reads have themes and settings that could lead to episodes of crying…

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A taste of adventure in Africa…

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Booklists for you

Hi everyone, how would you like to go on an adventure in Africa?? What about exploring ancient tombs, trekking through the jungle or getting lost in the Sahara? If you are one of the few who have done this, then please don’t read any further because that’s exactly what our young protagonists of these reads end up doing while having to save the world… oops!! I’ve said too much!! Press the button to find out more…if you dare…

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Let’s travel to Africa this April

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Hi everyone, as the title of this post suggests, let’s travel to Africa with the reads I’ve selected for you!! Yes, I’m finally going to showcase what this magnificent continent has and what makes it all that special to me. So, friends, why not grab something to drink and settle in for a month of exciting books!!

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What I read over the summer break

Hi everyone, this post he’s about the books I read during my summer vacation. I suppose you think how can she possibly have read anything else? Well friends, the thing is you sometimes need a little extra to sort of ‘cleanse’ the reading palette. If this has intrigued you, why not press the button below.

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