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St Peter's School (Beckenham)

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  • Below

    By David Hill
    5 stars

    Fantastic. Great read aloud to older readers. Great pace, use of vocabulary, and attention to the little details which make the book come alive. Highly recommended to anyone I meet.

  • Mother of a Nation

    By David Hill
    5 stars

    Great way of introducing a significant part of NZ history to kids. Strong pictures to attract younger listeners, and great attention to detail to hook in older readers. I learned a lot too!

  • The Enchanted Wood

    By Enid Blyton
    5 stars

    Great vocab to stretch a class, and good pace to keep them focused.

  • How to become a Dark Lord and die trying

    By Django Wexler
    5 stars

    A dark comedy with a good fast pace. I didn't like all the footnotes so much, but they showed the personality of the protagonist well.

  • Witch and Tell

    By Angela M. Sanders
    4 stars

    Another in the Witch Way Librarian Mysteries. Josie has let her boyfriend know her secret, she's a witch, but she hasn't heard anything from him. She gets accused of murder and her boyfriend arrests her. How can she tell everyone she's innocent, and how is her Grandmother's long-banished sister, Beata, git into this all? A good well-paced story with a satisfying ending.

  • Scrap Escape from Somewhere 5143

    By Guy Bass
    5 stars

    3rd in the Scrap trilogy. Great, easy read full of action, adventure, and a humble message of making tough decisions and staying true to yourself.

  • The blast from the past

    By Lucy Score
    4 stars

    3rd book in the Riley Thorn set. Easy read, answers a lot of questions which have come up in other books and leads beautifully into the 4th book in the series.

  • The body in the backyard

    By Lucy Score
    5 stars

    4th in the Riley Thorn Mystery series. Riley and her boyfriend have moved, but only next door. They do seem to attract trouble, mostly in the form of Riley's ex husband, who seems to be the target of an assassin. Fun, easy read, with enough plot and twists to keep you reading.

  • The Baby Dragon Cafe

    By A. T. Qureshi
    4 stars

    Cute, easy read. Saphira has just started a cafe where baby dragons are allowed. It causes some fire and melty problems, but she is so happy to have achieved her dream and make her now-gone grandmother proud. Enter Aiden. Now in possession of a baby dragon called Sparky, from his deceased brother. Sparks (haha) fly, and they train this little, mischievous creature together.

  • Guardian of the Gryphons

    By Rebekah Lipp
    4 stars

    Great, easy story to start the League of Wildings series. Eva has so many jobs at home, but her brothers have none. When her parents have an accident and her uncle is her new guardian, Eva takes a chance with her littlest brother Tamond and runs away. They seek refuge in a cave, but find a mysterious whirlpool which takes them to a strange world called Lyra. She proves her bravery and is crowned Guardian of the Gryphons.

  • Brave Kāhu & the pōrangi magpie

    By Shelley Burne-Field
    5 stars

    Beautiful story of a brave kāhu called Poto and how she and the other many chose peace to save their friends. A great use of te reo Māori in every part of the book - it was really wonderful to see it so naturally used.

  • Tourist Season

    By Brynne Weaver
    4 stars

    First book of a humourous/dark trilogy. If she doesn't like you visiting or acting up in her small town, Harper will quietly put you in her wood chipper and enhance her award-winning garden. But that gets derailed when a handsome Nolan comes to town, with his own agenda.

  • The story of Suzanne Aubert

    By Jessie Munro
    4 stars

    The details of NZ's first person on route to sainthood. Suzanne Aubert, a French missionary sister, came out to NZ and helped. The book is filled with minute details which can drag on a bit, but is a fascinating look into life in NZ from 1860 onwards.

  • Echo

    By Arlo Kelly
    5 stars

    Beautiful story that shows the power of the ocean and relationships through a young narrator who is partially blind.

  • The Lost Bookshop

    By Evie Woods
    5 stars

    Magical story that pulls you in unexpected ways. "The thing about books... Is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of."

  • The summer we fell

    By Elizabeth O'Roark
    2 stars

    Flipping between 'then' and 'now' it tells the story of Juliet and Luke's attraction through their own personal circumstances. Not particularly compelling.

  • The Highland Heist

    By Pepper Basham
    4 stars

    4th in the Christian series 'Freddie and Grace mystery'. Following straight on from the 3rd book, Freddie and Grace are on their honeymoon trip across to America to see Grace's family, but find her sister beside her husband's body with a knife in her hand. It goes from mystery to mystery with another trip to Scotland to claim inheritance through their mother of a Scottish castle. Can they work out who is a murderer in time to claim their inheritance and go home?

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