Pete Johnson(Yearling) On his thirteenth birthday, Marcus found out that he was a half-vampire. It might sound exciting, but Marcus certainly does not think so: blood cravings, near death-experiences when eating pizza (half-vampires are allergic to garlic) and powerful vampires wanting to drink your blood while you are a fledgling … it is not that …
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Spooky Reads (7): Bloodline
Kate Cary(Egmont) When nineteen-year-old John Shaw enrols in the War and begins his duties in the trenches, he thinks that the horrors of war he will witness will be at the hands of his enemies. But it becomes clear that danger might not be across No Man’s Land after all when mysterious and charismatic Captain …
Spooky Reads (3): The Dead of Winter
Chris Priestley(Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Michael Vyner is burying his mother and trying to face the fact that he is now an orphan when he is approached by a lawyer, Jerwood, who is representing a certain Sir Stephen Clarendon, who claims to be his guardian. Michael knows the name of course, as Sir Stephen is the man …