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Banovallum Bookies are currently taking part in the Lincolnshire young people’s book award 2006

 

The shortlist of five books we are currently reading are:

 

 

Author: Anthony Horowitz

 

When Matt Freeman gets into trouble with the police, he’s sent to be fostered in Yorkshire. It’s not long before he senses there’s something wrong with his guardian and with the whole village.

 

Then Matt learns about the old ones and begins to understand just how to be different, but no one will believe him and no one can help.

 

 

Author: Joseph Delaney

 

The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, have travelled to Priestown on some unfinished business. For deep in the catacombs of the Cathedral lurks a creature the spook has never been able to defeat, a creature so evil that the whole county is in danger of being corrupted by its powers. They call it the ‘Bane’.

 

 

Author: J.K.Rowling

 

Harry has yet again spent the summer holidays at the Dursley’s. He has plenty to think about, though – from the death of his beloved godfather Sirius Black, to the terrifying chase through the ministry of magic by the Death Eaters, to the fierce duel he witnessed between Dumbledore and Voldemort. Now he nervously waiting for Dumbledore’s visit and how the Dursley’s will react.

 

 

Author: Jonathan Stroud

 

Now, trapped on earth and treated with disdain by his master. Nathaniel Bartimaeus finds his energies are fading fast. With Nathaniel preoccupied by the problems of a failing empire, and more rigid and insensitive than ever, the long suffering djinni’s patience is finally at an end.

 

 

Author: Christopher Paolini

 

Darkness Falls… Despair abounds… Evil reigns.

Eragon and his Dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the mighty forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the eleves, for further training in magic and swordsmanship, the vital skills of the Dragon Rider.

 

 

Join our group in reading the shortlist. – See Mrs Priestner about reading and reviewing the books for both the Banovallum and Horncastle Library wesites.