Mrs Keane Recommends

Senior Fiction

The Warden's Daughter by Jerry Spinelli

(Family & Relationships)

Cammie lives in prison, no not as a prisoner, she's the wardens daughter. Cammie has plenty of friends, and some are even her own age and not prisoners. But what Cassis wants most of all is a Mum.

The Grandest Bookshop in the World by Amelia Mellor

(Fantasy/Detective & Mystery)

Pearl and Vally have a lot to figure out, and a lot to do, if they are to save their father and his wonderful bookshop. If  they can't solve the clues in time everything they know and love will be gone and no one will remember they ever existed.

Winter of Fire by Sheryl Jordan

(Fantasy)

In a bleak future world Elsha, chosen as handmaid to the Firelord, shakes up the accepted norms of society. Being from the slave class, known as Quelled, is against all tradition, and, she has a dream to change life for the Quelled, and indeed all of society.

The Skylark's War by Hilary Mckay

(Family & Relationships/Historical)

Clarrie and her brother, Peter, grow up spending the summer holiday's in the countryside at their grandparent's with their free spirited cousin, Rupert. Now it's 1914 and people start to talk of war, soon Rupert enlists in the army, and Carrie wonders, will life ever be the same?

TimeRiders  by Alex Scarrow

(Science Fiction)

Liam, Maddy and Sal have been plucked from certain death by a mysterious man known as Foster. But, their lives, if you can call them that, will never be the same. Now they will be trained as TimeRiders, the police of time, to stop those who travel back in time from destroying the world.