We have been processing new books galore in the Prep School Library.  They are on display and you are invited to come and borrow them  Below are short reviews of just a few of them.

 

Lexiland is about a girl Emma whose twin sister died at their birthday party.  Even two years later her parents just can’t seem to get over the death of Laura, and Emma becomes increasingly lonely without her more dominant sister there to guide her.  Then a new girl Lexi arrives at school . She is fascinating and different. She has wild red hair and wears an eye-patch but no one seems to know why or where she is from.  This mystery slowly unravels as Emma  and Lexi become friends and Emma enters into ‘Lexiland’.  With Lexi’s help Emma finds she can start asking questions about her twin’s death – not that the answers are always what she wants to hear.  This is a book about friendship and grief and learning to live with an incredibly painful loss.

There are five books in the Emily Windsnap series by Liz Kessler - a fantasy mermaid adventure series.   

Emily Windsnap is a 12-year-old girl who lives alone with her mother on a boat by the seaside. Her mother has always been very anxious to keep her out of the water, but then one day allows her to go for swimming lessons.  In her first plunge into the pool she discovers something amazing about herself: she has a mermaid’s tail. She realises she is half mermaid. She sets off on a trip through the mermaid realm below the sea’s surface to find out the truth about herself and her parents and also about Mr Beeston the lighthouse keeper who always seems to be watching her. 

In the final book of the  series which we have just acquired, Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun, Neptune, King of the Sea, enlists the help of Eily and her half mermaid friend and they set off on a top secret mission to find out why Neptune is having terrible dreams which are causing huge storms at sea.  But they get into trouble as their mission leads them deeper and deeper into danger in the far frozen north.