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                            Ruby Redfort Look Into My Eyes - Lauren Child 21/10/2011
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                            Ruby Redfort is an exciting book about an intelligent, young secret agent.
                            This suspenseful book will bring joy to any young mystery reader between the ages of 10-12.
                            This book is a true page turner that will keep you awake for hours!


                            Flora (age 11)

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                            The Truth About Verity Sparks - Susan Green 21/10/2011
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                            The TAVS is an engaging novel set in the late 1890's. Verity Sparks, a young
                            hat makers apprentice, finds herself cast out onto the streets. verity is a special girl
                            and her psychic abilities attract many curious people, ending herself in a web of mysteries.
                            This is a thrilling book for ages 10+


                            Flora (age 11)

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                            Apothecary - Maile Meloy 21/10/2011
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                            The Apothecary is an interesting book with mystery lurking around every corner.
                            Who is the mysterious apothecary? What secrets does this book hold? Find
                            out by reading this vivid, new story.

                             Flora (age 11)

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                            The Emerald Casket by Richard Newsome 14/08/2010
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                            The Emerald Casket is an exciting page turning novel and sequel to the enthralling Billionaire's Curse, written by Richard Newsome.

                            Gerald Wilkins teenage billionaire, who solved one mind-bending mystery, has decided to...go on holiday!

                            Gerald and his two best friends Ruby and Sam are invited to stay in India with Alisha Gupta and her father Mr Gupta. During Gerald's time in India mysteries seem to form and suddenly Gerald's past enemy enters his dreams. The three friends end up searching for the Emerald Casket so that Gerald's life-long enemy doesn't find it first.
                            - Flora, age 10


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                            Flora's Favourite Reads of 2009 11/01/2010
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                            #5 The Castle Corona by Sharon Creech

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                            When a brother and sister find a missing pouch containing some princely treasure, their lives take an unexpected change of direction. The pouch belongs to the king and, as its finders, Pia and Enzo find themselves thrown into the life of the court. At first Pia and Enzo are in awe of this wonderful place, but they soon find that life there, with everyone's dreams and ambitions not always in tune with what others expect of them, is not so different to the lives the siblings are used to down in a small hut in the village. In this wonderful 'fairy tale' of a story, lives collide, mysteries unfold and people come to realise their dreams.


                            #4 The Thornthwaite Inheritence by Gareth P Jones

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                            Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite have been trying to kill each other for so long that neither twin can remember which act of attempted murder came first.
                            But whoever struck first, trying to take each other's lives is simply what they do. Until one day a lawyer arrives at their house to take stock of its contents, and his accompanying son attracts their attention.
                            Soon a new battle evolves - one in which the twins have to work together to solve the mystery of their parents' deaths.
                            Can Lorelli and Ovid overcome their old animosities, and will they ever get to finish that game of chess?


                            #3 The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

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                            Milo′s extraordinary voyage takes him into such places as the Land of Expectation, the Doldrums, the Mountains of Ignorance and the Castle in the Air. He meets the weirdest and most unexpected characters (such as Tock, the watchdog, the Gelatinous Giant, and the Threadbare Excuse, who mumbles the same thing over and over again), and, once home, can hardly wait to try out the Tollbooth again. But will it be still there when he gets back from school?


                            #2 The Billionaires' Curse by Richard Newsome

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                            The world's most valuable diamond has been stolen and its police constable guard lies unconscious in the British Museum, two sedative darts protruding from his backside.
                            Not something Gerald Wilkins knows or cares anything about.

                            Not until he finds himself on a private luxury jet heading for London to attend the funeral of a great aunt he has never met.
                            Not until he inherits her estate, worth twenty billion pounds. Not until he opens a bundle of envelopes from his dead great aunt.
                            Was she murdered? Who stole the diamond? And what is the mysterious casket that everyone seems to be looking for?
                            With the help of the Valentine twins, the rat-fearing Sam and the gymnastic champ Ruby, Gerald's got a mystery to solve. A mystery that will take them into secret passageways, a musty jumbled bookshop, an ancient crypt, the tower of a ruined church and a colossal cavern where the secret of a priceless treasure lies protected by deadly booby traps.


                            #1 The Mysterious Benedict Society

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                            Are you a gifted child looking for special opportunities? When a peculiar advertisement appears in the newspaper for children to take part in a secret mission, children everywhere sit a series of mysterious tests. In the end, just four children succeed: Reynie, Kate, Sticky and Constance. They have three things in common: they are all honest, all remarkably talented and all orphans. They must go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened where the only rule is that there are no rules. There they must work as a team to save not only themselves, but also the world outside the walls.


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                            The Billionaire's Curse by Richard Newsome 21/10/2009
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                            When thirteen year old Gerald is whisked away to England for his rich great aunts funeral, mysteries start taking place as soon as the will is read out. It gives Gerald his great aunts house which is priced for $200 million dollars making Gerald an instant billionaire. He finds a note in his room from his dead aunt asking him to find out who murdered her and trust no one.
                            Gerald's life is in danger and all he has is a billionaire survival kit and some new friends that will help him solve the mystery.
                            'A great book that will keep you awake for hours.'
                            - Flora, age 9

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                            The Puzzle Ring by Kate Forsyth 17/10/2009
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                            When not quite 13 year old Hannah Rose finds a letter addressed to the Viscountess of Fairknowe, making her mother Roz confess that she is the great-grandaughter of a countess and an heir to a Scottish Castle. When Hannah arrives in Scotland she finds out about a curse of dark magic upon her family which linked to her fathers disappearance shortly after her birth. Hannah will do whatever it takes to lift the curse, even travel back in time to Mary Queen of Scots time. Hannah is determined to rescue the father she has never met and risk everything.
                            'A fantastic historical fiction.'
                            - Flora, age 9

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                            Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat by Lynne Jonell 17/10/2009
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                            'I could not put this book down!'
                            Emmy was a good girl so she would talk to the rat who was no good. One day Emmy set the rat free. After that she went to a shop called 'The Antique Rat' where there are rodents with magical uses. She sees a rat that looks like her rat and complains but the shopkeeper follows Emmy because he wanted it.
                            A few days later Emmy found that her nanny, Miss Barmy was purchasing from there...
                            - Flora, age 9

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