Anne Fine and John Flanagan
Anne Fine - Eating Things on Sticks
Fiction 7+
208 pages
Harry is in trouble. He's burned down the family kitchen so now has to spend a week of his summer hols with his uncle Tristram - who's heading off to stay with a new girlfriend - Morning Glory - on a tiny British island. Harry doesn't expect it to be a lot of fun - with just a wacky competition at the end of the week to look forward to.
John Flanagan - Ranger’s Apprentice: The Ruins of Gorlan
Fiction 9+
280 pages
Will is small for his age, but all his life, he has dreamed of becoming a great knight like the father he never knew, so he is devastated when he is rejected by Castle Redmont's Battleschool. Instead he is apprenticed to Halt, the mysterious Ranger whose ability to move unseen is thought to be the result of black magic.