Mystery & Adventure
Look here if you're into solving mysteries or going on exciting adventures
- perhaps to outwit some dastardly pirates. |
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Magic & witchcraft
Look here for anything involving magic and wizardry (yes, HP is here!).
With a whole range of magical stories it's the place for any budding young
witches and wizards. |
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Fantasy worlds
This is where you will find Lord of the Rings kind of things so look here
if you're into slaying dragons and monsters. Most of it is swords and
spears, but there is a bit of modern stuff too. |
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Time travel
Although really a sort of Sci-fi, time travel has had so many books
written about it that it had to have a category of its own. |
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Science fiction
This is the place for any-out-of-this-world beasts and machines, as well
as slightly more chilling material. |
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Space
Ever since man landed on the moon, space has had a great attraction for
authors, and it's here you'll find our small collection of space stories. |
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Ghosts & supernatural
Plaintive wails and ghouls are in abundance, with this category devoted to
our long dead friends. |
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Computers
There are always computer whizzes out there, and this category is devoted
to stories with lots of high-tech content. |
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Crime & detective stories
Anything involving a magnifying glass and a large bloodhound is put here,
so this is the place for any Sherlock Holmes fans. |
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Spies & undercover missions
With the success of the Horowitz books, there's bound to be a Spy category
somewhere, and this is where we keep all of our black-jacketed
gunslingers. |
Suspense & horror
Even now, the sound of footsteps in a darkened street sends fear through
us. Go here if you dare... |
Action
For all those people out there who are into fast cars, guns and
explosions. |
Survival
This is the general category for book about surviving against the odds,
whether it's up a mountain, in the desert, or in your own home. |
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Survival in the wild
This is a category for all books which involve living in nature's extremes
like surviving volcanic eruptions, living in the rainforest and trying not
to be eaten by wild beasts. |
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Living without grown-ups
This is for all those stories where kids run away from home or are forced
to survive on their own for some other reason. |
Animals and nature
This the one of the first places all animal lovers should look, as it's
here that we put all books that have anything to do with our furry
friends. |
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Lots of animal content
Books where animals play star roles. |
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Animals tell the story
Look here for the rare sort of books where you get animals telling the
story. We only have a small number of books here, but we hope to get more
soon. |
Real life
Nowadays there are a lot of books written about things that are around us
everyday, like drugs, crime and poverty. This is the general category in
which we place all of these books. |
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Friends & family
This is a special category for books about the relationships among friends
and in families , such as stepfathers/mothers and children. |
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Illness & disability
This is a category specially devoted to books about people with illnesses
or problems, like cerebral palsy or having a crippled limb. |
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Bullying
Bullying is now taken very seriously and therefore there are bound to be
quite a few books about it. This is the category for it, whether it is in
a school, or outside of it. |
War
This is the general category for books which have something to do with
war. |
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Animal & fantasy
This is ANOTHER war category for books to do with animal war, such as the
Redwall series, or war in the fantasy world (dragon slaying and hordes of
the undead type of thing). |
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Human world
This is for all the books about what it's like to live where there is a
war going on (like the gulf war, or going further back to the Romans &
Greeks) but NOT the Second World War. |
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World War II
There are a lot of books about WW2, and this is where you will find them
all. |
Racism / discrimination
Unfortunately there is still a lot of racism around at the moment, and
quite a few novels are written to make people realise the significance of
it. |
Other people / other places / in the past
This is the category for books that have special settings - like
Madagascar in the last century, Afghanistan under the Taliban regime,
Australia when the pioneers were settling there and so on. |
Biography
Sometimes the true story of someone's life can be a really good read -
this is where we keep books like that. |
School stories
Quite a few people are big fans of the Jennings books and other school
stories, and this category is for series of books which all have the same
characters. |
Sports
Anything to do with people kicking/throwing/punching/running/jumping. |
Fun stuff
You have to read something a bit silly every now and then, and this is
where we keep our collection of uproarious hilarities. |
Romance
This category was made after popular demand. They don't all have to be
soppy . . . |
Short & Snappy
You don't always feel like getting stuck into a 300 page book, so here are
some quick reads. |
