Guinness World Records 2017 Block Busters (MacMillan)
Whatever rocks your world – whether it’s the Avengers, “unboxing“, Minecraft or coding – you’ll find it all right here.
Discover which apps pressed all the right buttons, learn how much your favourite YouTubers earned, find out which sci-fi movie has rewritten box-office history, plus much, much more.
You’ll also meet the super-fans inspired to set records of their own and check out the special “challenges” if you’d like to set your very own Blockbuster record!
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Contents include movies, apps and online, TV, comics and books, toys, tech and music
Our Dog Benji – Pete Carter (Exisle Publishing)
We all know that dogs will eat anything.
We also know that kids’ tastes generally aren’t so wide-ranging.
While ice cream and pizza might be devoured in the blink of an eye, the dreaded ‘green stuff’ is often pushed to one side of the plate.
In delightful duotone illustrations and engaging text, we see how Benji’s willingness to eat anything – from daffodils to brussels sprouts, ice cream to avocados, sandwiches to bones – gradually inspires his child owner to be a little more adventurous at mealtimes.
Although dogs and kids do have standards, it seems there’s one thing neither of them will touch!
A Shadow’s Breath – Nicole Hayes (Penguin Random House)
A compelling story of heartbreak, courage and forgiveness from the award-winning author of The Whole of My World and One True Thing.
Then, things were looking up for Tessa. Her mum was finally getting back on track. Tessa had started seeing Nick. She was making new friends. She’d even begun to paint again. Now, Tessa and Nick are trapped in the car after a corner taken too fast.
Injured, stranded in the wilderness, at the mercy of the elements, the question becomes one of survival. But Tessa isn’t sure if she wants to be found. Not after what she saw. Not after what she remembered.
Mr Romanov’s Garden in the Sky – Robert Newton (Penguin Random House)
Living in the commission, Lexie is left to fend for herself.
Her mother is mostly absent, out searching for something to help her forget the tragic death of Lexie’s dad.
But then, after witnessing the aftermath of a shocking incident, Lexie finds solace in the most unlikely of places – in a troubled old man called the Creeper.
A chance, life-saving encounter on the commission’s roof seeds a friendship between the two and when they enlist the help of Lexie’s friend Davey, the three set off on an epic journey; one that will change their lives and the lives of those around them.
Before You Forget – Julia Lawrinson (Penguin Random House)
At times funny, at times heartbreaking, this is an ultimately uplifting story about the delicate fabric of family and friendship and the painful realisation that not everything can remain the same forever.
Year 12 is not off to a good start for Amelia. Art is her world but her art teacher hates everything she does, her best friend has stopped talking to her, her mother and father may as well be living in separate houses and her father is slowly forgetting everything. Even Amelia.
Valentine – Jodi McAlister (Penguin Random House)
Strange and terrible things begin to happen to four teenagers – all born on the same Valentine’s Day.
One of these teenagers is the Valentine: a Seelie fairy changeling swapped for a human child at its birth. The Unseelie have come to kill the Valentine – except they don’t know who it is.
Pearl shares a birthday with Finn Blacklin. She’s known him all her life and disliked every second of it.
Now Pearl and Finn must work together to protect themselves from the sinister forces that are seeking them out. But there’s one more problem – the explosive chemistry between them.
The Shifting Light – Alice Campion (Penguin Random House)
Nina Larkin should be happy. She’s transformed her rundown outback property, The Springs, into a successful artists’ retreat, she’s won a distinguished art prize, and she’s living with her soulmate, trail-blazing grazier Heath Blackett.
But the chance discovery of a portrait of her father, renowned artist Jim Larkin, makes her question everything.
How could it have been drawn just weeks ago when Jim has been dead for years – or so she thought.
Her search for answers will draw Nina into a maze of family secrets – just as the man who stepped out of a portrait arrives at her door….
