Kim Gruschow

Kim Gruschow is the co-manager of Readings St Kilda

Review — 1 May 2013

Steal My Sunshine by Emily Gale

Hannah feels like an outsider in her family. She is constantly at war with her older brother, and her parents’ relationship is struggling. Her best friend, Chloe, is lively and…

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Review — 4 Feb 2013

Life In Outer Space by Melissa Keil

Sam is biding his time at a high school full of ‘knob-jocks’. An aspiring screenwriter with a fondness for horror flicks, his world (of warcraft) starts to change with the…

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Review — 4 Oct 2021

Funnybones by Janet and Allan Ahlberg

There was a dark, dark house and in the dark, dark house lived some skeletons. A big skeleton and a little skeleton head out one night to walk the dog…

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Review — 28 Oct 2012

Summertime Of The Dead by Gregory Hughes

[[gregory-hughes-rev]]Summertime of the Dead is an exciting, unrelenting second novel for teenagers by Gregory Hughes, author of the brilliant, prize-winning Unhooking the Moon.

Yukio embarks on a violent…

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Review — 28 Oct 2012

From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Twelve-year-old Claudia decides to run away from her frustrations to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. She takes her brother Jamie, carefully selected because of his pocket…

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