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Northamptonshire Schools Library Service Virtual Reading Group

Underworld by Catherine MacPhail October 30, 2009

Filed under: Reading Groups, Recommended Reads, School Librarian Reviews — Sue@LRE @ 2:56 pm

Underworld by Catherine MacPhail

A group of students who are not normally friends, quite the opposite, are chosen to go on a team building school trip. There are tensions within the group which includes a bully, a crawler, a boffin, a loud mouthed girl and a new girl who is shy and overweight.  The teacher in charge has had cause to dislike the bully, and his personal feelings are in danger of coming to the surface. The trip includes a day exploring caves where legend has it a monster lurks, but that is just kid’s stuff – isn’t it?  Disaster strikes the trip and the only way the students will survive is by working together, but can they do it?

Lesley

 

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