Gothic Slayer Schools & The Week Junior Book Awards 2026🦇🏆
Fun Kids Book Quest

Gothic Slayer Schools & The Week Junior Book Awards 2026🦇🏆

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202623 min
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  • Arts & culture

In this episode of BookQuest, we’re creeping into shadowy gothic corridors and going behind the scenes of the biggest book celebration of the year! Whether you’re investigating a top-secret vampire slayer academy or getting the inside scoop from a judge on the UK’s most exciting children's book awards, we’re honouring the stories that keep us on the edge of our seats. On the Shelf This Week: Emma Carroll joins the show to talk about Dracula & Daughters: School for Slayers. Step into a darkly thrilling adventure following Dracula’s granddaughters—Mina, Buffy, and Bella—as...

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Hello and welcome to the Fun Kids Book Quest podcast. I'm Bex, I love books and we've got some excellent authors on the way for you today. Coming up, we've got Iqbal Hussein telling us all about the Week Junior Book Awards, but first it's Emma Carroll. Now Emma Carroll brings us Dracula and Daughters School for Slayers. It is the second book in the series and it follows Dracula's granddaughters, Mina, Buffy and Bella,

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as they investigate the strange goings-on at Poisonwood School. In the sick bay, in a small narrow bed, we clap eyes on the supposedly dead John Keats. I'm surprised to find him all alone, asleep on his back, hands clasped together like a knight carved in stone on a tomb.

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I'd expect as an adult to be nursing him or perhaps another sick boy in one of the remaining half a dozen beds, but the only person here is John, which makes the room seem almost peaceful. Closet to the bed I've taken his dark brown hair damp at the temples and the

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