Children Book Reviews

Name: Jenny Caddick
30 January 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Welcome to a world of Marvellers at the Arcanium Training Institute where young Marvellers and their unique powers across the globe attend school to learn and hone their special magical and mystical inherited talents . From a world within and beyond the clouds, the Institute majestically stand...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
30 January 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

MA Bennett is back with the next book in The Butterfly Club series: The Mummy's Curse (The Butterfly Club, book 2). This time-travelling adventure takes readers from London in 1894 forward in time to Egypt in 1922. It is such an enthralling read, you will not be able to put it...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
28 January 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Erin and Rockhammer is the sixth book in the Dragon Storm series and it is the best one yet!! Each story follows a Dragonseer (someone who can summon a dragon) and this story follows Erin, a foster child with some amazing fighting skills and mega bravery. The...

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Name: Nathan Cox
27 January 2023;

Genre: Friends and family

I knew this would be another great read after reading The Lightning Catcher. The Storm Swimmer by Clare Weze is a brilliant, imaginative adventure story with easily relatable themes, characters and settings. Clare always manages to d...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
21 January 2023;

Genre: Poetry

Selfies With Komodos is a fab little book of new poems from the well-known poet Brian Moses. There are poems about dogs and cats, mythical creatures, journeys on night trains and vampire facials! A very eclectic mix, but one that works around a collective theme of imagination....

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Name: Sam Phillips
20 January 2023;

Genre: Funny Stories

There's a Beast in the Basement is another fab laugh-out-loud book by Pamela Butchart. Once again Izzy and her friends are on the road to adventure after overhearing their Headteacher, Mr Graves, talking about 'missing treasure'. Mr Graves is certainly behaving strangely and t...

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Name: Sharon Porter
17 January 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

Snot, Sneezes and Super-spreaders has everything a young person might want to know about viruses including how they replicate, spread and infect their hosts. The chapter about AIDS is definitely more suited to those in high school or the very mature Year 6 child (ages 10+), so...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
17 January 2023;

Genre: Friends and family

Ginika has so much to look forward to. It's her last summer holiday before she goes to secondary school and, along with her best friend Alisha, she's preparing to take part in an important dance show. Everything changes when her parents are forced to leave their flat due to money troubles, and...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
14 January 2023;

Genre: Adventure

A really interesting and unique way to write a book. The beauty of Pick a Story: A Dinosaur Unicorn Robot Adventure is that after you've read it once, you can read it a completely different story each time which is fun for children to see the plot changing when they make a dif...

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Name: Nathan Cox
13 January 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

I knew from the first few pages this was going to be a brilliant, captivating read. Stand and Deliver! by Philip Caveney is a thrilling adventure packed with action, twists, turns and a few scary, brutal encounters. This story will grip the reader! The book is set at a...

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