Children Book Reviews

Name: Lauren Maidman
15 March 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

Cara and Silverthief is the second instalment in the Dragon Storm series. I was very excited to read this, as are my class, as the first one was brilliant. Much like the first we follow the story of Cara, a 'street r...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
14 March 2022;

Genre: Magical Realism

Cassie Morgan has been waiting for her mother to return for her for seven long years. Now her mother has been declared legally dead and she is faced with going to the orphanage, Cassie decides to run away from Fowell House, the awful boarding school she has been attending, whatever the danger....

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Name: Clair Bossons
12 March 2022;

Genre: Adventure

Swift and Hawk: Cyberspies is the first in a new spy series written by Logan Macx, which is a pseudonym for two writers, Edward Docx and Matthew Plampin. Swift and Hawk is fast paced, action packed and filled with cutting edge technology. It will definitely appeal to fans of R...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
11 March 2022;

Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

'I believe that a girl should not do what she thinks she should do, but should find out through experience what she wants to do.' Amelia Earhart. Clear, detailed research has been dedicated into the writing of this wonderful graphic novel, It's Her Story: Amelia Earhart...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
11 March 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

Part of the incredibly popular Little People, Big Dreams series, this book tells the incredible life story of Nelson Mandela. It starts with his childhood in the African Tribe his father was the chief of and recounts how his name was changed from Rolihlahla, w...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
11 March 2022;

Genre: Adventure

"Caleb Quinn had never expected to use the emergency exit plan." A classic opening line plunges the reader straight into a breakneck adventure. Caleb and his best friend Zenobia become Swift and Hawk, cyber-spies in the top-secret Mobius programme. Their mission begins with personal goals: to...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
09 March 2022;

Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

Fantastically Great Women Artists and their Stories is another solid addition to Kate Pankhurt's series of 'Fantastically Great Women' books; this one covers eight different women who have shaken the art world - from Frida Kahlo to Peggy Guggenheim. Thi...

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Name: Donna Burkert
09 March 2022;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Rio's mum has sent him to stay with his grandma in California. But for Rio, who has spent his life being the one to help his mum, this trip feels all wrong. He can't feel her, and he's lost himself. When his grandma gives him a box of 'keepsakes' of his mum’s, he finds the sketch pad filled wi...

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Name: Jemma Jeffrey
08 March 2022;

Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

Fantastically Great Woman Artists and Their Stories tells the incredible stories of talented, inspiring female artists from across the globe, including Frida Kahlo, Faith Ringgold and Laura Knight. Each woman has changed the world in her own unique way, and this is highlighted...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
08 March 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

Dragon Storm - Tomas and Ironskin is the first novel in the Dragon Storm series. Tomas is a blacksmith's son, living a simple life in a world which once had Dragons in it. All Tomas knows is that Dragons don't exist anymore and that they were nasty creatures that burnt things...

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