Children Book Reviews

Name: Elen Green
07 July 2022;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Cuckoo Summer is one of those books that you know is going to find a natural place alongside books like Goodnight Mr Tom (Michelle Magorian) and The Valley Of Lost Secrets (Lesley Parr); there is so much to recommend about it. Jonathan Tulloch's writing takes you straig...

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Name: Elen Green
07 July 2022;

Genre: Funny Stories

A Beginner's Guide to Ruling the Galaxy is a fabulous read and children looking for a book packed with adventure and laughs - and a spaceship or two - will love it. Gavin is an ordinary child who attracts unwanted attention in the form of Niki, his new neighbour, who ta...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
07 July 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

Dragon Storm: Mira and Flameteller is the third instalment in the Dragon Storm series. The story is set in the city of Rivven, where dragons once ruled. The only problem now is that a King rules and he hates dragons. He also doesn’t know there is a group of yo...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 July 2022;

Genre: Family & Home

Cymbeline Igloo is not enjoying lockdown. He hates not being allowed to play football or see his friends and he is struggling with on-line learning. As he struggles to cope with boredom, his mum seems determined to clean the whole house from top to bottom. Desperate to avoid her touching thing...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
05 July 2022;

Genre: Magical Realism

The most gloriously, richly illustrated cover of this book opens and takes the reader into a darkly intriguing and imaginative fantasy adventure that blends perfectly with a very real, central theme of child labour and the culture of exploitation of the poor by the wealthy. Set in India...

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Name: Donna Burkert
05 July 2022;

Genre: Magical Realism

Nura wants what she can't have: money, wealth and power. Her days are long and difficult, mining for mica; it's a dirty and dangerous job but she does it to help her mum, to bring some extra money into the family, to help give her younger siblings a little extra. But what she really wants is t...

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Name: Andrew Mullen
05 July 2022;

Genre: Family & Home

It was brilliant to find myself back with the wonderfully named Cymbeline Igloo, and to read a book set during the lockdowns of the past few years. The story, created by Adam Baron, shows us how it might have seemed to live through those dark days as a school-aged child; the loneliness, the an...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 July 2022;

Genre: Science Fiction

The Raven Riddle follows Grace Griffin, her mother, and brother Bren are wardens of the Griffin map. They can teleport across the whole of Moreland to be where people need help or a mystery needs to be solved. They have been joined by Tom Eely, who Grace met on a previous miss...

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Name: Sharon Porter
01 July 2022;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Well I have to admit, Antarctica: The Melting Continent was a bit of a surprise. I was expecting to open it to find a non-fiction book, however, the author Karen Romana Young has very cleverly woven a multitude of facts in amongst her interviews and experiences on the icy cont...

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Name: Donna Burkert
30 June 2022;

Genre: Environment & Nature

In Song of the River, we learn that Cari's father is dead. Her mum has moved them to another place, a place that Cari never wanted to go, and all she has left to remind her of him is his warm red jumper and his camera. And now her mum's dreams of starting afresh have been ruin...

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