Children Book Reviews

Name: Andrew Mullen
31 May 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

Returning to Starfell with Starfell - Willow Moss and the Vanished Kingdom was an absolute joy! Magical children are being allowed to go to 'normal' schools, but Willow Moss is suspicious. With faithful and grumpy companion Oswin by her side (in his hairy green carpetbag), she...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
29 May 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Twitch is a loner. Bullied at school, he prefers the company of birds to people, and his main hobby is birdwatching. It's the start of the summer holidays and when Twitch arrives at his hide in the Aves Wood Nature Reserve, he finds that there are police everywhere, all search...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 May 2021;

Genre: Environment

Harklights is a beautifully, classic feeling folklore / fairytale style adventure. In a grim, grey orphanage (surrounded by a forest full of unseen life and tiny magical creatures ) lives mistreated orphan Wick, who seeks an escape from the cruelty of his life. The story is a...

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Name: Jennifer caddick
27 May 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

Rainbow Grey is the first book in a delightful, charming series by Amelia Fang author, Laura Ellen Anderson. City in the sky, Celestia, is inhabited by Weatherlings (folk who all possess different kinds of weather magic to help control Earth's weather and protect it from villa...

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Name: Susan Wilsher
27 May 2021;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Simi is sent to stay with her grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. The thought of staying with someone she doesn't know in the middle of nowhere with no TV, no internet and no phone access fills Simi with horror, particularly as Simi's mother and grandmother are estranged. When she arrive...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Twitch is in Year 7, and he definitely prefers the company of birds to his peers. He has three pet chickens, a swallow's nest in his bedroom and is an avid bird watcher. He intends spending his summer holiday training his pigeons and watching birds in Aves Wood. But then a convict escapes from...

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Name: Sam Phillips
27 May 2021;

Genre: Friendship

Truly Tyler by Terri Libenson is the fifth book in this popular series, and the first one from a boy's view point. This is the first book I have read from the Emmie and Friends series, and I most definitely enjoyed it. Even though it is part of a series, it reads absolutely fi...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2021;

Genre: Adventure

Myles and Beckett are the younger twin brothers of the more famous Artemis Fowl. In The Fowl Twins - Deny All Charges, the second of their adventures, having stolen a jet plane and then destroyed it (obviously not intentionally), the brothers are put under house a...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
22 May 2021;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

When a new girl starts a new school in a new town, she is faced with hostility and suspicion. Focusing on her differences, the other children in her class taunt and mock her. However, the appearance of a beautiful origami flower left on the teacher's desk ignites their curiosity, which leads t...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
20 May 2021;

Genre: Horror

Sensational, stunning, scary - well worth the wait and anticipation! Crater Lake: Evolution takes place five months after we last saw Lance and the gang surviving their Y6 residential trip with its alien spore invasion of the "bug eyes". All appears to be settling down, high s...

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