Children Book Reviews

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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Name: Jacqueline Harris
13 January 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Kallie is 13 years old. She is also dyslexic, but this does not prevent her from winning a play writing competition and getting a place at a summer theatre camp in the village of Merricombe. Once there, strange things start to happen; the villagers do not want the old theatre used and some peo...

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Name: Maple Age 6
13 January 2023;

Genre: Friends and family

We liked the different characters especially the snake. We also liked how duck made his own club so everyone join, how kind is that. The lion roaring was very fun to read. We liked the pictures of the different animals and the colours. It is a funny story.

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Name: Jenny Caddick
12 January 2023;

Genre: Funny Stories

There are huge laughs once again in There's a Beast in the Basement!, the latest adventure with Izzy and the gang. When the school day starts with the head teacher to be found crawling along corridors on his hands and knees and silently sobbing whilst leading the assembly, the...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 January 2023;

Genre: Adventure

The year is 1718 and Abigail lives the life of luxury on a plantation in the Caribbean. Her only friend is Boubacar, a slave of a similar age from the plantation. Then one day there is a pirate attack and everything changes. Abigail finds herself running and fighting for her life and in a twis...

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Name: Erin M. Watson
12 January 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

13-year-old Alice Éclair, cake maker supreme by day and spy for the French government by night, is off on a mission. And it's not to buy fresh eggs for her mother's famed pâtisserie, Vive Comme L'Éclair.  In A Spoonful of Spying, we join her in an action-packed scene aboard Le...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
12 January 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Look out for delicious characters plus tasty twists and turns in this unique picture book, Pick a Story: A Dinosaur Unicorn Robot Adventure. There are decisions to make on every page which will change the path of the narrative that you read as you help Gwen to find her birthda...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
11 January 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

I found this book absolutely fascinating; I was completely absorbed by it and couldn't put it down. To find out about the many attempts to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the many failures, deaths and finally success, was so interesting to read. Prior to reading this book, I had very little...

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