Children Book Reviews

Name: Amanda Shipton
06 March 2023;

Genre: Adventure

The Story Shop sells adventures that you can BE in. With real characters that you'll actually meet! So what are you waiting for? Step inside - if you're BRAVE enough! When timid Bear pops by, Wilbur has just the thing - a run-for-your-life dinosaur adventure! Follow Bear and Fred throug...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 March 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

In The Time Tider, Mara and her father, Gabriel, live in their van and are constantly on the move. Her father is forever tinkering with watches, completely absorbed in his work, plotting the next stop on their never-ending journey. Mara has never questioned their way of life u...

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Name: Stephen Leitch
06 March 2023;

Genre: LBGTQ+

For 11 year old James dancing, singing, writing poetry and Mariah Carey (he plans to write songs for her) are the things he loves doing. He also enjoys spending time with his besties Harriet and Joel and with his Nan who he visits regularly after school. With a new school year just starting, J...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
06 March 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Crookhaven: The School for Thieves is a superb start to a great new fantasy adventure series.  Crookhaven features a boarding school cast of 'criminals in training' but this "bad education" is all about learning how to fake, deceive, hack and pickpocket your way to becoming a...

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Name: Janet Fisher
05 March 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

It is not easy to entice readers into starting a book about rats, as they don't exactly have a good press, but Gill Lewis has done just that in Moonflight. She has created an entire world in which the various tribes of rats battle to save their reputation in an exciting and si...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
02 March 2023;

Genre: Animals

'I promise to be unflappable, to bravely cross the sea and sky, to rescue eggs and also birds, It may not work, but I will always try.' Muffin wants nothing more than to be an Unflappable. On the island of Egg a group of young puffins are training to join the search and rescue team. Follow Muf...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 March 2023;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Gardening - whether window box, allotment or vast estates - is proven to have many benefits. It provides exercise and fresh air, promotes team work and well-being as well as offering a hands on approach to scientific concepts such as plant life cycles and growing conditions. No-...

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Name: Jane Rew
28 February 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Kyan Green and the Infinity Racers is an adventure that combines humour, heart and the puzzling phenomenon of Quantum String Theory. It has a similar feel to the Kid Normal series (Greg James & Chris Smith) and, in concept, reminds me too of Joel Makonnen's Last Gate of th...

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Name: Donna Chadwick
28 February 2023;

Genre: Magical Realism

Wow! Well what can I say... a gripping read from start to finish! Alex Neptune - Dragon Thief showcases the ocean in all its glory. Alex Neptune has been scared of the ocean for as long as he could remember. So it's understandable that, when he is drawn to a fluorescent glow a...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
28 February 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Since the death of their parents in an accident, 13-year-old Jason has been looked after by his older brother Richie in a small village in Wales. It's 1974, the country is in the midst of the miner's strikes; power cuts are in force so working-class families are forced to work a three-day-week...

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