Children Book Reviews

Name: Lucy Hopkins
27 July 2022;

Genre: Animals

I haven't found a Holly Webb book yet that the children in my class don't love!  The Dawn Seal follows Lissa who is spending the summer on her Dad's houseboat. As she get lonelier and lonelier while her dad is busy working, she starts to explore her surroundings looking for so...

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Name: Jane Rew
27 July 2022;

Genre: Funny Stories

Niki is a tall girl with long black hair. Or, if you're Gavin, she's your new neighbour who's a 'fruitcake with extra crazy currants'. She also happens to be Dread Princess Xyllara, heir to the throne of the Dark Galaxy (which might explain her super-sized ego) and is on the run from her paren...

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Name: Linda Brown
27 July 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

Rise of the School for Good and Evil is a wonderful book and is the prequel, the beginning of the journey in the amazing series, The School For Good and Evil. It gives the reader an insight as to how the school was created and how our familiar fairytale characters came about.....

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Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
27 July 2022;

Genre: Funny Stories

The Shop of Impossible Ice Creams is fantastic! I could leave the review there actually as it really is that good but I feel I should explain why. It is laugh out loud funny and I mean that, I did laugh out loud in public several times to the point that I had to share what I w...

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Name: Carol Wright
27 July 2022;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Lucy, Max, Joe and Charlie - The After School Detective Club - are back for another thrilling adventure in The Secret of Ragnar's Gold. Ufford Castle, Suffolk, is the setting for a treasure hunt when the gang find a mysterious box containing a gold coin and a secret code. Will...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
17 July 2022;

Genre: Historical Fiction

I began Cuckoo Summer with limited expectations. The blurb sounded suspiciously like Robert Westall's masterpiece, the Machine Gunners, and I wondered doubtfully whether it would measure up. Within a dozen pages, I'd been won over, and found myself totally engrossed in a rattl...

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Name: Donna Burkert
17 July 2022;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Life for Fern is not like other girls' lives, her parents are botanists, and she has grown up travelling the world as they find and study rare plants. It's the only life Fern has ever known. She loves plants, she talks to plants, and she dearly hopes that one day, plants will communicate with...

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Name: Sharon Porter
17 July 2022;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Well, this book was a pleasant surprise to read on a super, hot sunny Saturday morning! In The Whale Watchers, Finn is unwillingly dragged off to Scotland by his marine biologist mother for a working 'holiday' with his whale-mad younger brother, Jesse. Finn is a worrier, he is...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
17 July 2022;

Genre: Science Fiction

This is another book in the Cosmic Creatures series by Tom Huddleston. In this story Charlie, her brother and her robot friend, Random go on holiday to visit Charlie's aunt on the planet Vela. Vela isn't the prettiest of planets but is home to the most amazing Cosmic Creatures - the Fr...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
15 July 2022;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Here we are again - this is the second book in the Agent Moose series! In Agent Moose - Moose on a Mission, a circus comes to town at the same time that Granny Moose is visiting (or should I say The Magnificent Mooseini). As things have been a...

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