Families Book Reviews

Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 August 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Meesh the Bad Demon is a totally fantastic fantasy graphic novel featuring 12-year-old schoolgirl demon Meesh. Although a demon, Meesh is a huge fan of all things fairy like - especially TV fairy Princess Nouna and her life in Plumeria City. This is not the usual habit for an...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 August 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Sufiya Ahmed has delighted us with another thrill-seeking spy adventure, Rosie Raja: Mission to Cairo. This story is filled with adventure, culture and history. It enables the reader to read about war in a different way - through the eyes of a child spy. When Rosie and...

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Name: Emily Age 8
01 August 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Meesh the Bad Demon is about Meesh wanting to be a fairy and then everyone in Mount Magma turns to stone and Meesh meets fairy Nouna. Nouna is a fairy who can't fly without her ruby and then Meesh finds out that the fang she has around her neck also gives her powers. Nouna lea...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
01 August 2023;

Genre: Animals

Really Wild Families is a really lovely concept for a series! Little Whale: A Day in the Life of a Whale Calf starts with a day in the life of a little whale who is migrating with her family to the warm waters, many miles away. She tells us all about what whal...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 August 2023;

Genre: Bereavement

A chance meeting results in love at first sight for Jennie and Abram. A worrier, Jennie falls in love with Abram's fearlessness, the fact that he was never afraid to follow his heart. But when the worst happens and Jennie finds herself alone, will she be able to find her own courage? <s...

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Name: Donna Chadwick
01 August 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Mysteries at Sea: Peril on the Atlantic is a nautical adventure full of twists, turns and surprises. When Alice travels across the Atlantic from Southampton to New York on a with her father, she thinks it is going to be boring but little does she know that this is not going to...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
01 August 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Who can believe that Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam have been up to their rhyming antics for 10 years! They have turned away from their days as 'bumbling robbers' and become bakers. So, when Shifty and Sam are asked to bake on board the Pawrient Express, travelling to Venice for Carnival nigh...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
01 August 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

In Agent 9: Flood-a-geddon!, Agent 9, an impulsive feline agent, and her robot fish sidekick, FIN, must save the world from King Crab, the super villain, in this new high octane graphic novel. This tiger-striped tabby cat, Agent 9, is on probation with the Super Secret Spy Ser...

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Name: Jo Clarke
01 August 2023;

Genre: Friends and family

"Why do we do it? To be more acceptable? I don't want to be acceptable. I want to be me." The After School Crime Club is an honest, intriguing tale of pre-teen angsts and grief. It tackles the complexities of friendship, fitting in and the need to be true to ourselves. Moral d...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 August 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

"Gil escaped just after his twelfth birthday in the middle of the afternoon." I was gripped from the opening line of this original and compelling story - who wouldn't need to read on? Not to spoil the story, soon Gil slips into a forgotten space, an island of trees and a meadow encircled by mo...

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