Families Book Reviews

Name: Maria
21 July 2022;

Genre: Family & Home

"If you are ever worried that something bad is going to happen, you can ask a Guardian Angel for help." The opening pages to this gorgeous story introduce us to Bill and Destiny. Bill and the Dream Angel tells the story of Bill and his family moving house and...

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Name: Maria Faithorn
19 July 2022;

Genre: Adventure

No, Nancy, No! opens with a lift-the-flap invitation to visit cousin Jack and his parrot Pip… a perfect and enticing start to the story! Nancy and her dog, Roger, are ready to visit her cousin at the seaside. Dressed sensibly and looking ready to go, until… you lift the flap!<...

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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

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: Friends and family

Family and Me by Michaela Dias-Hayes is a gentle read which takes the reader through the connections of a little girl to here family. Each trait of the main character has a similarity to each family member, from daddy's smile to grandpa's glowing skin. Such a lovely way to int...

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Name: Sharon Porter
17 July 2022;

Genre: Environment

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: Jacqueline Harris
17 July 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

This is a parallel London, where The Turn has meant feelings create disease. Ani and Payton, two very different sisters, live in St Jude's hospital where their father is a methic, curing people of the diseases. The whole family are in a quest to find a cure for the illness that afflicts their...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
16 July 2022;

Genre: Social Issues

Stitched Up is a very powerful, true-to-life story that really hits home hard. I was absolutely hooked from the first word and read this in one sitting. My son (age 8) was also completely absorbed by it and finished it with lots of questions. The great thing about this...

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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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