Families Book Reviews

Name: Louise Gahan
22 April 2019;

Genre: Adventure

The Phoenix of Persia is based on a story from the Shahnameh, an Iranian poem and one of the great epics of world literature. It is a story reminiscent of Snow White where a King awaits the birth of his son, only to banish him to the forest when the child is born with white hair. We are then take...

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Name: Bryony Davies
21 April 2019;

Genre: Bereavement

The Sea House tells the story of young Coral, a nine-year-old grieving the loss of her parents in an accident. Whilst crying herself to sleep, Coral realises her house is full of water and magical sea creatures. She meets exotic creatures as well as some scary ones, who have a different motive. T...

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Name: Rhiannon Cook
17 April 2019;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Fabio is the world's greatest detective! He also happens to be a flamingo. Perhaps the cleverest flamingo there ever was. So when the famous and valuable Laloozee ruby is stolen aboard The Ostrich Express, Fabio quickly brings the thieves to justice but all is not quite as it seems... An excelle...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
16 April 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Teenager Laura Henley and her five year-old brother Alfie are both terminally ill with cancer. It's 1986, and there is no cure for their illness, so they are cryogenically frozen and will only be woken at a time when medicine has advanced enough for them to be saved. Forty years later, Laura is...

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Name: Emily Beale
15 April 2019;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Fabio, the world's greatest flamingo detective, is back and he has another mystery to solve. Fabio may live in a small town on the banks of Lake Laloozee in Africa, but his private eye skills are often put to the test. With a canny ability to detect and unravel mysteries and with his friend and a...

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Name: Lorraine Ansell
14 April 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Sammy Lou is homeless and broken, worn down by years of neglect, abuse and worrying about his older autistic brother Avery. In a cycle of 'borrowing' empty houses to sleep, Sammy Lou wakes up one day to a returning family and he suddenly allows himself to dream of a home. The past, his anger and...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
11 April 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam are back in The Aliens are Coming. Another three story series from Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton about two baker dogs who like to solve mysteries and bake cakes! The three stories encompass friendship, fun and a little mystery and are what makes reading for c...

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Name: Lauren Maidman
10 April 2019;

Genre: Adventure

The Big Beyond is a beautiful piece of poetry, telling the story of space travel and helping young children learn about the unknown. Starting with the questions we asked for years, through the Galileo, the first moon landing and now everything we send to space to find out more! The way in which...

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Name: Megan Age 11
10 April 2019;

Genre: Adventure

I've never read any Holly Smale's books before but I have thoroughly been enjoying this book so I will be looking out for it now. I love the layout of the book, I found that incredibly engaging and really appreciate the changes in font, style etc. The description is great, I really felt that this...

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Name: Megan Age 11
10 April 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Well, I absolutely loved and I mean LOVED, this book! For starters I would like to say how gripping this book was, I thought the idea of the Bakus was excellent and I genuinely want one! I felt very much for Lacey when times were tough, I thought the characterisation and development of characters...

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