Families Book Reviews

Name: Clair Bossons
21 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

I love, love, loved this book! It was devoured in one sitting. The Truth of Different Skies is a prequel to The Loneliness of Distant Beings and The Glow of Fallen Stars and somehow I had missed out on reading these books when they were released. I am longing to read the rest of the series now....

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
18 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

As soon as you see the jazzy and humorous front cover, this is a book you want to pick up and look at. It is a cross between a non-fiction, newspaper and activity book, with the headline 'All the news from under the sea'. Using only one colour, blue of course, it covers a large assortment of int...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
17 May 2018;

Genre: Friends and family

Wow! Powerful, engaging and a hard-hitting. Sara Barnard (author) once again has created an incredible tale that feels so real, I thought I was reading the real account. Goodbye, Perfect tells the tale of Eden and her best friend Bonnie. Eden (narrator) has her life com...

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Name: Linda Brown
17 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

What a delightful book about a pioneering young woman from the 1920's. This story is about Joan Proctor who, during the First World War, became the first woman reptile curator at the National History Museum in London. Fascinated by reptiles from an early age, Joan wasn't interested in the normal...

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Name: Emily Age 10
16 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

I love this book because Elizabeth is timid and Zenobia is outgoing. When the girls arrive at Witheringe House something is in need of their help.

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Name: Emily Age 10
16 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

I liked this book because it's a mystery and mysteries are one of my favourite type of book. When Archie arrives at his new home, Honeystone Hall, things are not as they seem.

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Name: Emily Age 10
16 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

When Alice, Jesse and Fergus go on the Great Orienteering Challenge, Alice sees her chance to venture onto the island of Nish.

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Name: Louise Gahan
15 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Fast-moving, exciting, visually stunning; The Creature is a book is storytelling at its simplest. Young children will be inspired by its simplicity and be motivated to recreate the story with their own ideas. A story about a a purple creature which found its way into a home and which grew and gr...

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Name: Louise Gahan
15 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Through the amazing illustration of Poonam Mistry a story of childhood fears unfolds. From lightening to clouds to frogs croaking, the little animals' fear is put to rest as Mama Elephant explains the noises and sights as nothing to be frightened of but that they all have their purpose in nature....

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Name: Louise Gahan
15 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

The orange house is a book about destruction, change and appreciation. It is about a house, the only one left of its kind, standing dejected and alone as all around new buildings take the place of where buildings like him once stood. Slowly through conversation the new buildings begin to understa...

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