Families Book Reviews

Name: Lizi Backhouse
03 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

A good book for dinosaur lovers, each pages tells you a fact about a T.Rex, based on skeletons that have been found. Whilst some of the references are American (eyes as big as baseballs for example), the comparisons make it easier for children to understand the scale of the dinosaur. This is...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
03 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

This is a great book for introducing comparing measurements. It tells you how far a kangaroo can jump and then compared this to other animals movements - lemurs swings, penguins porpoises - before telling you how many jumps it would take a kangaroo to circle the world. This book has brightly co...

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Name: Carol Carter
03 October 2019;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Claire Justice Ninja is on a mission! As alter-ego Justice Ninja, Clair plans to counter immorality wherever she sees it, in her own inimitable style. Often the targets are righteous - amongst others, we see Claire dispensing suitable come-uppances to corrupt politicians, bull...

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Name: Amanda Westland
03 October 2019;

Genre: Dystopian

Floodworld is set in a dystopian world - rising sea levels have flooded the UK and a wall has been built around the capital to protect 'the rich folks of the city' - an elite group of society. This is surrounded by the Shanties, 'a floating scum clinging to the outside of the...

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Name: Nikki Stiles
03 October 2019;

Genre: Adventure

This glorious chapter book is the go-to book for advent treats and I'm sure will become an annual tradition to revisit and enjoy over the Christmas period. The story follows a bold young mouse who finds himself on a most important mission. Whilst trying to snuggle down and keep himself...

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Name: Stephen Leitch
01 October 2019;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Selkies, kelpies, changelings, ceasgs, an evil faerie queen and a magic stone all feature in this mythical and magical adventure novel The Stone of Destiny by Caroline Logan.Alisa, an outcast from society because of her birthmark on her face and an alleged changeli...

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Name: Joanne Hewish
30 September 2019;

Genre: Historical Fiction

I love a good historical fiction novel and this one did not disappoint. All Fall Down is a gripping narrative that will have you hooked right from the offset; the moment I read the blurb for this novel, I could already think of at least 10 of my students who will be queuing up...

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Name: Linda Brown
29 September 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Lady Smoke is the second book of the Ash Princess series, and what a great second book it is... This fantasy story picks up a few weeks after the end of book one, Theo is now aboard Dragonsban's (Theo's Aunt) ship, 'Smoke'. Her Shadows, Blaise, Heron and Art, are still with her as they are her fr...

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Name: Lynsey Southern
29 September 2019;

Genre: Historical Fiction

All Fall Down opens in the Yorkshire village of Ingleforn with the prophetic account of how that year it rained every day, the sheep died and the crops failed and how as the year progresses, the stories that the travellers to Ingleforn share with the news-hungry villagers chan...

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Name: Jacob Age 11
28 September 2019;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Because it is fantastical and yet shocking about what had happened at the time of King Edward and how many were not immune to the illness.

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