Families Book Reviews

Name: Clair Bossons
06 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This book is packed with great advice and will give great tips to help you tackle and understand a wide variety of friendship issues. Whatever your friendship worry may be I feel sure that it will be covered in this book. There are sections on different personality types and quizzes to take. I...

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Name: Linda Nicholson
06 April 2017;

Genre: Humour

What a wonderful story to illustrate how readers 'devour' books - although in this case, the mischievous Nibbles the Book Monster does so literally, escaping from his wooden crate and diving into a pile of books where he promptly chews his way through, changing the endings of the stories beyon...

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Name: Melanie Chadwick
06 April 2017;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

The last episode of the popular Geek Girl books is not a disappointment. With all the fun, heartache, accidents, misunderstandings, random facts and great clothes we associate with the inimitable Harriet Masters. All the great characters we have come to love or loathe over the course of the ser...

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Name: Janet Fisher
06 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

I moved straight on to reading Beetle Queen having read the first in this planned trilogy, Beetle Boy. At the end of the first book the reader gets a glimpse of what Lucretia Cutter really is (and I won't disclose this!). She is designing and making dresses for actresses nominated for awards in...

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Name: Victoria Dilly
06 April 2017;

Genre: Family & Home

I wasn't sure what to expect when I started reading The Nest; it sounded a little creepy and I thought I may not enjoy it as 'creepy' isn't normally my genre of choice! However, I was soon hooked on what turned out to be a very well-written story, which kept you on the edge of...

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Name: Linda brown
05 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Out Of Heart is a quick read for teenagers that deals with some of the more painful topics in life including death, organ donation, racism, friendship, love and different cultures. This is a story about Adam, whose family home is an unhappy place of silence and secrets. He copes with these sec...

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Name: Jayne Gould
04 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Property Jones got her name after being left in a bookshop when she was five years old and being put in the lost property cupboard by Michael Jones, the son of the shop owner. When nobody came to claim her, and being too small and confused to remember her name, Property just stayed. Now aged ele...

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Name: Marie Berry
03 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Vivian French has created another super book about the commonly mentioned issues when asking children to read. All the usual excuses about not reading are addressed in this book with lots of real reasons why they are not true. I love how each page of the book begins with a statement grumble fro...

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Name: Alison Urquhart
02 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

I enjoyed this rip roaring adventure tremendously. As a child I listened to the Ladybird simplified version of the Wind in the Willows on tape over and over. I loved the characters, particularly Ratty and the very silly Mr Toad. This book introduces younger readers to the next generation of the...

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Name: Alison Urquhart
01 April 2017;

Genre: Adventure

This is a truly superb book with great writing and fantastic illustrations. I was drawn into the story just a few pages in and felt the years drop away as I engaged with a story that captured me just like Brian Jacques' books did years ago. I am in no way drawing a parallel between the two as Rab...

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