Families Book Reviews

Name: Sam Pett
26 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Having spent the last year in hospital, Jonny needs a heart transplant before it's too late. Niamh's twin brother has just died in a tragic accident for which she feels to blame. Fate brings the two together as Jonny strives to establish an identity for his new healthy self, searching the interne...

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Name: Carol Williams
25 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Minty tells the story in this book, set in a small town in Ireland. The teenage characters, now at secondary school, have mostly all grown up together, but two new boys enter the equation, and are treated with suspicion, including the silent and mysterious Ned, whose attendance is erratic, and wh...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
17 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Covering events in Britain from the Old Stone Age to the Roman invasion, this title looks at the development of the human race and every day life during this period. Full of fascinating facts, this book offers an excellent starting point for work on this period of history. As well as explainin...

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Name: Karen Poolton
17 October 2016;

Genre: Real life

Lottie is very angry with the way she is treated just because she is female. After a disturbing sexual harassment incident on the way to college, she resolves to start a project, highlighting and standing up to every single incidence of sexism she comes across for a whole month. Althoug...

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Name: Fiona Collins
14 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

On opening the first page of Ludwig the Space Dog the reader sees an airmail letter to open and 3D goggles are inside for the reader to wear, which lift the images off the page. Ludwig the Space Dog lives in a world of books and understands completely what books can give him in terms of knowledge...

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Name: Fiona Collins
14 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

The story of Midnight at the Zoo begins as the young reader opens the book to be confronted with lovely end papers that show a map of a zoo. The map is beautifully illustrated and shows where each of the animals of the zoo reside. Max and Mia are going to the zoo with their class and they are ver...

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Name: Fiona Collins
14 October 2016;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Odd Dog Out is a story about identity, being different and fitting in or not. Odd Dog is a sausage dog who lives in a town where all the other sausage dogs dress in exactly the same way, whether they are swimming, playing a violin or swimming. But poor Odd Dog is different: sh...

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Name: Melanie Chadwick
14 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Nemesis is a Diabolic. She is an engineered humanoid creature designed to kill on command and to protect Sidonia, the girl she is bonded to with her life. Diabolics are fearless, they dont have emotions, they are not humans, they are possessions of their masters. Nemesis grows up with Sidonia,...

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Name: Ann Maria
06 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Unlike any book I've read, it's in the form of letters, emails and texts. Unmistakably, this is a book for lovers of modern comedy stories. In this story, Harry Riddles is forced to go to an activity camp. Friends and enemies combined, he dodges (only sometimes successfully) traps, tricks and scr...

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Name: Janet Fisher
06 October 2016;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

The Secret of Nightingale Wood is a story about grief at the loss of sons, and its effect upon the mothers principally but also upon a girl left to fend for herself with the aftermath. Henrietta and her family, mother, father, baby Piglet and Nanny Jane have moved to a...

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