Families Book Reviews

Name: Ruth Cornish
02 January 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

The new dyslexia-friendly Barrington Stoke publication from author, Sophie McKenzie is descibed by them in three words as being filled with 'peril', 'judgement', and 'understanding'. Trapped is an exciting contemporary novel about a group of young people in a singing club....

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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 January 2024;

Genre: Science Fiction

If you've read the wonderful Time Travelling with a Hamster, you'll be excited to hear about this inventive and light-hearted sequel in which Al(Bert Einstein) Chaudhury returns for more adventures with parallel worlds. In Tim...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
01 January 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

The successful team behind the Unicorn Academy series have done it again! Amber and Flash is the newest, exciting, addition to the Mermaid Academy series. In this story set in Mermaid Academy, a magical school where mermaids are paired with their very o...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
01 January 2024;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Northern Soul by Phil Earle is a fantastic addition to the range of dyslexia-friendly books published by Barrington Stoke. This novel perfectly describes those heady, confusing, all-encompassing feelings of first love so well. It is both poignant and an authentic story. <p...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
01 January 2024;

Genre: Animals

Baby Faces: Little Lamb, Where Are You? is a lovely farm-themed read! Each page has a different farmyard animal with a flap to lift and a mirror behind each one. The flaps are large enough to make it easy for little fingers to lift them and the mirrors are big enough for baby...

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Name: Stephanie Ekechukwu
21 December 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

An excellent read.

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Name: Kayla Age 15
20 December 2023;

Genre: Horror

I love this book so much, especially because it doesn't drag out the story.

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Name: Amanda Shipton
19 December 2023;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Not-So-Little Red Riding Hood is a fabulously funny take on a classic story from two giants of children's books!   Little Red Riding Hood and her brush with the Big Bad Wolf is shown here with a modern twist. Little Red Riding Hood - who is not-so-little anymore! - is riding h...

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Name: aanya Age 13
18 December 2023;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

BEST BOOK EVER!!! this book is sooooooooooooo goood!!😍😍😍

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Name: Wendy Kelly
15 December 2023;

Genre: Early Skills

I love the Super Questers books! The Case of the Great Energy Robbery is the third one in the series which focuses on the kids quest to power a model plane. An engineer has told them a bit about biofuels so they search their garden for sources of renewable energy. The reader i...

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