Families Book Reviews

Name: Lizi Coombs
20 August 2015;

Genre: Information books

This is a good book that attacks fact sharing from an informal direction.... 'Would you rather...?', a game I'm sure many of us have played at one stage or another! Great for sparking discussion with children, this book poses many dilemmas for them to ponder over - what are the benefits of shari...

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Name: Ellie Williams
20 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Syd could let himself into his much loved Grandad's house any time he wanted, but one day - he wasn't in any of the usual places. After searching an empty house, Syd hears Grandad calling to him from up in the attic, a space that Syd had never seen before, containing all the things that Grandad h...

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Name: Ellie Williams
20 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Themes of friendship and adventure run through this beautifully illustrated book. The Sea Tiger introduces us to a magical underwater world which he shares with his friend Oscar. He tells us 'Where I lead, Oscar follows'. Every day is a different adventure under the sea. Both myself and the chil...

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Name: Mrs Armstrong-Harris
19 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

If you like John Green's The Fault in Ours Stars (TFIOS) you will probably like this similar themed story. Audrey cannot leave the house, she can't even look at people's faces when she talks to them. This is debilitating her life; she doesn't go to school, she doesn't hang out with friends, she d...

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Name: June Hughes
18 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This is another in a series of books featuring the exploits of Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face, the brother and sister mystery-solving duo from the isle of Great Kerfluffle. The mystery this time involves a group of missing evil and wicked badgers, stolen clothing, a swarm of bees (or maybe not) and...

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Name: Kerra Dagley
16 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Scout is a German Shepherd puppy at the Sausage Dreams Puppy Academy for working dogs in Little Barking. Her parents are both well-known working police dogs and Scout hopes to follow in their paw prints when she grows up. The story is set on an important day for Scout, as she gets ready to take...

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Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;

Genre: Young fiction

Mr Hyde is a teacher with a difference. When he gets excited, he turns into a wild uncontrollable creature that leaps about and causes all manner of mayhem. He cannot stop himself from becoming Creature Teacher so Jake, Nora and their classmates have taken it upon themselves to protect him from t...

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Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;

Genre: Young fiction

This is the second in a series of books about Sam J. Butterbiggins and his quest to become a knight. Sam lives with his Aunt, Uncle and Cousin in Mothsdale Castle, a place which doubles as 'Luxury Holiday Accommodation for Dragons, Griffins and Other Regal Beasts', and, in the first book, he disc...

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Name: Lorraine Ansell
12 August 2015;

Genre: Adventure

'The Big Lie' is an original idea about life in England if Hitler had won the war. Told to us by 'Jessika', the daughter of one of societies higher members and a 'good girl', it is drip fed to us piece by piece - almost in the same way Jessika comes to realise the type of life she is really livin...

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Name: Dawn Woods
11 August 2015;

Genre: Funny Stories

This is the second book about life at Wigglesbottom Primary school. Three chapters of madness designed to appeal directly to primary age children. These children are faced with really dangerous situations which demand action on their part, but not necessarily the reaction their teachers would ex...

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