Families Book Reviews

Name: Melanie Chadwick
10 March 2015;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Teo and Emilia's lives change for ever when Teo's mother dies in a flying accident and they are brought up as siblings by Emilia's mother, who moves the family from the USA to Haile Selassie's Ethiopia (the only country in Africa to have never been colonised). The children's close bond...

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Name: Janet Fisher
09 March 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This is an extraordinarily confident first novel, beautifully written and planned out. Moll Pecksniff lives with the gypsies but never feels she belongs. One night when she had planned to try to rescue her cob Jinx who had been stolen, she wakes from a dream to find herself out in the forest, on...

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Name: Caroline Mitchell
02 March 2015;

Genre: Adventure

When Eveny Cheval moves back to Carrefour with her Aunt after 14 years away the last thing she expects is to discover a dark and magical past her family have struggled to forget! Eveny is no stranger to loss, having been abandoned by her father and losing her mother as a child so the question is...

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Name: Lucy Russell
27 February 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Attractively presented in hardback landscape format, this book is packed full of character profiles of scientists and their discoveries across the length and breadth of science and history. From ancients of old to the modern day, readers will find bitesize biographies of scientists from a range o...

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Name: Joy
26 February 2015;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Growing up near Norwich, the home of Nurse Edith Cavell, I have always been susceptible to tales of heroic women in wartime and Code Name Verity is an absolute gem! Brilliantly researched and detailed this gives us a very real insight into active service for women during the W...

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Name: Catherine Age 12
13 February 2015;

Genre: Adventure

What do we have here? We have adventure, action, mystery, sci-fi, a little more violence than I was necessarily comfortable with, a touch of romance (though don't read it for that). The chapters follow the various players and while it takes a little bit of time to familiarize yourself with their...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
08 February 2015;

Genre: Adventure

I am ashamed to say that, although I have three books by Gregory Maguire, I have not read any of them (yet) and so was excited to be faced with a 'new' author! Intrigued by the title and the details on the cover, I was not disappointed as I started the book. Packed full of action, Egg and Spoon...

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Name: Daisy Age 15
30 January 2015;

Genre: Friends and family

Because it is told from an interesting stand point; an onlooker, not a main character. The imagery is beautiful and very emotional and it summarizes youth incredibly realistically. Almond clearly understands what it's like to be a teenager.

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Name: Francesca Age 13
30 January 2015;

Genre: Books set in the past

I recommend this book because it is an amazing beautiful story about a girl who was forced to grow up really quickly in the space of 1 year. It also opens your eyes to how harsh and cruel it was living as a Jewish person during the War.

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Name: Kimea
30 January 2015;

Genre: Friends and family

I found this book ok. It was a bit too lovey for my liking, and some parts of it didn't make much sense from my standpoint.

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