Families Book Reviews

Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 November 2023;

Genre: Environment

Ultrawild: An Audacious Plan to Rewild Every City on Earth is a graphic book-style nonfiction text. Filled with drawings and tiny writing, this is a book to study closely and pore over each page. It is presented as a series of ideas to combat climate change. While it is presented as a sort of...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
01 November 2023;

Genre: Dystopian

What a fascinating, disturbing read. What initially appears to be a YA Handmaid's Tale is actually an only a slightly distorted snapshot of society today. Belle and Joni are polar opposites, living either side of The Doctrine that governs insular communities like their own. Subjugated f...

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Name: Julie Broadbent
01 November 2023;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Grace and Lola are best friends. They want to try to unravel the mystery of how teenagers fall in love and what that looks like, so they decide to write the Love Report. Curious at first, it all begins as a bit of fun. They observe the popular girl in school and try to figure out what exactly...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 November 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Eoin Colfer's new book Juniper's Christmas is a heartwarming modern twist on a story about saving Santa Claus. This story brings attention to the real people who try to help restore Christmas spirit and Christmas magic but also highlights our struggles with modern day corporat...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
30 October 2023;

Genre: Environment

The award-winning Welsh author Jackie Morris, who lives in a cottage held together with cobwebs, has yet again demonstrated her mastery with words. She has teamed with the incredible illustrator Cathy Fisher which is a stoke of genius. Through her art, Cathy demonstrates her deep connection wi...

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Name: Nathan Cox
30 October 2023;

Genre: Adventure

The Deadlands: Trapped is the second book in the Deadlands series from Skye Melki-Wegner and the action-packed thrill ride immediately leaps back into full force where the first book ended. After reading the first book, <a href="/books/the-deadlands-hunted-the-dinosaurs-are-at...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
27 October 2023;

Genre: Horror

It's the final year at the Ballet Academy of Paris for an ambitious group of students intent on graduating into the cut-throat world of professional ballet. Laure Mensy is talented and single-minded but she is also a misfit in the privileged ballet world, where her skin colour and background c...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
27 October 2023;

Genre: Poetry

Nate doesn't have the easiest life at home. His mum is loving but struggling and Nate has never known his dad; he often has to get his two younger brothers up and ready for school; and there's never quite enough money to go round. In spite of everything, he has been doing well at school now th...

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Name: Sam
27 October 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

Luna and her dad live on the moon, where they work as part of a research team collecting rocks and other mineral specimens for scientific study; life for the pair sounds good.  The story is told from Luna's perspective, with just the right amount of sci-fi detail and sassy humour you would exp...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
26 October 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

This beautifully illustrated, large format book is an absolute delight. It explores some of the many ways people dance as well as the joy this form of expression brings. Starting with 'Entrance', a section about set design, lighting and costume design, the book then takes the reader through se...

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