Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
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School of Doom - Be the Worst
Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 March 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Eddie doesn't feel she belongs in her school. Eating wheelie bins can make you stand out. So she gets sent to a school in another realm, where everyone is a monster of some sort and the motto is 'Be the worst'. Finally, Eddie can make friends, except the very existence of the school is in jeop...
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While We're Young
Name: Clare Wilkins
14 March 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
With graduation looming and the prospect of leaving home provoking both fear and excitement, school president and all round Grade A student Grace Barbour decides a day of skipping school is just the tonic she and her friends need. The only problems being the schism between her...
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Adventuremice: Mice, Camera, Action!
Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Mice, Camera, Action is the fantastic new book in the AdventureMice Series. This sixth book will excite all early chapter book readers as, like the previous five, every page is packed with adventure, colour and cheeky characters. Reader...
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Bad Panda: For Sale
Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Award-winning author Swapna Haddow has done it again. This is another incredible story which has you hooked from the very first chapter. The lovable characters that we have grown to love return in this beautifully illustrated early chapter book. Bad Panda: For Sale has...
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Call the Puffins! Tiny and the Cave Ghost
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Muffin, Tiny and the rest of the trainee rescue puffins on the Island of Egg are all taking part in a special festival called Puffin Power. Tiny's team has gained a new member, a little yellow chick called Flotsam, who has appeared and is determined to join in the fun. However...
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Rebel Heart
Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 March 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...
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Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII?
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an amazing discovery - a radio which allows them to communicate with another group of three children who live in the very same place, only 80 year...
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After
Name: Jacqueline Harris
11 March 2025;Genre: Dystopian
Jen and Father are in a world that is almost empty of people. This is the time after 'The Flood', when people and machines were mostly destroyed. They come across a small, friendly community and Jen finds she wants to stay. But Father is not what he seems; he is a human appearing AI and people...
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Capitana: Set sail with the bestselling pirate romantasy of 2025!
Name: Sue Wilsher
10 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Ximena Reale is determined to become a Cazadoro at La Academia de los Cazadores, but despite being a star student, her prospects are tarnished by her heritage. Five years ago, her parents were executed for being pirates and now her older sister's behaviour is casting a shadow on Ximena's risin...
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The Rose Bargain
Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
The Rose Bargain is a thrilling and atmospheric dark fantasy set in 1848 England, where high society's yearly tradition of bargaining with an immortal fae Queen takes a sinister twist. This captivating novel explores themes of ambition, sacrific...
