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Head Kid
Name: Chloe Age 9
14 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Head Kid tells the story of cheeky prankster, Ryan Ward, and his best bud, Dionna Baxter. Ryan's headteacher has just about lost it with the school, so he leaves a new headteacher to attempt to control the hyperactive children. Unfortunately for many of the mischievous school pupils (AKA Ryan a...
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Power To The Princess
Name: Ellie Age 10
02 October 2018;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The physical book has a really nice feel to it and the pages are easy to flip. The front cover has a lot of textures which I really love, Vita makes me happy with the way she magpies from traditional stories and makes them her own. I would recommend this book to adventurous people who want to...
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Secrets of a Sun King
Name: Janet Fisher
02 October 2018;Genre: Historical Fiction
I was lucky enough to review Emma Carroll's first book, Frost Hollow Hall, in 2013, which was a very good debut and was delighted to find that this, her seventh book, does not disappoint. The story of the boy King Tutankhamun, whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, has always fasc...
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Seaglass
Name: Beverley Somerset
24 September 2018;Genre: Adventure
Lark is 13, and her life is difficult. Her mother is ill, her sister, Snow, has stopped talking and her best friend has a boyfriend, so she and Lark are no longer close. Lark is troubled, and struggles to contain her anger at times. Lark and her family come to a caravan park on the Welsh coast f...
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The Last Chance Hotel
Name: Rhiannon Cook
23 September 2018;Genre: Adventure
An intriguing, locked-room, murder mystery with a magical twist, The Last Chance Hotel is a fun read for ages 9+. In the isolated and downright creepy Last Chance Hotel, Seth Seppi works his fingers to the bone for the horrid Bunn family. Without family or friends (besides his cat Nightshade), th...
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Flight
Name: Jacqueline Harris
20 September 2018;Genre: Adventure
I read this book in one sitting which should tell you all you need to know. It starts with suspense 'If Jakob sneezed, he could die.' And then carries on in that vein throughout the book; it really is one you can't put down and the beautiful cover by Anne Glenn seems to capture the essence of th...
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The 1,000 Year Old Boy
Name: Amelia
18 September 2018;Genre: Friends and family
This was a fantastic book. I loved every page, and this book has made me realize that living forever would not be good at all.
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Boy 87
Name: Emily Age 10
17 September 2018;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Boy 87 is a gripping novel with powerful words and deep meaning. It is about a young brave boy called Shif and his best friend Bini. We follow along their remarkable, uplifting, heartwarming story where they discover kindness and cruelty, wisdom and instinct, protection and da...
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Boy 87
Name: Finlay Age 10
17 September 2018;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This is the story of a boy called Shif and his best friend Bini. Shif and Bini both love maths, chess and racing home after School. They are the smartest in their year and both aspire to have good well paying jobs. But one day soldiers with guns arrive at their doors and their whole life is tu...
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Poetry for a Change: A National Poetry Day Anthology
Name: Alison Kelly
12 September 2018;Genre: Adventure
This year, National Poetry Day (NPD) falls on October 4th and, for the first time, a special anthology has been collated on behalf of the Forward Arts Foundation (the charity that funds NPD). Its focus is this year's theme - change. The book's format is distinctive: top children's poets have be...
