Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: June Hughes
17 September 2014;

Genre: Adventure

Lynne Reid Banks is well-known and loved for her many childrens books, including The Indian in the Cupboard but this new book is based very much on her own experiences during the Second World War. Uprooted tells the story of Lindy, who is ten at the start of the book, her mother and her cousin C...

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Name: June Hughes
10 September 2014;

Genre: Adventure

The City of Fear is the third in the series of books featuring Ben Kingdom and the Watchers and their battles against the forces of evil and wickedness, known as the Legion. It follows the pattern of the previous books, following the action over a period of five days. Little snippets of backgroun...

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Name: Janet Fisher
06 September 2014;

Genre: Adventure

Flo has a problem grandmother who does not seem to want to live in the modern age and has a habit of arriving on her broomstick and causing havoc. Flo's very modern mother, the a high-flying magazine editor of Hocus Pocus, has offered her mother all mod cons including a spellstick - but to no av...

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Name: Holly Age 11
26 August 2014;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

I love the thrill of been able to try and work out the murderer without it being really easy!

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Name: Alice Hill
16 July 2014;

Genre: Adventure

Charlie Fletcher - who is behind the Stoneheart books - has delivered an exciting and enthralling adventure story about a London where time stops for humans while its statues come to life. At the centre of the action are siblings Will and Jo, who have their own unresolved issues around an accide...

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Name: Cosmas Age 9
14 July 2014;

Genre: Friends and family

Harry wants to make a zombie movie to save his family because his dad lost his job, but he doesn't have the money to do it. So he writes to famous people including the Queen and Harry Styles to ask for money. The writing is different - the story includes text messages, emails, letters and web cha...

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Name: Joy Court
14 July 2014;

Genre: Adventure

I must admit to a real soft spot for animal adventures, but at the same time I also have an abhorrence of anthropomorphic animals living in houses and wearing clothes! But here we have the real thing, in absolutely the very best tradition of Watership Down and Duncton Wood. Debut author Tom Moo...

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Name: Moly Cameron
27 June 2014;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

This book has an amusing characteristic to it and it's a fascinating story that is full of mystery and regret. Scarlett is a young girl who had a dad that was a thief and sadly he died and then she finds this small old rusty box that has interesting things in there. This object that she finds is...

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Name: Elizabeth Harris
28 May 2014;

Genre: Friends and family

Shouty Kid by Simon Mayle is a laugh-out-loud read. 10-year-old Harry is on a mission to rescue his family from impending financial ruin, after the failure of his dads film writing career. Harry plans to write and produce his own zombie movie, Eat the Parents. Meanwhile, he is desperate to impr...

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Name: Graham Marks
18 May 2014;

Genre: Adventure

It is now a hundred years since World War 1 broke out, and this is the turbulent backdrop against which Bernard Ashley's latest novel takes place. It was a time of great change - Man had only very recently taken to the air and, with the world now at war, also a time of huge uncertainty. The story...

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