Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Sue Wilsher
04 April 2025;

Genre: Horror

Having lived in Hazard all his life, Travis is not thrilled to be going on yet another trip to the local museum. His day gets worse, however, when, with his friend, Zayd, he finds himself in a project group with his ex-friend, Danielle, and the 'shiniest' popular girl, Seline. The group - or r...

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Name: Adrian Age 11
04 April 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

I think Solving Crimes Is NOT My Superpower is very interesting, filled with lots of humour and includes morals. I would recommend it for a mystery type kids book while being very intriguing. Although, I think it needs more action and more build up, it is easy to understand -...

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Name: Rachel Bolton
02 April 2025;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Clem Fatale has Been Betrayed is a fabulous new read packed with humour and dastardly adventure. I loved it! Set in London in 1951 we are introduced to Clem Fatale, youngest member of the Spider gang and daughter of one of the most notorious crooks in the city...

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Name: Jenny CADDICK
02 April 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake is the charmingly warm and downright funny new book, featuring main character, Hope Crumble, her fabulously engaging family members, and their trials and tribulations running the struggling family business Café Crumble. The "quiet"...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 April 2025;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

This well-written and refreshing anthology of true stories is a journey through classic childhood experiences, reported by writers from a range of countries and with a variety of different disabilities. We see firsthand their struggle against the pressure of societal norms: as...

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Name: Sara Sumner
28 March 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rebel Heart is a new and exciting historical adventure story from Ally Sherrick, set in the English Civil War. The year is 1645 and with her father away fighting for the Royalists and her step mother about to surrender her home to the troops bombarding it, you...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
27 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

I love a book that has a little bit of real history entwined within the story. Deep Dark is such a book. Cassia Thorne is the main character; a patterer (a child singer who sings songs - that tell a story - on the streets of early 19th century London), but who also teaches pia...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
21 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Bo Delafort is a mudlarker. She lives in London with her mother and her older brother Harry, who has just left home to fight in the First World War. When she meets the orphan Billy River on the banks of the Thames they instantly form a bond. Then Bo finds a fabulous jewel in the mud of the riv...

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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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Name: Sue Wilsher
13 March 2025;

Genre: Poetry

Having received one of A F Harrold's postcard poems, I know that children love his short poems! Indeed, despite the fact that we enjoyed plenty of poetry in class, many were fascinated by the idea that something so short was a poem as well as being charmed by the novelty of getting something h...

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