Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 November 2023;

Genre: Environment & Nature

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: 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: 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: 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: Magical Realism

As her grandfather's health is failing, Tasha and her parents have moved in with him to help on the farm. Tasha loves the farm, but things have changed as grandfather is too weak for the long walks they used to take - and since the events of the previous year, she feels an aching emptiness, to...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
24 October 2023;

Genre: Spy stories

With exams and skateboarding the main things on his mind, Alex Rider hopes he has left the world of MI6 behind him, apart from visits to Freddy Grey, 'Number Nine' of the organisation, Nightshade, whose activities Alex helped put an end to. However, when his best friend, Tom, is kidnapped whil...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
20 October 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

Britannica's Encyclopedia Infographica is a fascinating and accessible book which readers can dip into for the odd five minutes or for an afternoon, immersed in information with sufficient detail to explain the subject without being overwhelming. The book is divided int...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
20 October 2023;

Genre: Horror

If you love a scare, then this is for you! Alien lovers will also devour this short book.  In Shiver Point: It Came from the Woods, Alex and his mum have recently moved (again) and he doesn't see any urgency in making friends as his mum's job will soon take them to anot...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
18 October 2023;

Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

Engineers Making A Difference is a brilliant book using the careers of experts in their fields to illustrate different aspects of engineering in the 21st Century. After a section introducing the engineer, there is further information about the engineer's work and career path.<...

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