Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Beverley Somerset
15 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Christopher Forrester has been sent to Scotland to spend time with his grandfather, Frank, and is dismayed to find himself in the middle of nowhere in a run-down house with no internet or phone signal. He is told that he can go anywhere, but is forbidden to go to the top of the nearby hill. Of...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
14 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Robert and Rachel Klein have defeated the villainous Charles Malstain; the land of Krasnia and its capital city, Brava, are now full of joy, colour and happy citizens, and Rachel and Robert are national heroes. Then a boy appears from nowhere and presents Rachel with a blood-red key. She has n...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
13 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

So here it is! We've reached the end of Herbie and Violet's winter shenanigans with the explosive story of the Mermedusa. Those devoted readers who have followed all their other adventures will find many loose ends pleasingly tied up in their final (perhaps?) adventure. Thomas...

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Name: Review Age 11
09 September 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

This book was really fun to read, I loved the twists and turns in it - it made it seem a bit more like a mystery, with space pirates etc. Keep up the good work.

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 September 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Caro Monday lives in a pub in Waterloo with her two mothers. One of her mothers runs the pub while the other is a famous whistling star, who travels the world. One day Caro is forced to go and stay with her great aunt who lives in Hampstead. Her whistling mother has disappeared, and Caro has n...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 September 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

A Sprinkling of Danger finds Alice Éclair on another spying adventure. When an American film crew arrives at the beautiful palace of Versailles, there is great excitement, but suspicions that a spy is amongst them means Alice is once more on the case. Using her baking skills,...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
03 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

This, the fifth and final trip to Eerie-on-Sea, concludes Herbie and Violet's adventures and, like others I'm sure, I read Mermedusa with mixed feelings - delight at another visit to one of my favourite fictional places and great sadness that there would be no...

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Name: Stephen Leitch
01 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Welcome back to Eerie -on-Sea, where everyone knows not to go out on the beach at night, especially when it's almost midwinter. But that isn't going to stop the members of Anomalous Phenomena podcast group, who are in Eerie on a monster tour, hunting down evidence of the fabled Malamander! Whi...

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Name: Donna Burkert
24 August 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Alice is on the case again in A Sprinkling of Danger.  This time, she heads undercover onto a film set; the Director is desperate to have her delicious delicacies in shot to lift the film to the heights of splendour that he desires. But Alice is not alone on the set, a fellow...

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Name: Jo Clarke
23 August 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

In an era when young ladies were expected to take pleasure in needlepoint and were instructed in the art of the perfect curtsey, Winnie Weatherby is unique. Uninterested in deportment or poetry, Winnie is preoccupied with inventing; her desire is to win the prestigious 'Petit Prix' at the Worl...

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