Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

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: Clare Wilkins
08 September 2023;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Feisty Deina is no fan of the duplicitous Gods. Nor is she a fan of the war-mongering Aristaeus but, bound by the seeds Thanatos commanded her to swallow in order to save her friends, she is tied to the Underworld. Hades wants her daughter to join her and become a God but despite conflicting e...

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Name: Emelia Helliwell
08 September 2023;

Genre: Horror

Welcome to Camp Killer is set in the north of England and is about a group of teenagers who start their summer looking to earn money and have fun helping to run a new American-style residential camp called 'Camp Miller' in the grounds of a stately home. When opening 'Ca...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
08 September 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

Another great book from Kate Pankhurst about women doing amazing things! We are all Astronauts! starts with a little girl called Luna who wants to be an astronaut. It's a great book that is packed with facts and information all about being an astronaut but presented as a story...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
07 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

In Marv and the Mega Robot, the first in the Marv series, Marvin makes a robot for his school science fair with his friend Joe. They call it the read-aloud 3000 as it can read words from paper. But when the robot breaks, Marvin is understandably upset, especially as another bo...

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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: Amanda Shipton
06 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Ivy Newt is the latest series by Derek Keilty. It's a delightful magical story in which the unexpected is always bound to happen. This new, highly illustrated chapter book series for ages 5-7 features Ivy, an unstoppable and lovable young witch, and her friend and familiar Tom. It is Ivy Newt'...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 September 2023;

Genre: Poetry

The latest in Nosy Crow's beautiful cloth bound poetry anthologies, A Whale of a Time offers a humorous poem for each day of the year. Sharing works from all over the world, the collection uses regional spellings to remain faithful to the original voice of each poet. Arranged...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
04 September 2023;

Genre: Short reads

This unique and intriguing beautiful book contains 20 ten-word minute but carefully-formed tales, each with a stunning double page illustration. Over twenty talented, imaginative illustrators (including Alex .T. Smith, Shaun Tan and Dapo Adeola, to name just a few) have collaborated with Child...

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