Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Jacqueline Harris
30 August 2023;

Genre: Magical Realism

Izzy is back in her second adventure, Izzy the Inventor and the Curse of Doom, combining real experiments with anarchic magic and fantasy. This time, Izzy and her unicorn friend Henry travel into the magical land to save Sleeping Beauty and break the bad fairy's curse. As befo...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
30 August 2023;

Genre: Adventure

A second visit to Crookhaven – the school where being criminally bad is completely the right and most positive thing students can aspire to - is just as enthralling, dramatic and entertaining as book 1. This school for thieves teaches forgery, trickery, theft, hacking and all...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
29 August 2023;

Genre: Short reads

Can you tell a tale in ten words? In this unique and magnificent compendium designed to spark the imagination, Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho brings us stories of underwater worlds, demon hamsters, bears in outer space, and portals to places unknown!  The tales in this book are tiny, they a...

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Name: Maria faithorn
25 August 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

The Tyrannosaur's Feathers is a fantastic, current book based around how new findings and research have changed what we already know (or think we know!) about the past. For any dinosaur-mad child, or as part of a dinosaur topic of work, this is an ideal book to challenge previ...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
25 August 2023;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

It was no ordinary Monday morning for Ivor as he watched the rain outside. Today was his first day at school and the last thing he needed was a huge Bear Behind. As he goes through his day, the Bear Behind is there each time Ivor is worried. From arriving at school, getting lost, having someon...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
24 August 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

Luna Scope, aged seven-and-a-bit Earth years, is determined to be an astronaut. Full of enthusiasm, she is about to launch herself into her ambition and, fortunately, her granny is on hand to guide her with some excellent advice. Luna learns about spacesuits and telescopes, stars and space roc...

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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: Linda Brown
24 August 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Foxglove is the dark, captivating sequel to the Gothic-infused Belladonna.  However, in this suspenseful and dramatic part of the story, Signa and Death face a supernatural enemy who is determined to tear them...

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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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Name: Jo Clarke
23 August 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

If you go down to the woods today…. you'd better have nerves of steel and a razor sharp mind! When Amity wanders into the forbidden forest, her friends Claude, Sam and Deliah set off to find her but end up with far more than they bargained for. Discovering a dilapidated house, the children ven...

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