Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Stephanie A
16 June 2023;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

I LOVED this. From the concept to the characters, The Half-Life of Love is a really beautiful love story with themes of friendship, grief, family, and a message of never taking a day for granted. Highly emotional, it made me both laugh and cry. Brianna's characters are incredi...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
16 June 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Inside Out & Back Again: What is it like to leave everything you know behind - including the hope that your missing father will return from war - and make a new life halfway across the world? What's it like to feel family disaster is your fault for deliberately doing somet...

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Name: Sam Phillips
16 June 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

What if there is life on other planets, but that whoever or whatever that life is, has been taught to despise those of us on Earth for our apparent lack of emotion or care? The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Patricia Forde takes this possibility and cleverly unpicks ideas of indoct...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
15 June 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Grant the Genie is back in another adventure in the series. This time, Grant is in hiding with his family because the Queen has banished him from Wishaluzia for accidentally turning her into a snake. Then the genie kingdom is threatened by a huge fire-breathing cat monster and the only one who...

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Name: Stephen Leitch
15 June 2023;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Deadlock is the second action-packed adventure from author Simon Fox. "You need to get out of the house. It's not safe." is all the warning Archie Blake gets from his dad that something is wrong - when intruders enter his house! Rendezvousing with his dad, the two aim to get t...

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Name: Elen Green
15 June 2023;

Genre: Baby & Toddler Books

Don't Tickle the Shark brings together the familiar formats of a sound book - where you press a patch to hear a sound - and a 'touchy feely' book, where babies and toddlers are encouraged to feel different textures on a page. In this book, however, you stroke a patch to hear t...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
14 June 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

'If you keep walking over the hills and across the fields, you will come to the edge, where the land meets the sea. And on this edge lies a village. This is my home.' Paula White's wonderfully nostalgic story, The Baker by the Sea, draws inspiration from her childhood in in Lo...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
13 June 2023;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined the familiarity of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the brilliance of We're going on A Bear Hunt? Well wonder no more. Michael Rosen, former Children's Laureate, has used his talents of adding humour when creating a wonderful rhyming p...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
13 June 2023;

Genre: Personal Growth

In an alternative 1950's America a 'Mass Dragoning' occurs. Hundreds of thousands of women spontaneously sprout wings and talons and fly away, leaving fire and devastation in their wake. As a young girl, Alex Green is aware of the extraordinary events that unfolded in her town but a sustained...

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Name: Lucy Hopkins
12 June 2023;

Genre: Animals

A great book for shark enthusiasts! Everything You Know About Sharks Is Wrong is jam packed with facts and information about sharks, including their evolution, their purpose, how they reproduce, their relationships with other animals and the reality of how dangerous they actua...

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