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  • Where The River Takes Us

    Where The River Takes Us

    Name: Ella Louise Hopley Age 12
    23 March 2023;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    It was a very good and exciting book, I would suggest to read it when you have time.

  • Into the Faerie Hill

    Into the Faerie Hill

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    23 March 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Alfred moves with his father to stay with his grandmother, while his dad works on a building project. Alfred can't help feeling that there is something different about him that means he doesn't really fit in. Then he meets Saga, a local girl who is passionately opposed to the building project...

  • Courage Out Loud: 25 Poems of Power: Volume 3

    Courage Out Loud: 25 Poems of Power

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    23 March 2023;

    Genre: Poetry

    Using a wide range of poetic forms and structures, Courage Out Loud is a wonderful collection of poems which explores many ways of being brave and facing fears. The book not only shares expressions of courage from Joseph, but actively encourages the reader to create their own,...

  • Courage Out Loud: 25 Poems of Power: Volume 3

    Courage Out Loud

    Name: Lizi Backhouse
    22 March 2023;

    Genre: Poetry

    Written by the Children's Laureate for 2022-2024, Courage Out Loud is a collection of 25 poems that are all about bravery and courage in different ways. Each poem has a short blurb explaining it, the type of poem it is or suggesting a way the reader could respond to the poem....

  • Flock Horror (Dread Wood, Book 3)

    Flock Horror (Dread Wood, Book 3)

    Name: Linda Canning
    21 March 2023;

    Genre: Horror

    Anyone who has read my previous reviews of the Dread Wood series knows by now that I am a walking contradiction: I'm a self-confessed wimp, whilst simultaneously being a massive Jennifer Killick buff. I've found myself in the awkward quandary of being a horror fan, who hates h...

  • Adventuremice: Otter Chaos

    Adventuremice

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    21 March 2023;

    Genre: Animals

    Any adult will tell you that the best way to get a child to do something is to tell them not to do it. This is exactly what happens to Pedro! Looking for an adventure, he sets off on a journey to find the mysterious Mouse Islands. Swept out to sea with his suitcase he tells himself he must be...

  • The Door of No Return

    The Door of No Return

    Name: Eileen Armstrong
    20 March 2023;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    The Door of No Return is, according to Alexander himself, "the hardest book I've ever written" and it is, undoubtedly, a masterpiece. Ambitious and accomplished in scale and in scope, it works on three levels: as the story of one boy and his family growing up in a small West A...

  • Flock Horror (Dread Wood, Book 3)

    Flock Horror (Dread Wood, Book 3)

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    20 March 2023;

    Genre: Horror

    When Angelo is woken in the middle of the night and hears something hammering at his bedroom window, along with a strange tune being whistled, it's the start of another scary adventure for Club Loser. Angelo and his friends Colette, Gus, Naira and Hallie come face to face with their arch enemi...

  • The Nowhere Thief

    The Nowhere Thief

    Name: Jennifer Caddick
    18 March 2023;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    This is an exciting, colourful sci-fi adventure that whisks the reader into parallel multi-universes (called Spheres), through an incredible kaleidoscopic portal. 12-year-old Elsbeth has, astonishingly, found that she can step through these portals and she does so for the most important of rea...

  • Much Too Busy

    Much Too Busy

    Name: Maria
    17 March 2023;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Much Too Busy is about the chance meeting of Pigeon and Mouse. Pigeon is busy, very, very busy indeed. He is rushing here and there and never has time to stop and notice people or places. We meet him being SO busy that he finds himself lost and very bothered. He meets Mouse wh...