Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Morgan Harkin
01 March 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

The Balloon Thief follows the story of two unlikely friends. Khadija, a Ghadaean girl, and Jacob, a hari boy and a glassmaker's apprentice, both leading separate lives until Khadija fleas from an arranged marriage and lands in Jacob's home town. The Hareef, a terrorist group,...

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Name: Linda Brown
01 March 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

This wonderful YA author, Laura Sebastian, has done it once again in this first book of her new trilogy... Castles in Their Bones is full of secrets, scheming, politics and lies. Who do the three main characters trust? Can they even trust each other? Princesses Daphne,...

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Name: Lucy Newton
01 March 2022;

Genre: Adventure

A wonderful series for young storytellers! This series allows children to tell their own stories through different environments and experiences. At the beginning, it explains how to use the books by reading the question at the top of each page and then choosing their answer from the options us...

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Name: Lucy Newton
01 March 2022;

Genre: Adventure

A wonderful series for young storytellers! This series allows children to tell their own stories through different environments and experiences. At the beginning, it explains how to use the books by reading the question at the top of each page and then choosing their answer from the options us...

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Name: Catherine Kus
01 March 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

I recently read Dragon Storm: Tomas and Ironskin and really enjoyed it so I was interested to see what Dragon Storm: Cara and Silverthief would be like. I was concerned that perhaps they would be all the same. But I have to...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
01 March 2022;

Genre: Environment

Once, the ocean was full of friends. But lately, things have been changing... Julia Seal has both written and illustrated Bloom as a way to show the damage pollution and rising water temperatures are having on our oceans. The story focuses on a bright and adventurous je...

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Name: Jemma Jeffrey
28 February 2022;

Genre: Young fiction

I read The Marvellous Granny Jinks and Me to my daughter at bedtime over the course of two weeks and we both loved it. Based on a true story, we get to know and love Jada and her fun, fabulous Granny. When Jada finds a magical box of tricks, we learn how Granny’s late h...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
28 February 2022;

Genre: Non Fiction

Part of the incredibly popular Little People, Big Dreams series, this short biography of American poet Amanda Gorman is a gorgeously illustrated tome. It recounts her life from childhood to the present day, including her struggles with speech and visits to a speech therapist....

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Name: Donna Ritchie
28 February 2022;

Genre: Adventure

I highly recommend this series, Adventures on Trains - each book contains so much excitement! If you enjoy books full of mystery, suspense, twists and turns, these books are ideal for you! I love that every book has a different setting. Each one extremely difficult to put down...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 February 2022;

Genre: Fantasy

Uki and the Ghostburrow, the last in the series of the Five Realms books, starts as dramatically as ever with a desperate, life-threatening, dangerous journey through forbidden and foreboding territory. The tension is so high in both the tales that weave through the book; the...

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