Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Jen Bevan
09 June 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Come join the Marching Band as they travel through a bright and colourful world. They march through the city, a jungle and they even march under water. Count the animals and people with instruments on each page. Marching Band is an amazing rhyming book...

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Name: Jennifer CADDICK
09 June 2025;

Genre: Science Fiction

Escape Room: Game Zero is a fantastically futuristic, modern and thought-provoking sci-fi adventure quest and battle for survival story, from an author who seamlessly blends classic adventure style with thoroughly contemporary settings. Christoper Edge incorporates the intrigu...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 June 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Lee and Annie have been friends since they met at the orphanage. Now they are both dragonriders and their pasts come back to haunt them. Will those pasts tear them apart or will the bonds forged learning to ride dragons over come what has happened? Set in a land with a recent revolutionary pas...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
09 June 2025;

Genre: Dystopian

In the post-climate change, disaster stricken world of The Hive, rising sea levels mean that the remaining humans live in strictly-controlled, self-sufficient underground colonies built into the mountain tops. In one of these, the Hive colony, Feldspar, a bodyguard or shield, has been brought...

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Name: Maria
09 June 2025;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Feel Your Happy is a book that needs to be in every home and classroom and read to every child because it supports empathy and an understanding that we are all different and all unique. Sloth takes us on a journey with our senses exploring the world through sigh...

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Name: Clair Bossons
06 June 2025;

Genre: Dystopian

Snowglobe 2 brings a gripping conclusion to the ground breaking Snowglobe duology, a dystopian series set in a world ravaged by climate disaster. Exploring themes of surveillance, reality TV, genetic engineering and class inequality, this novel delivers a thought-provoking and...

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Name: Laura Richards
05 June 2025;

Genre: Magical Realism

This beautifully eye-catching cover is the door to a secret island- the Isle of Begg - portrayed through stunning watercolour illustrations, in a soft colour palette. We meet Bumple, a timid creature who has no desire to explore the island's mysteries, but would rather stay where she knows it'...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 June 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

A naughty little mouse with very sharp teeth is constantly eating…the kitchen, the bathroom, the pest controller. Will anything make it stop? Fast paced and funny, A Mouse Just Ate my House is a riotous romp, perfect for reading aloud! Many readers will be familiar with Kes Gr...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 June 2025;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Nate Riley is an amateur myrmecologist and has his own ant farm, ruled by Queen Elizabeth III - or Betsy as she is affectionately known. With his mums, he has recently moved to Liverpool and unlike him, the 'parentals' (as he calls them) are very keen for him to take...

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Name: Grace Horn
04 June 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

His Face is the Sun, the first Throne of Khetara book, is set in a world inspired by Ancient Egypt, and is told from the perspective of four different narrators who each influence the story in different ways. They are Sita the Princess, Neff the priestess, Rae the rebel and Ka...

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