Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Samantha Phillips
05 March 2020;

Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

Trailblazers is a biography series that celebrates the lives of pioneers, past and present. A great series of books, each packed full of information and facts about scientists, inventors and athletes from all over the world.Trailbrazers, Albert Einstein, The Greatest Mind i...

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Name: Joanna Hewish
05 March 2020;

Genre: Funny Stories

Mr Brown's Bad Day is a simply lovely story that jumps off the shelf. All children will delight with the adventures of Mr Brown and sympathise with his bad day. I very much enjoyed reading this story with my children.Mr Brown has a terrible day. He is a very import...

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Name: Alice Fanning
03 March 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Demelza and the Spectre Detectors is an exciting and spooky middle grade adventure about Demelza Clock, a junior scientist with many madcap inventions under her belt who discovers she is a Spectre Detector: she can summon ghosts. This kicks off a well plotted mystery with more than a few twists...

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Name: Linda Brown
27 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Violet is taught by her father from an early age that Burleigh House, her ancestral home, is always to come first, it is everything. He tells her that she will be its next caretaker and she must devote herself to keep it happy and then the countryside will thrive and prosper. This is no problem f...

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Name: Ellen Green
27 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

I love how One Fox is described as ';a counting book thriller' - which is just what it turns out to be; giving it a lot of scope for being used as more than a counting book. In the story, one fox, with two 'sly eyes' sees 'three plump hens' (the text gives us both the numbers and the words) - and...

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Name: Tanja Jennings
26 February 2020;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Serenity rises / through adversity to break / free of secret griefs./The reader journeys / through trials and tribulations / with Serenity,Confiding her thoughts / to her journal lets her tell / her story in versePoetry ignites / the soul as Serenity / disco...

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Name: Andrew Mullen
25 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Pip is a young boy who makes his living by pick-pocketing and thieving, so that he and his older sister, El, can survive. One day he pickpockets the wrong man and finds himself thrust in to a dark and dangerous world full of assassins and witches! There are a range of characters in this book, w...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
23 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Fierce, Fearless and Free is the exciting new book by Lari Don. This inclusive collection of traditional tales from around the world features amazing women and their gifts. The empowering tales feature myths and legends from Scotland to the distant shores of the Solomon Islands. To select a few,...

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Name: Linda Brown
20 February 2020;

Genre: Fantasy

Finale picks up two months after the end of book 2, Legendary. The Fates have been roaming the streets of the city causing distress and disorder. Legend has claimed the throne of the city as his own and is awaiting his coronation. Tella is conflicted; who does she trust, who d...

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Name: Carol Carter
20 February 2020;

Genre: Adventure

The City, a spear-topped island rising from the sea, is the only land remaining since the world was submerged by rising waters long ago. When a whale is beached on a church roof, singing mournfully, and a hand and then a mysterious blue-eyed boy emerges from its belly, the question is, who is...

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