Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Lizi Backhouse
30 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

This non-fiction book answers 100 questions about Oceans. through a series of lift-flaps, illustrations and text boxes that are designed to look bright and engaging. The sentences are simple and use subject specific terminology. One in a series of books, this is easier to digest as each page i...

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Name: Lizi Backhouse
30 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

This non-fiction book answers 100 questions about Space. Each page has a combination of lift-flaps, illustrations and text boxes that are designed to look bright and engaging. The sentences are simple and use subject specific terminology. This book would be good for children who have expressed an...

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Name: Lorraine ansell
30 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Mary's Monster is a beautifully written and illustrated biography by Lisa Judge. Taking four years to create, it immerses us in the life and struggles of Mary Shelley, the author of Frankenstein. Using ethereal images and verse, Judge creates the mood and atmosphere of Mary Shelley's tumultuous e...

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Name: Linda Brown
29 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

This is Book 2 to Ariadnis. Due to the unexpected twist at the end of Book 1, Etain is now the leader of the only remaining island on Erthe ( not a spelling mistake) and it's not going well since the people are against her. Metisians and Athenasians still hate each other and Etain is at a loss as...

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Name: Linda Brown
29 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Earth as we know it has been destroyed by mankind and a great wave. The only inhabitants now live on an island which it seems they cannot leave. Aula and Joomia are two 17-year-old girls who have been chosen by the Wise One and on their 18th birthday will enter Ariadnis to receive the book of Kno...

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Name: Marie Berry
28 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Normally when you open a book, you pass the first couple of pages where the publishing details are etc... But before you open the Night Gardener it is really important to read the pictures from page 1 (where all the boring info is printed on the road). Look at this page carefully and study what...

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Name: Marie Berry
28 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Under the Same Sky is the most beautiful of books which has so many reasons it would be good to use. Britta Teckentrup has created a simple story which at first glance combines beautiful animal illustrations with a lovely poem about what we share living under the same sky. However, when you tak...

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Name: Jane Welby
28 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

On the evening that 16-year-old Leigh kissed her best friend Axel for the first time, she fled in panic because she was scared she'd lose her best friend - the boy she'd known for five years and the friend she valued most - only to find, when she arrived home to her distressed father, that they h...

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Name: Ruby Age 10
26 March 2018;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

When Kat Wolfe, daughter of Dr Wolfe, a vetinary surgeon, moves to bluebell bay, she seeks a new adventure. She decides to open a pet sitting agency in her mum's practice, but when one of her first customers mysteriously disappears, it's up to Kat and new best friend, Harper Lamb, daughter of a s...

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Name: Emily Beale
26 March 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Tortoise lives all alone in an old abandoned park. He enjoys his life but often feels very lonely, as he never sees any other animals. At the end of the day he gazes up at the night sky, by candlelight, and imagines that he might find companionship with the other animals gazing back at him, by th...

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