Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Ruth Cornish
13 March 2025;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

I really enjoyed reading Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart. You might rightly expect this book to be extremely sad but the author has crafted the main character, Sydney Wells, as a pragmatic young person coming to terms with terminal illness, only for an unexpected emergency...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
13 March 2025;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

The Mubbles live on the Isle of Smile, alongside the Wibbles of Wobble Mountain and the one-eyed Drib Drabs. The island is bright, colourful and joyous, full of sunshine and song, Everybody has a job to do, which keeps life running smoothly. Then, one day, something strange appears from behind...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
13 March 2025;

Genre: Poetry

Having received one of A F Harrold's postcard poems, I know that children love his short poems! Indeed, despite the fact that we enjoyed plenty of poetry in class, many were fascinated by the idea that something so short was a poem as well as being charmed by the novelty of getting something h...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Mice, Camera, Action is the fantastic new book in the AdventureMice Series. This sixth book will excite all early chapter book readers as, like the previous five, every page is packed with adventure, colour and cheeky characters. Reader...

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Name: Amanda Shipton
12 March 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Award-winning author Swapna Haddow has done it again. This is another incredible story which has you hooked from the very first chapter. The lovable characters that we have grown to love return in this beautifully illustrated early chapter book. Bad Panda: For Sale has...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Muffin, Tiny and the rest of the trainee rescue puffins on the Island of Egg are all taking part in a special festival called Puffin Power. Tiny's team has gained a new member, a little yellow chick called Flotsam, who has appeared and is determined to join in the fun. However...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 March 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an amazing discovery - a radio which allows them to communicate with another group of three children who live in the very same place, only 80 year...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
10 March 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Ximena Reale is determined to become a Cazadoro at La Academia de los Cazadores, but despite being a star student, her prospects are tarnished by her heritage. Five years ago, her parents were executed for being pirates and now her older sister's behaviour is casting a shadow on Ximena's risin...

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Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

The Rose Bargain is a thrilling and atmospheric dark fantasy set in 1848 England, where high society's yearly tradition of bargaining with an immortal fae Queen takes a sinister twist. This captivating novel explores themes of ambition, sacrific...

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