Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Nicki Cleveland
08 January 2017;

Genre: Adventure

When an orphaned kitten is found hiding on the docks in Hong Kong, he is smuggled aboard HMS Amethyst to become the ship's cat, with the very important job of being chief rat-catcher. Based on real events, this is the story of what happened to the ship and its crew while on a peace keeping missio...

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Name: Alison Urquhart
07 January 2017;

Genre: Adventure

I was not sure whether I was going to enjoy this book as I find that there are so many 'we're like diary of a wimpy kid' type books out there that they all seem to blend into one. The other problem with some of those types of books is the amorality within them, where the lead character seems to b...

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Name: Alison Urquhart
07 January 2017;

Genre: Adventure

I came to this book with high expectations as I am a big fan of Christopher Edge, having loved the Twelve Minutes to Midnight series. I was not sure what to expect, and in fact my 10 year old stole the book away and read it before I did. In one sitting! I was surprised by how quickly I was sucked...

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Name: Emily Beale
06 January 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Arthur Mallows desperately wants an ordinary day, with an ordinary family and most especially he wants an ordinary brother. But the meltdowns, the unusually behaviour and the constant pressure of a brother who is different is all getting too much for Arthur. That is until a rather unexpected gues...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
05 January 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Alice is back to solve another mystery - this time in the theatre her sister is performing in. Spending the summer helping her mother and sister at the Beryl Theatre isn't Alice's first choice of things to do - there's a copy of Fermat's Last Theorum that needs reading for a start. But things st...

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Name: Catherine Purcell
04 January 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Wing Jones has always lived in the shadow of her brother; uncomfortable in her skin and awkward, she hugs the shadows at school, anxious not to draw attention to herself. But when Marcus falls from grace, Wing finds the isolation unbearable. Feeling even more of a social pariah, without Marcus,...

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Name: Miss Cleveland
03 January 2017;

Genre: Adventure

The foxes love football, and foxes in every part of the country support The Foxes; Leicester City Football Club. Win or lose, they love them, and all the food scraps left behind by the human fans. When returning home from another defeat, across a car park that is being excavated, Dad and son fox...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 January 2017;

Genre: Adventure

Becca lives with her research scientist dad. Although only fifteen, she has just achieved five A* A levels and is off to Cambridge to study Natural Sciences. Joe lives with his dad and his dog, Shammy. Addicted to the thrill of tagging, he's facing one hundred hours of community service to pay fo...

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Name: Anita Milton
31 December 2016;

Genre: Animals

A stylish lady, Hilda Snibbs, shares her domestic routines with the reader as she learns to cope with three very challenging house guests. With a nod to Dr Seuss's Thing 1, 2 and 3, the monkeys do eventually appear to behave! Hilda, a stylish Parisian single lady, lives in a beautiful apartment....

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Name: Emily Beale
31 December 2016;

Genre: Funny Stories

Spangles McNasty has a heart as cold as a box of frozen fish fingers and with a love of shiny spangly things, he's bound to cause trouble in Bitterly Bay. Spangles McNasty refers to himself as a collector - a collector of things that do not belong to him - and in this bonkers, fast-paced adven...

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