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I'll Show You, Blue Kangaroo
Name: Marie Berry
25 August 2016;Genre: Adventure
Emma Chichester Clark has written another superb tale about Lily and Blue Kangaroo. In this story Lily is not behaving her best. Lily spends the day showing off to Blue Kangaroo, doing lots of things that grown ups around her tell her not to. As a result, Lily finds herself getting into troub...
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What Shall We Do, Blue Kangeroo?
Name: Marie Berry
22 August 2016;Genre: Young fiction
Emma Chichester Clark has written a super tale about Lily and Blue Kangaroo. This story explores how Lily learns to be independent when she asks adults to help her with different things but they are too busy to do so. I love the way that in this book, Lily shows that she she can do lots of thin...
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The Marsh Road Mysteries Diamonds and Daggers
Name: Jonny
11 August 2016;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I didn't really like the story it was way too long it wasn't intresting. It wasn't descriptive enough.
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There's A Dragon In My Toilet
Name: Lauren Maidman
10 August 2016;Genre: Adventure
This is the third instalment of Eric and Pan's adventures, with the very funny There's A Dragon In My Toilet. Pan is a Mini-Dragon living with Eric and his family who is threatened to move to Mexico with his Aunt and Uncle. Pan obviously doesn't want to leave Eric and his friends which means chao...
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The Potion Diaries
Name: Alison Urquhart
08 August 2016;Genre: Adventure
This was a truly excellent book and I was hooked from the start but then, it falls squarely within a genre I love. The characters are feisty but not rude, they are adventurous but not excessive. There are elements of romance but it is not the focus of the book. I liked that there was little swear...
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Shouty Kid:How Harry a riddles Totally Went Wild
Name: Alison Urquhart
08 August 2016;Genre: Adventure
This book falls into the Diary of a Wimpy Kid / Timmy Failure type of category. I personally don't like Wimpy Kid as I find him too annoying and whiny. I also find the books very amoral. However I am aware that they are staggeringly popular with the pupils who borrow from our school library and w...
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Thicker than Water
Name: Victoria Dilly
03 August 2016;Genre: Adventure
Lennie is a great big blundering boy in the body of a 22 year old man, his mental health issues causing him to behave without thought for the consequences of his actions. It his loyal and faithful cousin, George, acting on a promise to his dying father, who picks up the pieces and cleans up the m...
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Dotty Detective: The Paw Print Puzzle
Name: Kyle Matravers
28 July 2016;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Dotty Detective: The Paw Print Puzzle is an enjoyable read for children between five and eight. The story is part of the Dotty Detective series and is a good introduction to the diary genre. Presented in a very similar way to the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, children will find this book accessi...
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Sleeping Beauty: A Mid-Century Fairy Tale
Name: Marie Berry
18 July 2016;Genre: Adventure
This new take on the traditional tale of Sleeping Beauty is a refreshing and interesting story. Sticking with original story, a young baby is cursed by a wicked witch, that on her 16th birthday, she will prick her finger and sleep for one thousand years. However the story is placed in a more mo...
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How to Catch a Mouse
Name: Marie Berry
14 July 2016;Genre: Adventure
Philippa Leathers' How to Catch a Mouse is an endearing tale about Clemmie, who is a little cat who wants to catch a mouse. But the mouse in question has other ideas, disguising himself throughout the book and throwing Clemmie off the sent with lots of similar decoys. As Clemmie tries hard to f...
