Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Melanie Chadwick
23 January 2016;

Genre: Real life

It is that long, luxurious summer after high school is finished for ever and before the rest of your life starts. Alba lives in Eden Valley, a small no-place of a town where nothing ever happens, and is using the summer to hang out with her friends, draw awesome Cinnamon Girl cartoons and avoid...

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Name: Alison Ustun
19 January 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Seventeen year old Estella lives in Philadelphia with her mother, who has a serious drug problem, so Estella has to look out for both of them. She develops a deep mistrust of adults and those in authority, believing she's been let down and is old enough to look after herself. She closes herself...

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Name: Marie Berry
18 January 2016;

Genre: Adventure

David Barrow has produced a beautifully illustrated book that will capture children's imaginations all over. A lovely story that imitates the age old game of hide and seek. In this story, we see Elephant attempt to hide in lots of the usual places while his friends looks for him. The obvious i...

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Name: Darya Age 14
17 January 2016;

Genre: Real life

At first whilst reading, I thought I was wasting my time. BUT, after reading further the plot was way too interesting to ignore and I ended up really enjoying it!!!

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Name: Ellie Williams
10 January 2016;

Genre: Adventure

At the back and in between the Elders, Little Why the elephant just can't stay in line. He's amazed at the spiny-spiky special horns of Wildebeest, the long lofty leggy legs of Giraffe, the speedy spotty fuzzy fur of Cheetah and the snippy-snappy snazzy snout of Crocodile. He desperately wishes...

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Name: Daniel Katz
09 January 2016;

Genre: Adventure

17 year old Emma (accompanied by her disability assistant dog Bailey) sneaks off from her overprotective parents to visit her sick and elderly grandmother in the Cornish village where, 7 years earlier, she had lost the use of her legs in an accident in her grandmother's inn - The Waterwitch. Emma...

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Name: Rose Palmer
09 January 2016;

Genre: Adventure

What a great idea to produce a children's Canterbury Tales. This is a beautifully presented 210 page retelling of this classic English literature. This book is a wonderful first introduction to Chaucer, topped and tailed with a most useful explanatory preface and information about Chaucer the man...

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Name: Rose Palmer
09 January 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This is an entertaining picture book which describes how Little Why the baby elephant - gender unspecified - finds it hard to keep to his/her place in the line of elephants, holding on trunk-to-tail. Little Why keeps getting distracted by all the fascinating creatures which pop up along the way....

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Name: Rachael Salmon
08 January 2016;

Genre: Adventure

A lovely read! I particularly enjoyed how we were presented with the final scenario, and then invited to step back in time to see how Beth ended up...'surrounded by crocodiles, holding a briefcase full of fish fingers...'. I wonder if the author was influenced by Pulp Fiction?! I found that the...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
07 January 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Sandrider by Angie Sage's Sandrider is the second Magykal adventure in her TodHunter Moon series. A spin-off of the bestselling Septimus Heap sequence, the book follows the exhilarating escapades of the ExtraOrdinary Apprentice Alice TodHunter Moon and a sparkling support cast. In the vast Dese...

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