Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Fiona Collins
10 December 2016;

Genre: Adventure

In many ways The Star Tree is a dreamy book. The story follows Mia who dreams of flying away, which she does. Her night time adventures see her flying on a horse and an owl through the night sky, then sailing on a boat with a red hare and flying in a balloon with a white bear. The delightful chal...

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Name: Fiona Collins
10 December 2016;

Genre: Adventure

The Dragon's Hoard is an interesting collection of retold Viking fables. Lari Don is a Scottish story teller who regularly visits schools to retell these stories. He has shortened the stories and written down for easy reading aloud. The stories are beautifully illustrated by Cate James. The intro...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
06 December 2016;

Genre: Adventure

A Piglet Called Truffle is a warm and realistic story about life on a farm. Jasmine, a farmers daughter, loves animals. This love of animals stems from her parents profession - a farmer and a vet. Jasmine has grown up learning how to care for many animals and this knowledge comes in handy when...

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Name: Clare
02 December 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Natasha is an undocumented immigrant facing deportation. Daniel is a Korean American living with strict first-generation immigrant parents and struggling to fit in. When fate or chance brings them together, they have very different opinions about where their relationship is heading and how the wo...

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Name: Ellie Shepherd
28 November 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This is a sophisticated and well-crafted novel that will suit the dedicated reader. It begins with 'the Vanishings', cases where people have simply vanished for no obvious reason, and as the vanishings persist, the the greatest scientists' minds are put to solve the mystery. They attempt to do so...

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Name: Wesley Age 12
28 November 2016;

Genre: Personal Growth

It has an amazing plot and can be humerous, dark, scary and very much true to real life.

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Name: Carol Williams
25 November 2016;

Genre: Adventure

McKay and his friends are 14 year olds growing up and finding their way in South Crongton, a tough housing estate, where gangs are at war with each other and it is almost impossible not to get involved. However, get by they do, and it is their friendship, and the strength of their families, that...

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Name: Charis
25 November 2016;

Genre: Adventure

This book contains conflict, romance and murder. Although initially difficult to understand, The Diabolic is an engaging, well thought out book. I could not tell at any point what would be coming next so I just couldn't put it down. I liked how independent and strong minded Nemesis was.

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Name: Melanie Chadwick
25 November 2016;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

Henry Page is a good, but not brilliant, student in his last year at school. He's well-mannered, has buttered up the right teachers and aims to get into a good college. He lives with his cool parents who are laid-back, funny and totally in love with each other. He has two fantastic friends Mur...

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Name: Lorraine Ansell
24 November 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Snow is a patient in a psychiatric hospital, placed there by her mother as a young girl. Apart from her relationship with her main 'White Coat' Vern, the only other person she cares about is Bale, her best friend and an arsonist. Her days are governed by which pill she chooses and aided by her lo...

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