Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
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Huxley and Flapjack Race to the Rescue
Name: Sue Wilsher
21 August 2023;Genre: Adventure
In Huxley and Flapjack Race to the Rescue, Huxley is a little koala filled with energy and zest for life. Flapjack, his penguin friend, is far more anxious and cautious, but together they make the perfect team. They live in a treehouse just outside the town and, when a new sto...
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Queen of Gods (House of Shadows 2)
Name: Lorraine ansell
21 August 2023;Genre: Myths & Legends
Deina has been forced to stay in the Underworld after eating some seeds to save her friends, and must now face her mother, Hades, and find out what the future holds. It seems all hope is lost for her dreams to be free and sail the ocean. Carrying her forward is her belief that the Theodesmioi...
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Never A Hero
Name: Linda Brown
21 August 2023;Genre: Fantasy
At the end of book one, Only a Monster (which I highly recommend you read), Joan made some decisions that would have consequences that she could not imagine... Never a Hero (book two) will draw you in from the very first page, as you can fe...
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We are All Astronauts
Name: Jane Rew
21 August 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
I liked the idea of collecting all 13 astronaut badges in We are All Astronauts as the reader progresses through the book (a unique badge is assigned to each space mission); the message that space exploration, whether IN space or from Earth, is barred to no-one, least of all t...
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Wolves in Helicopters
Name: Maria faithorn
19 August 2023;Genre: Personal Growth
Hop, alone in a dark wood with 100 hungry-eyed wolves watching, sticks out her tongue and runs. Fast. But wolves are faster. Waking in her burrow, Hop is comforted by Mummy who suggests burrowing deep underground the next time she has a bad dream. The next time, Hop is watched by 1000 hungry-e...
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What Are You Feeling?
Name: Lauren Maidman
18 August 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The School of Life have published a beautiful illustrated book of emotions with What are You Feeling? This book is stunning from cover to cover and has been very thoughtfully put together for both adults and children to use and discuss. I can see myself using this in th...
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Norah's Ark
Name: Sue Wilsher
18 August 2023;Genre: Family & Home
Adam Sinclair lives in a lovely house. He has a huge treehouse to himself, a private tutor, plenty to eat and loving parents who dote on him. However, since his recovery from Leukaemia, his overprotective mother wants to keep him safely at home so he is not able to make friends or return to th...
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Her Majesty's League of Remarkable Young Ladies
Name: Jacqueline Harris
18 August 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Winifred Weatherby is a not so ordinary school girl who suddenly finds herself catapulted into the world of spies. These spies are all young ladies, set up to provide support for Queen Victoria. A mysterious person called The Magpie is causing mischief and possibly putting royal lives in dange...
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Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism
Name: Julie Broadbent
17 August 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Yassmin Abdel-Magied is an author, a social activist, an engineer and a broadcaster. After visiting young people in schools, she asked them what they wanted to know about racism and social injustice. Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism is the result of the conversations that...
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The Stolen Songbird
Name: Donna Ritchie
17 August 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
1940 is where the prologue to The Stolen Songbird begins, where we meet a boy and a girl (no names mentioned - which made it a mysterious beginning). Then a jump to 1959, where we meet a rabbit. The way the author describes this rabbit led me to believe that he had a very impo...
