Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
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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...
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Name: Elen
17 August 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The Bear Behind is a fun and comforting picture book for any child who is nervous about starting school, or any other new experiences. For little Ivor, his nervousness about starting school is very real - so when he turns around and spots a great big purple bear behind...
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Finally Seen
Name: Louisa Farrow
16 August 2023;Genre: Family & Home
Lina’s family went to America five years ago, but she stayed behind with her grandmother - until now! At last she’s going to join them! When she arrives, life in America is quite different from the way she imagined it (from watching The Simpsons and from her mother’s letters). At school, it’s...
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River Rescue: A Peanut, Butter & Crackers Story
Name: Amanda Shipton
14 August 2023;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
In Peanut, Butter & Crackers: River Rescue, the pets are off to the great outdoors in their human's camper van. Everything is going fine until Butter, the indoor cat, realises that their human has not brought a litter tray! There must be one in the forest, right, how else...
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The Third Daughter
Name: Linda Brown
14 August 2023;Genre: Fantasy
The Third Daughter is the first book in a new series that explores sisterhood, deception, control, magic and power with a background of a slow burning sapphic romance. For many years the citizens of Velle have waited for their New Maiden to return. The prophecy states s...
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Bonesmith
Name: Linda Brown
11 August 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Bonesmith is the first book in the House of Dead series. This is a dark YA fantasy with a Game of Thrones (White Walkers) feel about it... When Wren, a bonesmith, is sent to the Border Wall of the Dominions as a punishment, she must find a way to pro...
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The Light Thieves
Name: Jenny Caddick
11 August 2023;Genre: Adventure
A clever adventure fantasy with a strange dystopian future at its heart. It is a story so relevant to our current time; themes of climate change and powerful, society controlling technology make the events seem all the more relatable, thought-provoking and easily imagined. The world has...
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Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Train Trouble
Name: Maria
10 August 2023;Genre: Adventure
If you love Shifty and Sam, pack your suitcase and get on board the Pawrient Express for Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: Train Trouble, a new adventure with these humorous characters. What a delight to receive a copy of this brilliant new book, celebrating the 10th Anniversar...
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Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism
Name: Louisa Farrow
10 August 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism is an ambitious book: it sets out to help make the world a fairer place for everyone by investigating racism. Words from Yasmin Abdul-Magied and pictures from Aleesha Nandra work effectively together to explore three key questions: why rac...
