Latest Reviews
Filter:
-
Twitch
Name: Beverley Somerset
29 May 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Twitch is a loner. Bullied at school, he prefers the company of birds to people, and his main hobby is birdwatching. It's the start of the summer holidays and when Twitch arrives at his hide in the Aves Wood Nature Reserve, he finds that there are police everywhere, all search...
-
Harklights
Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 May 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Harklights is a beautifully, classic feeling folklore / fairytale style adventure. In a grim, grey orphanage (surrounded by a forest full of unseen life and tiny magical creatures ) lives mistreated orphan Wick, who seeks an escape from the cruelty of his life. The story is a...
-
Rainbow Grey
Name: Jennifer caddick
27 May 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Rainbow Grey is the first book in a delightful, charming series by Amelia Fang author, Laura Ellen Anderson. City in the sky, Celestia, is inhabited by Weatherlings (folk who all possess different kinds of weather magic to help control Earth's weather and protect it from villa...
-
Name: Susan Wilsher
27 May 2021;Genre: Myths & Legends
Simi is sent to stay with her grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. The thought of staying with someone she doesn't know in the middle of nowhere with no TV, no internet and no phone access fills Simi with horror, particularly as Simi's mother and grandmother are estranged. When she arrive...
-
Twitch
Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Twitch is in Year 7, and he definitely prefers the company of birds to his peers. He has three pet chickens, a swallow's nest in his bedroom and is an avid bird watcher. He intends spending his summer holiday training his pigeons and watching birds in Aves Wood. But then a convict escapes from...
-
Truly Tyler
Name: Sam Phillips
27 May 2021;Genre: Friendship
Truly Tyler by Terri Libenson is the fifth book in this popular series, and the first one from a boy's view point. This is the first book I have read from the Emmie and Friends series, and I most definitely enjoyed it. Even though it is part of a series, it reads absolutely fi...
-
Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2021;Genre: Adventure
Myles and Beckett are the younger twin brothers of the more famous Artemis Fowl. In The Fowl Twins - Deny All Charges, the second of their adventures, having stolen a jet plane and then destroyed it (obviously not intentionally), the brothers are put under house a...
-
Raising Hell
Name: Clair Bossons
26 May 2021;Genre: Horror
Raising Hell is an action packed fantasy adventure. A very compelling read suited to fans of Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, The Red Eye Series and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Ivy Elizabeth Mann is a strong lead character. She blames herself for opening a rift that has let d...
-
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 May 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
When a new girl starts a new school in a new town, she is faced with hostility and suspicion. Focusing on her differences, the other children in her class taunt and mock her. However, the appearance of a beautiful origami flower left on the teacher's desk ignites their curiosity, which leads t...
-
Crater Lake 2: Evolution
Name: Jennifer Caddick
20 May 2021;Genre: Horror
Sensational, stunning, scary - well worth the wait and anticipation! Crater Lake: Evolution takes place five months after we last saw Lance and the gang surviving their Y6 residential trip with its alien spore invasion of the "bug eyes". All appears to be settling down, high s...
