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  • Black and British: A short, essential history

    Name: Eileen Armstrong
    02 February 2021;

    Genre: Representation & Inclusion

    2020 will be remembered for many reasons - but especially because it was the year in which the urgent need for putting Black British history back in the curriculum was finally recognised, and the drive to make it both mainstream and mandatory gathered huge momentum as a result of the Black Lives...

  • Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Poison Plot

    Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Poison Plot

    Name: Noel Age 10
    01 February 2021;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    Agent Zaiba is a detective story based on a girl called Zaiba. Everything seems good at the summer fete until a mystery emerges at the baking competition. Will Zaiba, her best friend (Poppy) and her little brother (Ali) uncover who is the cupcake poisoner?

  • Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Missing Diamonds

    Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Missing Diamonds

    Name: Noel Age 10
    31 January 2021;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    Agent Zaiba is an amazing detective story about a girl called Zaiba who dreams of being the world's greatest detective. She runs into her first crime, with the help of her best friend (Poppy)and her little brother (Ali). Will they solve this mystery? I would rate it 5/5.

  • Concrete Rose

    Concrete Rose

    Name: Dan Katz
    30 January 2021;

    Genre: Real life

    17 year old Maverick Carter is an average gang kid in late '90s America - happy to coast along, chilling with friends, playing video games and basketball and listening to Tupac. He’s also struggling at school, his gang lord father is in prison, and he is secretly selling drugs to help his moth...

  • Dig! Dig! Dig!

    Dig! Dig! Dig!

    Name: Judith Greenall
    28 January 2021;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Dig! Dig! Dig! This story of curiosity, determination and teamwork begins as Jake spins the globe on his windowsill and imagines what life may be like on the other side of the world from his rather grey and gloomy street. He is particularly interested to find out if people the...

  • Darwin's Dragons

    Name: Faith Age 10
    28 January 2021;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    The book is about a boy called Covington who was washed up on an island and was saved by a lizard. What I like about this book is that Farthing, the lizard that saved his life, turns into a magnificent dragon. Farthing did many good deeds and it was nice that he turned into something beautiful...

  • Luna Rae is Not Alone

    Name: Donna Burkert
    24 January 2021;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Luna Rae knows that something is different. It's not just their new house on the new estate, or the sofa still wrapped in its cellophane wrapper. It's not just the new school, or the girl on her table who is mean. It's not just her dad acting strangely and leaving her to look after her little...

  • Love is for Losers

    Name: Lucy Georgeson
    22 January 2021;

    Genre: Romance & Relationships

    A funny and life-affirming take on all the big stuff you experience through puberty: love, sex, death, family, intergenerational friendships, heartbreak, kittens and kisses that turn the whole world upside down.Love is for Losers is six months in the life of Year 11 Phoebe, self-pr...

  • How to Be a Hero

    Name: David Age 9
    21 January 2021;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    It is about a boy called Whetstone who joins a group of thieves. He wants a magic cup to help him earn fame but he has to steal it! While retrieving the cup, he gets knocked out. He meets a Valkyrie who helps him. Review I would rate this book 5/5 because it's one of those come...

  • How to Be a Hero

    Name: Caoimhe Age 9
    21 January 2021;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    A Viking Adventure Review I would rate this book 4.5/5 because it is adventurous and different to other books. I would recommend this book to my friends because I feel like they would like it. My favourite part was when Flee and Flay got in trouble at the end and my favourite c...