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Coding for Beginners using Scratch
Name: Paul Gormley
24 January 2016;Genre: Adventure
Computing and coding are two of the biggest buzzwords in education in recent times, particularly at primary level. Initiatives like the Hour of Code and programs like Scratch offer a simple yet informative and entertaining entry into the world of coding. The book offers a guide to 15 different...
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Wild Lily
Name: Victoria Dilly
23 January 2016;Genre: Adventure
I have a confession to make; I've never read a book by K M Peyton. Not being a fan of stories involving horses, which many of them are, I just have never chosen to read one. I am very glad that now I have. Wild Lily is a sweeping drama that spans a lifetime and you can't help but fall in love...
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The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl
Name: Melanie Chadwick
23 January 2016;Genre: Real life
It is that long, luxurious summer after high school is finished for ever and before the rest of your life starts. Alba lives in Eden Valley, a small no-place of a town where nothing ever happens, and is using the summer to hang out with her friends, draw awesome Cinnamon Girl cartoons and avoid...
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Dangerous Lies
Name: Alison Ustun
19 January 2016;Genre: Adventure
Seventeen year old Estella lives in Philadelphia with her mother, who has a serious drug problem, so Estella has to look out for both of them. She develops a deep mistrust of adults and those in authority, believing she's been let down and is old enough to look after herself. She closes herself...
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How to find gold
Name: Marie Berry
18 January 2016;This was quite a fun tale about Anna and Crocodile's adventure to find gold. For those children who dream of adventures, this is a book likely to capture their imagination. I did not find this book easy to engage with and my six year old wasn't very interested. I thought the illustrations prov...
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Have you seen Elephant?
Name: Marie Berry
18 January 2016;Genre: Adventure
David Barrow has produced a beautifully illustrated book that will capture children's imaginations all over. A lovely story that imitates the age old game of hide and seek. In this story, we see Elephant attempt to hide in lots of the usual places while his friends looks for him. The obvious i...
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cinnamon girl
Name: Darya Age 14
17 January 2016;Genre: Real life
At first whilst reading, I thought I was wasting my time. BUT, after reading further the plot was way too interesting to ignore and I ended up really enjoying it!!!
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Little Why
Name: Ellie Williams
10 January 2016;Genre: Adventure
At the back and in between the Elders, Little Why the elephant just can't stay in line. He's amazed at the spiny-spiky special horns of Wildebeest, the long lofty leggy legs of Giraffe, the speedy spotty fuzzy fur of Cheetah and the snippy-snappy snazzy snout of Crocodile. He desperately wishes...
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The Haunting
Name: Daniel Katz
09 January 2016;Genre: Adventure
17 year old Emma (accompanied by her disability assistant dog Bailey) sneaks off from her overprotective parents to visit her sick and elderly grandmother in the Cornish village where, 7 years earlier, she had lost the use of her legs in an accident in her grandmother's inn - The Waterwitch. Emma...
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Usborne Illustrated Canterbury Tales
Name: Rose Palmer
09 January 2016;Genre: Adventure
What a great idea to produce a children's Canterbury Tales. This is a beautifully presented 210 page retelling of this classic English literature. This book is a wonderful first introduction to Chaucer, topped and tailed with a most useful explanatory preface and information about Chaucer the man...