Latest Reviews

Name: Elizabeth Harris
16 January 2014;

Genre: Adventure

Barrington Stoke has released four new titles in the 'Little Gems' series. The already published stories are presented in a mature 'chunky book' format designed to support the transition to independent reading. As a child's first independent read, these books would instantly be loved. Their in...

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Name: Fiona Collins
14 January 2014;

Extra Yarn is an American book which has rightly won several awards. Both the illustrator (Jon Klassen) and writer (Mac Barnett) have also separately won awards for their work. Extra Yarn is a unique and tantalising story of a determined young girl, Annabelle, who lives in 'a cold little town'....

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Name: Caroline Downie
10 January 2014;

Genre: Adventure

Ever wondered how the transporters on Star Trek worked? This is the book to tell you how. After the Great Water Wars, the world is everyone's oyster with d-mat. You can be transported around the world in an instant; live in Sweden, go to school in California, have a boyfriend in Shanghai. Nothing...

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Name: maaria Age 10
08 January 2014;

Genre: Personal Growth

I liked the whole of this book. The storyline is just so powerful. It really leaves you in suspense. Like Marlon betrayed him!! To be honset the ending was like a cliffhanger because you don't know what will happen when alex is born but i think malorie blackman did that for a reason. I really wa...

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Name: Karyn Age 14
07 January 2014;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

I would recommend this book because it is a insightful book cleverly capturing the views of someone with cancer and is full of plot twists!

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Name: Melanie Chadwick
17 November 2013;

Genre: Adventure

I really enjoyed The Hunt, the first book in this series in which Gene and his small group of humans manage to escape the pursuit of the terrifying vampires. It was gripping, fast paced and full of vampire action - real vampires, not the soppy sort everyone falls in love with. So I was looking fo...

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Name: Melanie Chadwick
17 November 2013;

Comity lives with her father, Herbert Pinny and her mother on a telegraph repeater station in the middle of nowhere in the Australian outback. Life is hard, but her father takes great pride in his job as stationmaster, and her mother makes it a real home, with love, stories and friendship to all...

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Name: Elizabeth Bentley
09 November 2013;

Genre: Adventure

After what felt like a slow start, I really enjoyed this book. It covers a very short period, just 6 days, then another a week later, but charts the growth in a boy/young man of 16 as he goes from being the named heir to his brother the Prince, to having to take over as Prince and ruler. Feelin...

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Name: Laura Taylor
06 November 2013;

Genre: Bullying

A new title in the popular and dyslexia friendly Barrington Stoke series, Graphic is the story of talented artist Joe who discovers his drawing talents can produce surprising results when whatever he imagines and subsequently draws comes true! What should he wish for and draw? Could his dreams...

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Name: Hannah Morrell
01 August 2013;

Genre: Animals

These books written by David Lowe (My Hamster is an Astronaut, My Hamster is a Spy and My Hamster is a Genius) are perfect for stand alone reads or reading them as a set to your class. The plot follows a young boy and his new pet Hamster (which he acquired in a quite humorous way - but I don't w...

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