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  • Finding Hope

    Finding Hope

    Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
    28 March 2024;

    Genre: Animals

    Finding Hope is the first title in the Whistledown Farm Adventure series, with Rescuing Ruby following this Autumn. Written by Nicola Baker from Channel 4’s 'Our Farm in the Dales', this lovely, engaging, heartwarming tale reminds me of farm-set stories by Dic...

  • How to Say No to Your Phone: An Empowering Guide for Young People

    How to Say No to Your Phone

    Name: Chloe Age 10
    28 March 2024;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    How to Say No to Your Phone is very interesting and helped me gain information about how I use my phone. The vibrant colours and pictures really helped me understand the book and keep going. There are quite a few tricky words but luckily there is a glossary at the back. It gav...

  • Marnie Midnight and the Moon Mystery (Marnie Midnight, Book 1)

    Marnie Midnight and the Moon Mystery (Marnie Midnight, Book 1)

    Name: Jessica Age 10
    28 March 2024;

    Genre: Adventure

    I loved this book! I love these types of books and this is a very good book. I won't spoil the ending but the ending is so good! I would recommend this book; if I could I would read this a lot! I like the characters especially Marnie and Milo, he's adorable! In my opinion there is nothing I ha...

  • The Bone Spindle: Book 1: a fractured twist on the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty

    The Bone Spindle

    Name: Linda Brown
    27 March 2024;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    Two female treasure hunters. A sleeping prince. A hundred-year-old curse and one angry witch. The Bone Spindle has all of this, in this new pacey retelling of a classic fairy tale, with a unexpected twist... Filore is a treasure hunter with a love for r...

  • How to Say No to Your Phone: An Empowering Guide for Young People

    How to Say No to Your Phone

    Name: Solomon Age 11
    26 March 2024;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    I have rated How to Say No to Your Phone five stars because it is useful for everyone. Most people in our generation has a phone and most of them are always attached to their phone 24/7. This book has ten easy and simple steps to succeed on trying to decrease your phone's scre...

  • The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

    The Whisperwicks: The Labyrinth of Lost and Found

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    26 March 2024;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Benjamin Creek does not believe in magic, preferring science, logic and reasoning until he is led into the impossibly magical world of Wreathenwold. With a girl called Elizabella, Benjamin finds himself on a perilous quest to find Elizabella's missing twin, Edwid, making a promise he is determ...

  • Marnie Midnight and the Moon Mystery (Marnie Midnight, Book 1)

    Marnie Midnight and the Moon Mystery (Marnie Midnight, Book 1)

    Name: Giselle Age 10
    26 March 2024;

    Genre: Adventure

    First of all, I want to say that the character designs are amazing and this book is really creative. The illustrations for this book looks like they took so much time and effort and I really enjoyed reading this book. My favourite character would have to be Star because she is a great friend a...

  • My Baba's Garden

    My Baba's Garden

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    25 March 2024;

    Genre: Family & Home

    This book has more layers than an onion. On the face of it, My Baba's Garden is a simple story about a little boy spending the early mornings with his Grandma at her house, having breakfast and then going to school. They collect stranded worms on the way for her to relocate in...

  • Winner Takes Gold

    Winner Takes Gold

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    25 March 2024;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    In Winner Takes Gold, Pearl dreams of winning a place on the GB Mini Elite Squad. Her mother, who was a coach at the local club, Bagley End Butterflies, passed away the year before and Pearl is determined to 'light up the world' with her shine as mum would have wanted. ...

  • A Field Guide to Spring: Play and learn in nature

    A Field Guide to Spring: Play and learn in nature

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    24 March 2024;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    A charming mixture of experiments and activities, science and poetry, A Field Guide to Spring is a wonderful introduction to that season, sure to inspire children to use all their sense to explore the wonders it offers. The book is easy to navigate with both a clear con...