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How To survive Time Travel
Name: Sam
16 June 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
How to Survive Time Travel is Larry Hayes' second book and while the story does continue from the first book, it is also just as good as a 'standalone' read. This laugh out loud story joins 10 year old Eliza and her genius brother Jonnie, as they travel back to Ancient Egypt i...
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The Journey, Nature's Greatest Adventure
Name: Amanda Shipton
15 June 2022;Genre: Animals
The Journey, Nature's Greatest Adventure is a wonderful story of migration. It is simply told to allow it to be accessible for children from a young age. The illustrations are wonderfully detailed which will draw children in. The children that I shared it with spent a...
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How to Survive Time Travel
Name: Jenny Caddick
14 June 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
How to Survive Time Travel is another thrilling and fun time travelling sci-fi adventure with Eliza and little brother Johnnie. In this second daring mission we join the siblings trying to solve The Riddle of the Sphinx's Bum as they travel back to around 5000BC to find and re...
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S.T.E.A.L.T.H. : Access Denied
Name: Lennox Age 12
13 June 2022;Genre: Adventure
I recently read S.T.E.A.L.T.H.: Access Denied and I really enjoyed it! It is an engaging book that you won't want to put down. The book has key and challenging vocabulary needed to add depth to what is going on, but it is still a fun read. The book will keep you occupied, with...
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My Friend the Octopus
Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 June 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Vinnie Fyfe is 12 years old and lives with her mother in London. Her mother makes fine hats for rich ladies, hats designed by Vinnie, who is a talented artist. The year is 1877 and unexpectedly, Vinnie is taken by her mother to stay with an aunt in Brighton. Her mother than promptly disappears...
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Special Delivery
Name: Maria
12 June 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
Special Delivery begins with Jay who is counting down to his birthday. This is a great hook into this book. Who doesn't get excited by a birthday? The book then begins the making and journey of the book we are actually reading! What a clever idea. Lots of new vocabulary...
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Escape to the River Sea
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 June 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
Inspired by Eva Ibbotson’s classic, Escape to the River Sea opens with the story of Rosa Sweetman, a young girl who arrived in England as part of the Kinderstransport and who finds herself in the care of Sir Clovis and living at Westwood Estate, initially in the company of oth...
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Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu
Name: Lisa Watkins
07 June 2022;Genre: Friends and family
This is the second book I have read by Maisie Chan and it is just as brilliant as the first, Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths! Keep Dancing, Lizzie Chu is a heart-warming story of 12-year-old Lizzie-Chu who lives with he...
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How to be True
Name: Jo Clarke
06 June 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
How To Be True is the second adventure set amongst the School of the Good Sisters and it reunites the reader with familiar characters, Edie, Hanna and Calla. Just like its predecessor, How to Be Brave, it is narrated by Good Sister June, a...
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Everything you know about Minibeasts is wrong!
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
02 June 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
Minibeasts… they are all small, quiet, fragile insects that as humans, only annoy us and are of no other use...right? Wrong! There are stick insects as big as cats, beetles that hiss like snakes and caterpillars with venomous spines! These fascinating creatures are vital to our way of life, wi...
