Children Book Reviews

Name: Kristen Hopwood
10 July 2021;

Genre: Adventure

Shadow Chaser starts with an introduction to the story and then instructions for how to play. There is a 'log book' that you need to fill in each time you play to keep track of items, life points and items you have collected. You can download copies from the Usborne website, w...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
09 July 2021;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

A Glasshouse of Stars is the story of Meixing arriving in the New Land with her family to begin a New Life. Everything is different and scary: their new house, school and even her parents' behaviour. When disaster strikes, life becomes scarier still and yet Meixing finds frien...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
08 July 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

It is 1910, and the forthcoming arrival of Halley's Comet is causing excitement and fear around the world. 12-year-old Nancy and her younger sister Violet have their lives suddenly turned upside down when their mother takes them off to Suffolk to visit a grandfather they had always thought was...

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Name: Sharon Porter
08 July 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

This is the first Nicola Penfold book I've read and I have to say I will be looking for more. This story is beautifully written, giving the reader a real feeling of knowing the characters. There are so many themes threaded throughout this story; sibling love, grief, family secrets, present/fut...

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Name: Kelly Buxton
08 July 2021;

Genre: Funny Stories

An absolute riot of a book that will make you laugh from cover to cover! 12-year-old Maisie is locked in the car with her annoying older sister, Primrose, on the way to Grandma's. It's the summer holidays and it seems set to drag on and on. Maisie longs for adventure and never suspects that sh...

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Name: Kelly Buxton
08 July 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Imagine starting into a flower that only flowers once in its lifetime one moment and stumbling back in time before you were even born the next. Well for Elsie that is exactly what happens while she is visiting her Uncle John, who she has never met, to while away the long summer holidays....

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 July 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Elsie has to stay with her Great Uncle John, who lived in India when he was younger. He talks about the terrible thing he regrets doing when he was still a child. Elsie is catapulted back through time to India in the 1940s; can she put that mistake right? Or is it wrong to try and change time?...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
07 July 2021;

Genre: Personal Growth

Across the world, there are female athletes hurdling barriers, breaking records and notching up phenomenal personal achievements. Run Like a Girl is a celebration of these women through 50 biographical stories that explore what it took for them to reach the top of their sports...

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Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
06 July 2021;

Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

Kitty Quest is truly laugh out loud funny; it follows the story of Woolfrik and Perigold on their quest to rid their town of Meowminster of monsters. This graphic novel is ideal for the more reluctant readers in KS2 and hasn’t been on the shelf since I bought it into school. T...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 July 2021;

Genre: Magical Realism

I absolutely fell in love with this modern but classic feeling magical, fantastical adventure. 11 year old Edie Winter helps out with Dad's job at the London Underground's Lost Property Office. Of all the random things she finds, she never expected it to be a curious wooden box containing a mi...

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