Children Book Reviews

Name: Susan Wilsher
27 May 2021;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Simi is sent to stay with her grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. The thought of staying with someone she doesn't know in the middle of nowhere with no TV, no internet and no phone access fills Simi with horror, particularly as Simi's mother and grandmother are estranged. When she arrive...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2021;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Twitch is in Year 7, and he definitely prefers the company of birds to his peers. He has three pet chickens, a swallow's nest in his bedroom and is an avid bird watcher. He intends spending his summer holiday training his pigeons and watching birds in Aves Wood. But then a convict escapes from...

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Name: Sam Phillips
27 May 2021;

Genre: Friendship

Truly Tyler by Terri Libenson is the fifth book in this popular series, and the first one from a boy's view point. This is the first book I have read from the Emmie and Friends series, and I most definitely enjoyed it. Even though it is part of a series, it reads absolutely fi...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2021;

Genre: Adventure

Myles and Beckett are the younger twin brothers of the more famous Artemis Fowl. In The Fowl Twins - Deny All Charges, the second of their adventures, having stolen a jet plane and then destroyed it (obviously not intentionally), the brothers are put under house a...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
22 May 2021;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

When a new girl starts a new school in a new town, she is faced with hostility and suspicion. Focusing on her differences, the other children in her class taunt and mock her. However, the appearance of a beautiful origami flower left on the teacher's desk ignites their curiosity, which leads t...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
20 May 2021;

Genre: Horror

Sensational, stunning, scary - well worth the wait and anticipation! Crater Lake: Evolution takes place five months after we last saw Lance and the gang surviving their Y6 residential trip with its alien spore invasion of the "bug eyes". All appears to be settling down, high s...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
20 May 2021;

Genre: Horror

The first book in this thrilling, high energy series managed to be both horrifying and funny and the sequel, Crater Lake: Evolution, likewise mixes the macabre and the mirthful. Picking up six months after the horrors of a Year 6 field trip that went disastrously wrong (bug-ey...

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Name: Catherine Kus
17 May 2021;

Genre: Non Fiction

This book is extremely topical at present as all children have questions and concerns about the Coronovirus. This book covers everything you need to know about viruses in a non- frightening and reassuring way. What is a Virus is full of simple questions which are answered by l...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
17 May 2021;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Laurie Larksie is 12 and lives with her mum, dad and younger sister Fern. The whole family are keen environmentalists, and want to save the planet. Laurie and Fern enjoy making their own eco-friendly beauty products from the foods their parents grow at home. The family even go so far as to loo...

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Name: Natalie J. McChrystal Plimmer
16 May 2021;

Genre: Funny Stories

The Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife begins a new series by the author of the Who Let the Gods Out? series. This illustrated stream-of-consciousness chapter book for older primary children is about Scarlett, who, when she loses her temper, makes things like a cake explode. She...

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