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The Chocolate Factory Ghost
Name: Emily Age 10
16 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
I liked this book because it's a mystery and mysteries are one of my favourite type of book. When Archie arrives at his new home, Honeystone Hall, things are not as they seem.
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The Children of Castle Rock
Name: Emily Age 10
16 May 2018;Genre: Adventure
When Alice, Jesse and Fergus go on the Great Orienteering Challenge, Alice sees her chance to venture onto the island of Nish.
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Name: Donna Burket
03 May 2018;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
In a community centre in a run down area of Manchester where 'Manchester welcomes refugees', 11-year-old Aya sits day after day, hour after hour, to see the case worker who can hopefully help them to claim asylum. Her mother speaks little English and is withdrawn and poorly. Around her is a ho...
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Name: Aidan Severs
03 May 2018;Genre: Environment & Nature
Children's publishing seems to be experiencing a time of growth; the shelves of book shops are bursting with newly-published books for kids - so much so that it can be hard to choose which books to read. Some seem to garner much attention whilst others arrive quietly, waiting to be picked up a...
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Name: Clare Wilkins
01 May 2018;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
In No Ballet Shoes in Syria, eleven-year-old Aya is a dancer. Her head full of dreams of ballet, music and her wonderful teacher, Madame Belova. She is also an asylum seeker. Recently arrived in Britain from Syria, she and her mother and baby brother find themselves entangled...
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A Galaxy of Her Own
Name: Sue Wilsher
29 April 2018;Genre: Adventure
Starting with a timeline of space exploration which runs alongside Libby Jackson's introduction to the book, A Galaxy of her Own then introduces the reader to a wealth of wonderful women who reached for the stars! The books is organised chronologically into sections from the origins to the future...
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The Book of Comparisons
Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 April 2018;Genre: Adventure
This lovely book, with great illustrations by Paul Boston, is packed full of the sort of facts children love. The large pages are stuffed with extraordinary details, comparing everything from animals, to space to machines. Aimed at 7+, this seems like a book that could last for years, as it is so...
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Name: Lucy Russell
25 April 2018;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Eleven-year-old Aya has arrived in Britain from Syria. She has left her homeland behind, lost her father and is holding the rest of the fragile family together, responsible beyond her years. When she glimpses the dancers in the community centre's ballet class, she longs to dance again - ballet...
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Thinker: My Puppy Poet and Me
Name: Alison Kelly
23 April 2018;Genre: Adventure
It's not often that I get to review poetry collections written by a dog. It feels like no time ago that I was chuckling over Moses' and Stevens' Waggiest Dogs anthology and now the delightful Thinker has arrived. This unusual collection (Pub: Tiny Owl) opens with 'Naming me' in which a new puppy...
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Firecrackers
Name: Alison Kelly
23 April 2018;Genre: Adventure
Firecrackers (Troika Books) is a magical and generous new collection of poems, stories and plays. It's beautifully presented and designed with Jo Riddell's wonderful illustrations enhancing the rich array of texts that Zaro Weil has composed. The hefty hardback book opens with 'Long ages ago' (...
