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Witch for a Week
Name: Erin Foote
23 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
Elsie Pickles helps to run the family shop in Smallbridge. One day the local witch Magenta Sharp advertises for a caretaker for her tower in the forest. Elsie takes the position and there begins a week of adventure and fun! Elsie Pickles is a brilliant female character and she is just the righ...
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Safari Pug
Name: Rachael Salmon
18 January 2018;Genre: Animals
What a lovely book! The first thing that struck me were the illustrations in green and yellow, with their echoes of Dr Seuss. Seuss-like too was the way the story meandered and rambled through various unlikely scenarios, and yet it somehow still had one paw in reality. As I am used to reading bo...
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The Accidental Father Christmas
Name: Erin Foote
17 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
This is my kind of story! Ben has had enough of impostor Santas, and sets a trap to catch the real one. But it all goes wrong and Ben ends up chasing a forgetful Santa through town. A hilarious story from the brilliant author Tom McLaughlin. I laughed throughout the entire story. Once you star...
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The Parent Problem
Name: Maddie Age 10
15 January 2018;Genre: Friends and family
12 year old Skye Green is determined to have a book of her very own published so she writes about her mortifying life as an almost 13 year old girl - she is always being embarrassed by her flamboyant, quirky mum. I found that this book was one of my top 12 favourite books because I just kept want...
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Nevermoor
Name: Azra Age 9
15 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
I liked this book because it's a mixture of all the things I like in books like fantasy, mystery and magic and adventure. It's a bit like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to find all the missing bits as you read and then it all makes sense at the end.
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Nevermoor
Name: Emily Age 9
15 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
I really liked this because it is a fantasy story that's full of adventure and you don't know where it's going so it's always surprising! I especially liked the trials in the story where the children have to discover what skill they have, their 'knack' - one of the children can ride dragons!
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Quests for Glory
Name: Linda Brown
11 January 2018;Genre: Fantasy
The School for Good and Evil was at first meant to be a trilogy and what a wonderful, adventurous trilogy it turned out to be. In fact, so good that the author decided to continue this amazi...
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Rabbit and Bear, Attack of the Snack
Name: Sam Phillips
08 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
I loved this book! Sadly I've never read any of the other Rabbit and Bear stories but I certainly will now. This beautifully illustrated book tells a very funny story of the unlikely friendship between a rabbit and a bear. It's an ideal choice for early readers ready for a 'step-up' from picture...
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Bee Boy, Clash of the Killer Queens
Name: Sam Phillips
08 January 2018;Genre: Adventure
Melvin Meadly doesn't have many friends, most of the other children at school don't like the same things Melvin does, they just don't get him! Melvin spends most of his time looking after his bees with his next-door neighbour Dan, or at least he did before Dan moved away and now the bees are the...
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Libby in the Middle
Name: Jane Rew
05 January 2018;Genre: Friends and family
A brilliant book. It's well-written and totally believable. The author manages to portray teenagers both accurately and sensitively without being disparaging. (Perhaps she has studied child psychology?) I was gripped right from the start, not least because we're kept guessing at the truth b...
