Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 March 2019;

Genre: Adventure

I have to confess to being almost frightened to read Pog. I loved Tin so much that I was almost scared I'd be disappointed by Padraig Kenny's next book. Whilst I think that Tin will remain one of my all-time favourite children's books, Pog is absolutely excellent and a cracking good read. One of...

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Name: Raynee Age 11
01 March 2019;

Genre: Friends and family

I love this book so much as I relate to it.

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Name: Raynee Age 11
01 March 2019;

Genre: Real life

I like everything about this book.

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Name: Clare Wilkins
01 March 2019;

Genre: Adventure

Asha and her family live in the foothills of the Himalayas. Surviving on wages her father sends from his factory job in the City, they manage their farm in his absence and yearn for him to return. But suddenly the money and Pa's letters stop arriving; and as the months go by Asha's desperate moth...

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Name: Janet Fisher
24 February 2019;

Genre: Adventure

When We Were Warriors, a collection of three interlinked stories set in World War Two, is Emma Carroll's ninth book. The first story tells of Stanley, evacuated to Frost Hollow Hall (the setting of Carroll's first book), together with his sisters, June and Maggie; the reader w...

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Name: Nicki Cleveland
22 February 2019;

Genre: Adventure

To be honest, when this landed in the post, I still hadnt quite forgiven Maz for the tears and torment caused by book 3, the brilliant Beyond The Odyssey. So, I did the only thing I could. I locked myself in my bedroom with a loo roll to hand (Id run out of tissues), tried to banish the title ind...

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Name: Salliann Coleman
16 February 2019;

Genre: Adventure

This book is set in 1947 in New Mexico and relates to the Roswell UFO incident; there are references throughout the book to specific aspects of the times, for example listening to Superman on the radio and reading about Martians in comics. Some of these may require explanation to the modern-day...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
07 February 2019;

Genre: Magical Realism

A Pinch of Magic is a lovely book, and it has been a delight to read and review it. Betty Widdershins lives with her Granny, and her sisters Fliss and Charlie, in the Poachers Pocket Inn in the village of Crowstone. Their mother is dead and their father is imprisoned in Crowst...

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Name: Azra Age 11
30 January 2019;

Genre: Fantasy

This book follows Crystal Run which I loved. I loved this book because there is always a mystery that needs to be revealed and a ending to be discovered. In this book, the main characters Kaia and Joe have been taken prisoner but have to escape back to Carcassia, to stop other Runners from being...

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Name: Azra Age 11
30 January 2019;

Genre: Adventure

The more you delve into this book the better it gets and there is always a mystery to solve - a demon's curse has to be broken. You won't be able to put the book down!

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