Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Sue Wilsher
31 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Kenzie likes to read about adventures, but has no desire to take part in one. She doesn't like strangers and barely does friends so she's not thrilled when she finds out that she is expected to go on a hillwalking expedition with pupils from another school and Sorley Mackay, the most annoying...

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Name: Sara Sumner
28 March 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Rebel Heart is a new and exciting historical adventure story from Ally Sherrick, set in the English Civil War. The year is 1645 and with her father away fighting for the Royalists and her step mother about to surrender her home to the troops bombarding it, you...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
27 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

I love a book that has a little bit of real history entwined within the story. Deep Dark is such a book. Cassia Thorne is the main character; a patterer (a child singer who sings songs - that tell a story - on the streets of early 19th century London), but who also teaches pia...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
21 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Bo Delafort is a mudlarker. She lives in London with her mother and her older brother Harry, who has just left home to fight in the First World War. When she meets the orphan Billy River on the banks of the Thames they instantly form a bond. Then Bo finds a fabulous jewel in the mud of the riv...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 March 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Eddie doesn't feel she belongs in her school. Eating wheelie bins can make you stand out. So she gets sent to a school in another realm, where everyone is a monster of some sort and the motto is 'Be the worst'. Finally, Eddie can make friends, except the very existence of the school is in jeop...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
13 March 2025;

Genre: Poetry

Having received one of A F Harrold's postcard poems, I know that children love his short poems! Indeed, despite the fact that we enjoyed plenty of poetry in class, many were fascinated by the idea that something so short was a poem as well as being charmed by the novelty of getting something h...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 March 2025;

Genre: Historical Fiction

The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
07 March 2025;

Genre: Adventure

Cassia Thorne lives in the Fleet with her father, who is in prison for debt. She does what she can to support them by selling ballads in the streets and giving music lessons. When the younger brother of her friend goes missing, Cassia is determined to find him and with the hel...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 March 2025;

Genre: Fantasy

Ysolda is on the run with the daughter of her enemy, the Wolf Queen. They are travelling to find the Anchorite and for Ysolda to free her sister and try to stop the terrible things happening across the country. Plunged into the cold world of the Norveger, Ysolda has to test her courage to its...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
04 March 2025;

Genre: Dystopian

Jen and Father are in a world that is almost empty of people. This is the time after 'The Flood', when people and machines were mostly destroyed. They come across a small, friendly community and Jen finds she wants to stay. But Father is not what he seems; he is a human appearing AI and people...

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