Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Hayley Summerfield
09 September 2024;

Genre: Adventure

We all have dreams and sometimes these dreams come at a cost. . . The Horse who Danced is a beautifully written story by Olivia Tuffin about a young girls dream to be a dressage star.  Iona lives on the Kestrel Estate and helps her mom to run the trekk...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
09 September 2024;

Genre: School Stories

Astrid is a different from the rest of the girls in her Y7 class, and she likes it that way.  She loves to read and is a keen member of the Scribble Society, where she enjoys creative writing.  She is best friends with Lola and is happy with her life.  When new boy Teddy joins the school, Astr...

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Name: Clair Bossons
06 September 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Save Our Forest! is an inspiring graphic novel. Bao, our main character, discovers that the forest they play in is about to be turned into an extended school car park. She attempts to go through the right channels to save their forest but when this doesn't work, the friends cl...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
05 September 2024;

Genre: Historical Fiction

The place is London and the year is 1666. When fire breaks out, Gil is separated from his family and has to try and find his mother as the city burns. He carries with him a mysterious stone which others show an interest in. When the stone hatches, Gil finds himself looking after a creature of...

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Name: Jo Clarke
05 September 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

Katya Balen does more than write stories: she orchestrates them. Her words have rhythm; they ebb and flow like the waters around the island on which this spectacular story is set.  Ghostlines begins gently with an introduction to life on the remote, small isla...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
05 September 2024;

Genre: Supernatural

Gabriel Dylan has brought us another spine-chilling adventure from the Shiver Point squad in Shiver Point: Under A Howling Moon.  Its Oli's birthday and he wants nothing more than to spend the weekend camping, exploring and telling spooky stories round the campfire with his be...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
02 September 2024;

Genre: Historical Fiction

In Circus Maximus: Return of the Champion, Dido is back in her fourth and final adventure in this action-packed historical series.  Dido is living in North Africa, training horses and keeping her head down.  A slave boy from Rome, Damon, is thrown into her path, with their dei...

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Name: Margaret Pemberton
02 September 2024;

Genre: Adventure

When Joey and her friends were chosen to represent the school at a competition in the local Museum, she did not bargain on seeing Harry, an ex-pupil and her nemesis. But then something strange happens and she and Harry find themselves being kidnapped by what appear to be Imps. Soon, they find...

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Name: Katie
02 September 2024;

Genre: Fantasy

Dream Hunters is a fast-paced fantasy adventure for any child who loves their adventures with a magical edge. In this story, the magic is provided by child 'dream hunters' - children are taught to follow dreams and to catch them with their special needles, bottling them to hel...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
01 September 2024;

Genre: Supernatural

Gruesome, gothic and so, so good. This horrifyingly dark-humoured tale is hilarious and heart thumpingly entertaining and enthralling. Author Martin Howard and illustrator Pete Williamson have created a masterpiece of creepy illustrations and a narrative that tests the nerves...

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