Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Louisa Farrow
22 September 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

14-year-old Max lives on a remote Scottish island and is seething with anger and frustration. An accident on his father's trawler has left him deaf and isolated from his former friends. A new baby in the family only makes matters worse; he's convinced that his parents want to replace him with...

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Name: Donna Burkert
18 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Imagine if there was a place that could gift you a magic hour in your day. Imagine if you could spend that hour doing all the things you never had time for. You could read, play sports, finish your homework, learn a new language...anything! Imagine if you were one of the few who knew about thi...

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Name: Julie Broadbent
18 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

In The Secret of the Blood-Red Key, we are reunited with the familiar world of Krasnia and its inhabitants. Our heroes Rachel and Robert Klein have saved the country from the wicked dictator Charles Malstain and peace and order has now been restored. They are rightly now recog...

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Name: Lily Age 12
18 September 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

Amazing book, I read it at school and it is such an exciting adventure. The author describes the setting and the characters really well!

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Name: Clair Bossons
15 September 2023;

Genre: Myths & Legends

Katherine Rondell's Impossible Creatures is a stunning book! The endpapers are illustrated with a map of The Archipelago, a secret cluster of islands where all the mythological creatures live side by side with humans. This is followed by The Guardian's Bestiary; a wonderful il...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
15 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Christopher Forrester has been sent to Scotland to spend time with his grandfather, Frank, and is dismayed to find himself in the middle of nowhere in a run-down house with no internet or phone signal. He is told that he can go anywhere, but is forbidden to go to the top of the nearby hill. Of...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
14 September 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Robert and Rachel Klein have defeated the villainous Charles Malstain; the land of Krasnia and its capital city, Brava, are now full of joy, colour and happy citizens, and Rachel and Robert are national heroes. Then a boy appears from nowhere and presents Rachel with a blood-red key. She has n...

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Name: Wendy Kelly
13 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

So here it is! We've reached the end of Herbie and Violet's winter shenanigans with the explosive story of the Mermedusa. Those devoted readers who have followed all their other adventures will find many loose ends pleasingly tied up in their final (perhaps?) adventure. Thomas...

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Name: Review Age 11
09 September 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

This book was really fun to read, I loved the twists and turns in it - it made it seem a bit more like a mystery, with space pirates etc. Keep up the good work.

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 September 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

Caro Monday lives in a pub in Waterloo with her two mothers. One of her mothers runs the pub while the other is a famous whistling star, who travels the world. One day Caro is forced to go and stay with her great aunt who lives in Hampstead. Her whistling mother has disappeared, and Caro has n...

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