Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Sue Wilsher
06 September 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

A Sprinkling of Danger finds Alice Éclair on another spying adventure. When an American film crew arrives at the beautiful palace of Versailles, there is great excitement, but suspicions that a spy is amongst them means Alice is once more on the case. Using her baking skills,...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
03 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

This, the fifth and final trip to Eerie-on-Sea, concludes Herbie and Violet's adventures and, like others I'm sure, I read Mermedusa with mixed feelings - delight at another visit to one of my favourite fictional places and great sadness that there would be no...

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Name: Stephen Leitch
01 September 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Welcome back to Eerie -on-Sea, where everyone knows not to go out on the beach at night, especially when it's almost midwinter. But that isn't going to stop the members of Anomalous Phenomena podcast group, who are in Eerie on a monster tour, hunting down evidence of the fabled Malamander! Whi...

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Name: Donna Burkert
24 August 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Alice is on the case again in A Sprinkling of Danger.  This time, she heads undercover onto a film set; the Director is desperate to have her delicious delicacies in shot to lift the film to the heights of splendour that he desires. But Alice is not alone on the set, a fellow...

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Name: Jo Clarke
23 August 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

In an era when young ladies were expected to take pleasure in needlepoint and were instructed in the art of the perfect curtsey, Winnie Weatherby is unique. Uninterested in deportment or poetry, Winnie is preoccupied with inventing; her desire is to win the prestigious 'Petit Prix' at the Worl...

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Name: Jo Clarke
23 August 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

If you go down to the woods today…. you'd better have nerves of steel and a razor sharp mind! When Amity wanders into the forbidden forest, her friends Claude, Sam and Deliah set off to find her but end up with far more than they bargained for. Discovering a dilapidated house, the children ven...

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Name: Sam Phillips
22 August 2023;

Genre: Science Fiction

Sticky Pines: The Wrath of the Blob is another brilliant adventure by Dashe Roberts. Although the long-awaited conclusion of the Sticky Pines series, The Wrath of the Blob is a great standalone read. However, this 'toe...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
18 August 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

Adam Sinclair lives in a lovely house. He has a huge treehouse to himself, a private tutor, plenty to eat and loving parents who dote on him. However, since his recovery from Leukaemia, his overprotective mother wants to keep him safely at home so he is not able to make friends or return to th...

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Name: Donna Ritchie
17 August 2023;

Genre: Historical Fiction

1940 is where the prologue to The Stolen Songbird begins, where we meet a boy and a girl (no names mentioned - which made it a mysterious beginning). Then a jump to 1959, where we meet a rabbit. The way the author describes this rabbit led me to believe that he had a very impo...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
16 August 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

Lina’s family went to America five years ago, but she stayed behind with her grandmother - until now! At last she’s going to join them! When she arrives, life in America is quite different from the way she imagined it (from watching The Simpsons and from her mother’s letters). At school, it’s...

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