Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Sue Wilsher
01 May 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Working for the Butterfly Club, time-travelling thieves Aidan, Luna and Konstantin have already been on two missions into the future and now it is time for their third. In The Mona Lisa Mystery, they are asked to steal a little-known painting called the Mona Lisa from the Louv...

More

Name: Eleni Age 14
26 April 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

The Light in Everything was interesting, as the two main characters despised each other, and had very different personalities, yet the author did not seem to prefer one over the other, and both had understandable reasons to dislike one another. The two points of view me...

More

Name: Nathan Cox
25 April 2023;

Genre: Adventure

After reading the first Alex Neptune book, Dragon Thief, I couldn't wait to read the next in the series from David Owen and I was far from disappointed, definitely worth the wait! Alex Neptune, Pirate Hunter by Davi...

More

Name: Sue Wilsher
24 April 2023;

Genre: LBGTQ+

Annie lives in a bookshop with her two mums and her sister, Charlotte. The bookshop is a special place where each morning, a pile of books mysteriously appears on the counter and by the end of every day, each book has found its perfect reader. However, one day, there is a book left over - one...

More

Name: Jennifer Caddick
17 April 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Skandar and the Phantom Rider is the stunning sequel to the first Skandar adventure (Skandar and the Unicorn Thief) and is another thrilling, exciting and epic tale set in a world where becoming a Unicorn Rider is the ultimat...

More

Name: Jane Rew
17 April 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

There's so much to commend this book. Teachers: why not cite some of these figures in music, geography, history, science, IT and art lessons instead of, or alongside, the usual white figures? Matthew Henson and Catherine Johnson, say, as well as Columbus and Armstrong? Why not also use the boo...

More

Name: Jane Rew
17 April 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

This second volume, Young, Gifted and Black Too, is just as attractive as the first (Young, Gifted and Black). Indeed, in hardback, its striking blue cover and jazzy opening pages instantly...

More

Name: Sue Wilsher
17 April 2023;

Genre: Poetry

A Passing on of Shells is a collection of 50 poems, each written using fifty words. There is much to enjoy here as Simon Lamb uses a variety of poetic styles and techniques, offering an ingenious selection of work on many themes. The collection opens with 'How to Start...

More

Name: Beverley Somerset
13 April 2023;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

In Clutch, avid birdwatcher and nature lover Twitch is devastated when peregrine falcon eggs are stolen from a nest on Passerine Pike. The police are involved, but Twitch and his fellow Twitchers Jack, Ozuru, Ava, Terry, Tara and Tippi are determined to solve the crime themsel...

More

Name: Jane Rew
12 April 2023;

Genre: Adventure

That this book found a reader as soon as I was spotted reading it in the playground testifies to the power of its subject (dinosaurs) and the eye-catching cover. Delve beyond the cover, and one enters a world populated by a cast of characters including Eleri, Agostron (his brother and heir to...

More