Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Donna Burkert
10 January 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Pip Ruskin is embarrassed by his parents. It isn't just the wacky way they dress, or the fact that they never watch TV, or the way his mum makes him the smelliest lunches ever known, they are just different. Then, to make matters worse, they decide to up sticks and move their life to the dark...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
09 January 2024;

Genre: Adventure

Bramble and her sister, Lena, have recently lost their parents and now live with their grandfather, helping out in his shop, 'Mr Browning’s Emporium of Strange and Magical Things'. Left in charge, she and her best friend, Ernest, who lives next door with his mother at the dressmaker's shop, di...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
08 January 2024;

Genre: Family & Home

Stitch and his friend, Henry Oaf, were created by the genius Professor Hardacre, and live in his castle. Stitch is gentle; Henry is large and cannot control his strength. When the Professor dies, his evil nephew, Giles, comes to take over the laboratory. Giles wants to continue his uncle's wor...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 January 2024;

Genre: Science Fiction

Al Chaudhury has successfully travelled back in time and saved his father's life. So, everything is back to the way Al thinks it should be…only somehow it isn't. And then an accident leaves Grandpa Byron struggling to remember things, forcing Al to travel in time once more, leaving someone tra...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 January 2024;

Genre: Science Fiction

If you've read the wonderful Time Travelling with a Hamster, you'll be excited to hear about this inventive and light-hearted sequel in which Al(Bert Einstein) Chaudhury returns for more adventures with parallel worlds. In Tim...

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Name: Ben Age 12
12 December 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Very good, I love it.

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 December 2023;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

Strange things are happening. Children are being found like frozen statues in the park, more each day. Bianca's little brother, Finn, is one of the ice statues and she decides to try and solve the mystery and rescue him and the other ice children. But what she finds out is so amazing that the...

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Name: Jemma Jeffrey
30 November 2023;

Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

Oscar's Lion is a moving, magical story about a boy who spends the weekend being looked after by a kind and enormous lion. The lion says 'yes' when his parents would have normally said 'no', and so, even although his life has been turned upside down, Oscar accepts his new baby...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 November 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

Stitch is a boy who was made, literally stitched together as his name suggests. Along with his friend Henry, he lives with the Professor in a castle and counts the days since he 'woke up'. One day, when everything changes, the Professor's nephew comes calling and Stitch finds that sometimes di...

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Name: Clair Bossons
20 November 2023;

Genre: Adventure

Finding Wonder is a beautifully written, truly gripping mystery story which draws on Lauren St John's love of horses. The front cover and chapter illustrations are stunning and will really add appeal to those that enjoy reading horse stories. The main character Roo is left orp...

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