Schools & Libraries Book Reviews
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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me
Name: Clare Wilkins
27 October 2023;Genre: Horror
It's the final year at the Ballet Academy of Paris for an ambitious group of students intent on graduating into the cut-throat world of professional ballet. Laure Mensy is talented and single-minded but she is also a misfit in the privileged ballet world, where her skin colour and background c...
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The Final Year
Name: Louisa Farrow
27 October 2023;Genre: Poetry
Nate doesn't have the easiest life at home. His mum is loving but struggling and Nate has never known his dad; he often has to get his two younger brothers up and ready for school; and there's never quite enough money to go round. In spite of everything, he has been doing well at school now th...
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Luna
Name: Sam
27 October 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
Luna and her dad live on the moon, where they work as part of a research team collecting rocks and other mineral specimens for scientific study; life for the pair sounds good. The story is told from Luna's perspective, with just the right amount of sci-fi detail and sassy humour you would exp...
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Welcome to the Arts: Dance
Name: Sue Wilsher
26 October 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
This beautifully illustrated, large format book is an absolute delight. It explores some of the many ways people dance as well as the joy this form of expression brings. Starting with 'Entrance', a section about set design, lighting and costume design, the book then takes the reader through se...
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The Snow Girl
Name: Sue Wilsher
26 October 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
As her grandfather's health is failing, Tasha and her parents have moved in with him to help on the farm. Tasha loves the farm, but things have changed as grandfather is too weak for the long walks they used to take - and since the events of the previous year, she feels an aching emptiness, to...
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This is NOT a Polar Bear!
Name: Maria faithorn
26 October 2023;Genre: Funny Stories
We LOVE this book! The word 'NOT' immediately tells you this is going to involve audience participation, and lots of expressive storytelling! It's NOT a polar bear (although the wonderful illustrations suggest otherwise!); it is about a bear that can do pretty much anything......
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Nightshade Revenge (Alex Rider)
Name: Sue Wilsher
24 October 2023;Genre: Spy stories
With exams and skateboarding the main things on his mind, Alex Rider hopes he has left the world of MI6 behind him, apart from visits to Freddy Grey, 'Number Nine' of the organisation, Nightshade, whose activities Alex helped put an end to. However, when his best friend, Tom, is kidnapped whil...
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Little, Brown Nut
Name: Lauren Maidman
23 October 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Little Brown Nut is the newest addition to the series, 'Start Small, Think Big', by Mary Auld. This non-fiction book takes on the story of a nut falling from a brazil nut tree and follows the journey it takes, from meeting a wide variety of animals on the forest floor and the...
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Small, Speckled Egg
Name: Lauren Maidman
23 October 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Small, Speckled Egg is the first book in the Start Small, Think Big series, a collection of books which take an object and follow its journey through life. This book follows the life-cycle of the egg and what is inside - an Arctic tern. We then follow the tern...
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Sweet Skies
Name: Erin Quigley
23 October 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Sweet Skies is a very human tale; an evocative, edge-of-your-seat, gritty adventure story, chock-full of innocence and courage, struggle and doubt. It tells the tale of Otto Hartmann, a young German boy utterly enthralled by the American pilots who fly...
