Schools & Libraries Book Reviews

Name: Sue Wilsher
05 October 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This book looks at extreme weather conditions. Big Weather is full of interesting facts, supported by some amazing pictures. The book explains extreme weather conditions in a number of ways - Q and A, diagrams, sections of text, fact files - which makes the subject easy to understand. The book w...

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Name: Helen Langley
27 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

Days after finishing her GCSEs Evie answers the door to find a lawyer asking to speak to her. He tells her she is going to come into an inheritance of 10 million pounds from a woman called Irina Galloway. Eve wants to know who Irina is and why she has been left this money. Her parents obviously k...

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Name: Rachel
27 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

We are told on the inside cover that this series is 'Books for people who love to draw made by people who love to draw'. And this book is exactly that, but so much more. There are drawing activities on every page by well known names such as Alex T Smith, Emily Gravett, Jim Field and Sarah McInty...

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Name: Clare Humphreys
23 September 2015;

Genre: Real life

I wasn't quite sure what to expect when I first picked up the book, but once I started reading, I just couldn't put it down! It starts at Olivia's seventeenth birthday party, her best friend, Nicola subsequently gives birth to a baby girl, Eliza on the bathroom floor, much to the surprise of her...

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Name: Lizi Coombs
20 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This is an animal based, humourous crime book.... how do you categorise that?! Adam Frost has written a series of Fox Investigates , and I've read two of them - this one and A whiff of mystery. I found them both fast-paced, witty and funny whilst also being easy for children to access. The stor...

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Name: Carol Williams
16 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

This novel is all the more fascinating for being based on a true story. Mary Willcox, a poor mixed-race girl in Regency England, experiences dreadful hardship, and is next seen as the mysterious Lady Caraboo, taken in by the wealthy Worrall family. Mrs Worrall is fascinated by anything exotic, an...

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Name: Jennifer Niblett
15 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

The sequel to the fabulous What the Ladybird Heard. Julia Donaldson's story telling is engaging and Lydia Monks's illustration again brings it all to life, with the added sparkle drawing in even the most reluctant of children. We see the return of Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len, who come up with a pla...

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Name: Jennifer Niblett
15 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

From the award-winning illustrator, Levi Pinfold, comes a modern fable about natures power, Greenling. Previous credits include Django and Black Dog. 'Mr and Mrs Barleycorn live a quiet life, alone and quite forgotten by the world. But something is growing on Barleycorn land. Something that Mr Ba...

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Name: Catherine Purcell
15 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

At the heart of this fast paced thriller is a drug, Nostalgex. The ultimate memory hit. Nostalgex, or rather the effects of Nostalgex, appear to be highly addictive; the desire to relive an event, drawing a person back, encouraging them to inhabit a past that has, well, passed. We're introduced...

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Name: Jennifer Hambleton
07 September 2015;

Genre: Adventure

As the title suggests, this is a thrilling train ride of a book which hurtles along a track fuelled with imagination and suspense. The wheels turn slowly at first but as the journey takes off with ever more tantalising twists and turns the suspense builds into a thrilling climax. Petty thief Zen...

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