Dino Wars – The Trials of Terror
Dan Metcalf’s second book in the Dino Wars series is a fast-paced thriller with jumps and scares at every turn of the page.
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Pages & Co: Tilly and the Bookwanderers
Read more: Pages & Co: Tilly and the BookwanderersEveryone has their favourite book, correct? The one that pulls you into the story, the one whose characters you think about long after the final pages have been read. Now imagine. Just imagine for a minute if you could literally wander into their world? Welcome to Tilly and the Bookwanderers, made for book lovers everywhere! Now, before…
The Great Sea Dragon Discovery
Read more: The Great Sea Dragon DiscoveryA heartfelt storyline, intriguing adventure and chock-a-block full of atmosphere.
The Pony With No Name
Read more: The Pony With No NameAs an eight-year-old, I was always on the lookout for the perfect pony book. I had to wait a good few years, but I might finally have found it!
I Swapped My Brother On The Internet
Read more: I Swapped My Brother On The InternetWith a title like this, how could this not be an instant hit? Two siblings I know jumped at the chance to read it and I had to literally wrestle it off them in order to write this review. Jo Simmon’s premise is simple, but genius. A younger boy, fed up of being tormented by…
A Chase In Time
Read more: A Chase In TimeA Chase in Time is the first book in a new time-travelling adventure series from Sally Nicholls. Alex Pilgrim and his sister Ruby spend two weeks every summer at their Aunt Joanna’s B&B, the very grand Applecott House. But this is their last summer: Joanna is struggling financially and has to move out, much to…
The Elsewhere Emporium
Read more: The Elsewhere EmporiumStepping inside the glossy cover of Ross Mackenzie’s The Elsewhere Emporium, the reader is immediately taken back to the original Emporium, this time through the eyes of the Man with the Crimson Scarf. Together with fellow members of the Bureau of Magical Investigations they search for their missing colleagues amid stories of their demise by the…
We Travel So Far
Read more: We Travel So FarWe Travel So Far: exploring the wonders of our wandering wildlife. This beautiful, hardback book (Laura Knowles & Chris Madden) takes readers on a journey around our Earth as companions of some of the creatures that spend their lives migrating. We travel first through water – crisscrossing the oceans with whales and lobsters and swimming…
Flight
Read more: FlightFlight is the engrossing debut novel from Vanessa Harbour – it’s an action packed, edge of your seat drama involving the dramatic rescue of the precious Lipizzaner stallion horses against the back drop of World War 2. “If Jakob sneezed he could die.” How’s that for an opening sentence?! It’s 1945, and Jakob is hiding…
Wilderness Wars
Read more: Wilderness WarsWilderness Wars is Barbara Henderson‘s third novel and is a contemporary eco story compared to her previous historical fiction novels – the excellent Fir for Luck and Punch. 12 year-old Em is about move home. Not to another part of the city she grew up in, no, somewhere she never thought she’d ever end up.…
Candy
Read more: CandyA tasty detective story with a deliciously sweet ending Candy, by Lavie Tidhar, is a tasty detective story with a deliciously sweet ending. A modern twist on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 12 year old private detective Nelle Faulkner has a visit from one of the kids running the candy racket in a city where…
EATS
Read more: EATSWhat does a chimpanzee, a spooky mansion and ‘Darkest Devil’ mushrooms have in common? E.A.T.S 11 year-old Lucas and Tucker are the best of friends. They live in Brocken House, a home for orphans. Lucas loves to cook and constantly creates mouth watering dishes for everyone at the home. Tucker likes to help him in…
The Secret of Nightingale Wood
Read more: The Secret of Nightingale WoodThe Secret of Nightingale Wood is an incredibly moving, beautifully written and sumptuously layered book by Lucy Strange. With an inter-woven prose of fairy tales, magic and mental health, the story is about a young girl called Henrietta who is – along with her mother, father and little baby sister – grieving for the loss…
Bee Boy: Attack of the Zombees
Read more: Bee Boy: Attack of the ZombeesAttack of the Zombees is such a fun nature-based, comic book/chapter book mash-up! Book two in Tony De Saulles Bee Boy series sees Melvin Meadly (aka a boy with weird special powers that enable him to turn into a bee and become Bee Boy!) investigate a batch of sinister honey making school children sick. Behind the…
Jelly
Read more: JellyI finished Jelly (Jo Cotterill) in one sitting. I wept and laughed and was 11 once more as I followed Jelly on her journey. And she got her period and it’s all in there and not whispered about like it’s some kind of disease. Thank you, from 11 year-olds around the world. Being 11 is tough.…
Ooh, this sounds fantastic!