Frances Lincoln ISBN 9781786038104 £17.99 There is a great emphasis on learning words as part of the curriculum, and particularly in extending vocabulary, so that there is not a constant use of terms such as ‘lovely’. The publication of the book “The Lost Words” by Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris highlighted the way that we…
Firefly Press ISBN 9781912102029 £6.99 Author Catherine O’Flynn, winner of the Costa First Novel Award for “What was Lost”, has bought us her first children’s book with “Lori and Max”. An entertaining, witty novel which introduces us to school girls Lori – a budding detective, and Max – a troubled newcomer with a complicated but…
Wren and Rook ISBN 9781526362414 £6.99 As we hear more and more news of environmental damage and the peril our planet is in and faces in the future, this engaging book is a very timely. Isabel Thomas is a science writer and children’s author who has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Young People’s Book…
Stripes Publishing ISBN: 9781788951586 £6.99 This is a new title in the excellent Traiblazers series. Albert Einstein is, indeed, “the greatest mind in physics”. The book opens with interesting background detail and information about Galileo, Isaac Newton, relativity and The Moment of Truth. Then we follow Albert’s life from his childhood through to his great…
Piccadilly Press ISBN 9781848128538 £6.99 Cloudburst is the first in a planned series of books by Wilbur Smith using the same family of characters as in some of his adult books. The young star of the story, Jack Courtney, is taken to the Democratic Republic of Congo by his parents, as they are attending an…
Piccadilly Press ISBN 9781848129153 £6.99 Based on Filipino folklore, this is a powerful and challenging book for experienced readers. The author has previously won the Newbery Medal and certainly the quality of her writing shines through in this gripping tale. It is set on the fictional island of Sanalgita where life is treacherous, the future…
Chicken House Books ISBN 9781912626106 £6.99 This is a fantasy story set in a real place – Venice. You won’t learn very much about Venice, other than gondolas and canals; but you will read a cracking good story that gallops along, almost leaving you breathless. Aribella is just turned thirteen, daughter of a penniless lace-maker,…
Piccadilly Press ISBN 9781848128477 £6.99 Alex and Dinu are off on their time travels again – to Athens in 415BC in search of Socrates. This time they reluctantly take Dinu’s little sister, Crina, with them. All in aid of making sure the details in a new computer game are accurate. Needless to say, all kinds…
Orion ISBN978151007564 £7.99 Fly has never known a life other than the orphanage and being a chimney sweep’s assistant, but one day she decides to escape by climbing down a chimney. Unfortunately what she discovers seems even worse than her previous life, because she ends up in a room with a rather large tiger. From…
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