Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for October! There are still a few spooky titles in our list from last month, but we were also looking forward to non-fiction November.
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The Boy in the Suit | Book Review
By James Fox (Scholastic, 2024)
Continue reading “The Boy in the Suit | Book Review”I pulled again on Morag’s wrist, so hard I felt my veins popping out of my forehead. Why couldn’t they just let her go? I wished Morag and I had the power to turn invisible. I wanted us to run away and forget all about this stupid funeral.
That’s when the camera flashed. Bright white, right in our faces. “Oh dear,” a man’s voice sneered. It was the newspaper photographer from earlier. “What’s going on here, then?”
Monthly Book Recommendations: September 2024
Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for September! Last month we read some very spooky books, some not-so-spooky books, and some that aren’t really spooky at all. And we enjoyed each and every one of them!
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Not for the Faint of Heart | Young Adult Book Review
By Lex Croucher (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Continue reading “Not for the Faint of Heart | Young Adult Book Review”‘It wasn’t meant to be violent,’ Mariel said reluctantly.
‘What?’
‘The kidnapping,’ Mariel snapped. ‘I may have been overzealous with my instructions. It was just meant to be…fast.’
‘Ah, yes. A nice clean abduction, with proper attention paid to the procedures.’
‘Stop being so dramatic. You’re just on loan.’
‘You shouldn’t kidnap innocent people, Captain,’ Clem said sharply. ‘People might get the wrong idea about you and your merry mates.’
August 2024 Book Recommendations
August has been a busy month, what with travelling (and maybe seeing a few bookshops on the way!), as well as prepping for our next big giveaway. We always find time to fit in a few books here and there though!
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The Worlds We Leave Behind | Book Review
Written by A. F. Harrold and illustrated by Levi Pinfold (pub. Bloomsbury Children’s Books, 2024)
Continue reading “The Worlds We Leave Behind | Book Review”And only now did he really wonder at the oddness of everything.
Only now?
This woman who spoke so strangely.
This cottage in a clearing that couldn’t possibly fit in the woods he knew.
The rain that was drumming on the windows from heavy dark clouds that hadn’t been there twenty minutes earlier.
Oddness held the door open for fear to step in.
‘I think I’d best get going,’ he said.
Summer 2024 Book Recommendations
Hurrah for summer! A time to relax, rejuvenate, and read, read, read. Here we share just some of the many brilliant books we’ve enjoyed this summer so far.
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The Last Life of Lori Mills | Book Review
By Max Boucherat (pub. HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2024)
Continue reading “The Last Life of Lori Mills | Book Review”I am sure, I am certain, I am one million per cent certain: the last time I played, that door wasn’t there. I would have noticed it. ANY player would notice if their bedroom door randomly appeared in Voxminer.
And it IS my bedroom door.
Not RoaryCat11’s bedroom door from her castle in Kittentopia, but a perfect copy of my actual door in actual real life.
All The Things We Carry | Book Review
Written by Helen Docherty and illustrated by Brizida Magro (published Alison Green Books, imprint of Scholastic, 2024)
Continue reading “All The Things We Carry | Book Review”There are things you can carry
that don’t weigh so much…
Some things that we carry
aren’t things you can touch.
Monthly Book Recommendations: June 2024
Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for June! Last month was a busy one with visiting bookshops (you can see where we want and what we bought on our social media), but we still found time to knock out a few fantastic non-fiction books, graphic novels, and picture books. Here’s what we read in June 2024!
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