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Book Review – How to be a Hero
Title: How to be a Hero Author: Cat Weldon Published: 21st January 2021 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Genre: Middle grade, adventure, Norse mythology Rating: 3/5 stars A viking thief desperate to be a hero. A trainee valkyrie on a mission to prove herself. An ungodly case of mistaken identity. When trainee valkyrie Lotta mistakes an unconscious viking thief, Whetstone, for a fallen hero and takes him triumphantly to Valhalla, things are definitely not turning out to be epic or glorious. Having lost a precious talking cup, Whetstone is also desperate to cover up his mistake and the two embark on a quarrelsome journey to find it and regain their heroic status.…
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Book Review- Amari and the Night Brothers
Title: Amari and the Night BrothersAuthor: B.B. AlstonPublished: 21st JanuaryPublisher: Egmont UKGenre: Middle-grade, Magic, Sci-fiTWs: Bullying, racism, Rating: 5/5 stars Quinton Peters was the golden boy of the Rosewood low-income housing projects, receiving full scholarship offers to two different Ivy League schools. When he mysteriously goes missing, his little sister, 13-year-old Amari Peters, can’t understand why it’s not a bigger deal. Why isn’t his story all over the news? And why do the police automatically assume he was into something illegal? Then Amari discovers a ticking briefcase in her brother’s old closet. A briefcase meant for her eyes only. There was far more to Quinton, it seems, than she ever…
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Favourite 2020 Middle Grade Reads
Hello, welcome to another 2020 wrap up post! In this post I’m going to tell you about my favourite middle grade reads of 2020. This was a really tough list to compile as I read so many amazing middle grade novels in 2020!! Here we go! Orphans of the Tide by Strain Murray Starting off my list, this is a new favourite book for sure! Set in a city that is slowly being swallowed by the sea, a boy arrives out the body of a whale, bringing magic and adventure with him! The main character is an inventor, and I loved every page! Buy from Waterstones here A Kind of…
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Book Review | The Shamer’s Daughter
Title: The Shamer’s Daughter Author: Lene Kaaberbol Publisher: Pushkin Children’s Published: July 2019 Genre: Children’s, Fantasy, Series: The Shamer Chronicles #1 Rating: 2.5/5 stars Dina has unwillingly inherited her mother’s gift: the ability to elicit shamed confessions simply by looking into someone’s eyes. To Dina, however, these powers are not a gift but a curse. Surrounded by fear and hostility, she longs for simple friendship. But when her mother is called to Dunark Castle to uncover the truth about a bloody triple murder, Dina must come to terms with her power–or let her mother fall prey to the vicious and revolting dragons of Dunark. -Goodreads I received a copy of…
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Book Review- The Monster In The Lake
Title: The Monster In The Lake Author: Louie Stowell Illustrator: Davide Ortu Published: 9th January 2020 Publisher: Nosy Crow Series: Kit the Wizard #2 Genre: 5-8 fiction, magic Rating: 4/5 stars Kit is a wizard. The youngest wizard in the world, in fact. But her magic keeps going wrong, and all kinds of weird stuff has started happening – exploding fireballs, animals talking when they shouldn’t be, and a very strange new arrival in a nearby park. So Kit and her two best friends – along with their local librarian – set off to investigate, and to save the world… again. Brilliantly illustrated throughout by Davide Ortu, The Monster in…