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Book Review: Mim and the Vicious Vendetta by Katrina Nannestad
Book Five in the Travelling Bookshop series This post contains affiliate links as I’m apart of the Amazon Affiliate program. If you make a purchase with this link, I receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Mim and the Vicious Vendetta by Katrina Nannestad ISBN 9780733343117 Published 6 March 2024 Genre Children’s…
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Book Review: Olivia Cole and the Legend of the Silver Seed by Ricky Melamed
A Middle Grade High Fantasy This post contains affiliate links as I’m apart of the Amazon Affiliate program. If you make a purchase with this link, I receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Olivia Cole and the Legend of the Silver Seed by Ricky Melamed Genre Middle Grade Fantasy Pages 280…
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Lightfall: Shadow of the Bird Book Review
Shadow of the Bird is the second book of the Lightfall series by Tim Probert. Thank you to Harper Collins Australia for the review copy. BLURB After a battle that nearly cost them their lives, Bea and Cad awaken in the hidden settlement of the Arsai, mysterious creatures who can glimpse into the future. The…
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Mim and the Anxious Artist Book Review
Mim and the Anxious Artist is the third book in the Travelling Bookshop series by Katrina Nannestad. I would like to thank Harper Collins Australia for the review copy. BLURB Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will,…
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Ming & Marie Spy for Freedom Book Review
Ming and Marie Spy for Freedom is the second book in the Girls who changed the World Series by Jackie French. Thank you to Harper Collins for the review copy. BLURB Ming Qong is convinced that girls have changed the world throughout history. So when Ming is thrust back in time to Belgium during WWI,…
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Gus and the Starlight Book Review
Gus and the Starlight is written by Victoria Carless. I would like to thank Harper Collins for a review copy. BLURB Gus doesn’t want to make friends. She also doesn’t want to be intrigued by the cat-lady teacher at her new school, or the Riley’s Comet project that she and her seaweed-eating science partner are…
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The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Baffling Bully Book Review
The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Baffling Bully is the first book in the Travelling Bookshop series by Katrina Nannestead. BLURB The right book might just change your life … Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will,…
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The Book of Stolen Dreams Book Review
The Book of Stolen Dreams is the debut novel by David Farr. BLURB Rachel and Robert live a grey, dreary life under the rule of cruel Charles Malstain. But when their librarian father enlists their help to steal a forbidden book, they are plunged into adventure. With their father captured, it is up to Rachel…
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The World Between Blinks: Rebellion of the Lost Book Review
The World Between Blinks: Rebellion of the Lost is the second book in the World Between Blinks series by Amie Kaufman and Ryan Graudin. BLURB After Jake and Marisol’s last adventure in the World Between Blinks, the cousins are safely back where they belong. Until, suddenly, they’re not. When they return unexpectedly to the World…
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The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Woeful Wedding Book Review
The Travelling Bookshop: Mim and the Woeful Wedding is written by Katrina Nannestad. BLURB The right book might just change your life … Mim Cohen roams the world in a travelling bookshop, with her dad and brother and a horse called Flossy. Flossy leads them where she will, to the place where they’re needed most…
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Ming & Flo: Fight for the Future Book Review
Ming & Flo Fight for the Future is written by Jackie French. BLURB Twelve-year-old Ming Qong is convinced that girls must have changed the world, even if they are rarely mentioned in history books. So when Ming gets the chance to go back in time, she imagines herself changing destinies from a glittering palace or an explorer’s…
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The Chime Seekers Book Review
The Chime Seekers is by Ross Montgomery, published by Walker Books Australia. BLURB Step into a world of faerie tricks and hidden danger… When an evil faerie steals Yanni’s baby sister and swaps her for a Changeling, Yanni is swept into a dangerous race against time to get her back. For faeries delight in tricks…
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The Warrior in my Wardrobe Book Review
The Warrior in my Wardrobe is by Simon Farnaby. It is another hilarious time-travelling adventure. BLURB Join Rose, Merdyn the wizard and Bubbles the guinea pig in another hilarious time-travelling adventure. Rose must save her kidnapped brother from a Dark Ages Warrior! Merdyn is the greatest wizard of the Dark Ages. Obviously. Rose is his 21st-century…
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Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows book review
Wednesday Weeks and the Tower of Shadows is the first book in a new series by Denis Knight and Cristy Burne. BLURB In a world of magic, can science save the day? Wednesday Weeks never wanted to be a sorcerer’s apprentice. She’d rather study science than magic. But when her cloak-wearing, staff-wielding grandpa is captured…
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The Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife Book Review
The Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife is by Maz Evans and illustrated by Chris Jevons. BLURB Scarlett Fife has BIG FEELINGS. And when she has BIG FEELINGS, they explode out of her like an over-squeezed stress ball. Scarlett’s in big trouble after a BIG FEELINGS episode leads to a runaway hamster getting into the vicar’s…
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The Wizard in My Shed Book Review
The Wizard in My Shed: Misadventures of Merdyn the Wild is written by Simon Farnaby and illustrated by Claire Powell. I would like to thank Hachette Australia for the review copy. BLURB Merdyn the Wild is from the Dark Ages. He’s the world’s greatest Warlock (don’t call him a wizard), banished to the 21st century…