Title: D-Day Dog Author: Tom Palmer This book is about a boy called Jack and his trusty dog called Finn. Jack’s dad is an army reserve soldier and Jack is interested in everything about war but he has a problem; his dad might be going to fight in Afghanistan! At the beginning of the story, he can’t wait to go on his school trip to Normandy with his new Syrian friend, Kasandra. At school, they have to prepare for the trip by research...
Title: Action Stan Author: Elaine Wickson Stan loves charts and astronomy and when he is told that he can go on a school trip to a forest during school time where he can do both, Stan decides he wants to go but there are a few problems… The main one being that he has to go with his brother, Fred. Fred is obsessed with creatures, especially snails. He even finds one on the trip and calls it … Angus. Fred loves Angus… until he loses...
Title: D-Day Dog Author: Tom Palmer As many of you will know, Tom Palmer is one of our favourite authors! We attended a book signing at IWM during half term where not only did Tom let us read the draft of his new Roy of the Rovers book, he also signed four of our books AND he bought us a bag of Malteasers. Thank you Tom! Some other authors only let you have a single Malteaser... Not mentioning any names... David... 🙂 We are currently...
Title: Roy of the Rovers - play-offs Series: Roy of the Rovers Author: Tom Palmer This book is the 5th book in the series. Melchester Rovers are in the play-offs and the club is worried that if they lose in the play-offs, Melchester Rovers are going to be shut down FOREVER! Roy is very worried as his football career might end very humiliatingly to Kingsbay (they had already lost to them three times previously!). Could this be the end? T...
Title: Roy of the Rovers - Teamwork Series: Roy of the Rovers Author: Tom Palmer This book is the 2nd book out of 3 in the Roy of the Rovers series. Read book 1 before this one otherwise it won’t make as much sense. Roy was gutted as he has just lost 2-1 to his rival team, Tynecaster. Hugo, the best player in the world, scored a goal in the last 5 seconds! This was made even worse as Roy had just scored his rocket goal and had nearly ...
Title: Alex Rider - Secret Weapon Series: Alex Rider Author: Anthony Horowitz In this amazing book, there are 7 amazing short stories which are written to show occurrences that took place before or between the other books in the amazing Alex Rider series. These short stories were always full of danger and always kept me on the edge of my seat. I couldn’t put the book down until I had finished all the stories. So that I don’t ruin th...
Title: Our Castle by the Sea Author: Lucy Strange This book is based on a girl called Petra and her family during WW2. Petra doesn’t live a normal life; she is half German and lives in a lighthouse on the coast of Kent. One day in 1939, something tragic happens; her Mum, Mutti, has to go to court where they will decide if she has to go to an internment camp. She had supposedly done something “wrong” very wrong. In fact, she hadn�...
Title: Against all Gods Author: Maz Evans I’ve been waiting AGES for this book to be published so I was so happy when I got a copy! This is the final book in the series. Elliot has a decision to make; get his mum back but lose the Chaos Stones or vice versa. Elliot must then beat Thantos in a war and lock up all his demons. He also needs to get Home Farm back from Mrs Porshley-Plum (AKA Mrs Horse Bum). If Elliot gives Thantos the Chao...
Title: Return to Groosham Grange Author: Anthony Horowitz Do not read this book if you haven’t read book 1 as it will spoil it for you! This book is about a boy called Vincent who works for a secret organisation who plans to shut down Groosham Grange. The way Vincent must shut it down is to get the Unholy Grail. This means beating David, another boy determined to win the Unholy Grail, in a series of challenges and exams. Vincent must ...
Today we went to Michelle Harrison’s book signing at our local Waterstones. We are really looking forward to reading “A Pinch of Magic”. While we were there we also got to meet Jennifer Killick who introduced us to her books too. They sound like a fun read! Thank you for a great afternoon!...










