Book Review: The Little Black Sheep

Book Review: The Little Black Sheep

I reviewed “The Little Black Sheep” by Elizabeth Shaw. I enjoyed reading it very much. It would appeal to children in First and Second class. It might be a bit easy for older children – it didn’t take me long to read it. It was an interesting story and the...
Book Review: Time After Time

Book Review: Time After Time

Summary This book is about Molly and Beth, two 12 year old girls who are best friends. They go through a doorway and accidentally travel back in time to July 1984! Beth decides that she has to go and meet her mum who died when Beth was a baby. Together Molly and Beth...
Book Review: The Clubhouse Mystery

Book Review: The Clubhouse Mystery

This fun adventure by Erika McGann was reviewed by our Third Class pupils. The story is about a girl called Cass and her friends, Nick and Lex. To escape her annoying younger twins, Cass sets up a club and they build a fort. The story is told through the eyes of Cass...
Book Review: The Making of Mollie

Book Review: The Making of Mollie

This book was about a girl called Mollie and her friend Nora. Mollie has an ordinary life until she discovers that her sister, Phyllis, is a suffragette. Mollie’s world changes in ways she couldn’t have imagined as she discovers the lengths that women have to go to...
Book Review: Your Precious Life

Book Review: Your Precious Life

Having previously heard Shane Martin speak at an event, and having been really impressed with his presentation style as well as the message he was delivering, I was really interested when I found out that he was publishing a new book. Having started off his...
Book Review: Run For The Hills

Book Review: Run For The Hills

The Story The book is set in Glensinna, a place inhabited by red foxes only. They have all heard about the legend of Sionnach the Great White fox which is said to have looked after the land in times of great danger and lived in the Valley of Gleann an tSionnaigh (the...