Rating: 2/5 It’s midway through the English Industrial Revolution and the railway is being built. Motherless Jem Penfold has never seen anything so exciting. But
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Rating: 2/5 This book was simply ‘ok’. When there were any exciting or gripping parts, it was all over within a page or two. And

Rating: 3/5 Nujood Ali was hastily married off at age around nine (she had no birth certificate and her parents had little idea of what

Rating: 3/5 Tolly is enjoying his happy life with his oldest relative, Mrs Oldknow, in her old house Green Knowe, but is feeling a little

Rating: 4/5 Prince Edward VI and pauper-boy Tom Canty swap clothes for a bit of fun. But when the Prince marches outside in Tom’s rags

Rating: 2/5 Hugo’s father, a clock-maker, died in a tragic father. Hugo was then looked after by his uncle, a nasty inebriate who fixed the

Rating: 1/5 Sam Gribley wants to have a go at running away, like many boys of his age. His father, laughing, says “Yes,” and expects

Rating: 3/5 Bruno has been told that Jews are hateful, disgusting, plotting, despicable vermin, scum beyond all measure. But when he meets one trapped in

Rating: 3/5 It’s 1899 and Calpurnia Virginia Tate, nicknamed Callie Vee, forms a passion in nature and the study of it. Her grandfather, Captain Walter

Rating: 2/5 The Tuck family have eternal life. They drank from a magical spring in a forest which nobody knows about – not even the