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The Phantom Tollbooth
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The Phantom Tollbooth

June 7, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 2/5 Are you bored stiff? Do you always feel like what you are doing is boring, and when you get to do what you

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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth

June 3, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 4/5 Upon discovering an oddly secret note in a book by an Icelandic alchemist called Arne Saknussemm, Axel Lidenbrock is dragged into the centre

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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe
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The Ghost of Thomas Kempe

May 17, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 5/5 Though a very easy read, I found this book very witty, with a fantasy yet sensible plot and characters that seem to jump

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Madame Doubtfire
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Madame Doubtfire

May 8, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 3/5 Natalie, Lydia, and Christopher Hilliard are torn apart from happy, family life by their parents’ divorce. Miranda and Daniel have a habit of

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The Classics: The Wanderings of Odysseus
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The Classics: The Wanderings of Odysseus

May 8, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 3/5 This story tells of the route the famous Odysseus took on his way back from the newly conquered city of Troy. He sailed

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The Iliad
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The Iliad

April 17, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 3/5 When the baby Achilles was born, his mother, the sea-goddess Thetis, held him by the heel and dipped him in the River Styx,

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Going Solo (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #2)
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Going Solo (Roald Dahl’s Autobiography, #2)

April 17, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 5/5 **RE-READ AGAIN**2020 REVIEW** This book remains one of my favourite books of all time and always will. Roald Dahl is an exceptional writer,

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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl's Autobiography, #1)
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Boy: Tales of Childhood (Roald Dahl’s Autobiography, #1)

March 21, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 4/5 This book was all about Roald Dahl’s adventures as a boy; from his primary school and his school holidays to his private academy

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The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart, #3)
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The Tiger in the Well (Sally Lockhart, #3)

March 21, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 2/5 The first book in this series was very good – the second was absolutely un-put-down-able. But this one was just so meh… it

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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
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Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

March 14, 2018January 23, 2021 admin

Rating: 2/5 Mrs Frisby’s youngest son Timothy is ill with pneumonia and it’s serious. Mr Ages, the doctor, says that he must not get out

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