by admin | May 11, 2022 | Book Reviews
The Book of Secrets tells the story of a 5th class pupil called Cat Donnelly. Cat lives in the small town of Clonbridge, Ireland. The story is set at Hallowe’en and Cat is unhappy because she must bring her younger brother out trick-or-treating. A couple of days...
by admin | May 9, 2022 | Book Reviews
This book is about Shay Given, a famous Irish goalkeeper from Lifford, Donegal. He has five siblings and his mum died when he was only four years old. Shay has very few memories of her. His Dad promised Shay’s mother that he would keep the family together. I think he...
by admin | May 6, 2022 | Book Reviews
My first impression of this book was that it was colourful and interesting. It has an attractive cover, with a picture of a puffling, which looks funny and cute. I went through the book with my two siblings, who are younger than me. They really loved the parts where...
by admin | Apr 25, 2022 | Book Reviews
This story is about a dog called Murphy and his human Mary. He is a very happy dog and everywhere Mary goes he is always by her side. They go on lots of adventures together and always have lots of fun. Murphy was so excited when they went to the beach that he put sand...
by admin | Apr 21, 2022 | Book Reviews
This book tells the story of a sixth class Gaelic football mad boy named Declan Kirby, who found out on his first day of sixth class that the teacher he was looking forward to having for the year has left his school. He quickly finds out that this year, his class will...
by admin | Apr 21, 2022 | Book Reviews
This story is about a little girl (I’d like to know her name) and her uncle David who is going to be married to Simon. When Ireland voted to say that two people of the same gender could marry they were glad as they could finally get married. They also have a dog...
by admin | Apr 4, 2022 | Book Reviews
The children in Junior and Senior Infants in Holy Family N.S., Templetuohy were so excited to hear that we had been chosen to review a book for Seomra Ranga. Two days later, “Croke Park Mice-The Missing Referee” arrived in the post! We excitedly read the book and the...
by admin | Mar 28, 2022 | Book Reviews
Twins Aoife and Aidan Power live in the village of Droichead Beag where the brilliant Twin Power – Throw In is set. As someone who plays Gaelic Football, I was really interested in the story right from the start. Aoife was a brilliant footballer but had stopped...
by admin | Feb 26, 2022 | Book Reviews
This is a book report about “Fun with the Celts and the Vikings” by John Farrelly. It was a very good book with loads of comics and make and do. There was loads of information about the Celts and Vikings in this book. It taught facts about history in a fun way. The...
by admin | Feb 25, 2022 | Book Reviews
A little puffling leaves her burrow and goes on an adventure. When her parents discover that she is gone they go in search of their puffling. During their search, the puffin parents meet a gannet, a rabbit, a chick, a seal and a dolphin who have all seen the puffling...
by admin | Dec 29, 2021 | Book Reviews
Eoin Madden is in secondary school and has played a lot of rugby. He wants to try soccer and starts a soccer club. His friends and his principal don’t really like Eoin playing soccer. The principal wants him to play a rugby match but he badly sprains his leg and can’t...
by admin | Dec 1, 2021 | Book Reviews
This is a beautiful hardback book which would make an ideal stocking filler. The book takes us on a whistle-stop tour of famous locations in Ireland and introduces us to key vocabulary in Irish, which is is fresh and relevant, for example ‘veist ard-amhairc’ (high...
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Book Reviews
This book is in every way perfect, the way the author delved into each character. I mean I felt sorry for the villains at some points like with Victor Hunter and what happened to his family! He had a reason for the things he did; he was a terrible person but he had a...
by admin | Nov 8, 2021 | Book Reviews
“Lily’s Dream: A Lissadell Story” written by Judi Curtin is a brilliant book about a girl named Lily. After Lily’s dad died, her mam was struggling to feed and care for five children. As Lily was old enough, she left school and started working...
by admin | Nov 1, 2021 | Book Reviews
This book is about Clarabelle, Matilda and her brother Valentine going through troubling times (even though the problems are vampire hunters and vampires). It also covers the murder of Clarabelle’s father and how sad and angry Clarabelle got. The idea of...
