The Ghost Child by Emma Tennant (Mammoth, £2.99)

THIS story is about a girl called Melly who is in her last year at junior school.

During her summer holiday in the country she met a boy who turned out not to be real at all, but the ghost of her grandad's younger brother.

The book was a bit too short for me but would suit younger children. The pictures depicted the story well.

Daniel Sully, aged 11, Bearwood High Summer Literacy Project Incredible Everything by Stephen Biesty (Dorling Kindersley, £12.99)

THIS book explains in great detail how things are made.

It is an excellent book for young and old alike, covering the most amazing topics, including the manufacture of aluminium foil, bricks, newspapers, photocopiers, even railway tunnels.

Incredible Everything is easy to understand and to follow with many diagrams and illustrations to help the reader.

I especially like the topic on Saturn V, the world's most powerful rocket. The diagram covers several pages and is organised so that you can see the interior and exterior at the same time. Not only that, but it explains in full detail how it was built and the materials used.

Throughout the book there is a cartoon character called Chester the Tester, who makes jokes about what is being made - he helped to keep my interest.

Mariam Hajat, Audley Junior School, Blackburn

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