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  • School of Doom

    School of Doom - Be the Worst

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    17 March 2025;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Eddie doesn't feel she belongs in her school. Eating wheelie bins can make you stand out. So she gets sent to a school in another realm, where everyone is a monster of some sort and the motto is 'Be the worst'. Finally, Eddie can make friends, except the very existence of the school is in jeop...

  • Adventuremice: Mice, Camera, Action!

    Adventuremice: Mice, Camera, Action!

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    12 March 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Mice, Camera, Action is the fantastic new book in the AdventureMice Series. This sixth book will excite all early chapter book readers as, like the previous five, every page is packed with adventure, colour and cheeky characters. Reader...

  • Bad Panda: For Sale

    Bad Panda: For Sale

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    12 March 2025;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Award-winning author Swapna Haddow has done it again. This is another incredible story which has you hooked from the very first chapter. The lovable characters that we have grown to love return in this beautifully illustrated early chapter book. Bad Panda: For Sale has...

  • Call the Puffins: Tiny and the Cave Ghost: Book 4

    Call the Puffins! Tiny and the Cave Ghost

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    12 March 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Muffin, Tiny and the rest of the trainee rescue puffins on the Island of Egg are all taking part in a special festival called Puffin Power. Tiny's team has gained a new member, a little yellow chick called Flotsam, who has appeared and is determined to join in the fun. However...

  • Rebel Heart

    Rebel Heart

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    12 March 2025;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...

  • Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII? A thrilling race-against-time adventure

    Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII?

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    12 March 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an amazing discovery - a radio which allows them to communicate with another group of three children who live in the very same place, only 80 year...

  • After

    After

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    11 March 2025;

    Genre: Dystopian

    Jen and Father are in a world that is almost empty of people. This is the time after 'The Flood', when people and machines were mostly destroyed. They come across a small, friendly community and Jen finds she wants to stay. But Father is not what he seems; he is a human appearing AI and people...

  • Moving to Mars

    Moving to Mars - Building a Colony on the Red Planet

    Name: Jenny CADDICK
    10 March 2025;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Moving to Mars is an incredibly detailed and scientifically visionary book created by the collaboration between amazing graphic designers and scientists who are enthusiastically committed to passing on their incredible technological, space-race knowledge and their exciting, fo...

  • Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

    Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

    Name: Jane Rew
    10 March 2025;

    Genre: Poetry

    Some of the poems in AF Harrold's Pocket Book of Pocket Poems have been published elsewhere, as detailed in the final pages, which also contain a helpful alphabetical list of the poems. Adult readers of the small print will note that none of this material may be used for the '...

  • Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

    Pocket Book of Pocket Poems

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    07 March 2025;

    Genre: Poetry

    Having received one of A F Harrold's postcard poems, I know that children love his short poems! Indeed, despite the fact that we enjoyed plenty of poetry in class, many were fascinated by the idea that something so short was a poem as well as being charmed by the novelty of getting something h...