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  • The Poisoned King (Impossible Creatures)

    Impossible Creatures: The Poisoned King

    Name: Linda Brown
    10 October 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by Jacques, a miniature dragon, chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago - the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live . . . In this wonderful, magical sequel...

  • Last Gamer Standing

    Last Gamer Standing

    Name: Logan Age 12
    10 October 2025;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Last Gamer Standing is so good, so kid friendly and a great story overall showing how people can be so sexist at times - but people will always come through. This book is so awesome, 5 stars = I would rate it higher If I could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Sin Bin Island - an unmissable adventure from the Red Dwarf co-creator

    Sin Bin Island

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    06 October 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    When Jack Winston Claremont Digby - Digs to his friends - finds himself with the family solicitor after the death of his mum, stepfather and sister, he has no idea how strange things are about to become. He has been left a set of Russian nesting dolls and discovers that, instead of being taken...

  • Marv and the Funfair Fright

    Marv and the Funfair Fright

    Name: Elen Green
    06 October 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Always a joy to discover another of Marv's adventures, Marv and the Funfair Fright brings a fun Halloween twist to the series, and brings some genuine peril to these gentle adventures! Marv is a superhero powered by imagination and kindness - what a brilliant me...

  • Murder at Christmas

    Murder at Christmas

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    03 October 2025;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    Grace is delighted when she arrives in Bath to spend Christmas with her mum and younger brother, Billy. Although her dad won't be with them, they will be staying at the hotel owned by their mum's twin sister, Aunt Mollie. But when a body is found on the stairs and their mum disappears, Grace a...

  • This Is Not A Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets

    This Is Not A Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets

    Name: Emma Nelson
    03 October 2025;

    Genre: Poetry

    This Is Not a Small Voice is an anthology that perfectly works in a classroom as well as in homes. Compiled by the award-winning writer and editor Traci N. Todd, this stunning collection introduces children to a wide array of powerful voices in Black poetry. E...

  • The Takeover: Volume 2  (Ministry of Mischief)

    The Takeover: Volume 2 (Ministry of Mischief)

    Name: Margaret Pemberton
    02 October 2025;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    This is the second in the wonderfully funny and anarchic Ministry of Mischief series featuring Joey and Harry, but importantly, it is about their relationship with the group of Imps from Impworld, who we met in the previous book....

  • Huxley and Flapjack: Wild West Escape

    Huxley and Flapjack: Wild West Escape

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    02 October 2025;

    Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels

    Huxley, the impulsive koala, and Flapjack, the timid penguin, are back in a new adventure, Huxley and Flapjack: Wild West Escape!  Spotting an advert in the paper, Huxley decides that becoming a cowhand is the perfect way to earn some money. Not deterred when Flapjack p...

  • The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good

    The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    02 October 2025;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Fran is not looking forward to spending a week with her aunt and uncle, largely because of her rude and unfriendly cousin, Imogen. However, when she arrives, Fran finds that Imogen is missing . . . and no one seems to remember that she ever existed. Puzzled and frightened, Fran is determined t...

  • The Girl Who Raced the World: a page-turning retelling of the beloved classic Around the World in Eighty Days

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    01 October 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    When her mother dies, Maggie is left with nothing but a letter for a stranger named Jean Passepartout. Faced with life in an orphanage, she seeks him out and finds herself caught up in the adventure of a lifetime. Passepartout is valet to Mr Phileas Fogg, who has just entered into a wager to p...