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Bugs (A Day in the Life): What Do Bees, Ants, and Dragonflies Get up to All Day?
Name: Lizi Backhouse
02 May 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
This is a beautifully illustrated, non-fiction book from Neon Squid, who are dedicated to publishing information books that make a wide range of topics accessible and intriguing to young readers by using a style that's similar to story telling combined with the usual features of a non-fiction...
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Granny Came Here on the Windrush Empire
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
02 May 2022;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Granny Came Here on the Windrush Empire is such a wonderful starting point for further discussion about the challenges and achievements of the Windrush generation and the importance of the Black Lives Matter movement. It highlights several Black women who have helped shaped so...
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The Ship of Doom
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 May 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
When Luna is forced to attend a meeting in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, she expects an evening of boredom. But it turns out to be full of surprises. The Butterfly Club is a society with a secret - they travel in time to 'borrow' technology from the future. With two travell...
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The Ice Bear Miracle
Name: Shrasta Age 9
02 May 2022;Genre: Adventure
This is a really cool book to read, I like this a lot
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Has Anyone Seen Archie Ebbs?
Name: Nathan Cox
02 May 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
Has Anyone Seen Archie Ebbs? by Simon Packham is a captivating story with a highly important and emotive theme portrayed by relatable characters and settings. This story excellently highlights the feelings and emotions people, in particular children, face surrounding eviction,...
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Rumaysa: A Fairytale
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 May 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
At first glance this is another version of the familiar fairy tales, but this is cleverer than that. Taking the fairy tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, this book turns them on their heads and links them together as one story, featuring Rumaysa, the girl locked in a tower....
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The Insiders
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Callie, Ted, Zara and Nico are best friends. Callie and Ted, in particular, are very close. They've been friends since nursery school and Callie once called Ted her "nearly brother". Then Billy Feldon, the class clown, plays a joke on Ted and he's embarrassed in front of the whole school. Now...
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Around the World in 80 Trees
Name: Jane Rew
01 May 2022;Genre: Non Fiction
Around the World in 80 Trees is a handsome hardback book that helpfully begins with a Contents page and ends with an Index. The former enables readers to navigate what otherwise might seem a slightly haphazard arrangement of geographically grouped species descriptions, intersp...
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The Wondrous Prune
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 May 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Prune Robinson is struggling with lots of conflicting emotions when she moves to a new town with her mum and big brother Jesse. Contending with bullying at a new school makes her miserable. Fear that her brother is getting into trouble makes her angry. Missing her old school makes her sad. The...
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Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush
Name: Sharon Porter
01 May 2022;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
'We have been studying why people migrate in our topic work and our teacher read us Granny Came Here on The Empire Windrush. It was so interesting to hear about Granny's trunk and its contents; such a clever way to bring other characters into the story. My favourite character...
