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Arctic Star
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 June 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen have been friends since their schooldays. Now they are Royal Navy recruits and, as the story starts, are on their first mission at sea during the Second World War. Their ship is part of an Arctic Convoy and they are on their way to Russia to deliver vital su...
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Starboard
Name: Andrew Mullen
31 May 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Starboard tells the story of a young reality TV star, struggling with the fickle nature and pressures of fame, and of one of the most famous ships in British history, the SS Great Britain. Whilst on a school trip to the SS Great Britain, Kirsten feels a connection with the ship and so begins a...
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Starfell - Willow Moss and the Vanished Kingdom
Name: Andrew Mullen
31 May 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Returning to Starfell with Starfell - Willow Moss and the Vanished Kingdom was an absolute joy! Magical children are being allowed to go to 'normal' schools, but Willow Moss is suspicious. With faithful and grumpy companion Oswin by her side (in his hairy green carpetbag), she...
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Twitch
Name: Beverley Somerset
29 May 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Twitch is a loner. Bullied at school, he prefers the company of birds to people, and his main hobby is birdwatching. It's the start of the summer holidays and when Twitch arrives at his hide in the Aves Wood Nature Reserve, he finds that there are police everywhere, all search...
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Harklights
Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 May 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Harklights is a beautifully, classic feeling folklore / fairytale style adventure. In a grim, grey orphanage (surrounded by a forest full of unseen life and tiny magical creatures ) lives mistreated orphan Wick, who seeks an escape from the cruelty of his life. The story is a...
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Rainbow Grey
Name: Jennifer caddick
27 May 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Rainbow Grey is the first book in a delightful, charming series by Amelia Fang author, Laura Ellen Anderson. City in the sky, Celestia, is inhabited by Weatherlings (folk who all possess different kinds of weather magic to help control Earth's weather and protect it from villa...
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Name: Susan Wilsher
27 May 2021;Genre: Myths & Legends
Simi is sent to stay with her grandmother in a remote Nigerian village. The thought of staying with someone she doesn't know in the middle of nowhere with no TV, no internet and no phone access fills Simi with horror, particularly as Simi's mother and grandmother are estranged. When she arrive...
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Twitch
Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Twitch is in Year 7, and he definitely prefers the company of birds to his peers. He has three pet chickens, a swallow's nest in his bedroom and is an avid bird watcher. He intends spending his summer holiday training his pigeons and watching birds in Aves Wood. But then a convict escapes from...
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Truly Tyler
Name: Sam Phillips
27 May 2021;Genre: Friendship
Truly Tyler by Terri Libenson is the fifth book in this popular series, and the first one from a boy's view point. This is the first book I have read from the Emmie and Friends series, and I most definitely enjoyed it. Even though it is part of a series, it reads absolutely fi...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2021;Genre: Adventure
Myles and Beckett are the younger twin brothers of the more famous Artemis Fowl. In The Fowl Twins - Deny All Charges, the second of their adventures, having stolen a jet plane and then destroyed it (obviously not intentionally), the brothers are put under house a...
