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  • Rashford Rules

    Name: Kyle Matravers
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

    Football Superstars is a new series of biographies about the superstars from the world of football. Created by the duo of Simon Mugford and Dan Green, these texts are the perfect addition to any young football fan's library.Despite being over 100 pages in length, the texts are easi...

  • Hope Jones Will Not Eat Meat

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Environment

    A fun, fresh and very relevant new illustrated fiction book for young readers that contains big issues. Hope Jones is a 10 year old girl - part of a young generation determined to use their voices to change the world. In this second of the Hope Jones books, Hope is turning vegetarian an...

  • The Wizard in the Wood

    Name: Hayley Summerfield
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Louie Stowell is back with yet another fantastic sequel, The Wizard in the Woods. This epic story of wizarding mystery is a marvellous addition to her previous stories in this collection. It is full of thrilling adventure, dramatic twists, library's, dragons, and evil magic. From the onset you...

  • The Boy Who Sang with Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 5)

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    This is the fifth and final book in this delightful, charming series that simply bursts with joyful, colourful adventure. Since discovering the dragon-fruit tree in his Grandad's garden really DID grow dragons, Tomas and his superhero squad friends have had their very own magical, wondrous win...

  • Darwin's Dragons

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    04 January 2021;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Syms Covington was taken on to the Beagle as cabin boy and fiddler, but has spent the past two years acting as assistant to Mr Darwin, a young scientist, as he explores the Galapagos Islands. However, an accident during a storm leaves him shipwrecked and alone in an inhospitable place, struggl...

  • When We Got Lost in Dreamland

    When We Got Lost In Dreamland

    Name: Ishaq Age 11
    03 January 2021;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    The book had loads of really good cliff hangers and when I read the synopsis, I wanted to know more. I would really recommend this book as it taught me lots of vocabulary and was an excellent read. I would read this again and rate it a 5/5 as it was so good. 

  • When We Got Lost in Dreamland

    When We Got Lost in Dreamland

    Name: Rory Age 11
    02 January 2021;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    When We Got Lost in Dreamland is about a boy who can control his dreams.  Malcolm and his little brother find a way to share dreams and control them. But things go very wrong. It has adventure around every corner. It is really exciting and there is a plot twist at the e...

  • Space Detectives

    Name: Hayley Summerfield
    02 January 2021;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Space Detectives is the new and thrilling book by Mark Powers, with phenomenal illustrations by Dapo Adeola. This exciting detective story is jam-packed with aliens, crazy inventions, and a villain intent on destroying the world! During the six weeks holidays, Connor and Ethan are sent to Starvi...

  • The Broken Raven (Shadow Skye, Book Two)

    Name: Linda Brown
    02 January 2021;

    Genre: Adventure

    And the adventure continues... The author has come up with another amazing plot that continues the adventure of Agatha and Jamie, which will keep the reader totally engaged to the very last page. At the end of book one The Good Hawk, our two heroes returned home to Skye after rescuing their cla...

  • Robin Hood 2: Piracy, Paintballs & Zebras

    Name: Julie Broadbent
    01 January 2021;

    Genre: Adventure

    I was so looking forward to reading the second instalment of Robert Muchamore's dystopian Robin Hood series, and this book certainly did not disappoint. I found myself straight back into the action where book one had left off. What I absolutely loved about this book is that you really do not nee...