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Name: Nicki Cleveland
17 September 2020;Genre: Animals
Having made a 'tranimalator', Andy Seed has scoured the planet to conduct some amazing interviews with ten spectacular clawed creatures, including a tiger, wolf, and my personal favourite, a snow leopard.Each interview in Interview with a Tiger: and Other Clawed Beasts Too<...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 September 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Tin, Padraig Kenny's first book for children, ranks as one of my all-time favourites, so with each subsequent book by him I've been on tenterhooks to see if I like it as much. He does not disappoint with this one.Brother and sister Tom and Jem stumble across a strange house in the...
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Name: Elen Green
17 September 2020;Genre: Young fiction
One of the first in a new series by Philip Ardagh - and with great illustrations by Rob Biddulph - The Pirate Captain's Cat stars Furry Purry Beancat, a loveable cat who finds a new adventure every time he wakes up. This really is a cat with nine lives - each of them an amazing new adventure!<...
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Name: Susan Wilsher
17 September 2020;Genre: Fantasy
Wish, Xar and Bodkin are still in great danger as they near the end of their quest to save the Wildwoods. They need to find the Cup of Second Chances to mix the spell to get rid of witches in which means breaking into the Mine of Happiness - a place full of unhappiness and the ever hungry Tatz...
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Name: Kelly Buxton
17 September 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I must admit this is a case where you shouldn't judge a book by it cover, it doesn't conform to the shiny, intricately illustrated modern books, which adorn the shelves of bookstores ad libraries, with one aim, to grab the reader's interest - but it does stand out.The Key t...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
15 September 2020;Genre: Supernatural
Aveline Jones loves reading creepy ghost stories. When her mother is called away to help a sick relative, Aveline is sent to stay with her Aunt Lilian in the seaside town of Malmouth on the Cornish coast. Aveline and her aunt are not close, Lilian is described as being "nice but cold, like ice...
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Name: Joanna Hewish
12 September 2020;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
I fell in love with this story right from the very start. The very title of this story makes it immediately jump off the shelf. The beautifully designed cover and illustrations that run along the bottom of each page, really enhanced this lovely story. Swan Song tells the story of Dylan, a stru...
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It's a Prince Thing (The Princess Rules)
Name: Jane Rew
11 September 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
I expected to enjoy this book, and was not disappointed. The appeal in It's a Prince Thing derives from its humour and the charming illustrations by Chris Chatterton, but I also enjoyed the twists and turns in the plot which deliberately confound expectations of how storybooks...
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Name: Samantha Phillips
11 September 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
Move over Harry Potter, Kip Bramley is coming through! The Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith by Loris Owen is the first book in a new and very promising series.I absolutely loved this book, it is easily the best KS2 fiction I have read in a long time. Without the us...
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Cally & Jimmy: Twins in Trouble and Twintastic
Name: Bryony Davies
03 September 2020;Genre: Adventure
Cally and Jimmy: Twins in Trouble and Twintastic are two volumes of short stories starring twins Cally and Jimmy, who are in Year 5 and live in London. Although twins, Cally and Jimmy are very different children. Jimmy is described as having his own table next to the te...
