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When Stars are Scattered
Name: Dan Katz
02 July 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Omar and his younger brother Hassan live in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. They have been there for seven years when the story opens, having fled Somalia together when Omar was four after their father was killed and their mother disappeared. Arriving at the camp, they are adopted by Fatumah,...
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The Wild Way Home
Name: Nicola Cleveland
01 July 2020;Genre: Adventure
Charlie has long dreamed of having a sibling and is delighted when he's woken on his 12th birthday to be told he has a baby brother. But his happiness doesn't last when he discovers Dara is very poorly. He's not the pink, beautiful baby brother he was expecting. As fear takes over, Charlie run...
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Do Not Disturb The Dragons
Name: Nicki Cleveland
29 June 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Princess Grace knows how lucky she is to be living in Wondermere Castle, but that doesn't stop her resenting the rules - all 947 of them - especially the ones that say she can't play troll-o, be a knight or have ice-cream for breakfast. The rules are there to keep the dragons nesting in the ca...
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What the Dinosaurs Saw: Life on Earth Before Humans
Name: Bryony Davies
25 June 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
What the Dinosaurs Saw: Life on Earth Before Humans is am ambitious book covering billions of years of prehistory. Beginning with the Big Bang, the book covers life on earth until early humans. Cleverly designed with a timeline running along the bottom of each page, this is go...
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The Switch Up: L. A. Exchange
Name: Elen Green
25 June 2020;Genre: Friends and family
I loved the first Switch Up book by Katy Cannon, where two teenage girls, who look very similar, meet at an airport and decide to swap their lives for the summer. What could possibly go wrong?The second book, Switch Up: L.A. Exchange, sees the girls - Willa and Alice - on holiday t...
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Hotel Flamingo Fabulous Feast
Name: Lucy Newton
23 June 2020;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
This is a story about lots of different animals and their life at Hotel Flamingo. Anna works alongside lots of different animals on Animal Boulevard; they spend their time trying to come up with a plan to get the hotel busier again after the long winter. Luckily for them, Madame Le Pig (the ho...
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Bright Bursts of Colour
Name: Alison Kelly
23 June 2020;Genre: Poetry
What could be better than some Bright Bursts of Colour in these difficult times? Matt Goodfellow's latest publication is a much needed pallet of colour and emotion. There's a wonderful poem towards the end of the collection celebrating story time: 'Still Aloud' (p.92). In a pr...
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Planet SOS
Name: Bryony Davies
20 June 2020;Genre: Adventure
Planet SOS: 22 Modern Monsters Threatening Our Environment (and What You Can Do To Defeat Them) is a very clever book about the environment and climate change. The author has cleverly turned the biggest threats to the planet into beasts and suggested ways that the reader can vanquish them through...
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Name: Donna Ritchie
20 June 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
This book drew me in straight away - being a sucker for a story with a bit of magic. It is a story that begins with the two main characters - Ned and Aine - telling their own story. Ned is a young boy whose twin brother, Tam, sadly dies (but is still with him!) and Aine, a young girl whose mot...
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The Clockwork Crow
Name: Janet Fisher
16 June 2020;Genre: Adventure
A beautifully designed cover and stars on every other page make this a lovely book to hold, and the story inside does not disappoint. Orphaned Seren is travelling to what she hopes will be her new home in Wales one cold evening before Christmas, when a tall thin man thrusts a parcel into her h...
