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The Midnight Visitor (Museum Kittens)
Name: Lucy Newton
02 April 2020;Genre: Animals
The Midnight Visitor (Museum Kittens) is an exciting new series for developing readers, with cats, rats and dinosaur galleries!Tasha the cat lives in the museum with her brother and sister, Bianca and Boris, as well as lots of other 'museum cats'. One night as they...
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That Time I God Kidnapped
Name: Patricia Snake
01 April 2020;Genre: Adventure
A funny page-turner following the misadventures of British 14-year-old Jacob, who flies solo to America after winning a dream opportunity to appear in a Hollywood superhero movie. After he misses his connecting flight and resorts to getting a bus to LA, he ends up on a high-stakes adventure wi...
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Robin Hood: Hacking, Heists & Flaming Arrows
Name: Julie Broadbent
01 April 2020;Genre: Adventure
Robin Hood: Hacking, Heists & Flaming Arrows is the first book in this brand-new action-packed adventure series by the master storyteller Robert Muchamore. Fans of his books will not be disappointed with the first instalment in this new series.Set in the modern...
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Name: Jenny Caddick
01 April 2020;Genre: Friendship
Troofriend - a great science fiction themed, smart and thought provoking story. Sarah's relationship with her new Artificial Intelligence android, Troofriend, is cleverly written with a sense of enthralling tension throughout. It very quickly raises lots of questions in the re...
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Dragon Detective: Catnapped!
Name: Samantha Phillips
30 March 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This first book in the Dragon Detective series by Gareth P Jones was originally published in 2006, since then it has been tweaked, updated and re-released for a new audience earlier this year (2020). This first book in the series, Dragon Detective: Catnapped!, introduce...
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Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster
Name: Carol Carter
30 March 2020;Genre: Environment
Willow Wildthing and the Swamp Monster is the first in a new series adventure stories for younger readers from renowned storyteller Gill Lewis.Willow is finding life tough - new house, new town, brother ill in hospital, and she keeps hearing a terrifying howling in...
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The Bat Book
Name: Jenny Caddick
29 March 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
An engaging and easy to navigate Non Fiction book that is beautifully illustrated throughout with detailed, eye-catching drawings of bats and their habitats. The Bat Book has a well-designed layout with bold captions and sub headings . The bat facts are chunked into ap...
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Poems Aloud
Name: Lizi Backhouse
28 March 2020;Genre: Poetry
This vibrant book aims to get children performing poems, alone, with friends and in large groups. It's a fantastic introduction to a wide range of different poems - free verse, riddles, rhyming poems to name but a few. There are poems that personify, poems to be read by more than one person, e...
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Money-Go-Round
Name: James Hewish
24 March 2020;Genre: Picture Books
A beautiful - and useful - story about the cyclical nature of money, and about debt. The author, Roger McGough, takes the notion that money makes the world go round and delivers it back to his audience in an amazingly crafted and beautifully illustrated picture book. The book is a literary and...
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The Last Tree
Name: James Hewish
24 March 2020;Genre: Environment
What an amazing message this book has, especially for this day and age! The Last Tree looks at the bizarre, destructive and selfish relationship that we have with nature. It is a story about greed and consequence. Emily Haworth-Booth provides the next generation with a crucial...
