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Big Bad Wolf Investigates Fairy Tales: Fact-checking your favourite stories with SCIENCE!
Name: Maria Faithorn
24 May 2024;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Meet the Big-Not-Quite-As-Bad-As-You-Thought-Wolf! You’ll definitely have come across him before in many traditional tales, he's always the one causing trouble and often ends up running away in pain! This laugh-out-loud book will have the reader questioning the possibility of events suc...
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The Island at the Edge of Night
Name: Beverley Somerset
24 May 2024;Genre: Mystery & Detective
12-year-old Faye Fitzgerald has been sent away to school on the bleak and remote Auk Island in Scotland. She knows that something terrible happened at home involving her Aunt Christina and an ancient yew tree, but she cannot remember exactly what occurred. When Faye arrives at the schoo...
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Code Name Kingfisher
Name: Chloe Age 10
23 May 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
I absolutely loved this book and I found it very emotional yet inspirational. It took me a while to understand how it was changing between different time lines. The further I read the more the tension built and the more everything started to come together. It was amazing how they got the adven...
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Knowing the Score
Name: Chloe Age 10
23 May 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Knowing the Score has a wonderful story line and touched my heart but I think it would've been even better if there was more suspense or action. Also, there was very little difficult vocabulary and other than the story, I didn't learn any new words. But in general the book w...
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Adventuremice: Mermouse Mystery
Name: Amanda Shipton
23 May 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Reeve and McIntyre have done it again! Adventuremice: Mermouse Mystery is another thrilling adventure with plenty of peril, excitement and wonder, pitched perfectly for young readers. Every early chapter book reader likes nothing more than drama and the idea of the rescue miss...
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Mad About Monkeys
Name: Pat
23 May 2024;Genre: Animals
Mad About Monkeys is a glorious celebration of these intriguing primates accompanied by wonderful illustrations. The book contains a contents page which leads logically through the chapters, which deal with what monkeys are, food and habitats, evolution, social life and identi...
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On Poetry Street
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 May 2024;Genre: Poetry
In this collection, Brian Moses offers not only 52 poems (one for any week of the year), but oodles of inspiration and possibility. On Poetry Street shows just how accessible and enjoyable creating poems can be and is sure to leave readers itching to get started. This...
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Mad about Monkeys
Name: Sharon Porter
22 May 2024;Genre: Animals
Mad about Monkeys by Owen Davey is a brilliant non fiction text, covering our primate cousins, monkeys. It can be used as a source of information to show children how to set out non chronological reports in English or as a source book for science research. The stylised...
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Explodapedia: Rewild - Can Nature heal Our World?
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 May 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
The latest in the excellent 'Explodapedia' series, Rewild: Can Nature heal Our World? is a very engaging and accessible read. Guided by cartoons of chatty and cheeky fungi, the book carefully explains the idea behind rewilding as well as why is it so important in a humorous an...
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Magicalia
Name: Jenny Caddick
17 May 2024;Genre: Fantasy
"Until a monster swallowed her PE kit, Bitsy's evening had been going to plan." A fantastical, imaginative adventure awaits when the reader is swept into a world of magicore beasts, created by emotions held within our memories. A long-ago meteorite named farthingstone left its magical imprint...
