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Gut Garden
Name: Lizi Backhouse
15 November 2019;Genre: Adventure
A fantastic non-fiction book! Gut Garden is a journey into your microbiome, it explains the digestive process and explores the ecosystem that lives within us. Written and illustrated by Katie Brosnan, the book introduces proper terminology in child-friendly ways. It's visually stunning and ex...
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Butterflies for Grandpa Joe
Name: Jenny Caddick
11 November 2019;Genre: Adventure
This is the touchingly moving story of young Ben and his butterfly-loving Grandpa. At the start of the story , we find Grandpa's love of life, nature and his beloved butterflies is dulled by his grief at the loss of his wife. This gentle and emotional story follows Ben's earnest, loving attempts...
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Through The Wall
Name: Daniel Katz
06 November 2019;Genre: Adventure
A huge wall divides the land of the Yellow people from the land of the Blue people. The government preaches hatred and fear of the 'other side', and to attempt to cross, climb or damage the wall is treason. A Yellow boy lives a sad life in the shadow of this wall until one day, he discovers a hol...
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The Pearl in the Ice
Name: Hayley Summerfield
01 November 2019;Genre: Adventure
Cathryn Constables's new novel The Pearl in the Ice is a spell-binding, adventurous tale. It takes us on a voyage of discovery from a branch in the garden of her father's house in Hampstead, London, across the dark, cold seas to the very North of Pechorin Island. The main character, Marina, is se...
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Beast Feast
Name: Lauren Maidman
29 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
Beats Feast is the brilliant story about a Beast and 'Dinner', aka a little boy. When the beast finds his 'Dinner' he sends out a letter to all his beast friends, inviting them to the Beast Feast! As each beast replies, the boy teaches him something new to make the recipe for 'Dinner' even better...
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Killer Vending Machines Wrecked My Lunch
Name: Kelly Buxton
28 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
The second in a series of hilarious, lough out loud books from author Matt Brown. Dreary Inkling Primary School is once again under attack, but not the kind of attack the school ever imagined. When the headmistress buys some vending machines, she never imagined that an electrical storm would tur...
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The Dam
Name: Sue Wilsher
27 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
The Dam starts as a father wakes his daughter, Kathryn, at dawn, telling her to bring her fiddle. He leads her to the valley where the dam is almost complete and starts sharing memories of the places they pass. Pulling the boards from a doorway, they enter a deserted cottage where her father tell...
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The Somerset Tsunami
Name: Janet Fisher
21 October 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
Set in the Somerset Levels in 1616, and based on the actual event of a tsunami in January 1607, Emma Carroll's The Somerset Tsunami tells of a girl, named Fortune, living in a village of women but for one male, her brother Jem. But these are difficult times and the Protestants...
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Beast Feast
Name: Ellen Green
21 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
What a feast of a delight this book is! Gorgeous, funny and just enough scary for 5-8 year olds. It is also packed with letters so a great way to introduce letter-writing in class. Meet Beast, a bright pink, sharp-toothed hairy monster who is dangling a small boy by the foot. "You are DINNER", sa...
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The Wizards and the Whale
Name: Louise Gahan
20 October 2019;Genre: Adventure
The Wizards and the Whale is an important book for our time. 12 wizards receive a message asking for their help to save the world. All very different in nature, skills and culture. The wizards come together in respect of each other but with one sole purpose and that is the belief that together, t...
