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Name: Eileen Armstrong
11 March 2020;Genre: Adventure
Teenagers with witchy powers are a constant in popular culture - think Tabitha from Bewitched or Sabrina the Teen Witch depending on your generation. Morgan Charmley is the latest to join their ranks and is arguably the best yet. Readers were first introduced to Morgan in Teen Witch, the firs...
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Professor Astro Cat's Deep-Sea Voyage
Name: Bryony Davies
08 March 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
Professor Astro Cat's Deep-Sea Voyage is a journey through all levels of the ocean from the surface to the deepest trenches. Clearly organised into interesting double page spreads that follow on from each other, this is a highly factual and informative book with superb graphics. Each spread, fr...
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I Ate Sunshine for Breakfast
Name: Bryony Davies
08 March 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
I Ate Sunshine For Breakfast: A Celebration of Plants Around the World certainly lives up to its name. This entire book feels like sunshine and full of pure joy from page one.Visually, this book is stunning and joyous. It is a true celebration of plants and nature....
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Bloom
Name: June Hughes
05 March 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Sorrel tries really, really hard to be 'good'. She desperately wants to win the holiday promised by the headmaster, Mr Grittysnit, to the pupil who gains the most 'Obedience Points', but her life and eventually the lives of everyone around her are thrown up in the air by Sorrell's discovery of...
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Anisha, Accidental Detective
Name: Donna Ritchie
05 March 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Follow Anisha and her best friend Milo as they try to unravel the mystery of the disappearance of Uncle Tony. The 'wedding of the year' seems to be in serious doubt when Anisha reads a ransom note that has been pushed through the letter box. Who has kidnapped Uncle Tony? And why?Th...
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Anisha, Accidental Detective
Name: Donna Burkert
05 March 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Anisha Mistry is not your usual detective. In fact she isn't a detective at all. But when she picks up a ransom note on the eve of her Auntie Bindi's wedding, about the groom-to-be, she knows that she is the only one who can unravel the mystery. While all around her are losing their heads over...
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Talking to the Moon
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 March 2020;Genre: Family & Home
Iris is living with her grandmother, Mimi, to escape the chaos of life at home, the damp and black mould creeping across her bedroom walls and the antics of the two-year-old twins. Mimi's house is not far from her own home, but life there is completely different from home.Mimi used...
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Trailblazers: Albert Einstein
Name: Samantha Phillips
05 March 2020;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Trailblazers is a biography series that celebrates the lives of pioneers, past and present. A great series of books, each packed full of information and facts about scientists, inventors and athletes from all over the world.Trailbrazers, Albert Einstein, The Greatest Mind i...
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Demelza and the Spectre Detectors
Name: Alice Fanning
03 March 2020;Genre: Adventure
Demelza and the Spectre Detectors is an exciting and spooky middle grade adventure about Demelza Clock, a junior scientist with many madcap inventions under her belt who discovers she is a Spectre Detector: she can summon ghosts. This kicks off a well plotted mystery with more than a few twists...
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Fierce, Fearless and Free
Name: Hayley Summerfield
23 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Fierce, Fearless and Free is the exciting new book by Lari Don. This inclusive collection of traditional tales from around the world features amazing women and their gifts. The empowering tales feature myths and legends from Scotland to the distant shores of the Solomon Islands. To select a few,...
