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  • Ways to Make Sunshine

    Ways to Make Sunshine

    Name: Jo Clarke
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Friends and family

    We all know the saying, 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade', well, Ryan Hart is a girl who finds ways to make sunshine when life brings rainclouds.With subtle echoes of Bill's New Frock, Ways to Make Sunshine will inspire and delight. Ryan's name means 'lea...

  • 44 Tiny Secrets

    44 Tiny Secrets

    Name: Lauren Maidman
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Family & Home

    Betsy Bow-Linnet is the daughter of famous concert pianists Bella and Bertrum Bow-Linnet. Her grandfather, too, is a concert pianist, however Betsy is not. No matter how hard she tries she just can't get the hang of it. After hearing her mother call her 'a disappointment', Betsy is determined...

  • The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime

    The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime

    Name: Janet Fisher
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    The Unadoptables is a truly magical story of orphans, adventure, and of longing for something that seems so out of reach; belonging to a family. The Little Tulip Orphanage in 1880 Amsterdam is, as you would expect in a story about orphans, cold, miserable and run by a truly ho...

  • The Fowl Twins

    The Fowl Twins (Paperback)

    Name: Carol Carter
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    The Fowl Twins is the 'first book of the second cycle of Fowl Adventures', meaning we are back in the world of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer's long-running MG series about a child criminal genius and his adventures with the fairy realm, but this new series focuses on the exploits...

  • Urban Forest School: Outdoor adventures and skills for city kids

    Urban Forest School: Outdoor adventures and skills for city kids

    Name: Nicky Stiles
    21 July 2020;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Urban Forest School, published by the Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, is a great non-fiction text resource for teachers and school staff as well as parents, especially during this difficult time when we are all doing our best to home school and keep little ones enterta...

  • The Ship of Shadows

    The Ship of Shadows

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    16 July 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones in this rollicking tale of adventure! Aleja lives in Seville with her father, grandmother and two brothers, helping to run the family taverna. She spends her free time reading about explorers and dreams of following in their footsteps, especially th...

  • My First Book of the Cosmos

    My First Book of the Cosmos

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    11 July 2020;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    A mind expanding and utterly fascinating book, My First Book of the Cosmos takes the reader beyond space into the entire universe in a brilliantly accessible way. A perfect book for adults and children to explore together as information and facts astound you. The book h...

  • Sounds of the Wild: Discover incredible island animals

    Name: Lizi Backhouse
    11 July 2020;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    The premise of this book is to take you across the seas, to faraway islands to discover their animals. Accompanying this is the sound effect for each island, which features the animal noises and background noise for each environment... and all of these can be turned off using a switch on the bac...

  • Sky Pirates: Echo Quickthorn and the Great Beyond

    Sky Pirates

    Name: Hayley Summerfield
    09 July 2020;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Sky Pirates is the breathtaking middle-grade debut from Alex English. This exciting adventure story is full of swashbuckling journeys across lands unknown to the main characters, Echo and Horace. Having grown up in Lockfort, Echo and Prince Horace are unaware of the wor...

  • Do Not Disturb the Dragons

    Do Not Disturb The Dragons

    Name: Megan Webb
    09 July 2020;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    Do Not Disturb The Dragons is a fantastic, funny story about two sisters who are bored of following the rules. The magical kingdom of Wondermere is home to two princess sisters, Grace and Portia. There are many rules that everyone in Wondermere must follow to ensure the dragon...