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  • Vega Jane and the Secrets of Sorcery

    Name: Laila Age 11
    10 January 2021;

    Genre: Fantasy

    This book is about a girl named Vega Jane who lives in a town called Wormwood. But this town is surrounded by a quag, filled with mysterious and death defying monsters. What I liked about this book was that it was very mysterious and it had lots of little clues leading up to one big thing. It...

  • Vega Jane and the Secrets of Sorcery

    Name: George Age 10
    08 January 2021;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Vega Jane was a rip-roaring adventure of danger, bloody guts and friendship. This is a story not for the faint-hearted as there are people dying and horrible things happening! Vega Jane is determined to find out the secrets of Wormwood and maybe the leaders of it themselves. The book is full o...

  • Vega Jane and the Secrets of Sorcery

    Name: Ashin Age 10
    08 January 2021;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Vega Jane and The Secrets of Sorcery is a fantastic book, which includes cliff hangers, tension and loads of other amazing stuff, I am very happy to have read this amazing book and am looking to read the sequel. I rate this book 5 stars. I would definitely read this book again.

  • When We Got Lost in Dreamland

    When We Got Lost In Dreamland

    Name: Jo Clarke
    08 January 2021;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Most children wish that their dreams could come true and that real life could be as exhilarating as the world that exists when we close our eyes. In When We Got Lost In Dreamland, when Malky comes across a device that enables him to take control of his dreams and to meet up on...

  • The Valley of Lost Secrets

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Jimmy and his little brother Ronnie are evacuated from London to a Welsh mining town Llanbryn. It is a very different place from their home, with mountains and coal mines and a tightly knit community. Jimmy is wary of everything and determined not to like it as it would seem like a betrayal of...

  • Rashford Rules

    Name: Kyle Matravers
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies

    Football Superstars is a new series of biographies about the superstars from the world of football. Created by the duo of Simon Mugford and Dan Green, these texts are the perfect addition to any young football fan's library.Despite being over 100 pages in length, the texts are easi...

  • Hope Jones Will Not Eat Meat

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    A fun, fresh and very relevant new illustrated fiction book for young readers that contains big issues. Hope Jones is a 10 year old girl - part of a young generation determined to use their voices to change the world. In this second of the Hope Jones books, Hope is turning vegetarian an...

  • The Wizard in the Wood

    Name: Hayley Summerfield
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Louie Stowell is back with yet another fantastic sequel, The Wizard in the Woods. This epic story of wizarding mystery is a marvellous addition to her previous stories in this collection. It is full of thrilling adventure, dramatic twists, library's, dragons, and evil magic. From the onset you...

  • The Boy Who Sang with Dragons (The Boy Who Grew Dragons 5)

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    07 January 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    This is the fifth and final book in this delightful, charming series that simply bursts with joyful, colourful adventure. Since discovering the dragon-fruit tree in his Grandad's garden really DID grow dragons, Tomas and his superhero squad friends have had their very own magical, wondrous win...

  • Darwin's Dragons

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    04 January 2021;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Syms Covington was taken on to the Beagle as cabin boy and fiddler, but has spent the past two years acting as assistant to Mr Darwin, a young scientist, as he explores the Galapagos Islands. However, an accident during a storm leaves him shipwrecked and alone in an inhospitable place, struggl...