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A Llama Called Lightning
Name: Lauren Maidman
07 May 2024;Genre: Animals
A Llama Called Lightning is the new instalment from Helen Peters and Ellie Snowdon. Jasmine's family owns a farm and are very busy with all the animals and drama going on. When Jasmine walks home one day she is followed by an unlikely guest, a Llama called Lightning! Jasmine i...
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Explodapedia: Rewild - Can Nature Heal Our World?
Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Rewild - Can Nature Heal our World is an excellent book from the new David Fickling 'Explodapedia' series. It is equally interesting for older children and young adults and approaches the issues of climate change through the solution of nature. The chapters explore diff...
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The Witches' Council: Lily Halfmoon 2
Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 May 2024;Genre: Supernatural
Lily Halfmoon is actually a witch and is keeping it a secret from her family. It is almost Samhain when magic is at its strongest and witches from across the world are gathering at Lily's school. A mysterious person, however, is after Lily's powerful moonstone and wants to steal her magic. Li...
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Licence to Rock: Jawsome 2
Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 May 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
Finley, Hunter, Gilleon and Gnash are ordinary school sharks by day, but at night they take up their other identities as the worldwide sensation rock band Jawsome. Strange things are happening, however, as first they must face the evil A.B.B.A (Alliance of Brutally Bad Angler Fish) agents and...
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Benji's Emerald King (The Woodland Explorers)
Name: Jen Bevan
03 May 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Benji's Emerald King (The Woodland Explorers) is fully immersed in nature. All the additional details about tree etc would really engage children's imagination. A book for those who are exploring the world around them. I will be using this book with my Year 1 children (...
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The House at the End of the Sea
Name: Jenny Caddick
03 May 2024;Genre: Magical Realism
An eerie and creepily sinister fantasy adventure that roots its story in fairy folklore and tales of magical dark deeds, and their consequences. In a heart-wrenching storyline, a family try to come to terms with devastating grief and loss and take the first steps to construct a new but broken...
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Alyssa and the Spell Garden
Name: Elen Green
03 May 2024;Genre: Magical Realism
Alyssa and the Spell Garden takes an ordinary part of North London and brings magic into it, by way of a 'spell garden'; a magical place that helps keep the community safe and hidden from the gentrification that has befallen many neighbouring high streets in the city. A...
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Happy Hills - Attack of the Giant Danger Kittens
Name: Amanda Shipton
02 May 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Happy Hills - Attack of the Giant Danger Kittens is the first in Sophie Henn's new series. The full-page illustrations, comic-strip sequences and quirky typography ensure that the fast-paced humour runs throughout. The blocky, brightly coloured illustrations will appeal to the...
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The Island Vet (1) - Pirates and Sea Monsters
Name: Amanda Shipton
02 May 2024;Genre: Animals
Gill Lewis is a skilled author who specialises in creating gentle and heart-warming stories with an incredibly strong message and The Island Vet is no different. As a lover of nature, she leaves her readers with a sense of responsibility for taking care of our world. Th...
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Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong!
Name: Jane Rew
02 May 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
A quick look at the Contents page of Everything You Know About the Human Body is Wrong! is immediately intriguing: surely identical twins are identical, and don't fingernails continue to grow after we die? Even by page 6, where the first myth is outlined, my misconceptions are...
