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  • Where The World Turns Wild

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    05 February 2020;

    Genre: Dystopian

    Juniper is thirteen and lives in the city with her little brother Bear. To the children, this city seems like a cage, as they used to live in the Wild. Leaving the city and returning to their mother has always been their dream. But this is a time when the world has changed. Fifty years previou...

  • Where The World Turns Wild

    Name: Katie Bradwell
    05 February 2020;

    Genre: Dystopian

    Where the World Turns Wild is a beautiful, enchanting novel which tells the tale of siblings Jupiter and Bear and their search to reconnect to their parents. The novel is set in a world where a disease has wiped out a large proportion of the population, and those surviving are forced to live i...

  • Storm

    Name: Donna Burkert
    04 February 2020;

    Genre: Personal Growth

    Frances Frida Ripley: born in a storm (or so her parents so often reminisce), filled with anger and unrest. She spends her life being told to quieten down, to control her anger, to just be something that she's not. But she can't! She can't be like her sweet sister Bridie, she can't be like her...

  • Where the Wilderness Lives

    Where the Wilderness Lives

    Name: Kelly Buxton
    04 February 2020;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Where the Wilderness Lives is a story filled with adventure and nature, intertwined with magic and folklore but grounded by the trials and tribulations that accompany childhood.There are so many aspects this book lends itself to; vibrant descriptions take you on a...

  • The Highland Falcon Thief

    Adventures on Trains: The Highland Falcon Thief

    Name: Kelly Buxton
    03 February 2020;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    I thoroughly enjoyed going on a fact-finding adventure aboard The Highway Falcon, a locomotive on its final voyage. Hal, who reluctantly joins his travel-writer uncle, finds more than he anticipated when he is thrown into the role of unveiling a jewel thief. Brimming with twists and turns, thi...

  • Nothing Ever Happens Here

    Nothing Ever Happens Here

    Name: Lucy Russell
    03 February 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    Izzy lives in Littlehaven, a small town in the East of England where nothing ever happens. Until the day, that is, when Izzy's dad tells her that he is transgender, and is about to start living as a woman, Danielle. Reeling from the shock, Izzy attempts to get on with school, auditioning for t...

  • The International Yeti Collective

    The International Yeti Collective

    Name: Wiebke Howey
    02 February 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    After a close encounter with human explorers, young mountain yeti Tick has to try everything in his power to protect the secret of yetis all over the world. Even if it involves travelling a long way, and working together with human girl, Ella. The book is told from two points of view, on the on...

  • Amelia Fang and the Naughty Caticorns (The Amelia Fang Series)

    Amelia Fang and the Naughty Caticorns

    Name: Linda Brown
    01 February 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    This is the first time I have read any of the books in the Amelia Fang series and I hope it's not the last. The author has managed to merge creepy, scary images and make them cute and suitable for the younger reader who is ready to move on to something with more 'bite' in it (sorry for the pun!)....

  • The Ice Bear Miracle

    The Ice Bear Miracle

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    31 January 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    There is a glittering fairy-tale and folklore quality to this enchanting story. On the Isle of Bears, the close knit community of this frozen, Isolated land share their island with powerful and majestic roaming polar bears. 13-year-old Marv Jackson bears the scars of a now 'legendary' polar bear...

  • Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet

    Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet

    Name: Alexandra Shorter
    27 January 2020;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Pankhurst has done it again in Fantastically Great Women Who Saved the Planet. Her engaging and inclusive book introduces just SOME of the most inspirational women who have looked after elements of our world. With climate change and other environmental issues at the for...