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  • The Good Thieves

    Name: June Hughes
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    In The Good Thieves, Vita and her mother travel to America to collect her grandfather, Jack, who has fallen on hard times. It turns out that Jack has been swindled out of his home (a castle, no less) by a shady character and Vita is determined to right this wrong. Jack tells h...

  • Tamarind & the Star of Ishta

    Tamarind & the Star of Ishta

    Name: Janet Fisher
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Family & Home

    Searching for memories or details about a mother who died at birth or disappeared is a staple of children's books nowadays, something which must give nervous children a moment of qualm. However, this book has the exotic background of the Himalayas where Tamarind is taken by her father and his...

  • Tamarind & the Star of Ishta

    Tamarind & the Star of Ishta

    Name: Susan Wilsher
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Family & Home

    Tamarind is going to spend time in India with her mother's family at their huge mansion in the Himalayas. She never knew her mother who died when Tamarind was a baby and although she has many questions, she is nervous about meeting her extended family. But no one seems keen to give her answers...

  • History Atlas

    Name: Susan Wilsher
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Covering 15 civilisations, The History Atlas takes you on a light-hearted but fact-packed tour of the world. Visually stunning, it is instantly engaging, sure to delight even the most hardened history hater.The author's introduction sets a chatty tone, reminding the reader to have...

  • Shoestring, the Boy Who Walks on Air

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    Shoestring, the Boy Who Walks on Air is the follow up novel to the graphic novel Kidglovz. It tells the story of what happens next to the characters from the graphic novel and even includes the book of Kidglovz as part of the story.Shoestring, previously a thief, i...

  • The Pharaoh's Curse (Museum Kittens)

    The Pharaoh's Curse (Museum Kittens)

    Name: Lucy Newton
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Animals

    As the follow up to Museum Kittens: The Midnight Visitor, this story continues the adventures of kittens Tasha and Peter, along with the other museum cats.The Pharaoh's Curse begins with the cats observing a...

  • Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy

    Stickypines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy

    Name: Samantha Phillips
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Sticky Pines, where things get weird...!  Lucy Sladan is obsessed by UFO's so, when she hears that something strange is happening to people from her own town, she can't wait to find out what's happening, and sneaks out to investigate for herself. Lost in the woods during a thunderstorm, Lucy s...

  • Sticky Pines: The Thing At Black Hole Lake

    Sticky Pines: The Thing At Black Hole Lake

    Name: Samantha Phillips
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    The Thing at Black Hole Lake is the second book in the Sticky Pines - Where Things Get Weird series, and having read book 1, I seriously didn't think things could get any weirder, but they do!  The sequel to the 'Bigwoof Conspiracy' by Dashe Roberts is just fa...

  • Voyage of the Sparrowhawk: Winner of the Costa Children's Book Award 2020

    Voyage of the Sparrowhawk

    Name: Kelly Buxton
    03 September 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    I absolutely loved this book. It is one of those books that I simply couldn't put down. I felt I was on the adventure with Lotti, a feisty, determined and headstrong girl with a head of wild, red curls, who had lost her parents and was at the peril of her scandalous and wicked Uncle and Aunt;...

  • Sticky Pines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy

    Stickypines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy

    Name: Dawn Woods
    01 September 2020;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Lucy lives with her parents in Sticky Pines - a remote town away from big cities and phone signals, surrounded by woods and wildlife and the factory which provides work for nearby residents. Lucy is convinced UFOs are real and would like to prove it to those who disbelieve and humour her. So o...