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Evie and Maryam's Family Tree
Name: Jane Rew
06 June 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
There are really four girls who are centre stage in this story; two from the present day and two living in India towards the end of the British Empire. They are connected across the centuries by their grandmothers' coded letters and by a spider's web of complex interactions spanning different...
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The Wild Beastie: A Tale from the Isle of Begg
Name: Laura Richards
05 June 2025;Genre: Magical Realism
This beautifully eye-catching cover is the door to a secret island- the Isle of Begg - portrayed through stunning watercolour illustrations, in a soft colour palette. We meet Bumple, a timid creature who has no desire to explore the island's mysteries, but would rather stay where she knows it'...
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Nate Yu's Blast from the Past: boy meets ghost in a tale of unlikely friendship
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Nate Riley is an amateur myrmecologist and has his own ant farm, ruled by Queen Elizabeth III - or Betsy as she is affectionately known. With his mums, he has recently moved to Liverpool and unlike him, the 'parentals' (as he calls them) are very keen for him to take...
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The Doughnut Club
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Quinn has two mums and a younger brother, Olly. Both children share a donor - not a dad - but have different mums. Although surrounded by a loving, supportive family, Quinn always feels like the odd one out, not fitting in with the outdoorsy, adventurous rest. When their mums announce that Qui...
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The Kindness Quest: Build your empathy, confidence and social skills
Name: Jen Bevan
02 June 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
From the best selling author of The Happy Tank comes an adventure into kindness. The Kindness Quest takes children and their carers on a journey into kindness. They get to explore kindness history, read quotes about kindness and work on being kind in all areas of life. ...
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Choose Your Own Evolution: Go Extinct or Survive? You Decide!
Name: Jennifer CADDICK
01 June 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
Ancestors Assemble! is the very clever hook to this brilliantly unique and absorbingly interactive exploration of the history of evolution, which takes us back to the very starting point of life on earth. Fascinating facts across millions of years of evolution are made...
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Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing
Name: Amanda Shipton
01 June 2025;Genre: Adventure
Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing is the amazing first book in the new series by Martin Stewart. This story has all the ingredients of an award-winning story which is well thought through and put together in a way which will engage the reader from beginning...
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Felix and the Future Agency
Name: Beverley Somerset
29 May 2025;Genre: Adventure
Felix Green doesn't fit in at school. He can predict the future, and this skill is constantly getting him into trouble. Everything changes when he is whisked off to join a top secret, magical government agency, where he finds he's not alone in having special powers. Here, for the first time, F...
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Guardians of the Source (Gargoyles, Book 1)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2025;Genre: Magical Realism
Callen moves with his parents to his father's childhood home, an old ramshackle house that is literally falling down. On his first night there, one of the gargoyles adorning the house wakes up and it quickly becomes clear a malevolent force is also waking. The gargoyles might look scary, but t...
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Dreamslinger
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 May 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Aria Loveridge lives at the Resthaven Home for Dreamslingers, a refuge for children born with genetic mutations that transport them to a powerfully magical realm while they sleep. Since the Great Outburst, a tragedy which killed her mother, she believes that her powers - and those of others li...
