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Dino Dinners
Name: Lizi Coombs
20 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
From The Natural History Museum, this book presents facts about Dinosaurs, hand in hand with playful rhyming verses that bring the animals to life. This book is more accessible than 'Wooly Mammoth' of the same series and has a more jokey approach to the description of the dinosaurs in the verses...
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Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity
Name: June Hughes
18 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is another in a series of books featuring the exploits of Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face, the brother and sister mystery-solving duo from the isle of Great Kerfluffle. The mystery this time involves a group of missing evil and wicked badgers, stolen clothing, a swarm of bees (or maybe not) and...
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Puppy Academy: Scout and the Sausage Thief
Name: Kerra Dagley
16 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Scout is a German Shepherd puppy at the Sausage Dreams Puppy Academy for working dogs in Little Barking. Her parents are both well-known working police dogs and Scout hopes to follow in their paw prints when she grows up. The story is set on an important day for Scout, as she gets ready to take...
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Creature teacher Goes Wild
Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;Genre: Young fiction
Mr Hyde is a teacher with a difference. When he gets excited, he turns into a wild uncontrollable creature that leaps about and causes all manner of mayhem. He cannot stop himself from becoming Creature Teacher so Jake, Nora and their classmates have taken it upon themselves to protect him from t...
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Knight in Training - A Horse called Dora
Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;Genre: Young fiction
This is the second in a series of books about Sam J. Butterbiggins and his quest to become a knight. Sam lives with his Aunt, Uncle and Cousin in Mothsdale Castle, a place which doubles as 'Luxury Holiday Accommodation for Dragons, Griffins and Other Regal Beasts', and, in the first book, he disc...
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Wigglesbottom Primary: The shark in the pool
Name: Dawn Woods
11 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is the second book about life at Wigglesbottom Primary school. Three chapters of madness designed to appeal directly to primary age children. These children are faced with really dangerous situations which demand action on their part, but not necessarily the reaction their teachers would ex...
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Knight in Training - A Horse Called Dora
Name: Rose Palmer
31 July 2015;Genre: Young fiction
This is the second book in the Knight in Training series but the first that I have read. I will definitely look out for number one and look forward to numbers three to six! A Horse Called Dora sees our hero , Sam J Butterbuggins, musing over his diary about such things as trees that wave (in a 'h...
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Gorilla Dawn
Name: Kerra Dagley
29 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
Another amazing social and environmental piece from Gill Lewis, set deep in the African jungle, we are caught in the midst of war, murder, gorilla trading and environmental destruction in the name of progress. Powerful and thought-provoking from the start, I read it straight through to the end, u...
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Borgon the Axeboy and the Prince's Shadow
Name: Lizi Coombs
21 July 2015;Genre: Adventure
'Soap - it smells like a flower threw up on you ...' I can think of many, many children I know who will enjoy this book! A sort of barbaric 'Goblet of Fire' for younger readers..., this book is action packed, humourous and easy to access. The historic setting makes it different from many books o...
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The Last Ever After (The School for Good and Evil, Book 3)
Name: Linda Brown
21 July 2015;Genre: Fantasy
I will never look at a fairy tale the same way ever again! The Last Ever After is the third book in the wonderful The School For Good and Evil series. It's darker and a little more menacing...
