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Vlad The World's Worst Vampire: Midnight Fright
Name: Emily Marcuccilli
14 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Have you ever felt like you didn't quite fit in? Well, young Vlad, son of Drax and Mortemia Impaler and distinctly unenthusiastic vampire-in-training, certainly knows what this feels like. He is afraid of the dark, terrified of graveyards and try as he might, he cannot seem to master the skill o...
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Head Kid
Name: Chloe Age 9
14 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Head Kid tells the story of cheeky prankster, Ryan Ward, and his best bud, Dionna Baxter. Ryan's headteacher has just about lost it with the school, so he leaves a new headteacher to attempt to control the hyperactive children. Unfortunately for many of the mischievous school pupils (AKA Ryan a...
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Power To The Princess
Name: Sian S
14 October 2018;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Well where do I start with this book? What an empowering and beautiful depiction of an array of timeless classics such as Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid and many more. All with a feminine twist but not singling out male readers. I love the sense of fulfilment and belonging each story...
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I Really Want That Unicorn
Name: Lauren Maidman
05 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Ever wanted to win a big, sparkly, Mellow Yellow Unicorn? Chloe Crocodile does, desperately! The only way she can do this is to win Miss Twinkletoes' talent competition. All Chloe has to do is bake a rainbow cake, make a magic castle, design a unicorn fairy costume and give her best performance!...
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No Fixed Address
Name: Tanja Jennings
03 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
Susin Nielsen is adept at blending light and dark to create believable, quirky and multi-faceted characters who just need friendship, kindness and understanding to make their lives brighter. No Fixed Address is set in Vancouver and reflects the sad fact that rental units are expensive and scarc...
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Iguana Boy vs. The 30 second thief
Name: Leia Sands
03 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
The second installment in the Iguana Boy series, doesn't disappoint. Dylan, a boy whose superpower is the ability to talk to iguanas, has now joined the Superhero Collective and is starting his first day at HQ. Dylan, along with his team of trusty iguanas, Paul, Pauline, Smelly Paul and Red ey...
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How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear
Name: M. Hardy
02 October 2018;Genre: Adventure
A pupil in my class, who is an animal nut, absolutely ADORED this book! The presentation and organisation of the book engages readers well making it easy to navigate, with short paragraphs of information. Character illustrations are representative and inclusive making them relatable to readers...
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Power To The Princess
Name: M. Hardy
02 October 2018;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
These are fairytales with a really positive twist! The princesses are not the traditional passive characters, where adventure happens around them. In this book, they are adventurous, practical and independent. They give readers a really great message and I would heavily recommend reading these w...
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Power To The Princess
Name: Ellie Age 10
02 October 2018;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The physical book has a really nice feel to it and the pages are easy to flip. The front cover has a lot of textures which I really love, Vita makes me happy with the way she magpies from traditional stories and makes them her own. I would recommend this book to adventurous people who want to...
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Secrets of a Sun King
Name: Janet Fisher
02 October 2018;Genre: Historical Fiction
I was lucky enough to review Emma Carroll's first book, Frost Hollow Hall, in 2013, which was a very good debut and was delighted to find that this, her seventh book, does not disappoint. The story of the boy King Tutankhamun, whose tomb was discovered by Howard Carter in 1922, has always fasc...
