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  • Mermaid Academy: Maya and Rainbow

    Mermaid Academy: Maya and Rainbow

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    12 October 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Mermaid Academy: Maya and Rainbow is an action-packed underwater adventure for young readers. Beautifully illustrated throughout and with a glittery cover! From the authors and illustrator of the bestselling Unicorn Academy series. Hidden deep beneath t...

  • Scareground

    Scareground

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    11 October 2023;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Nancy isn’t especially privileged but she has a happy and comfortable life in with expert bakers Ma and Pa Crumpet. Even so, there are things about her that are different. She is never happier than when leaping over rooftops and she seems to be able to communicate with the sky (which is a bett...

  • Rosie Frost and the Falcon Queen

    Rosie Frost & the Falcon Queen

    Name: Donna Burkert
    10 October 2023;

    Genre: Adventure

    When Rosie is plucked from the life she knows and thrown into the strange world of Heverbridge School on Bloodstone Island, she doesn't know who she can trust. Nobody will tell her what happened to her mum, and how she died, and the one piece of the puzzle that could tell her has been taken fr...

  • Foxlight

    Foxlight

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    10 October 2023;

    Genre: Family & Home

    Twin sisters Fen and Rey were found as babies at the edge of the wildlands, curled up with foxes. They were found at foxlight - "the moment when the twilight meets the dawn, and the sun and the moon and the stars weave their light together". Inside the blankets that covered them was a charcoal...

  • British Museum: Celebrate!: Discover 50 Fantastic Festivals from Around the World

    British Museum: Celebrate!

    Name: Hayley Summerfield
    10 October 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    British Museum: Celebrate! is a beautifully written book by Laura Mucha, published in collaboration with The British Museum. It is a collective feast of 50 festivals celebrated around the world. The world's most exciting festivals are celebrated in this book from different cou...

  • Podkin and the Singing Spear

    Podkin and the Singing Spear

    Name: Jennifer Caddick
    10 October 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Podkin and the Singing Spear is book 7 of this stunning, epic series and was a joy to read. I am such a huge fan of this fantastically written exciting adventure quest series featuring heroic rabbits Podkin, Paz and littlest sibling Paz and their comrades, friends and allies u...

  • Man-Man and the Tree of Memories

    Man-Man and the Tree of Memories

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    06 October 2023;

    Genre: Representation & Inclusion

    Man-Man lives with his mother, father and sister in London and is preparing for carnival. He loves dancing and is very excited about carnival. His mother, however, is ill with a mysterious illness that doctors cannot diagnose or cure. Man-Man's grandmother comes from Jamaica to look after her....

  • The Case of the Haunted Wardrobe

    The Case of the Haunted Wardrobe

    Name: Jennifer Caddick
    05 October 2023;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    The Case of the Haunted Wardrobe, the second book in this fresh, lively new series Di' Island Crew, features the same group of engaging, inquisitive and diverse young characters from their first mystery, The Case of the Lig...

  • 21% Monster: Ice Giant

    21% Monster: Ice Giant

    Name: Nathan Cox
    05 October 2023;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    21% Monster, Ice Giant by P J Canning is another 5-star, high-action adventure story following the journey of Darren and Marek. After reading the first 21% Monster, I was very excited to open the second adventure from this talented author!...

  • Girls Rule: 50 Women Who Changed the World

    Girls Rule: 50 Women Who Changed the World

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    04 October 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    In her follow up to Run Like a Girl, Dannielle Brown introduces fifty incredible 'women who changed the world'. The selection of women is diverse in every sense but all the women have one thing in common: they had...