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  • War of the Wind

    War of the Wind

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    22 September 2023;

    Genre: Representation & Inclusion

    14-year-old Max lives on a remote Scottish island and is seething with anger and frustration. An accident on his father's trawler has left him deaf and isolated from his former friends. A new baby in the family only makes matters worse; he's convinced that his parents want to replace him with...

  • The Wild Robot

    The Wild Robot

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    19 September 2023;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    The Wild Robot is an incredible story from the award-winning Peter Brown. The attention to detail within the text and images thought this story is incredible. After the boat transporting her sinks and a curious otter presses the button on the back of her neck, Robot Roz opens...

  • The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot 2)

    The Wild Robot Escapes (The Wild Robot 2)

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    19 September 2023;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    The Wild Robot Escapes is the enchanting illustrated sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot. For all of those who fell in love with Roz and Brightbill whilst reading The Wild Robot, this book will make you to fall in lov...

  • The Magic Hour

    The Magic Hour

    Name: Donna Burkert
    18 September 2023;

    Genre: Adventure

    Imagine if there was a place that could gift you a magic hour in your day. Imagine if you could spend that hour doing all the things you never had time for. You could read, play sports, finish your homework, learn a new language...anything! Imagine if you were one of the few who knew about thi...

  • The Secret of the Blood-Red Key

    The Secret of the Blood-Red Key

    Name: Julie Broadbent
    18 September 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    In The Secret of the Blood-Red Key, we are reunited with the familiar world of Krasnia and its inhabitants. Our heroes Rachel and Robert Klein have saved the country from the wicked dictator Charles Malstain and peace and order has now been restored. They are rightly now recog...

  • The Infinite

    The Infinite

    Name: Lily Age 12
    18 September 2023;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    Amazing book, I read it at school and it is such an exciting adventure. The author describes the setting and the characters really well!

  • Who Let the Words Out?: Poems by the winner of the Laugh Out Loud Award

    Who Let the Words Out?

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    15 September 2023;

    Genre: Poetry

    Once again, Joshua Seigal offers a cornucopia of poetic treats in his new collection, Who Let the Words Out?. With poems about cats putting their rear ends in your face, a mathematical haiku, what NEVER to do and the problems of precipitation, there is plenty to set the reader...

  • The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Spooky Secret

    The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Spooky Secret

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    15 September 2023;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    This perfectly timed launch brings us the next in the wonderful Tindims series written by a talented mother and daughter duo.  In The Tindims of Rubbish Island and the Spooky Secret, Halloween has nearly arrived but a young witch is in a pickle. She has cast a spell and shrunk...

  • Impossible Creatures

    Impossible Creatures

    Name: Clair Bossons
    15 September 2023;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    Katherine Rondell's Impossible Creatures is a stunning book! The endpapers are illustrated with a map of The Archipelago, a secret cluster of islands where all the mythological creatures live side by side with humans. This is followed by The Guardian's Bestiary; a wonderful il...

  • Impossible Creatures

    Impossible Creatures

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    15 September 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Christopher Forrester has been sent to Scotland to spend time with his grandfather, Frank, and is dismayed to find himself in the middle of nowhere in a run-down house with no internet or phone signal. He is told that he can go anywhere, but is forbidden to go to the top of the nearby hill. Of...