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Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future: People Power series
Name: Stephen Leitch
13 September 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future gives a fascinating insight into inventors and their inventions that are having an impact on millions of lives throughout the world today. Many were unknown to me - both inventor and invention - and that's what made this a really...
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Marv and the Dino Attack
Name: Amanda Shipton
12 September 2023;Genre: Adventure
Marvin, a secret superhero with a robot sidekick named Pixel, is super excited because he's going on a school trip to the Natural History Museum to see some REAL dinosaur bones. Marvin and Joe can't wait to see all those dinosaur skeletons up close, but they get more than they bargained for wh...
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Woodland Magic 2: Deer in Danger
Name: Jen Bevan
11 September 2023;Genre: Environment & Nature
I have rated this book 5+ as I think children of this age will enjoy listening to the book. I think the book is perfect for 7+ children to read independently. I love the new Woodland Magic series. I was keen to find out what adventures Cora, Jax and their friends would...
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And I Climbed, And I Climbed
Name: Sue Wilsher
11 September 2023;Genre: Poetry
And I Climbed and I Climbed is a remarkable collection of poems, focusing on Cosmo, a young boy whose life changed forever when he fell out of a tree in his garden. Having a great deal to come to terms with, these poems explore his experiences. Poet, Simon Lightbrown has dra...
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Orion Lost
Name: Review Age 11
09 September 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
This book was really fun to read, I loved the twists and turns in it - it made it seem a bit more like a mystery, with space pirates etc. Keep up the good work.
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The Stolen Songbird
Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 September 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Caro Monday lives in a pub in Waterloo with her two mothers. One of her mothers runs the pub while the other is a famous whistling star, who travels the world. One day Caro is forced to go and stay with her great aunt who lives in Hampstead. Her whistling mother has disappeared, and Caro has n...
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We are all Astronauts!
Name: Lucy Hopkins
08 September 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Another great book from Kate Pankhurst about women doing amazing things! We are all Astronauts! starts with a little girl called Luna who wants to be an astronaut. It's a great book that is packed with facts and information all about being an astronaut but presented as a story...
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Marv and the Mega Robot
Name: Amanda Shipton
07 September 2023;Genre: Adventure
In Marv and the Mega Robot, the first in the Marv series, Marvin makes a robot for his school science fair with his friend Joe. They call it the read-aloud 3000 as it can read words from paper. But when the robot breaks, Marvin is understandably upset, especially as another bo...
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Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire!: A Sprinkling of Danger
Name: Sue Wilsher
06 September 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
A Sprinkling of Danger finds Alice Éclair on another spying adventure. When an American film crew arrives at the beautiful palace of Versailles, there is great excitement, but suspicions that a spy is amongst them means Alice is once more on the case. Using her baking skills,...
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Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch
Name: Amanda Shipton
06 September 2023;Genre: Adventure
Ivy Newt is the latest series by Derek Keilty. It's a delightful magical story in which the unexpected is always bound to happen. This new, highly illustrated chapter book series for ages 5-7 features Ivy, an unstoppable and lovable young witch, and her friend and familiar Tom. It is Ivy Newt'...
