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Interview with Blackbeard and Other Vicious Villains - Ten talks between time-travelling author Andy Seed and some of history’s most fiendish villains.
Name: Jane Rew
07 April 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
In Interview with Blackbeard and Other Vicious Villains, you will find the usual suspects - Nero, Ivan the Terrible, Bonnie & Clyde - but there is also a spattering of more obscure names, like Zheng Yi Sao and Victor Lustig. We learn (e.g. that Blackbeard's real name was E...
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Royal Animals: An Illustrated History
Name: Wendy Kelly
07 April 2023;Genre: Animals
Royal Animals: An Illustrated History is a very timely addition for any school projects this summer regarding royalty. Most children are animal lovers and this book may well spark the interest of a child who hasn't quite taken to the humans being discussed! It's a glori...
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Alex Neptune, Pirate Hunter: Book 2
Name: Donna Chadwick
07 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
Alex Neptune, Pirate Hunter is a great sequel in the Alex Neptune series, which explores Alex's new-found powers to control the ocean. The story is full of twists and turns as Alex tries to counteract pollution and pirates to find a missing dragon egg to help clean the oceans....
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City of Secrets: The Wildsmith #2
Name: Beverley Somerset
07 April 2023;Genre: Fantasy
War is still raging in Rowan's home town of Holderby, and she and her mum are living safely by the Wild Forest with Grandpa. Rowan is happily learning to be a wildsmith like him; she can talk to and understand the magical creatures who inhabit the forest. Everything changes when Rowan's dad ar...
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Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch
Name: Jen Bevan
05 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
Welcome to Miracula and the first in a series of books about Ivy Newt and her friends. In Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch, it's Ivy's birthday and her parents perform a magic show for her which goes wrong. Ivy and her friend Tom go on an adventure to find out what has happens to...
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The Boy who Saved a Bear
Name: Jennifer Caddick
04 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
The Boy who Saved a Bear is the fourth and final book that author Nizrana Farook has set in the beautiful landscape of Serendib, and it is another stunning and warm adventure story featuring the bond between the children and the wild animals that Farook creates so joyously.</p...
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Once There Was
Name: Janet Fisher
04 April 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
This is an extraordinary, many layered novel, weaving monsters with Iranian folklore and a girl unable to grieve for her parents and left with a gift she does not understand. Marjan is struggling with school, trying to keep her father's vet practice going, and discovering that her fathe...
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Clutch
Name: Jacqueline Harris
03 April 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Something terrible has happened in Aves Wood. The nest of the peregrine falcons has been raided by an egg thief and all the eggs taken and the parent birds driven away. There is an egg thief in town; someone dangerous. Twitch and his friends must try to find out who the thief is and put a stop...
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Winnie and Wilbur The festivals of witches
Name: Amanda Shipton
03 April 2023;Genre: Friends and family
In Winnie and Wilbur: The Festival of Witches, Winnie the Witch and her big black cat Wilbur pack their suitcase for a very special holiday. Every year they go to the Worldwide Witches' Festival. These wonderfully illustrated, familiar characters are off on another amazing adv...
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The Mona Lisa Mystery (The Butterfly Club 3)
Name: Hayley Summerfield
03 April 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I make no secret of being a fan of The Butterfly Club books. They have captured my imagination and allowed me to delve into the events from the past with ease. They are layered with history and gripping adventures and have some fantastic characters. <...
