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Nate Yu's Blast from the Past: boy meets ghost in a tale of unlikely friendship
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Nate Riley is an amateur myrmecologist and has his own ant farm, ruled by Queen Elizabeth III - or Betsy as she is affectionately known. With his mums, he has recently moved to Liverpool and unlike him, the 'parentals' (as he calls them) are very keen for him to take...
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The Doughnut Club
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Quinn has two mums and a younger brother, Olly. Both children share a donor - not a dad - but have different mums. Although surrounded by a loving, supportive family, Quinn always feels like the odd one out, not fitting in with the outdoorsy, adventurous rest. When their mums announce that Qui...
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The Kindness Quest: Build your empathy, confidence and social skills
Name: Jen Bevan
02 June 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
From the best selling author of The Happy Tank comes an adventure into kindness. The Kindness Quest takes children and their carers on a journey into kindness. They get to explore kindness history, read quotes about kindness and work on being kind in all areas of life. ...
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Choose Your Own Evolution: Go Extinct or Survive? You Decide!
Name: Jennifer CADDICK
01 June 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
Ancestors Assemble! is the very clever hook to this brilliantly unique and absorbingly interactive exploration of the history of evolution, which takes us back to the very starting point of life on earth. Fascinating facts across millions of years of evolution are made...
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Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing
Name: Amanda Shipton
01 June 2025;Genre: Adventure
Sandy Fin: Operation Splash Landing is the amazing first book in the new series by Martin Stewart. This story has all the ingredients of an award-winning story which is well thought through and put together in a way which will engage the reader from beginning...
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Felix and the Future Agency
Name: Beverley Somerset
29 May 2025;Genre: Adventure
Felix Green doesn't fit in at school. He can predict the future, and this skill is constantly getting him into trouble. Everything changes when he is whisked off to join a top secret, magical government agency, where he finds he's not alone in having special powers. Here, for the first time, F...
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Guardians of the Source (Gargoyles, Book 1)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
27 May 2025;Genre: Magical Realism
Callen moves with his parents to his father's childhood home, an old ramshackle house that is literally falling down. On his first night there, one of the gargoyles adorning the house wakes up and it quickly becomes clear a malevolent force is also waking. The gargoyles might look scary, but t...
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Dreamslinger
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 May 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Aria Loveridge lives at the Resthaven Home for Dreamslingers, a refuge for children born with genetic mutations that transport them to a powerfully magical realm while they sleep. Since the Great Outburst, a tragedy which killed her mother, she believes that her powers - and those of others li...
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Valley of the Vikings
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 May 2025;Genre: Magical Realism
When Thor and Neptune are fighting a mighty battle, a chasm opens which swallows a Viking ship and its crew, taking them to the depths of the sea. Year later, semi-mer Emily Windsnap is swimming with her friend Shona when she finds a bangle set with a glowing blue crystal. They learn that the...
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Ajay and the Red-winged Prince (Woodland Explorers Club)
Name: Jane Rew
20 May 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Children who have enjoyed the previous two titles in this series will already know Ajay as Shyla's cousin, the small, fast, funny one who wants to be an archaeologist. We also meet Leon again (he's usually up to no good) and Fujiko (who is good at tree-climbing) for the first time. Thes...
