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Glitter Boy
Name: Stephen Leitch
06 March 2023;Genre: LBGTQ+
For 11 year old James dancing, singing, writing poetry and Mariah Carey (he plans to write songs for her) are the things he loves doing. He also enjoys spending time with his besties Harriet and Joel and with his Nan who he visits regularly after school. With a new school year just starting, J...
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Crookhaven: The School for Thieves
Name: Jennifer Caddick
06 March 2023;Genre: Adventure
Crookhaven: The School for Thieves is a superb start to a great new fantasy adventure series. Crookhaven features a boarding school cast of 'criminals in training' but this "bad education" is all about learning how to fake, deceive, hack and pickpocket your way to becoming a...
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Moon Flight
Name: Janet Fisher
05 March 2023;Genre: Fantasy
It is not easy to entice readers into starting a book about rats, as they don't exactly have a good press, but Gill Lewis has done just that in Moonflight. She has created an entire world in which the various tribes of rats battle to save their reputation in an exciting and si...
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Call the Puffins
Name: Amanda Shipton
02 March 2023;Genre: Animals
'I promise to be unflappable, to bravely cross the sea and sky, to rescue eggs and also birds, It may not work, but I will always try.' Muffin wants nothing more than to be an Unflappable. On the island of Egg a group of young puffins are training to join the search and rescue team. Follow Muf...
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No-Dig Children's Gardening Book
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 March 2023;Genre: Environment & Nature
Gardening - whether window box, allotment or vast estates - is proven to have many benefits. It provides exercise and fresh air, promotes team work and well-being as well as offering a hands on approach to scientific concepts such as plant life cycles and growing conditions. No-...
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Kyan Green and the Infinity Racers
Name: Jane Rew
28 February 2023;Genre: Adventure
Kyan Green and the Infinity Racers is an adventure that combines humour, heart and the puzzling phenomenon of Quantum String Theory. It has a similar feel to the Kid Normal series (Greg James & Chris Smith) and, in concept, reminds me too of Joel Makonnen's Last Gate of th...
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Alex Neptune, Dragon Thief: Book 1
Name: Donna Chadwick
28 February 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
Wow! Well what can I say... a gripping read from start to finish! Alex Neptune - Dragon Thief showcases the ocean in all its glory. Alex Neptune has been scared of the ocean for as long as he could remember. So it's understandable that, when he is drawn to a fluorescent glow a...
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Where The River Takes Us
Name: Beverley Somerset
28 February 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Since the death of their parents in an accident, 13-year-old Jason has been looked after by his older brother Richie in a small village in Wales. It's 1974, the country is in the midst of the miner's strikes; power cuts are in force so working-class families are forced to work a three-day-week...
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No-Dig Children's Gardening Book
Name: Sharon Porter
28 February 2023;Genre: Environment & Nature
When we first looked at the No-Dig Children's Gardening Book, we wondered how we could garden without digging? However, a quick read of the blurb put us right. This non-fiction book is full of double page spreads covering all sorts of techniques to help preserve the integrity...
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The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
Name: Jenny Caddick
27 February 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair is a powerfully written dual narrative story that follows the lives and emotional journeys of several members of the same family, several generations apart. It is a story that explores mental health in the most unique and moving manner throu...
