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The Secret of Ragnar's Gold
Name: Carol Wright
27 July 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Lucy, Max, Joe and Charlie - The After School Detective Club - are back for another thrilling adventure in The Secret of Ragnar's Gold. Ufford Castle, Suffolk, is the setting for a treasure hunt when the gang find a mysterious box containing a gold coin and a secret code. Will...
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Cuckoo Summer
Name: Louisa Farrow
17 July 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
I began Cuckoo Summer with limited expectations. The blurb sounded suspiciously like Robert Westall's masterpiece, the Machine Gunners, and I wondered doubtfully whether it would measure up. Within a dozen pages, I'd been won over, and found myself totally engrossed in a rattl...
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The Secret Wild
Name: Donna Burkert
17 July 2022;Genre: Environment
Life for Fern is not like other girls' lives, her parents are botanists, and she has grown up travelling the world as they find and study rare plants. It's the only life Fern has ever known. She loves plants, she talks to plants, and she dearly hopes that one day, plants will communicate with...
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The Whale Watchers
Name: Sharon Porter
17 July 2022;Genre: Environment
Well, this book was a pleasant surprise to read on a super, hot sunny Saturday morning! In The Whale Watchers, Finn is unwillingly dragged off to Scotland by his marine biologist mother for a working 'holiday' with his whale-mad younger brother, Jesse. Finn is a worrier, he is...
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Cosmic Creatures - The Friendly Firecat
Name: Lauren Maidman
17 July 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
This is another book in the Cosmic Creatures series by Tom Huddleston. In this story Charlie, her brother and her robot friend, Random go on holiday to visit Charlie's aunt on the planet Vela. Vela isn't the prettiest of planets but is home to the most amazing Cosmic Creatures - the Fr...
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Agent Moose - Moose on a Mission
Name: Donna Ritchie
15 July 2022;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Here we are again - this is the second book in the Agent Moose series! In Agent Moose - Moose on a Mission, a circus comes to town at the same time that Granny Moose is visiting (or should I say The Magnificent Mooseini). As things have been a...
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Loki A Bad God's Guide to Taking the Blame
Name: Donna Burkert
15 July 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
Loki, disguised as 11-year-old schoolboy Liam, is once again trying to prove that he can be a Good God in Loki A Bad God's Guide to Taking the Blame, the second book in the Loki series by Louie Stowell. Seeing out his punishment by Odin in the mortal world, as part of a 'famil...
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Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon
Name: Jane Rew
15 July 2022;Genre: Friendship
Parents are totally embarrassing. Teachers are figures of fun, names have been changed to protect the innocent, i.e. Peri (Petunia) and her best friend Cammy (Camembert) from ridicule (with only limited success). Spoons, cats, boys you like and boys you loathe, weird outfits and, of course, an...
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Agent Moose
Name: Donna Ritchie
14 July 2022;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
What a brilliant book. Agent Moose is excellent for reluctant readers or anyone who loves comic style books. As a child I was such a reader - I hated books but couldn't get enough of comics. If these books were around then, I'm sure the transition from comics to 'books' would...
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The Mermaid Call
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 July 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Lake Splendour is a seaside town built around the myth of Lake Mermaid and the 'Mermaid Girls'. Vivian lives with her grandmother at a tourist shop called Enchanted Tails, one of many businesses which benefit from the story, like those of her friends Erik and Eleni. When some children at her s...
