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National Trust: 2023 Nature Month-By-Month: A Children's Almanac
Name: Amanda Shipton
15 September 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
Discover all the brilliant things that you can see, make and do with this amazing month by month guide to the year. Published in collaboration with the National Trust, 2023 Nature Month-By-Month: A Children's Almanac is packed with nature spotter guides; exciting indoor and ou...
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Beyond the Frozen Horizon
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
In 2030, the world leaders pledged a coordinated and unprecedented response to the Climate Crisis, introducing strict Climate Laws and establishing World Wilderness Zones, including the High Arctic. Rory's mum is an environmental geologist whose new job with Greenlight, a company which claims...
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Pages and Co: The Treehouse Library
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;Genre: Fantasy
With his Uncle Horatio still trapped in a poisoned sleep, Milo steals away with his new friend, Alessia, to find the cure. They need to find the Botanist and discover her magical treehouse - and Milo's grandmother. The children work with the Botanist to find the ingredients for the cure, forag...
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The Last Storyteller
Name: Donna Burkert
15 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
In The Last Storyteller, a comet is heading for Earth and an exodus of the chosen few has begun. Petra and her family are some of the ones chosen ones to board the three Pleiades vessels that will take them across the galaxy to a new planet, a new home. With their bodies place...
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Time Travel at Puddle Lane
Name: Lizi Backhouse
15 September 2022;Genre: Adventure
Ariella and Yosef notice that their school librarian keeps coming back to the library covered in mud. They can't resist investigating and end up transported back in time to Georgian London, where they meet the founder of their school. Time Travel at Puddle Lane is split...
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The Secret School Invasion
Name: Sam
14 September 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
If you're ooking for a book to encourage reading for pleasure and build reading stamina in newly independent readers, then The Secret School Invasion by Pamela Butchart is just what the book you need. This laugh-out-loud account of the amalgamation of two rival schools will ha...
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The Consequence Girl
Name: Clare Parkinson
13 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
I was grateful to receive this from a ReadingZone competition, and looked forward to the children in my primary school library enjoying it. I confess science fiction isn't really my thing. We had read Orion Lost in a year 5 book group, and I had found it slight...
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Always, Clementine
Name: Nicola Mansfield
12 September 2022;Genre: Animals
It's a strange thing to say when asked by a friend why you're crying and you answer that a mouse made you do it. The look you receive is one of confusion. I simply put this book, Always, Clementine, into my friend's hands and told them to read it, that they'd understand. <...
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Into Goblyn Wood
Name: Sally Marshall
12 September 2022;Genre: Fantasy
I loved Into Goblyn Wood from start to finish. The reader finds themself drawn into a fascinating and highly original fairy world, rich in detail and with colourful, engaging characters. The story is fast moving, cleverly constructed and well written. It's a real treat! <p...
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Always, Clementine
Name: Catherine
11 September 2022;Genre: Animals
What a lovely book! It is emotional, fun, informative and exciting all at the same time! Always, Clementine tells the tale of a little mouse called Clementine who escapes from a laboratory which tests on animals. Clementine misses her friend Rosie the chimp and writes letter...
