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Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale
Name: Jennifer Caddick
29 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Zeina Starborn and the Sky Whale is a fabulously imaginative, intricately detailed and thrilling dystopian adventure, featuring the fabulously named Zeina Starborn. Just her name alone tells the reader that we are about to meet a unique, intrepid, ambitious character with a de...
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Anisha Accidental Detective: Holiday Adventure
Name: Sue Wilsher
29 April 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
In Anisha Accidental Detective: Holiday Adventure, the family are on a break and whilst Anisha is not the adventurous type and plans to head for the reading nook, the rest of the family throw themselves into the activities on offer. However, when a statue of t...
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The Girl Who Lost a Leopard
Name: Jennifer Caddick
24 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
The Girl Who Lost a Leopard is a stunning, lush, vivid and exotic adventure. Wild-spirited Selvi is in her element living in the mountains of Serendib, where she feels a total affinity with the abundance of nature around her. At no time is she more content then when wild leopa...
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Libby and the Parisian Puzzle
Name: Jennifer Caddick
23 April 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Libby and the Parisian Puzzle is a fabulous, enchanting mystery/adventure sleuthing story, ideal for MG readers and fans of the young detective genre (for example, the Agent Zaiba series by Annabelle Sami and...
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Neon's Secret Universe
Name: Jacqueline Harris
23 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
There are real unicorns; they are just not how you imagined them at all. The horse with a horn description is completely wrong. Unicorns are in fact magical being that live in an alternative UNI-verse and the horse with a horn was invented by a unicorn called Greg. Neon Gallup finds all of thi...
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Neon's Secret Universe
Name: Beverley Somerset
23 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
When Neon Gallup moves with her parents to the town of Brunty, she has no idea of the adventures in store for her! While exploring her new bedroom, she discovers an envelope containing an old green lipstick, and when she uses it to draw a line along her bedroom wall, she opens a portal into th...
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The Secret Sunshine Project
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 April 2022;Genre: LBGTQ+
Shortly after the death of their father, Bea, Riley and their mum leave their home in London to stay with their Gran in the country. Last summer, after Riley had come out as gay, the family had had the best day ever at London Pride and memories of this special, colourful day make their current...
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The Girl Who Lost a Leopard
Name: Carol Wright
23 April 2022;Genre: Adventure
Set on the island of Serendib, a young school girl by the name of Selvi loves to run wild with nature. She lives with her mother in humble surroundings. Her Uncle, Kandaraja, is rather judgemental of how her mother raises her daughter. Selvi has a connection with a leopard she has named...
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Every Cloud
Name: Elen Green
23 April 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Every Cloud explores the challenges that children might face when experiencing changes in their lives - in this case, the transition from primary to secondary school and especially how this impacts on friendships. Through the story, author Ros Roberts also explores other famil...
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The Thief Who Sang Storms
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 April 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The island of Morovia is shaped like a broken heart. It is home to Linnet, an alkonost, one of the bird-like people with magical songs who inhabit the island. Three years previously, alkonosts and humans had lived peacefully together on the island, but a tragic event which killed the queens of...
