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Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo
Name: Beverley Somerset
13 January 2025;Genre: Adventure
In this wonderful debut novel, we meet the amazing Meticulous 'Metty' Jones. On her tenth birthday Metty receives her fate - a magical tattoo on her hand which she hopes will reveal an exciting future. All Metty wants to do is make her parents proud, but unfortunately her fate reveals that she...
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The Island Vet (3) - Devil Bird Island
Name: Amanda Shipton
10 January 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Devil Bird Island is the amazing third book in Gill Lewis's Island Vet series. When her Mum's wallet is stolen and she loses her new puffin toy, Tia is disenchanted with the big city after visiting her Granny for her birthday. They return to Haven island brief...
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The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick
Name: Emma Fidler
10 January 2025;Genre: Horror
Finnegan Quick certainly has a vivid imagination and has some very creepy, fanciful dreams in The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick. My Y6 boys (ages 10+) will love diving in to how Finnegan's dreams come to real life and how he must deal with them. There is some a...
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The Party: The New York Times best-selling YA thriller
Name: Sue Wilsher
10 January 2025;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
When Bessie and her friends decide to attend a secret party at a remote and desolate castle, they are looking forward to a brilliant weekend. However, things quickly start to go wrong and as the weather worsens, one of their number dies…followed by another…and another… Left suspecting everyone...
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The Restaurant at the Edge of the World
Name: Linda Brown
10 January 2025;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
17-year-old Soup has always lived at The Brazen Manticore, a restaurant where she was abandoned many years ago. She has grown up in the kitchen and has been taught by those around her. Soup now lives and breathes food, and dreams of being a chef as good as her boss, the elven Trysil Heldritch,...
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Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About Amazing Women!
Name: Jane Rew
10 January 2025;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About Amazing Women! succeeds in engaging readers by asking questions that challenge our assumptions (Pocahontas was a princess, wasn't she? Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake!', didn't she?) and extend...
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Stormbreaker
Name: Matty Age 12
09 January 2025;Genre: Adventure
This book is amazing. I love it and it is the exact type of action book I read all the time. I have read it so many times because it is so exciting.
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The Wilderness of Girls
Name: Sam
09 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
At first glance, this debut YA novel appears to be a fantastical fairytale but is in fact a rather dark and emotionally fraught story of the wild girls. The Wilderness of Girls' themes are hard hitting and include PTSD, suicide, eating disorders, family and domestic violence,...
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The Legendary Scarlett and Browne
Name: Stephen Leitch
08 January 2025;Genre: Dystopian
The Legendary Scarlett and Browne is the third and final instalment of this incredible series following the exploits of the now most wanted Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne, who are in a doggedly determined and driven mood. Two years since escaping death at the hands of the H...
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Frank and Bert: The One Where Bert Plays Football
Name: Sue Wilsher
06 January 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Frank is teaching Bert all about football. Sometimes things go wrong, but Bert has a new ball and the two best friends are ready to play. When Frank spots Barbara, the best football player ever, he is delighted that she agrees to have a game with him, forgetting all about poor old Bert. But as...
