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Courage Out Loud
Name: Lizi Backhouse
22 March 2023;Genre: Poetry
Written by the Children's Laureate for 2022-2024, Courage Out Loud is a collection of 25 poems that are all about bravery and courage in different ways. Each poem has a short blurb explaining it, the type of poem it is or suggesting a way the reader could respond to the poem....
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Flock Horror (Dread Wood, Book 3)
Name: Linda Canning
21 March 2023;Genre: Horror
Anyone who has read my previous reviews of the Dread Wood series knows by now that I am a walking contradiction: I'm a self-confessed wimp, whilst simultaneously being a massive Jennifer Killick buff. I've found myself in the awkward quandary of being a horror fan, who hates h...
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Adventuremice
Name: Amanda Shipton
21 March 2023;Genre: Animals
Any adult will tell you that the best way to get a child to do something is to tell them not to do it. This is exactly what happens to Pedro! Looking for an adventure, he sets off on a journey to find the mysterious Mouse Islands. Swept out to sea with his suitcase he tells himself he must be...
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The Door of No Return
Name: Eileen Armstrong
20 March 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Door of No Return is, according to Alexander himself, "the hardest book I've ever written" and it is, undoubtedly, a masterpiece. Ambitious and accomplished in scale and in scope, it works on three levels: as the story of one boy and his family growing up in a small West A...
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Flock Horror (Dread Wood, Book 3)
Name: Beverley Somerset
20 March 2023;Genre: Horror
When Angelo is woken in the middle of the night and hears something hammering at his bedroom window, along with a strange tune being whistled, it's the start of another scary adventure for Club Loser. Angelo and his friends Colette, Gus, Naira and Hallie come face to face with their arch enemi...
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The Nowhere Thief
Name: Jennifer Caddick
18 March 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
This is an exciting, colourful sci-fi adventure that whisks the reader into parallel multi-universes (called Spheres), through an incredible kaleidoscopic portal. 12-year-old Elsbeth has, astonishingly, found that she can step through these portals and she does so for the most important of rea...
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Much Too Busy
Name: Maria
17 March 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Much Too Busy is about the chance meeting of Pigeon and Mouse. Pigeon is busy, very, very busy indeed. He is rushing here and there and never has time to stop and notice people or places. We meet him being SO busy that he finds himself lost and very bothered. He meets Mouse wh...
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In or Out: a tale of cat versus dog
Name: Maria
17 March 2023;Genre: Funny Stories
This book is SO clever! In or Out tells the tale of Dog and Cat and Cat's indecisiveness. Dog wants in but Cat want in, then out...and it just goes on and on. Dog is extremely patient letting Cat in and out as he plays, paints and relaxes indoors. The gorgeous illustrations sh...
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Stink. Worst. Fairy. Ever.
Name: Amanda Shipton
17 March 2023;Genre: Funny Stories
We all remember those surprise birthday presents when we think that people have bought us things that they wanted! None of us have received a present like Danny Todd was given by his little sister Sophie. Out of an innocent looking fairy door came Stink, the rudest, naughtiest fairy that there...
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Circus Maximus: Rider of the Storm
Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 March 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Dido is back in her third adventure set in Roman times. As with the previous two books, she is training and racing horses for the chariot races. Still at her uncle's house, she meets a man from her mother's past and learns more about her parents. When her cousin Abibaal is in deadly danger, Di...
