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Where The River Takes Us
Name: Beverley Somerset
28 February 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Since the death of their parents in an accident, 13-year-old Jason has been looked after by his older brother Richie in a small village in Wales. It's 1974, the country is in the midst of the miner's strikes; power cuts are in force so working-class families are forced to work a three-day-week...
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No-Dig Children's Gardening Book
Name: Sharon Porter
28 February 2023;Genre: Environment
When we first looked at the No-Dig Children's Gardening Book, we wondered how we could garden without digging? However, a quick read of the blurb put us right. This non-fiction book is full of double page spreads covering all sorts of techniques to help preserve the integrity...
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Stateless
Name: Clare Wilkins
27 February 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
An air race across Europe, with the continent's finest young aviators, is the brain child of Lady Frith - an attempt at unity and peace at a time of simmering tensions. As the Spanish Civil War continues to rage and the ghosts of the Great War have barely been laid to rest, the Circuit of Nati...
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Can You Get Rainbows in Space
Name: Jenny Caddick
27 February 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Can You Get Rainbows in Space is a beautifully bright and scientific non-fiction epic book with all you ever wanted to know about light and colour, explaining just how we get to view the world in so many glorious shades. It is a delightfully bold and eye catching hardback and...
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The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
Name: Jenny Caddick
27 February 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair is a powerfully written dual narrative story that follows the lives and emotional journeys of several members of the same family, several generations apart. It is a story that explores mental health in the most unique and moving manner throu...
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The Wishkeeper's Apprentice
Name: Nicola Mansfield
26 February 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
I have to say, I am so incredibly sad to have finished this book. The Wishkeeper's Apprentice is beautiful, heartwarming and a book that is definitely needed in the world at the minute. The book focuses on the life of the main character, Felix Jones, who makes a wish one day i...
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Swimming on the Moon
Name: Louisa Farrow
26 February 2023;Genre: Family & Home
Anna remembers happy holidays with her family in the past and dreams about more in the future. But, right now, there is the much more awkward present to negotiate. Her parents seem to be arguing constantly and when she and her twin, Anto, eavesdrop at the top of the stairs, Anna's worries only...
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The Wishkeeper's Apprentice
Name: Jenny Caddick
26 February 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
I thoroughly enjoyed this warm hearted, charming and delightfully illustrated magical story for younger readers. The wonderfully named Rupus Beewinkle is the elderly Wishkeeper of Whittlestone and keeping up with the ever-growing list of wishes is exhausting and endless. 'Wish snags' (where wi...
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Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories
Name: Amanda Shipton
24 February 2023;Genre: Friends and family
When two best friends experience different adventures with the purpose of making each other happy it can only lead to beautiful discoveries about themselves. This is what Jarvis has created through these three simply beautiful stories. In Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stor...
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Woodwitch
Name: Sue Wilsher
24 February 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Cassie has settled into life in the village of Hedgely. Her broomstick riding is improving and has found loyal friends in Rue and Tabitha, fellow members of Oak Patrol at her school. As Hallowe'en approaches, some of the villagers start behaving strangely, possessed with the need to locate a m...
