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Food for All: What We Eat and Where it Comes From
Name: Louise Gahan
09 June 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
We all - humans and creatures, large and small - need food to live. But where does our food come from, and who eats what? This thought-provoking and visually rich book explores nearly 20 aspects of food and feeding, from growing crops and raising animals to the surprising eati...
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Marching Band
Name: Jen Bevan
09 June 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Come join the Marching Band as they travel through a bright and colourful world. They march through the city, a jungle and they even march under water. Count the animals and people with instruments on each page. Marching Band is an amazing rhyming book...
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Is it a Book or is it a Plane?
Name: Wendy Kelly
09 June 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
The first thing to note about this book is that it's raising money for charity; the publishers have pledged a percentage from each copy sold to support the work of the Play Team at Great Ormand Street Hospital. Is it a Book or is it a Plane? is a lovely book for young c...
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Fireborne
Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 June 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Lee and Annie have been friends since they met at the orphanage. Now they are both dragonriders and their pasts come back to haunt them. Will those pasts tear them apart or will the bonds forged learning to ride dragons over come what has happened? Set in a land with a recent revolutionary pas...
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The Hive
Name: Eileen Armstrong
09 June 2025;Genre: Dystopian
In the post-climate change, disaster stricken world of The Hive, rising sea levels mean that the remaining humans live in strictly-controlled, self-sufficient underground colonies built into the mountain tops. In one of these, the Hive colony, Feldspar, a bodyguard or shield, has been brought...
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Feel Your Happy
Name: Maria
09 June 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Feel Your Happy is a book that needs to be in every home and classroom and read to every child because it supports empathy and an understanding that we are all different and all unique. Sloth takes us on a journey with our senses exploring the world through sigh...
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Snow Globe 2
Name: Clair Bossons
06 June 2025;Genre: Dystopian
Snowglobe 2 brings a gripping conclusion to the ground breaking Snowglobe duology, a dystopian series set in a world ravaged by climate disaster. Exploring themes of surveillance, reality TV, genetic engineering and class inequality, this novel delivers a thought-provoking and...
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A Mouse Just Ate My House!
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 June 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
A naughty little mouse with very sharp teeth is constantly eating…the kitchen, the bathroom, the pest controller. Will anything make it stop? Fast paced and funny, A Mouse Just Ate my House is a riotous romp, perfect for reading aloud! Many readers will be familiar with Kes Gr...
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Nate Yu's Blast from the Past: boy meets ghost in a tale of unlikely friendship
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Nate Riley is an amateur myrmecologist and has his own ant farm, ruled by Queen Elizabeth III - or Betsy as she is affectionately known. With his mums, he has recently moved to Liverpool and unlike him, the 'parentals' (as he calls them) are very keen for him to take...
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His Face is the Sun (Throne of Khetara): NYT bestselling epic Ancient Egyptian fantasy
Name: Grace Horn
04 June 2025;Genre: Fantasy
His Face is the Sun, the first Throne of Khetara book, is set in a world inspired by Ancient Egypt, and is told from the perspective of four different narrators who each influence the story in different ways. They are Sita the Princess, Neff the priestess, Rae the rebel and Ka...
