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Loki A Bad God's Guide to Taking the Blame
Name: Donna Burkert
15 July 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
Loki, disguised as 11-year-old schoolboy Liam, is once again trying to prove that he can be a Good God in Loki A Bad God's Guide to Taking the Blame, the second book in the Loki series by Louie Stowell. Seeing out his punishment by Odin in the mortal world, as part of a 'famil...
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Hot Dog
Name: Kyle Matravers
15 July 2022;Genre: Picture Books
Hot Dog longs to be a real dog, so he can fetch a stick and catch a ball and run around like all the other dogs he sees on the beach. This all appears to be just a pipe dream for this poor little sausage... that is until the Mustard Fairy comes along! Mark Sperring has teamed...
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An Imaginary Menagerie
Name: Wendy Kelly
15 July 2022;Genre: Poetry
Veteran poet Roger McGough has written and illustrated this quick little collection of poems which will appeal to fluent junior readers (ages 9+). The poems feature real and imagined creatures for every letter from A to Z and are humorous - such as the hairy canary who's been eating steroids -...
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Dave and Greta Make the World Better!
Name: Wendy Kelly
15 July 2022;Genre: Environment
Dave and Greta Make the World Better! Dave is a fox and Greta is an Owl (I'm sure Attenborough and Thunberg are delighted!) and they both live in the wood. Noticing that summers are getting warmer and winters aren't as cold, Dave stumbles upon the thorny issue of climate chang...
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Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon
Name: Jane Rew
15 July 2022;Genre: Friendship
Parents are totally embarrassing. Teachers are figures of fun, names have been changed to protect the innocent, i.e. Peri (Petunia) and her best friend Cammy (Camembert) from ridicule (with only limited success). Spoons, cats, boys you like and boys you loathe, weird outfits and, of course, an...
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Agent Moose
Name: Donna Ritchie
14 July 2022;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
What a brilliant book. Agent Moose is excellent for reluctant readers or anyone who loves comic style books. As a child I was such a reader - I hated books but couldn't get enough of comics. If these books were around then, I'm sure the transition from comics to 'books' would...
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The Mermaid Call
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 July 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Lake Splendour is a seaside town built around the myth of Lake Mermaid and the 'Mermaid Girls'. Vivian lives with her grandmother at a tourist shop called Enchanted Tails, one of many businesses which benefit from the story, like those of her friends Erik and Eleni. When some children at her s...
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The Mermaid Call
Name: Sharon Porter
11 July 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Want a great summer read which will keep you turning pages, wanting to know more? Then The Mermaid Call is the book for you. It's a cracking tale of intrigue, suffrage and being true to yourself. The characters ebb and flow (pardon the watery pun!) and how the theme of reinven...
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The Extraordinary Voyage of Katy Willacott
Name: Sam Green
09 July 2022;Genre: Adventure
The Extraordinary Voyage of Katy Willacott takes us back in time to the end of the Victorian era, when the Natural History Museum first opened and voyages of exploration were still bringing new plants back to Kew Gardens to record and study. Katy Willacott's parents bo...
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Some Sunny Day
Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 July 2022;Genre: Family & Home
Cymbeline Igloo, the boy with the best name in children's literature, is back, in this his fourth outing. Some Sunny Day takes place during the pandemic, in the early days of the first lockdown. Cymbeline has online lessons and is missing his friends. His mother is completely...
