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  • Animal Sidekicks: Amazing Stories of Symbiosis in Animals and Plants

    Animal Sidekicks: Amazing Stories of Symbiosis in Animals and Plants

    Name: Jennifer Caddick
    15 April 2022;

    Genre: Animals

    Animal Sidekicks is packed with fascinating, true and sometimes strange facts about symbiosis - the relationship between members of two different species (whether positive or negative). Symbiosis and the science around it is made concise and clear in this brilliant book...

  • Dino Knights: Invasion

    Dino Knights: Invasion

    Name: Sam Phillips
    14 April 2022;

    Genre: Adventure

    Dino Knights: Invasion is the second book in a fast-paced fantasy adventure trilogy, set in a medieval land where dinosaurs still roam. Written by Jeff Norton, this is an absolute must have for any Lower KS2 class library and for those new to chapter books and for reluctant re...

  • The Light in Everything: from the winner of the Yoto Carnegie Medal 2022

    The Light in Everything

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    14 April 2022;

    Genre: Family & Home

    It took no time at all to be entranced by the beautiful prose and emotional depth of this wonderful story: I raced through it compulsively - and then felt a sense of loss when it was over too soon. Born in a storm and with a character to match, Zofia is loud and bold and sometimes boili...

  • Truth be Told

    Truth be Told

    Name: Lucy Georgeson
    14 April 2022;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Tara is from Derry, Faith is from Armagh; their lives are very different, but they look exactly the same - they just don't know why... Two teens from very different backgrounds - Tara, the Catholic daughter of a two generation single parent family, and Faith, the daughter of strict Evangelical...

  • SuperQuesters: The Case of the Stolen Sun

    SuperQuesters: The Case of the Stolen Sun

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    14 April 2022;

    Genre: Early Skills

    Super Questers: The Case of the Stolen Sun tasks children with solving a range of problems, using STEM skills. This means they have to use logic and a variety of maths, science and technology approaches. The book itself is high quality, A4-sized and thick cardboard covers. The...

  • Let's Go Outside!

    Let's Go Outside!

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    14 April 2022;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Those of us who were children in the 1980's will remember the TV programme 'Why Don't You' telling us to 'switch off the TV and go and do something less boring instead'. This book is a brilliant set of suggestions to do just that. Let's Go Outside! is a large, good qual...

  • The Sky Over Rebecca

    The Sky over Rebecca

    Name: Donna Ritchie
    14 April 2022;

    Genre: Adventure

    The Sky over Rebecca is a story which combines two different places and times. Kara lives in Stockholm with her mum, who works extremely hard and means that Kara has a lot of looking after herself to do. However, her grandad lives not far from her home and Kara visits and spea...

  • Once Upon a Big Idea: The Story of Inventions

    Once Upon a Big Idea

    Name: Maria Aldred
    14 April 2022;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Once Upon a Big Idea is book is a brilliant journey through lots of important inventions in our world. The clever rhyming text meanders beautifully through inventions that have changed the world and our lives. Each double page spread draws you in with the vibrant illustrations...

  • The Eyebrows of Doom

    The Eyebrows of Doom

    Name: Maria
    14 April 2022;

    Genre: Humour

    The Eyebrows of Doom is a hilarious book! We meet big bear Dave who is happily sweeping the floor until the eyebrows of doom enter his life. After jumping onto Dave, these naughty creatures cause havoc as they invade the lives of so many on their mischievous travels, causing a...

  • Wished

    Wished

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    08 April 2022;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Ed and his sister Roo are forced to stay with their elderly neighbour Miss Filey, whilst their parents are at work. Miss Filey lives in a home almost untouched by time, she knows little of the modern world. She also has a cat called Attlee, who is ancient in cat years and smells. Willard is th...