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Einstein the Penguin
Name: Amanda Shipton
01 February 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
In an effort to ensure that their children did not get bored, on a bitterly chilly Saturday in December, Mrs Stewart decided to take the family to the zoo. This is where the adventure begins. Young Arthur is desperate to see the penguins and, even though the zoo is about to close for the day,...
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Mike Falls Up
Name: Maria Aldred
31 January 2022;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
Mike falls Up is a short chapter book about friendships and adventure from Little Tiger books. Mike and his dog Bowow are relaxing in the Chocolate Hills when after an earthquake a huge hole appears in the ground and Bowow disappears. Then a note floats up ...Birthday. Come no...
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Princess Sophia Duleep Singh
Name: Donna Ritchie
31 January 2022;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Before reading Princess Sophia Duleep Singh (My Story), I had not heard of Princess Sophia but since finishing the book it has made me have look more into the life of her and her family. Set in the late 1800s and early 1900s, it follows the life of Sophia and her royal family...
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National Trust: How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear
Name: Wendy Kelly
28 January 2022;Genre: Environment
How to Help a Hedgehog and Protect a Polar Bear a lovely, bright and appealing non-fiction book which has been written in conjunction with the National Trust. It gives lots of simple and practical ways children can help protect wildlife and the environment. It ranges from comm...
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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Jane Rew
28 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
Jasper Wilde adores his sister. They've spent many happy hours together, in trees, out walking, watching wildlife, listening to nightingales. So now, it's too much to bear that Rosie might be gone. If, as his parents say, she's gone 'to a better place', surely he can find her. She said she'd a...
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The Bird Singers
Name: Jennifer Caddick
28 January 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
The Bird Singers is a thrilling, intriguing and superbly sinister mystery - such a page turner! Laylah and younger sister Izzie reluctantly have to join mum on a last minute 'holiday' to the Lake District. Dad doesn't come (he is too busy working away - again). The girl...
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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Louisa Farrow
27 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
Jasper is feeling lost and anxious. His parents have been preoccupied with work since starting their own business and now they seem tired and upset too. His big sister Rosie hasn't come back from university to see him, even though she promised she would; apparently she has gone to a 'better pl...
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Apple Grumble
Name: Maria Faithorn
27 January 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
Uh oh.. Bad Apple is back! Still as nasty as ever but now he's grumpy, too! Will Granny Smith and all the other apples be able to change his ways and teach him some manners? Red and Golden encourage Bad Apple to be sweet like them, Bramley, Braeburn and Cox show him how teamwork makes the drea...
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The Hunt for the Nightingale
Name: Elen Green
26 January 2022;Genre: Bereavement
The Hunt for the Nightingale is a book that stays with you for a long time, as you connect so completely with the child narrator, Jasper, as he sets out on a quest to find a nightingale and his missing sister, and on the way discovers new friends and the courage he didn't thin...
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Diary of an Accidental Witch: Flying High
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
25 January 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Bea Black is back! (see book 1, Diary of an Accidental Witch). Bea Black is settling into life as a witch, she is finally mastering some spells and shows real skill at looking after animals, especially frogs, but life isn't all rosy. Unable to tell her best (non-magical) friend Ash about her n...
