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Good Knight, Bad Knight and the Flying Machine
Name: Lucy Newton
14 May 2020;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
Good Knight, Bad Knight and the Flying Machine follows three characters; Warrick, Godwin and Berk who live in the medieval times. It begins with them stirring a great, big barrel of poo which is bound to capture children's attention! When they start to use magic, their adventu...
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The Enigma Game
Name: Sharon Bolton
14 May 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Set during World War II on the Scottish airfield of Windyedge this is a complex novel which illustrates Elizabeth Wein's attention to detail. It is a natural choice for suggesting to readers looking for a fantastic piece of historical fiction since it not only immerses the reader in the time s...
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Devil Darling Spy
Name: Sharon Bolton
12 May 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Having thoroughly enjoyed Orphan Monster Spy, I was determined to get my hands on the sequel Devil Darling Spy. Imagine the excitement when it arrived just before lockdown occurred!The start of the novel picked up where the previous one ende...
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Do Grannies Have Green Fingers?
Name: Katherine Hutchings
10 May 2020;Genre: Funny Stories
Do Grannies Have Green Fingers? is one of the first in a new series of books by Fransie Frandsen. The pages of this picture book are full of colour and interest for young readers as Fransie has used collage, photography and sketches to tell the inquisitive short story from Ale...
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The Enigma Game
Name: Tanja Jennings
10 May 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Enigma Game is meticulously researched and carefully crafted, combining the ingredients of friendship, intrigue and mystery that author Elizabeth Wein favours for her popular YA wartime adventures which began with the award-winning Code Name Verity in 2012. An inhabitant o...
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Name: Dawn Woods
07 May 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
A modern twist to the diary format, this time in the shape of a blog written by Hope Jones, aged 10. Hope's family all make New Year resolutions and Hope's is to start to reduce her consumption of plastic. Inspired by a documentary about the oceans and the plastic affecting marine life, Hope r...
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The List of Things That Will Not Change
Name: Beverley Somerset
07 May 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Ten-year-old Bea has a very loving family - but it's not a straightforward one. Her parents are divorced, and her father has come out as gay. Bea spends part of her time with her mother and the rest with her father and his partner, Jesse. When her parents told her they were separating, they ga...
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Mango Delight
Name: Susan Wilsher
07 May 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Mango Delight Fuller enjoys running and being with her best friend, Brooklyn. She is not so keen on the Cell-belles, a super-clique of girls at her school who have cell phones. As she and Brook are not allowed to have phones until they are 13, they make a happy team of two. Ho...
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Summer in the City
Name: Susan Wilsher
07 May 2020;Genre: Friends and family
Mango Delight Fuller is off to New York to make her off-Broadway debut! The school production of 'Yo, Romeo!' is being staged in New York and Mango has been asked to play Juliet. After overcoming a major misunderstanding, her family's worries and her mother's list of rules, Mango goes to stay...
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Gargantis
Name: Jacqueline Harris
07 May 2020;Genre: Adventure
This is the eagerly anticipated sequel to Malamander, last year's debut children's book by Thomas Taylor. Like Malamander, Gargantis is set in Eerie-on Sea and features Herbie Lemon, the Lost and Founder of the Nautilus Hotel, as well as Herbie Lemon and his friend Violet Parm...
