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Here be Wizards: The Snowdonia Chronicles (Book Three)
Name: Linda Brown
06 February 2020;Genre: Fantasy
Here Be Wizards is the final part to the Snowdonia Chronicles trilogy. Four months have passed since the adventure of the first book, Here be Dragons. It is now Midsummer's Eve, the time w...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
05 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Juniper is thirteen and lives in the city with her little brother Bear. To the children, this city seems like a cage, as they used to live in the Wild. Leaving the city and returning to their mother has always been their dream. But this is a time when the world has changed. Fifty years previou...
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Name: Katie Bradwell
05 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Where the World Turns Wild is a beautiful, enchanting novel which tells the tale of siblings Jupiter and Bear and their search to reconnect to their parents. The novel is set in a world where a disease has wiped out a large proportion of the population, and those surviving are forced to live i...
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Name: Donna Burkert
04 February 2020;Genre: Personal Growth
Frances Frida Ripley: born in a storm (or so her parents so often reminisce), filled with anger and unrest. She spends her life being told to quieten down, to control her anger, to just be something that she's not. But she can't! She can't be like her sweet sister Bridie, she can't be like her...
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Where the Wilderness Lives
Name: Kelly Buxton
04 February 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Where the Wilderness Lives is a story filled with adventure and nature, intertwined with magic and folklore but grounded by the trials and tribulations that accompany childhood.There are so many aspects this book lends itself to; vibrant descriptions take you on a...
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Adventures on Trains: The Highland Falcon Thief
Name: Kelly Buxton
03 February 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I thoroughly enjoyed going on a fact-finding adventure aboard The Highway Falcon, a locomotive on its final voyage. Hal, who reluctantly joins his travel-writer uncle, finds more than he anticipated when he is thrown into the role of unveiling a jewel thief. Brimming with twists and turns, thi...
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Tad
Name: Kyle Matravers
03 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
As a fan of Benji Davies' work, I was really excited to receive this to read. Thankfully, it did not disappoint. Tad is the smallest tadpole in the pond. She is so small that she has to wriggle her tail twice as fast as her brothers and sisters just to keep up with them. The 'almost frogs' are m...
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Nothing Ever Happens Here
Name: Lucy Russell
03 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Izzy lives in Littlehaven, a small town in the East of England where nothing ever happens. Until the day, that is, when Izzy's dad tells her that he is transgender, and is about to start living as a woman, Danielle. Reeling from the shock, Izzy attempts to get on with school, auditioning for t...
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A Throne of Swans
Name: Tanja Jennings
02 February 2020;Genre: Fantasy
From the elegant cover featuring a 3D model of a specially designed throne and a lone feather to its pages filled with Machiavellian machinations, teen angst, secrets, love, betrayal, sacrifice and intricate world building involving avian transformation, 'A Throne of Swans' delivers a rich YA tre...
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The International Yeti Collective
Name: Wiebke Howey
02 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
After a close encounter with human explorers, young mountain yeti Tick has to try everything in his power to protect the secret of yetis all over the world. Even if it involves travelling a long way, and working together with human girl, Ella. The book is told from two points of view, on the on...
