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Clem and Crab
Name: Kyle Matravers
19 August 2019;Genre: Environment & Nature
Clem and Crab is a beautiful picture book that helps remind readers of the need to look after the world we live in. The story starts with us learning of Clem's love of the beach. This is shared with us through the use of beautiful description that really makes you feel like yo...
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Voyages in the Underworld of Orpheus Black
Name: Tanja Jennings
19 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
This book takes the reader on a fascinating and insightful journey. Told through the mediums of art, poetry and prose, it challenges, stimulates and surprises. The second collaboration between acclaimed writers Julian and Marcus Sedgwick since their Blakean-influenced graphic novel, Dark Satanic...
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The Impossible Boy
Name: Donna Burkert
19 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
Oleg and Emma are friends. Their home lives are less than perfect (Emma's mum works all hours just to keep her family fed and Oleg's dad is unemployed and suffering with depression, leaving Oleg to care for his grandmother) but they are held together by their joint need to escape reality and find...
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Jelly
Name: Sharon Bolton
19 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
'Pitiful Pete was sitting right on the edge of the Jellyfish, facing out towards the far coast, and a few of us had gathered to watch.' So opens this dystopian novel set in the not so distant future. Martha, the protagonist, is amongst a group of humans trapped on a lethal Jellyfish facing a shor...
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So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Rome
Name: Carol Carter
18 August 2019;Genre: Non Fiction
So You Think You've Got It Bad? A Kid's Life in Ancient Rome is the third in a series from Nosy Crow and the British Museum, with Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece having already been covered. These books have a very Horrible Histories vibe, but the larger format and colour ill...
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Seafire
Name: Linda Brown
18 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
This high action adventure has drama on each page, and it doesn't stop until the last one; and even then it leaves you wanting more... Caledonia Styx is the Captain of the Mors Navis, she sails the seas with her all female crew with vengeance on her mind. Four years previously the ship belonged...
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This is Frog
Name: Judith Greenall
16 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
This book introduces the reader to Frog, or Tree Frog, to give him his full name, and we watch some of his everyday experiences in his natural habitat, the rainforest. But this is not a book for the passive reader; it is a fully interactive experience. We are encouraged to engage with Frog thro...
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Brain Fizzing Facts - Awesome Science Questions Answered
Name: Bryony Davies,
16 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
Reading Brain Fizzing Facts is like having every child in your class ask a difficult or random question and you having the perfect answer! Dr Emily Grossman has picked a range of wacky, random and highly interesting questions that cover all areas of science. Each section starts with a question...
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A Witch Come True
Name: Andrew Mullen
16 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
We join Arianwyn one final time as James Nicol expertly brings our time in Lull to a close. The war may be over but a witch's duties are never done it seems, even when your closest friends are enjoying themselves with all sorts of Yule traditions. Winter is setting in, dark creatures are appear...
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Ella May
Name: Louise Gahan
16 August 2019;Genre: Adventure
Ella May Does It Her Way is a tale of one girl's desire to try something new - in Ella May's case, to walk backwards, and then to keep trying to do things like reading and getting into bed, 'backwards'. Soon, everyone else wants to try things her way, too. Ella May Does It Her Way is an inspirat...
