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Name: Carol Carter
10 January 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
Little Bird Flies is a stunning historical novel for 9+ telling the story of one family's life on a Scottish island during the 1860s.Little Bird, Bridie MacKerrie, has the same life and same future laid out for her as all of the other children on the island of Torn...
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Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Name: Sharon Bolton
09 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
A book about two individuals' stories, told in a beautifully written dual narrative style. Stevie's life has taken a downturn since the death of her dad; her mum is severely depressed and getting worse, leaving Stevie as the main carer for both of them. Add into the mix a new boy at school who is...
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Only The Ocean
Name: Clare Wilkins
08 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Kel Crow is a swamp girl, raised in deprivation on the wrong side of the tracks by a family renowned for their lawless and bleak existence. Her tough exterior means she keeps a distance from the baby she is raising and hides a fear of the heart condition that shadows her every move. In a post-a...
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Captain Cat and the Treasure Map
Name: June Hughes
08 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Patch is a cat aboard a pirate ship, crewed by a motley collection including a monkey and a parrot as well as a few human pirates. Patch's role in life is to save the human crew from the scrapes they get themselves into and, in this first book of a new series, Patch and her friends must prevent t...
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Moth - An Evolution Story
Name: June Hughes
08 January 2019;Genre: Non Fiction
Moth - An Evolution Story is a visually stunning picture book, from the midnight blue and sparkling silver cover to the intense colours of the internal pages - you can almost feel the soot coming off the page! It tells the story of the peppered moth and how it adapted to chang...
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Evermore
Name: Linda Brown
07 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Evermore, throws us right back into Jules world, and there isn't much time to catch your breath. Jules has returned to Crofton to find her friend Amma. Except, a very dangerous Caro is waiting for her and with the help of her guards, Jules is quickly captured and thrown in prison. I'm not going...
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Voices of the Future: Stories from Around the World
Name: Bryony Davies
06 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Voices of the Future: Stories from Around the World is a delightful anthology of stories written by children from every corner of the Earth. These stories provide interest, humour, culture and fun while an engaging section on the UN's Sustainable Goals provides educational background to the proje...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
04 January 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
When Clarry is born, her mother dies and her indifferent father leaves her and her brother, Peter, to be raised by a series of housekeepers and well-intentioned neighbours. They long for their summer holidays in Cornwall where, largely ignored by their grandparents, they roam free with their c...
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Mini Rabbit Not Lost
Name: Erin Foote
03 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Mini Rabbit and his one track mind...cake, cake, cake. Mini Rabbit is helping Mother Rabbit bake a berry cake, but there are no more berries in the jar. Mini Rabbit sets off on an adventure to find more berries for the cake. He reaches some far away places in his quest - dark woods, a lighth...
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Amazing
Name: Kyle Matravers
03 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Amazing is the latest offering from Steve Antony, who is quickly becoming an author who seems to effortlessly create (both writing and illustrating) fantastic books. Amazing centres around a little boy who, from looking at the front cover, we know is already different from his peers. This stra...
