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Following the Tractor
Name: Lizi Coombs
14 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
Stegall's beautifully-crafted collages illustrate this picture book wonderfully - every page is bright and interesting to look at. The images are detailed and really illustrate the text well, aiding a younger reader's understanding. This is a great book to stretch the passion for tractors that yo...
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A Stork In The Baobab Tree
Name: Lizi Coombs
14 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is quite a charming Christmas book that shares 12 different African village Christmas Traditions. Using the classic Christmas carol 'Twelve Days Of Christmas', the reader learns about houses, food, clothing and culture in a variety of different places - at the market, in the huts, with the...
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The Pebble In My Pocket
Name: Lizi Coombs
14 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is one of those books that school librarians have difficulty classifying; is it non-fiction or is it a story that has some true parts?! It teaches the reader about the journey of a pebble, beginning 480 million years ago with the eruption of a volcano... but the text itself is quite descr...
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Monster
Name: Caroline Mitchell
13 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
At sixteen Nash thought that the fight to become Head Girl of prestigious boarding school Bathory would be the biggest battle she'd face. Until her brother, Seb's, disappearance leads to Nash being trapped at the school over Christmas with Bathory's assorted misfits. Trapped at the school with o...
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The 13-Storey Treehouse
Name: Kerra Dagley
12 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
Andy introduces us to his 13-storey treehouse which he shares with his best friend, Terry. Andy writes books for children and Terry illustrates them. The problem is they are much too busy enjoying their amazing treehouse, with its games room, see-through swimming pool, bowling alley, lemonade fo...
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The End
Name: Kathryn Flagner
11 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is the 7th and final book in a series which began with The Enemy. Everyone aged over 13 has developed an illness, those not killed by it are now mindless zombies with a need for the flesh of children. For survival the children group together, forming tribes in defendable buildings such as...
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Asking For It
Name: Kathryn Flagner
05 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
The day after attending a party at the home of a friend the parents of 17 year old Emma find her semi-conscious on the front lawn. The next day in school all of her classmates, including her closest friends, refuse to let her sit with them and won't speak with her. Emma doesn't understand this...
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The Imaginary
Name: Lorraine Ansell
05 November 2015;Genre: Friends and family
Rudger is Amanda's imaginary best friend and together they have the most amazing adventures, where objects are brought to life and new worlds created by Amanda's extraordinary imagination. Rudger happily lives in her house until one night when the sinister Mr Bunting and his shadowy accomplice...
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Penguin Small
Name: Marie Berry
04 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
Penguin Small introduces us to another of Mick Inkpen's loveable characters. The story tells the tale of Penguin Small, who want to escape to the South Pole with his friends but is too afraid to swim out to sea. Left behind to face the big bully polar bears, Penguin Small find friendship with a...
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THAT'S (NOT) MINE
Name: Marie Berry
01 November 2015;Genre: Adventure
If you've got sharing issues in your house then this is the picture book for you. This book tells the story of two bears arguing over whose chair it is and who was sitting in it first. That typical sharing argument and its escalation are depicted well in this story. There is good use of amusin...
