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  • Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future: People Power series

    Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future: People Power series

    Name: Stephen Leitch
    13 September 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Inspiring Inventors Who Are Changing Our Future gives a fascinating insight into inventors and their inventions that are having an impact on millions of lives throughout the world today. Many were unknown to me - both inventor and invention - and that's what made this a really...

  • Marv and the Dino Attack: from the multi-award nominated Marv series

    Marv and the Dino Attack

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    12 September 2023;

    Genre: Adventure

    Marvin, a secret superhero with a robot sidekick named Pixel, is super excited because he's going on a school trip to the Natural History Museum to see some REAL dinosaur bones. Marvin and Joe can't wait to see all those dinosaur skeletons up close, but they get more than they bargained for wh...

  • Woodland Magic 2: Deer in Danger

    Woodland Magic 2: Deer in Danger

    Name: Jen Bevan
    11 September 2023;

    Genre: Environment

    I have rated this book 5+ as I think children of this age will enjoy listening to the book. I think the book is perfect for 7+ children to read independently. I love the new Woodland Magic series. I was keen to find out what adventures Cora, Jax and their friends would...

  • Orion Lost

    Orion Lost

    Name: Review Age 11
    09 September 2023;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    This book was really fun to read, I loved the twists and turns in it - it made it seem a bit more like a mystery, with space pirates etc. Keep up the good work.

  • The Stolen Songbird: From the bestselling author of The Accidental Stowaway

    The Stolen Songbird

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    09 September 2023;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Caro Monday lives in a pub in Waterloo with her two mothers. One of her mothers runs the pub while the other is a famous whistling star, who travels the world. One day Caro is forced to go and stay with her great aunt who lives in Hampstead. Her whistling mother has disappeared, and Caro has n...

  • Queen of Gods (House of Shadows 2): the unmissable sequel to Daughter of Darkness

    Queen of Gods (House of Shadows 2)

    Name: Clare Wilkins
    08 September 2023;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    Feisty Deina is no fan of the duplicitous Gods. Nor is she a fan of the war-mongering Aristaeus but, bound by the seeds Thanatos commanded her to swallow in order to save her friends, she is tied to the Underworld. Hades wants her daughter to join her and become a God but despite conflicting e...

  • Welcome to Camp Killer

    Welcome to Camp Killer

    Name: Emelia Helliwell
    08 September 2023;

    Genre: Horror

    Welcome to Camp Killer is set in the north of England and is about a group of teenagers who start their summer looking to earn money and have fun helping to run a new American-style residential camp called 'Camp Miller' in the grounds of a stately home. When opening 'Ca...

  • We Are All Astronauts: Discover what it takes to be a space explorer!

    We are all Astronauts!

    Name: Lucy Hopkins
    08 September 2023;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Another great book from Kate Pankhurst about women doing amazing things! We are all Astronauts! starts with a little girl called Luna who wants to be an astronaut. It's a great book that is packed with facts and information all about being an astronaut but presented as a story...

  • Marv and the Mega Robot

    Marv and the Mega Robot

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    07 September 2023;

    Genre: Adventure

    In Marv and the Mega Robot, the first in the Marv series, Marvin makes a robot for his school science fair with his friend Joe. They call it the read-aloud 3000 as it can read words from paper. But when the robot breaks, Marvin is understandably upset, especially as another bo...

  • Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire!: A Sprinkling of Danger

    Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire!: A Sprinkling of Danger

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    06 September 2023;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    A Sprinkling of Danger finds Alice Éclair on another spying adventure. When an American film crew arrives at the beautiful palace of Versailles, there is great excitement, but suspicions that a spy is amongst them means Alice is once more on the case. Using her baking skills,...