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Bite Risk
Name: Emelia Helliwell
13 March 2024;Genre: Horror
At first glance you can tell what the theme of the book is going to be, with its well illustrated front cover. Bite Risk is a book that has family, friendship, trust and a dash of adventure, perfect for younger teens. Bite Risk follows the lives of teenagers in a small...
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Alberta A Cautionary tale
Name: Joanne Thomas
13 March 2024;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Alberta: A Cautionary Tale offers a twist on the classic Little Red Riding Hood tale. This story follows Alberta - a little girl who doesn't listen to her mother and always gets her own way. She follows an interesting stranger into the woods (who happens to be little red ridin...
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Ten Little Ducklings
Name: Jessica Bunney
13 March 2024;Genre: Early Skills
Ten Little Ducklings is a book of hide-and-seek. On each page, the ten ducklings are in a different scene getting up to their own tricks! We are asked to find a specific duck on each page and there's a rather helpful mouse with its magnifying glass on hand ready to assist....
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New Kid On Deck: Pirate Academy #1
Name: Elen Green
12 March 2024;Genre: Adventure
What a great start to what promises to be a fun, adventure-filled series, Pirate Academy. In New Kid on Deck we're introduced to a strongly bonded group of children who are training to be - pirates! I love the concept and know many young readers will be hooke...
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Goddess Crown
Name: Julie Broadbent
11 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
This YA fantasy debut novel by Shade Lapite has it all; it is a beautiful love story, it has murder, intrigue, plot twists and despicable villains. Set in the imaged country of Galla, we are introduced to our heroine and the main protagonist of the story, Kalothia. She...
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The Tree and the River
Name: Wendy Kelly
11 March 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
What an extraordinary book. Entirely wordless, The Tree and the River looks at a particular place in space and time. A verdant landscape, with a winding river and an elegant mature tree. Turn the page, and there is the same scene except a house is now being constructed next to...
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The Wilderness
Name: Wendy Kelly
11 March 2024;Genre: Adventure
Remember Lemoney Snicket and his Series of Unfortunate Events? The Wilderness has the same sort of tone and approach, as an unseen narrator tells the story and explains key vocabulary relating to the rather splendid Vasylenko family. Mum and Dad and 11 of their 12 child...
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Footprint
Name: Jacqueline Harris
11 March 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Footprint is all about appreciating the beauty and wonder of nature. Children walk across the pages and look at the changing scenery and just stop to take it all in. The places that they go range from the snow-covered Arctic to a jungle, but in each place they stop and 'just b...
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The Cloud Thief
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Withering-on-the-Sand-Sea, like many other villages, is dependent on cloud deliveries from the Cloud Factory for its survival. With rising prices and smaller clouds, Mara and the other villagers are finding life harder. Worried about Old Bern, who is suffering from the Thwart, Mara overhears a...
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The Magician Next Door
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 March 2024;Genre: Magical Realism
Callie and her father have moved away from London, away from her friends, away from her memories. Struggling to settle into her new life in Northern Ireland, she is staring out of her window one night, unable to sleep, when a loud BOOM announces the arrival of an upside-down house in her back...
