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Back of the Net
Name: Ruth Cornish
12 July 2024;Genre: Bullying
Back of the Net is a joyous book which, ultimately, celebrates the value of true friendship. Eva, the main character, is a skilled football player who is forced to change schools due to her father's job but this has advantages for her too, as it means she can escape the bullie...
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How to Launch a Tech Start-Up: Robotics, Gaming and Other Tech Jobs
Name: Jane Rew
12 July 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
This slim paperback is bursting with interesting facts, presented in easy-to-read clear typeface (some emboldened, allowing readers to skim and scan with ease), pleasing blocks of colour delineating different chunks of text, and cartoon illustrations (some with speech bubbles), which make unfa...
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Roman Boy
Name: Hayley Summerfield
11 July 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
Roman Boy is the brilliant new book by Tony Bradman. This story is full of thrilling historical action and adventure. Lucius is a 15-year-old Roman boy who wants to feel like he belongs. His mother has recently been widowed and then remarried, and Lucius does not really feel...
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How to Launch a Tech Start-Up: Robotics, Gaming and Other Tech Jobs
Name: Rebecca GREEN
10 July 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
As a teacher committed to preparing students for the ever-evolving job market, I found Michelle You's How to Launch a Tech Start-Up: Robotics, Gaming and Other Tech Jobs, to be an invaluable resource. The book offers a thorough, engaging, and practical guide that helps enlight...
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The Boy to Beat the Gods
Name: Jenny Caddick
08 July 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
The Boy to Beat the Gods is a richly evocative and fascinating adventure taking inspiration from, and rooted in, the culture of African storytelling. Tales of the Yoruba spirits form the backbone and history of this epic, exciting and entertaining story and are part of a wonde...
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Kyan Green Battles the Multiverse
Name: Jenny Caddick
08 July 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Kyan Green Battles the Multiverse is the second in the series of this cool, contemporary and futuristic adventure featuring Kyan Green and his crew of multiverse hopping gamers. Think Jumanji with a sci-fi , techno twist. After the discovery of a battered old racetrack...
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The Piano at the Station
Name: Louisa Farrow
05 July 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
Lacey Layton exasperates her teachers. There is no doubt that she is clever, but she struggles to control her tongue and actually prefers the isolation room to lessons. As she puts it, 'family's more important, and having a laugh, than algebra'. When she is sent to lunch-time music lessons to...
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The Houdini Inheritance
Name: Louisa Farrow
02 July 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Houdini Inheritance is a thrill-tingler of a read! Emma Carroll captures all the fun of the rackety world of variety entertainment a hundred years ago. With a rambunctious cast of characters and brimming with surprises, the narrative has all the energy of a vaudeville show...
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Amir and the Jinn Princess
Name: Hayley Summerfield
02 July 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Amir and the Jinn Princess by M. T. Khan is a beautiful, enchanting story that takes the reader into the secret realm of the jinn. Everything in Amir's life is planned out. He is the third child of a wealthy businessman in Pakistan. Although he has the best of everythin...
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I Am Rebel
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 July 2024;Genre: Adventure
Tom is Rebel's dog. Rebel would do anything for Tom. Living happily on a farm, Rebel has no desire to do anything else. But one day soldiers come to the house and everything changes. Rebel must leave the farm and find Tom, because Tom is his boy and he loves him. Set in an indeterminate...
