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BeYOUtiful: Radiate confidence, celebrate difference and express yourself
Name: Eileen Armstrong
16 June 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
At a time when the mental health of our young people has never been more in the news, BeYOUtiful is an important, inspiring and empowering insight into what it actually means to be beautiful and, more importantly, who gets to decide. It's absolutely not a guide to what to wear...
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Call of the Titanic
Name: Jacqueline Harris
16 June 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Call of the Titanic is told from the viewpoints of two children; Clara, who is an accidental stowaway on the Carpathia, and Sid, working as a steward on the Titanic. In April 1912 they will cross paths as the story of the Titanic unfolds. Both children come from completely dif...
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Inside Out and Back Again
Name: Louisa Farrow
16 June 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Inside Out & Back Again: What is it like to leave everything you know behind - including the hope that your missing father will return from war - and make a new life halfway across the world? What's it like to feel family disaster is your fault for deliberately doing somet...
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Deadlock
Name: Stephen Leitch
15 June 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Deadlock is the second action-packed adventure from author Simon Fox. "You need to get out of the house. It's not safe." is all the warning Archie Blake gets from his dad that something is wrong - when intruders enter his house! Rendezvousing with his dad, the two aim to get t...
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The Storm Child
Name: Jo Clarke
09 June 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Having read and enjoyed Gabriela Houston's The Wind Child, I was eagerly awaiting the sequel. The wait was worth it. Readers who have not yet read and enjoyed The Wind Child may like to indulge themselves so that they have knowledge of Mara's mythical origi...
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Fablehouse
Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 June 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Heather is in care and has been put in many children's homes, all of which she has run away from. Now she has been sent to Fablehouse, specifically for children of black GIs who had come over during WW2 and had left the so called 'brown babies' behind. Heather feels she does not fit in anywher...
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Fablehouse
Name: Beverley Somerset
08 June 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Heather has already lived in several children’s homes before she comes to Fablehouse. Here, she is living with other 'Brown Babies' - children born as a result of relationships between American Black GIs and white British women. When she is befriended by Lloyd, Arlene and Nat, Heather finally...
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Until the Road Ends
Name: Louisa Farrow
08 June 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Adventure, heroism, suspense, pathos, humour: Until the Road Ends has them all. I was gripped from the first line: 'Beau's life started one second before it almost ended'. Who wouldn’t want to read on after that? Beau turns out to be a stray dog, who is saved from under...
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Rosie Raja Mission to Cairo
Name: Sue Wilsher
08 June 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
After the success of their French mission, Rosie Raja is keen to avoid being sent to boarding school by her dad. However, a new mission to Cairo with her father posing as an Egyptologist sees Rosie back in action on the trail of a British traitor. But with the stakes higher than ever, everyone...
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Rosie Raja: Churchill's Spy
Name: Hayley Summerfield
07 June 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Rosie Raja: Churchill's Spy is a brilliant WWII adventure story. It conveys an excellent representation of female roles during wartime and the harsh realities of a world war in occupied France. Having recently been brought to England by her father from India, the Indian...
