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Ice Apprentices: Volume 1
Name: Hayley Summerfield
10 February 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Ice Apprentices by Jacon North is an epic magical debut set in the fantasy world of Tundra. This enchanted place with is memorable hero will ignite many children's passion for reading. We are first introduced to Tundra - the world of I...
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It's a Brave Young World
Name: Lorraine ansell
05 February 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
It's a Brave Young World is the book I wish someone had written when I was growing up. Jam packed full of advice on everything from friendship, faith, identity and relationships to mental health and online wellbeing, it is a handy guide that young peop...
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The Cursed Tomb: A thrilling, ancient-Egyptian adventure
Name: Jacqueline Harris
03 February 2025;Genre: Adventure
In The Cursed Tomb, 11-year-old Henut lives in ancient Egypt in 1249 BCE. Odd things start to happen that appear to be linked to the gods. Henut is not sure she believes in the gods controlling everything, but then she is thrust on a quest that will make her question everythin...
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Ice Apprentices
Name: Aarav Age 9
03 February 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Ice Apprentices is about Oswin who is a young boy who had been abandoned by his biological parents. Oswin thought he had made a friend named Anastasia but she thought she was better than everyone because she was born a Barkmouth. My favourite part is when Oswin and Anas...
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The Boy in the Suit
Name: Donna Ritchie
03 February 2025;Genre: Real life
The Boy in the Suit is a story about a 10-year-old boy and his mum. It may sound like this is an everyday book with an everyday story line. Well, this is not your everyday 10-year-old boy. Solo and his mum, Morag, crash funerals for food! Unfortunately, his mum is experiencing...
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Ice Apprentices
Name: Beverley Somerset
03 February 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Oswin Fields is a stray; he was saved from the Endless Expanse in the frozen world of Tundra. At the age of 14 he is summoned to Corridor, a school where he is to be trained as an ice apprentice. As a stray, Oswin is aware that he will never be considered a proper Tundran and so feels himself...
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Ice Apprentices
Name: Mizuki Age 10
30 January 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Where do I begin? Ice Apprentices didn't fully capture my attention from the start but when I got into it, it was definitely worth it! It included many twists and turns and secrets were revealed about otherwise unacknowledged characters...
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Hunt for the Golden Scarab (Time Keys, book 1)
Name: Beverley Somerset
16 January 2025;Genre: Adventure
In Hunt for the Golden Scarab, we meet Sim Lockier and his mother, Callidora, and learn they have never lived anywhere for very long. At present they are based in London. Previously educated at home, Sim now attends school and has a best friend, Nelson. Life seems uneventful u...
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Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm
Name: Jenny Caddick
16 January 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm is a lively and fantastically fast-paced and imaginatively created, portal-hopping fantasy adventure with a colourful, charming cast of vibrant (fabulously named) and utterly engaging characters! 12-year-old Peregrin...
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Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo
Name: Beverley Somerset
13 January 2025;Genre: Adventure
In this wonderful debut novel, we meet the amazing Meticulous 'Metty' Jones. On her tenth birthday Metty receives her fate - a magical tattoo on her hand which she hopes will reveal an exciting future. All Metty wants to do is make her parents proud, but unfortunately her fate reveals that she...
