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The Storm Swimmer
Name: Nathan Cox
27 January 2023;Genre: Friends and family
I knew this would be another great read after reading The Lightning Catcher. The Storm Swimmer by Clare Weze is a brilliant, imaginative adventure story with easily relatable themes, characters and settings. Clare always manages to d...
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Rida & Madiya
Name: Lizi Backhouse
24 January 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Rida and Madiya are sisters but don't really see eye to eye. However, when the future of the local library is threatened, can the girls work together to try to save it? This is from the Bloomsbury Reader's collection - stories that are reviving school book band schemes with in...
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Fritz and Kurt
Name: Louisa Farrow
17 January 2023;Genre: Real life
Here is my first 'must buy, must read' title for 2023! There are so many books about the Holocaust but for me, Fritz and Kurt was instantly compelling. It's based on the true story of the Kleinmanns, a working class Jewish family from Vienna, that was told for adults as 'The B...
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The Storm Swimmer
Name: Beverley Somerset
17 January 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Ginika has so much to look forward to. It's her last summer holiday before she goes to secondary school and, along with her best friend Alisha, she's preparing to take part in an important dance show. Everything changes when her parents are forced to leave their flat due to money troubles, and...
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Fritz and Kurt
Name: Kelly Buxton
16 January 2023;Genre: Real life
A story based on real-life. A narrative on harrowing events: The Holocaust. Fritz and Kurt is a story about a Jewish family, The Kleinman's, living in Austria during the 1930s; a time when their world was seemingly changed overnight and ripped apart....
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Stand and Deliver!
Name: Nathan Cox
13 January 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
I knew from the first few pages this was going to be a brilliant, captivating read. Stand and Deliver! by Philip Caveney is a thrilling adventure packed with action, twists, turns and a few scary, brutal encounters. This story will grip the reader! The book is set at a...
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The Wildstorm Curse
Name: Jacqueline Harris
13 January 2023;Genre: Adventure
Kallie is 13 years old. She is also dyslexic, but this does not prevent her from winning a play writing competition and getting a place at a summer theatre camp in the village of Merricombe. Once there, strange things start to happen; the villagers do not want the old theatre used and some peo...
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Blackbeard's Treasure
Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 January 2023;Genre: Adventure
The year is 1718 and Abigail lives the life of luxury on a plantation in the Caribbean. Her only friend is Boubacar, a slave of a similar age from the plantation. Then one day there is a pirate attack and everything changes. Abigail finds herself running and fighting for her life and in a twis...
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The Night Animals
Name: Jane Rew
10 January 2023;Genre: Family & Home
The Night Animals has a sumptuous cover by Sharon King-Chai (who also did the illustrations inside) to attract new readers. However, Sarah Ann Juckes's existing fans will take equal delight in this new story which is set in the modern day and features Nora as the main characte...
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The Elemental Detectives
Name: Beverley Somerset
08 January 2023;Genre: Fantasy
The Elemental Detectives is an exciting read, set in an historic alternative London governed by groups of Elemental spirits who look after the air, rivers, wealth and foundations of the city. Marisee Blackwell lives with her grandmother, who is the Keeper of the Wells of Londo...
