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The Ghost Locket
Name: Janet Fisher
30 November 2022;Genre: Supernatural
Lolli is in England with Freya and they have come back to help with the opening of the family house in Spitalfields. But Lolli does not want to go into the house as she knows it is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Her strange behaviour and her inability to tell anyone what is happening to her...
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The Red Red Dragon
Name: Janet Fisher
25 November 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Red the dragon is born into a world where dragons speak and think, communicate and live by an admirable code, faraway from the 'uprights' whom they fear and whom they think have suffered badly from an overheating of the world. Red is an unusual colour for a dragon and he has an inquiring 'thi...
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Murder at Snowfall
Name: Ruth Cornish
22 November 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Murder at Snowfall, the latest murder mystery from Fleur Hitchcock, is an exciting middle grade book featuring realistic characters with real life issues in addition to a thrilling sideline in detective work. The atmosphere created by the author is as chilling as the season as...
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The Snow Bear
Name: Wendy Kelly
22 November 2022;Genre: Animals
This classic book has been re-released by Little Tiger in a gorgeous 10th anniversary edition. The story is as lovely as it's always been and will delight junior readers, especially during the winter months. It tells the story of Sara, a little girl staying with her grandfather just before Chr...
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The Chestnut Roaster
Name: Jacqueline Harris
15 November 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Piaf (Sparrow) is a chestnut roaster in Paris in the 1800s whilst The Eiffel Tower is just being built. Piaf is blessed (or is it cursed?) with total recall of every event in her life. There is something dangerous lurking in the background; 20 gifted children have disappeared, and Piaf's own b...
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Wolfbane
Name: Kelly Buxton
10 November 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
A book that leaves you breathless. If I could give this more than 5*, I would! The ancient clans seek peace, but at what cost? A choked howl gives way to a deafening silence that echoes around the forest. Pack brother Torak and his mage mate Renn answer the call, but will they be too late? An...
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If You Read This
Name: Jan Blagden
09 November 2022;Genre: Bereavement
If You Read This is the second middle grade novel by Kereen Getten, as she skilfully whisks the reader off to the Caribbean. The warmth of the interfering family and friends, the light touch of local dialect and description of place bring to the reader the experience of an aut...
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The House of Shells
Name: Jenny Caddick
07 November 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
There is a beautifully crafted sense of the supernatural in this intriguing MG adventure set in Nigeria. The story draws on fascinating Yoruba mythology and superstitions and tells the story of 12 year old Kuki, whose aunt's belief in the Yoruba spirits Abiku, risks her feeling cursed and doom...
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Honesty and Lies
Name: Jane Rew
07 November 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
I have no hesitancy in giving this book a 5 star rating. The author is adept at using language in keeping with Elizabethan times, when London hummed to the sights, smells and sounds of human life in all its gruesome, gorgeous reality. Honesty and Lies, told alternately...
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Murder at Snowfall
Name: Clair Bossons
04 November 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Murder at Snowfall hooked me in from the very first page. Fleur Hitchcock's books are very popular in our school library and now I can see why! This murder mystery launched straight into the action and kept me guessing until the end with lots of twists and turns along t...
