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BeYOUtiful
Name: Elen Green
19 May 2022;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
A fabulous title for a book that really does deliver what it says it will, encouraging children and young people to 'Radiate confidence, celebrate difference and express yourself'. Since the author works for a major marketing company, she knows all too well how the images we see around...
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Rumaysa Ever After
Name: Jacqueline Harris
18 May 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
She's back! The rather magical, hijab wearing heroine Rumaysa returns in this hotly anticipated sequel. Still looking for her parents (she was taken away by an evil witch as a baby and locked in a tower) and still in the realm of almost familiar fairy tales with a twist. This time the book is...
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Sade and her Shadow Beasts
Name: Louisa Farrow
17 May 2022;Genre: Bereavement
Sade has been rocked by the death of her mother and she's convinced that she is to blame. She has problems at school and 'Old Dad' - who used to listen, laugh and cook - has been replaced by 'New Dad', who is withdrawn and angry. And soon her Granny, who's been helping hold the family together...
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Magicborn
Name: Sue Wilsher
17 May 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Since the day of the Almost Drowning, Tempest has lived with her two fathers, the kind men who saved her. She can remember nothing of her life before this time nor how she can understand her robin, Coriel, when he speaks to her, but is happy living at the Ferry Keeper's Cottage with Prosper an...
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Seed
Name: Donna Burkert
16 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Marty lives with his mum. His mum lives with her clutter and Marty spends his time trying to keep a small space for himself. A small space where he can think and not feel as if he is drowning under the rubbish that mum piles around the place. His respite comes from being with his grandad on hi...
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Seed
Name: Sam Phillips
15 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
This has got to be one of the best books I've read in ages! Seed by Caryl Lewis has everything; family, friendship, laughter, tears, mystery and adventure; an absolutely brilliant read for a confident reader and a fabulous story to listen to if your reading is not quite at thi...
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Legendarium
Name: Jennifer Caddick
15 May 2022;Genre: Adventure
Legendarium takes the three heroic schoolchildren from Wonderscape and sends them off, once again, into a whole different reality. This time, Arthur, Ren and Cecily are transported through time and space into a gaming galaxy of thrills, puzzle...
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The Colour of Hope
Name: Jennifer Caddick
15 May 2022;Genre: Fantasy
I absolutely fell in love with this stunning, captivating and endearing fantasy. The story takes place in a world that is only coloured with shades of cold grey. All colour has been stolen by a dark Emperor and an even colder, malevolent aunt - the Necromancer with her hideously evil scheme of...
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Yesterday Crumb and the Storm in a Teacup
Name: Janet Fisher
14 May 2022;Genre: Fantasy
In Yesterday Crumb and the Storm in a Teacup, Yesterday lives in a cage at the circus for all to witness her foxy ears. Rescued by Madrigal the talking raven, she stumbles into a world of magic, encapsulated by living in a teashop on flamingo legs, discovering she is a strange...
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The Colour of Hope
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 May 2022;Genre: Fantasy
In a land where all colour has been stolen by the Emperor, a girl is born. A miracle child, she and everything she touches are filled with colour, bringing life to a world reduced to shades of grey. Constantly in danger from the evil Ripper Dogs and Black Coats who terrorise the land, this chi...
