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Rules for Vampires
Name: Linda Canning
22 September 2021;Genre: Horror
Vampires meet ghosts in this epic tale of life after death. After an ill-fated encounter involving an orphanage, a dastardly villain, a wooden leg and a towering inferno, junior vampire Leo thinks she may not have what it takes to pass her Hunt of the Waxing Moon. Leaving a trail of destructio...
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The Dream House
Name: Jennifer Caddick
21 September 2021;Genre: Bereavement
I love the style of Laura Dockrill’s writing - it is original and lyrical and absorbs the reader entirely into the multi layered thoughts and consciousness of its main character. This is a beautifully moving story of a boy struggling through the stages of grief after the loss of a paren...
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The Bewitching of Aveline Jones
Name: Jacqueline Harris
11 September 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Aveline Jones is on holiday with her mum in the village of Norton Wick. She is thrilled to discover her room overlooks a stone circle, known as The Witch Stones. With her usual enthusiasm for the slightly creepy and supernatural, Aveline cannot wait to find out more about the mysterious stones...
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Sky Pirates: The Dragon's Gold
Name: Sue Wilsher
11 September 2021;Genre: Adventure
Having joined the Black Sky Wolves, Echo is determined to prove herself as a Sky Pirate. She loves her new life aboard the Scarlet Margaret, digging for treasure, wearing breeches and being part of the crew. However, when her mother, Captain Indigo Lil, is summoned to a meeting of the Seven Sk...
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We Have a Dream
Name: Jane Rew
10 September 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Each one of the 30 young people featured in We Have a Dream is an activist in one or more environmental spheres - politics, education, inclusivity and diversity, cultural recognition, climate activism, habitat loss, resource depletion. In a word, all are concerned with justice...
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Torn Apart - the Partition of India
Name: Jennifer Caddick
07 September 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Torn Apart - the Partition of India is a powerful and absorbing dual narrative story focusing on the fates of two young boys - one a wealthy Muslim and the other a poor Hindu street orphan - brought together by the horrendous violence, fear and division created by the 1947 par...
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The Raven Heir
Name: Nicki Cleveland
05 September 2021;Genre: Fantasy
Safe in the forest, Cordelia, Giles and Rosalind are shielded from the fighting that has ravaged the kingdom of Corvenne for generations. When two Dukes bring the war to their door, they are forced to flee before the crown can be placed upon one of them. With their mother captured and destiny...
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The Haunting of Aveline Jones
Name: Jacqueline Harris
04 September 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Aveline Jones gets sent to stay with her aunt in the Cornish town of Malmouth. Aveline loves ghost stories, so the first thing she does is visit the local bookshop and buys a book of ghost stories. But something strange is happening. The book belonged to a girl who disappeared more than 30 yea...
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Name: Hayley Summerfield
03 September 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Dare To Be You is the new book by the bestselling author Matthew Syed. This book enables you to discover the power of diverse thinking to defy self-doubt and develop confidence to be happy with yourself. It helps you to become practical about dealing with the overwhelming sens...
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The Week At World's End
Name: Nicola Cleveland
02 September 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Friendship, family and fear for the future are woven together in The Week At World's End to create a gripping story. Tension grows steadily as we adventure with Stevie and Ray through the week that was the Cuban Missile Crisis. A week where the world was on the brink of a war...
