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The Dagger and the Flame: Volume 1
Name: Linda Brown
24 October 2025;Genre: Fantasy
17-year-old Seraphine's life is shattered when she witnesses her home, with her mother inside it, consumed by flames. Forced to flee for her life, she seeks refuge among the Cloaks (thieves). She wants revenge! Who is the mysterious Dagger(assassin) who stood over her mother's body? Why has Ga...
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Feather and Claw
Name: Louisa Farrow
23 October 2025;Genre: Fantasy
A hundred or so years ago, in Valencia, a young girl lives with her grandfather. Between them, they are keeping an incomprehensible, extraordinary secret. Each morning, as the sun rises, Amparo becomes Feather - a hawk. And each evening, as the sun sets, she returns, once again, to her human f...
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Murder on a School Night
Name: Kitty Age 13
22 October 2025;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I think this book is really good, as it's quite feminist and encourages girls to talk about their period and if you catch your boyfriend cheating with your bff, do not call HER the slut! I think that anyone can read this depending on the maturity of the person. If you know how babies are made,...
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Ask Me Anything
Name: Sue Wilsher
20 October 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Mary-Elizabeth Baxter is a girl brimming with confidence. Agony aunt for the university's magazine, she offers up-beat advice to her fellow students and, having set her sights on Felix Balfour, she is looking forward to a year of fun - sex with no strings attached. When she me...
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Wands Away: Learning to Fly
Name: Sue Wilsher
20 October 2025;Genre: Adventure
Ramona Spellstar is about to head off for her first day at Wands Away School of Magic. Although excited, she is a little nervous; however, she soon makes friends and has fun in the forest, learning how to fly. Wands Away! Learning to Fly is a delightful story, perfect for newly indepen...
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The Night House Files (2) - The Wintermoor Lights
Name: Ruth Cornish
17 October 2025;Genre: Science Fiction
The follow-up in The Night House Files series, The Wintermoor Lights was eagerly awaited and it is as exciting as the first book, The Deadsoul Project. The science fiction mystery</stro...
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Fear Files: Hide and Seek: A pacy, spine tingling horror adventure
Name: Donna Burkert
17 October 2025;Genre: Horror
Fear Files: Hide and Seek is a freakishly fiendish book for younger readers who like to indulge in age-appropriate horror. Adam is bored, the camping trip with his friend Sol is not what he promised it would be, and now a romp over the fields is proving equally boring...until...
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The Big Bad Wolf Murder
Name: Sara Sumner
16 October 2025;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The Tooth and Claw games championship is well underway, with rising star Ruby finding herself facing Alarick - AKA The Big Bad Wolf! With the end in sight, Ruby is horrified when Alarick falls down dead at her feet! On the run, accused of murder, Ruby turns detective to try and prove her innoc...
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Wyrdwood
Name: Kimberley Lawson
15 October 2025;Genre: Horror
Wyrdwood. "One step, two step, branches black; three step, four step, branches crack . . ." Coming home from boarding school to Merryweather-by-the-sea for Christmas, Kiki Harper notices some alarming differences in her quaint home town. Her best friend, Stefan, has for...
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Family
Name: Jo Thomas
15 October 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Another wonderful Peek-through Nature book by Patricia Hegarty and Britta Teckentrup! Family is cleverly written and provides snippets of education about different animals and their ways to keep their babies safe. This is a beautifully illustrated rhyming book showing differen...
