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Can You Get Rainbows in Space
Name: Jenny Caddick
27 February 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Can You Get Rainbows in Space is a beautifully bright and scientific non-fiction epic book with all you ever wanted to know about light and colour, explaining just how we get to view the world in so many glorious shades. It is a delightfully bold and eye catching hardback and...
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The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair
Name: Jenny Caddick
27 February 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The Tiger Who Sleeps Under My Chair is a powerfully written dual narrative story that follows the lives and emotional journeys of several members of the same family, several generations apart. It is a story that explores mental health in the most unique and moving manner throu...
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The Wishkeeper's Apprentice
Name: Nicola Mansfield
26 February 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
I have to say, I am so incredibly sad to have finished this book. The Wishkeeper's Apprentice is beautiful, heartwarming and a book that is definitely needed in the world at the minute. The book focuses on the life of the main character, Felix Jones, who makes a wish one day i...
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Swimming on the Moon
Name: Louisa Farrow
26 February 2023;Genre: Family & Home
Anna remembers happy holidays with her family in the past and dreams about more in the future. But, right now, there is the much more awkward present to negotiate. Her parents seem to be arguing constantly and when she and her twin, Anto, eavesdrop at the top of the stairs, Anna's worries only...
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The Wishkeeper's Apprentice
Name: Jenny Caddick
26 February 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
I thoroughly enjoyed this warm hearted, charming and delightfully illustrated magical story for younger readers. The wonderfully named Rupus Beewinkle is the elderly Wishkeeper of Whittlestone and keeping up with the ever-growing list of wishes is exhausting and endless. 'Wish snags' (where wi...
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Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stories
Name: Amanda Shipton
24 February 2023;Genre: Friends and family
When two best friends experience different adventures with the purpose of making each other happy it can only lead to beautiful discoveries about themselves. This is what Jarvis has created through these three simply beautiful stories. In Bear and Bird: The Picnic and Other Stor...
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Woodwitch
Name: Sue Wilsher
24 February 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Cassie has settled into life in the village of Hedgely. Her broomstick riding is improving and has found loyal friends in Rue and Tabitha, fellow members of Oak Patrol at her school. As Hallowe'en approaches, some of the villagers start behaving strangely, possessed with the need to locate a m...
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Momo Arashima Steals The Sword of the Wind
Name: Beverley Somerset
23 February 2023;Genre: Fantasy
At the start of Momo Arashima Steals The Sword of the Wind, we meet Momo who lives with, and cares for, her mother in California. She is a loner, and her teachers say she has an overactive imagination. Coming from a Japanese family, Momo has always loved the stories of ancient...
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Vita and the Gladiator
Name: Donna Burkert
23 February 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
Vita lives a privileged life. Her father is a senior magistrate, and she has everything she could possibly want. But it's not enough for Vita. She loves to write and has a dream to see her plays and stories acted out in the streets of Londinium but as the daughter of a high-born, her only futu...
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Tell Me No Lies
Name: Linda Brown
23 February 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Nora and Sophie are sisters but not friends as they now lead very different lives. Nora has Ivy League ambitions, with her straight A results, whereas, Sophie lives to dance and party with her friends. The only thing they seem to have in common is Sophie's boyfriend Garrett, who she saw Nora w...
