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Blue
Name: Jen B
20 January 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Sarah has written a beautiful book to help children understand their sad and worried feelings. In Blue, the worry feeling is a monster called Blue. Blue goes everywhere with the little girl and stops her enjoying herself. She gets shy in the park, worried at parties and nervou...
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There's a Beast in the Basement
Name: Sam Phillips
20 January 2023;Genre: Funny Stories
There's a Beast in the Basement is another fab laugh-out-loud book by Pamela Butchart. Once again Izzy and her friends are on the road to adventure after overhearing their Headteacher, Mr Graves, talking about 'missing treasure'. Mr Graves is certainly behaving strangely and t...
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Snot, Sneezes and Super-Spreaders
Name: Sharon Porter
17 January 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Snot, Sneezes and Super-spreaders has everything a young person might want to know about viruses including how they replicate, spread and infect their hosts. The chapter about AIDS is definitely more suited to those in high school or the very mature Year 6 child (ages 10+), so...
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Fritz and Kurt
Name: Louisa Farrow
17 January 2023;Genre: Real life
Here is my first 'must buy, must read' title for 2023! There are so many books about the Holocaust but for me, Fritz and Kurt was instantly compelling. It's based on the true story of the Kleinmanns, a working class Jewish family from Vienna, that was told for adults as 'The B...
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The Storm Swimmer
Name: Beverley Somerset
17 January 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Ginika has so much to look forward to. It's her last summer holiday before she goes to secondary school and, along with her best friend Alisha, she's preparing to take part in an important dance show. Everything changes when her parents are forced to leave their flat due to money troubles, and...
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Fritz and Kurt
Name: Kelly Buxton
16 January 2023;Genre: Real life
A story based on real-life. A narrative on harrowing events: The Holocaust. Fritz and Kurt is a story about a Jewish family, The Kleinman's, living in Austria during the 1930s; a time when their world was seemingly changed overnight and ripped apart....
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Tasting Light: Ten Science Fiction Stories to Rewire Your Perceptions
Name: Stephen Leitch
15 January 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
Tasting Light is a collection of ten science fiction short stories. It's a gripping, exciting and thought-provoking collection of stories, brought together by A.R. Capetta and Wade Roush. You'll find themes of identity, technology, surveillance and suppression run through thes...
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Pick a Story: A Dinosaur Unicorn Robot Adventure
Name: Joanna Hewish
14 January 2023;Genre: Adventure
A really interesting and unique way to write a book. The beauty of Pick a Story: A Dinosaur Unicorn Robot Adventure is that after you've read it once, you can read it a completely different story each time which is fun for children to see the plot changing when they make a dif...
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Stand and Deliver!
Name: Nathan Cox
13 January 2023;Genre: Historical Fiction
I knew from the first few pages this was going to be a brilliant, captivating read. Stand and Deliver! by Philip Caveney is a thrilling adventure packed with action, twists, turns and a few scary, brutal encounters. This story will grip the reader! The book is set at a...
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The Wildstorm Curse
Name: Jacqueline Harris
13 January 2023;Genre: Adventure
Kallie is 13 years old. She is also dyslexic, but this does not prevent her from winning a play writing competition and getting a place at a summer theatre camp in the village of Merricombe. Once there, strange things start to happen; the villagers do not want the old theatre used and some peo...
