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Cosmic Creatures - The Friendly Firecat
Name: Lauren Maidman
17 July 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
This is another book in the Cosmic Creatures series by Tom Huddleston. In this story Charlie, her brother and her robot friend, Random go on holiday to visit Charlie's aunt on the planet Vela. Vela isn't the prettiest of planets but is home to the most amazing Cosmic Creatures - the Fr...
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Once Upon a Fever
Name: Jacqueline Harris
17 July 2022;Genre: Fantasy
This is a parallel London, where The Turn has meant feelings create disease. Ani and Payton, two very different sisters, live in St Jude's hospital where their father is a methic, curing people of the diseases. The whole family are in a quest to find a cure for the illness that afflicts their...
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Stitched Up
Name: Joanna Hewish
16 July 2022;Genre: Social Issues
Stitched Up is a very powerful, true-to-life story that really hits home hard. I was absolutely hooked from the first word and read this in one sitting. My son (age 8) was also completely absorbed by it and finished it with lots of questions. The great thing about this...
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Agent Moose - Moose on a Mission
Name: Donna Ritchie
15 July 2022;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Here we are again - this is the second book in the Agent Moose series! In Agent Moose - Moose on a Mission, a circus comes to town at the same time that Granny Moose is visiting (or should I say The Magnificent Mooseini). As things have been a...
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Loki A Bad God's Guide to Taking the Blame
Name: Donna Burkert
15 July 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
Loki, disguised as 11-year-old schoolboy Liam, is once again trying to prove that he can be a Good God in Loki A Bad God's Guide to Taking the Blame, the second book in the Loki series by Louie Stowell. Seeing out his punishment by Odin in the mortal world, as part of a 'famil...
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Hot Dog
Name: Kyle Matravers
15 July 2022;Genre: Picture Books
Hot Dog longs to be a real dog, so he can fetch a stick and catch a ball and run around like all the other dogs he sees on the beach. This all appears to be just a pipe dream for this poor little sausage... that is until the Mustard Fairy comes along! Mark Sperring has teamed...
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An Imaginary Menagerie
Name: Wendy Kelly
15 July 2022;Genre: Poetry
Veteran poet Roger McGough has written and illustrated this quick little collection of poems which will appeal to fluent junior readers (ages 9+). The poems feature real and imagined creatures for every letter from A to Z and are humorous - such as the hairy canary who's been eating steroids -...
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Dave and Greta Make the World Better!
Name: Wendy Kelly
15 July 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
Dave and Greta Make the World Better! Dave is a fox and Greta is an Owl (I'm sure Attenborough and Thunberg are delighted!) and they both live in the wood. Noticing that summers are getting warmer and winters aren't as cold, Dave stumbles upon the thorny issue of climate chang...
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Petunia Perry and the Curse of the Ugly Pigeon
Name: Jane Rew
15 July 2022;Genre: Friendship
Parents are totally embarrassing. Teachers are figures of fun, names have been changed to protect the innocent, i.e. Peri (Petunia) and her best friend Cammy (Camembert) from ridicule (with only limited success). Spoons, cats, boys you like and boys you loathe, weird outfits and, of course, an...
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Agent Moose
Name: Donna Ritchie
14 July 2022;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
What a brilliant book. Agent Moose is excellent for reluctant readers or anyone who loves comic style books. As a child I was such a reader - I hated books but couldn't get enough of comics. If these books were around then, I'm sure the transition from comics to 'books' would...
