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How to Save a Life (Little Experts)
Name: Jane Rew
12 August 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
How to Save a Life (Little Experts) could be the most important book a child ever reads. Indeed, many adults (myself included) will learn from it, both facts they hitherto didn't know and, more significantly, what to do in an emergency. The repeated refrain is 'stay calm, stay...
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Wintour's Game
Name: Clare Wilkins
12 August 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Arriving with a bang, as a thrilling chase round London ensues, arch thief Alex Wintour is clearly not a girl to be messed with. She and seemingly smug rich-boy Cole are temporals - Oracles with the ability to see into the future but - certainly in uninitiated Alex's case - not the ability to...
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The Island Vet (2) - Rescue at Seal Bay
Name: Amanda Shipton
12 August 2024;Genre: Animals
This beautifully written story focuses on the turning the negative impact of tourism into a positive one. We all like to visit wonderful places and see amazing animals but we also all need to take responsibility for looking after their habitats and our environment. Through this story, Gill Lew...
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Why Politics Matters (Little Experts)
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 August 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
According to author Alastair Campbell, politics is part of everything we do and in Why Politics Matters, he sets out to explain how. Perfect for sharing, the book provides a good introduction to the political system of the UK. Starting with the role played by the House...
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A Tempest of Tea
Name: Linda Brown
12 August 2024;Genre: Supernatural
Arthie Casimir runs a prestigious tearoom (Spindrift) during the day, however, at night it turns into a bloodhouse where vampires are free to feed from those who consent. When the Ram, the masked monarch who rules Ettenia , threatens to take Spindrift from her and destroy what she has created...
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Dive, Dive into the Night Sea
Name: Maria Faithorn
12 August 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Dive, Dive, into the Night Sea will take the reader on an underwater adventure. Journey to the inky depths, down to the coral where an array of sea creatures live. Will you be brave enough to turn off the light and explore the darkness? When the time comes to leave, swim back...
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Forest of Forbidden Magic: A spooky supernatural adventure of spine-tingling mystery
Name: Margaret Pemberton
12 August 2024;Genre: Supernatural
When Tig and his sister Elsa receive a strange letter and two silver charms from their odd grandfather, they wonder if it is some kind of joke. Then their father hears that his father has died and they all journey to his home to sort out his affairs. However, there is something very strange ab...
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Telling the Time with Anna: First Skills
Name: Maria
12 August 2024;Genre: Early Skills
Telling the Time with Anna is full of clocks and clock hands and is a great way to learn to tell the time with Anna and her Grandpa. Grandpa kindly helps and supports Anna to read the times of the clocks and to understand how the three clock hands work. The book dips into rea...
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One-Button and the Sea
Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 August 2024;Genre: Family & Home
One-Button and the Sea is a story of refugees, uprooted from their homes and travelling across the sea to a new home. Grandpa tells One-Button the tale of how they moved to their new home, reminding him of the journey and how they returned home. Told with few wo...
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Little Guides to Nature: Hello Trees
Name: Jane Rew
09 August 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Glance at the common features of all four books in this series and the librarian/teacher/book-buying parent will soon be persuaded to invest: helpful hardback format suited to taking outdoors; as is their fit into a rucksack pocket; quality paper for durability; Stylish and colourful illustrat...
