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Shelly Hen Lays Eggs
Name: Elen Green
23 April 2022;Genre: Animals
I have already enjoyed other books in the 'Follow My Food' series - see also Milly Cow Gives Milk, Polly Bee Makes Honey - and found Shelly Hen Lays Eggs just as stylish and informative. Thi...
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Every Cloud
Name: Elen Green
23 April 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Every Cloud explores the challenges that children might face when experiencing changes in their lives - in this case, the transition from primary to secondary school and especially how this impacts on friendships. Through the story, author Ros Roberts also explores other famil...
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The Thief Who Sang Storms
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 April 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
The island of Morovia is shaped like a broken heart. It is home to Linnet, an alkonost, one of the bird-like people with magical songs who inhabit the island. Three years previously, alkonosts and humans had lived peacefully together on the island, but a tragic event which killed the queens of...
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Not a Cat in Sight
Name: Maria Faithorn
22 April 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
Be warned! If you read Not a Cat in Sight to a class of children, be prepared for much audience participation, squeals and laughter! This funny tale of Mouse will have anyone who is listening, calling out, 'He’s behind you!'. Mouse is having a wonderfully fabulous day w...
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About This Boy
Name: Stephen Leitch
22 April 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
From award winning Rudimental band founder member Leon Rolle (Locksmith) come a reflective book of personal stories and advice for teens everywhere to help them be the best they can. Over 12 easy-to-read chapters, Leon takes us on a journey through his teens and early twenties, sharing key sto...
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Queer Up: An Uplifting Guide to LGBTQ+ Love, Life and Mental Health
Name: Stephen Leitch
22 April 2022;Genre: LBGTQ+
"Breathe. Just breathe", is the starting advice in Queer Up by Alexis Caught, an incredible, uplifting and honest book offering positive advice and information to LGBTQ+ teens and allies, who may have questions about their identity. Chapter themes include looking at coming out...
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Ready Or Not
Name: Clare Wilkins
22 April 2022;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Millie adores the shared summers with family and friends at Creek House. Whilst the adults reminisce over their youth, the children have the run of the idyllic estate. But as the children become teenagers, tensions and differences emerge and the youngest, Millie, realises that the carefree sum...
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Who will you meet on Dinosaur Street?
Name: Amanda Shipton
22 April 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
This beautifully illustrated, colourful book is bound to draw even the youngest child in. The front cover demonstrates the fun and creativity within through the bold colours and expressions on the characters faces. This is a story that children will be joining in with and asking for again and...
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Blood To Poison
Name: Tanja Jennings
22 April 2022;Genre: Fantasy
South African born fantasy YA author Mary Watson, known for her bewitching ‘Wren’ books, returns to her Cape Town roots for her latest thriller. Reminiscent of Tracy Deonn’s ‘Legendborn’ with its blood magic, heady sense of place, colloquial language, generational pain, interwoven mythology an...
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Read Between the Lies
Name: Sharon Bolton
22 April 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
Imagine having to go live with your dad and his new girlfriend, miles away from the rest of your family, and then her son is released from the Young Offenders Institution he has spent time in. Ryan is dealing with his mum and dad's divorce and a move to London. Then when Tommy is released, he...
