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The Girl Who Stole an Elephant
Name: Carol Carter
30 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
Chaya is the village headman's daughter - and a thief. Yes, she loves the excitement and thrill of the chase, but she justifies her crimes because she always uses her spoils for good, stealing from the rich to give to the poor to pay for medical treatment, new clothes, food. However, while it'...
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Magnificent Mabel
Name: Lucy Newton
29 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
This book contains three short stories including Magnificent Mabel and the Rabbit Riot, Magnificent Mabel and the Burglar Tooth Fairy and the Pixie Playdate. All three stories are about Mabel Chase, who is quite a character! She is growing up quickly and has quite an interesting outlook on the w...
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Mermaid School
Name: Lucy Newton
29 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
A lovely chapter book, suitable for early readers who are gaining confidence and beginning to build their stamina. The story starts with Marnie Blue who is about to embark on her first day of mermaid school. Marnie is nervous in case she doesn't make any friends and in case she has to learn new...
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A Postcard to Ollis
Name: Rhiannon Cook
24 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
Oda Lise Louise Ingrid Sonja (or Ollis for short) is a ten-year-old inventor who is a touch on the timid side and greatly admires her courageous best friend (and next door neighbour), Gro. She also envies Gro her idyllic family life since Ollis knows nothing about her father and her mother seems...
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In the Key of Code
Name: Joanna Hewish
24 December 2019;Genre: Real life
A whole new genre has just been opened up, one which teaches that Girls can code too! I am very excited about this book. Not only does it have a beautifully crafted story, but it does through the means of the language of coding. I have learnt so much about coding through this story and I am ver...
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Beast Feast
Name: Joanna Hewish
24 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
Laugh-out-loud funny, fantastically illustrated and an absolute must in an Early Years classroom. One of my favourite picture books of this year, this book was a delight to share with my young children and also with their class mates in Reception and Year 1. Beast Feast tells the story of a bri...
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The Toll
Name: Linda Brown
22 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
The Toll is book 3 of the Arc of Scythe series, and what a concluding story it is! The Toll picks up three years after the end of Thunderhead, where Citra and Rowan were sealed into a vault during the sinking of Endura. Due to all the wickedness, deceit and deception The Thunderhead has witnessed...
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The Fate of Fausto
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
Bullying and unpleasant, Fausto is a tyrant who demands everything. One by one, a flower, a sheep, a tree, a field, a forest and a lake bow to his demands and agree to his ownership. A mountain offers some resistance, but when Fausto 'put up such a fight you would not believe and showed the mount...
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The Missing: The True Story of my Family in WWII
Name: Sue Wilsher
22 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
They were there before the war...but they weren't after. This was all Michael Rosen knew about his great-uncles when he was growing up. Somehow these members of his family had just disappeared during the war. This book is the story of his determination to discover the truth about what happened t...
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We Catch The Bus
Name: Lizi Backhouse
20 December 2019;Genre: Adventure
This book features many different animals in many different vehicles and asks you which one you would like to catch? With no linear story, each page asks the reader questions through speech bubbles. This is a great prompt for encouraging discussion with children and could be a great resource for...
