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Sharky McShark and the Shiny Shell Squabble
Name: Maria
07 June 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Sharky McShark and the Shiny Shell Squabble has so much to offer to the reader. A fun book set on the ocean floor with characters that children can identify with and show empathy for. Sharky McShark and Teensy Wee Crab are shown swimming together and being best friends....
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Girl, Missing: The top-ten bestselling thriller
Name: Ellie Age 12
07 June 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
This book has got me hooked on the Girl, Missing series. Me and my friend exchange books a lot as we have similar taste in books and this book is the one we talk about the most. Love this book - can't wait to get more books from Sophie McKenzie.
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SATs Like a Ninja: Key facts and revision tips to supercharge your SATs
Name: Donna Ritchie
07 June 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
If you are coming to the end of Year 5 and getting ready to start your last year in primary school, you need SATs Like a Ninja. It is brilliant, not only for children but for parents too, to help with homework and KS2 revision for SATs preparation. I love the ninja tips, examp...
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The Wanderdays: Journey To Fantome Island
Name: Linda Brown
07 June 2024;Genre: Environment
The Wanderdays: Journey To Fantome Island is a new adventure series from the popular middle grade author Clare Povey. Will you be brave enough to join them in their first underwater adventure as they search for their missing Mum and discover what is really happening on the sec...
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Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Dash of Daring
Name: Sue Wilsher
06 June 2024;Genre: Mystery & Detective
When an ingenious cipher machine, capable of converting messages into unreadable code in seconds, and its creator go missing, Alice Éclair finds herself once more in the thick of the action, this time at the Olympic training camp, where the daughter of the missing machine maker is getting read...
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The Love Interest
Name: Clair Bossons
06 June 2024;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Helen Comerford's debut novel The Love Interest is set in 2024 and provides us with a unique take on the superhero genre. I found myself hooked from the very first page. The dystopian world where some people have superpowers and there are some mutant EV creatures is very well...
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Who Ate Steve?
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
05 June 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
Who Ate Steve? is a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek metafictive picturebook. An unknown narrator, who speaks directly to both reader and character, is a teacher trying to teach about size - what (or who) is big and small. But causing the teacher-narrator's increasing frustration i...
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Gloria Goes for Gold
Name: Lauren Maidman
05 June 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Gloria Goes for Gold is the story of a Hippo named Gloria who, with her family, are Artistic Swimming Champions. Gloria is bored of winning with her family and when the Savannah Games role into town, she fancies a change of sport and potentially the idea of winning a medal of...
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Freya's Gold
Name: Jennifer Caddick
04 June 2024;Genre: Adventure
Freya's Gold is a perfectly perilous and deliciously dramatic middle grade novel with a pacey plot, an endearingly under-confident heroine, a sharply suspicious and perfectly coiffured stranger and an unusual new acquaintance found in the unlikeliest place. The seaside...
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Bear vs Dragon
Name: Louise Gahan
04 June 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
A bear, a dragon and a rickety bridge; what could possibly go wrong? When the two characters meet on a bridge, they don't exactly see eye to eye. Very quickly their conversation gets somewhat heated and all the while, the rickety bridge gets even more rickety. This is a super, quick-wit...
