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The Great Race
Name: Lucy Newton
21 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
This book retells the traditional tale of how each year gained its animal name. It explains how the Jade Emperor wanted to know how old he was but with no way of telling how much time had passed, it was impossible! He decided to gather all of the animals together to hold 'The Great Race' and deci...
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Let's Talk About When Someone Dies
Name: Sam Phillips
20 January 2019;Genre: Bereavement
This is the book to turn to if you ever have to have that unthinkable yet ultimately inevitable conversation with a child about death and what happens next. Let's Talk About When Someone Dies is written by Molly Potter and provides a simple, straight-forward explanation of wha...
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The Pirates of Scurvy Sands
Name: Gail Lenton
18 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
It's good to see the characters from The Pirates Next Door make another appearance and this time, Matilda gets to experience some pirate life - and we discover that pirates have just as many reservations about 'lubbers' as land lubbers have about pirates! So the story is a perfect companion to Th...
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Paper Avalanche
Name: Lucy Georgeson
17 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Ro Snow is the girl no-one notices - she never has friends round because her home is full of rubbish and paper and she can't remember the colour of the carpet it's been so long since she's seen it. Her mum, Bonnie, is a hoarder and Ro lives in terror of social services finding out about the squal...
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The Dodo Made Me Do It
Name: Andrew Mullen
16 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
This is a wonderful adventure story about a boy called Danny, who spends his summer holidays at his Gran's house in Scotland. Nothing exciting ever happens and Danny is desperate for an adventure. But this summer he may just get more than he bargained for when he visits a tiny island whilst look...
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Mini Rabbit Not Lost
Name: Monika Davis
16 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
Mini Rabbit loves berry-topped cake and, when he and Mother Rabbit find they have run out of berries and therefore cannot make the cake he loves, he sets off on a single-minded and determined quest to find berries. This takes him through some increasingly dangerous landscapes and situations, none...
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How To Rob A Bank
Name: Daniel Katz
12 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
15 year old Dylan Thomas (who is utterly sick of everyone asking 'Have you written any poetry yet?') wants to impress Beth by getting her just the right birthday present. He decides on a scented Nepalese candle. He gives it to her, she lights it, it stinks. They blow it out and throw it in the bi...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
10 January 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
Bridie, known as Little Bird, lives on the Isle of Tornish in Scotland in the 1860s. Her life is simple and happy until the new Laird of the island changes everything with his cruel plans. Bridie has always longed to leave Tornish and longs to see the world, but this is not the escape she had...
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Name: Carol Carter
10 January 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
Little Bird Flies is a stunning historical novel for 9+ telling the story of one family's life on a Scottish island during the 1860s.Little Bird, Bridie MacKerrie, has the same life and same future laid out for her as all of the other children on the island of Torn...
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Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
Name: Sharon Bolton
09 January 2019;Genre: Adventure
A book about two individuals' stories, told in a beautifully written dual narrative style. Stevie's life has taken a downturn since the death of her dad; her mum is severely depressed and getting worse, leaving Stevie as the main carer for both of them. Add into the mix a new boy at school who is...
