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D is for Dog
Name: Elen Green
20 October 2023;Genre: Animals
What a wonderful romp of a picture book this is, with the pictures by Sara Ogilvie perfectly matching the rhyming text by Em Lynas, who I already know from her earlier picture book, The Cat and the Rat and the Hat. In D is f...
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SCRAP
Name: Donna Burkert
20 October 2023;Genre: Science Fiction
Scrap is a misfit and a loner, just how he likes it. A robot living out his existence on The Pile in Somewhere 513. He wasn't always this way; robots weren't always this way. In fact, Somewhere 513 was supposed to be the new place for humans to live. The robots had been sent in to get everythi...
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Animal Tales from India
Name: Maria
20 October 2023;Genre: Traditional Tales
Animal Tales from India is a beautiful collection of stories from the Panchatantra, written by the talented Nikita Gill and illustrated by Chaaya Prabhat. The front cover is gloriously colourful with some of the characters you will meet on your story journey. The book has 10 f...
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AdventureMice; Otter Chaos
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
19 October 2023;Genre: Animals
My seven-year-old daughter and I love this book in every way! The story is highly engaging and fun, with a lovely message about being kind and helping others, as well as being brave and bold. On the first two pages, this book presents seven wonderfully illustrated quirky mice and we get to kno...
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Engineers Making a Difference: Inventors, Technicians, Scientists and Tech Entrepreneurs Changing the World
Name: Ruth Cornish
18 October 2023;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Engineers Making A Difference is a brilliant book using the careers of experts in their fields to illustrate different aspects of engineering in the 21st Century. After a section introducing the engineer, there is further information about the engineer's work and career path.<...
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Best Friends Forever
Name: Sam
18 October 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Best Friends Forever is the first book in the Bigg School series by Lisa Williamson, and is a great read for anyone approaching the end of their primary school. Printed in a super clear font, with some highly amusing black and white illustrations by Jess Bradl...
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The Boy You Always Wanted
Name: Rachel Bolton
18 October 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
From the shortlisted author of the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize comes an original light and tender YA romcom. Set in America and drawing upon the traditions of the Chinese-Vietnamese community, The Boy You Always Wanted is a story with a more serious theme of feminism and...
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The Deadlands: Trapped
Name: Jane Rew
15 October 2023;Genre: Adventure
I enjoyed this sequel as much as, if not more than, the first book Deadlands: Hunted. In The Deadlands: Trapped, the author skilfully develops the characters and the plot, forever adding new and surprising fea...
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I Want A Dog
Name: Lauren Maidman
14 October 2023;Genre: Animals
I Want A Dog is lovely picture book about a girl who is desperate for a DOG! She goes to her local animal shelter in search for her dream pet. She meets the owner of the shelter, who brings her every animal but a dog, and as the girl gets progressively more cross the story get...
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The Den
Name: Sam
14 October 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Yet another fantastic HiLo read from Barrington Stoke. The Den by Keith Gray is a brilliant short story for upper KS2 readers, an engaging tale of family, friendship conflict and hope. Marshall's home life is far from ideal, it's just him and his Dad, and his Dad is so wrapped...
