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Cross My Heart and Never Lie
Name: Clair Bossons
08 March 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
A heart-warming graphic novel, translated to English from Norwegian by Matt Bagguley. Perfect for girls on the cusp of becoming a teenager and navigating changing friendship circles and social media drama. Told in diary form, Cross My Heart and Never Lie</stron...
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Toxic
Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 March 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Jessica moves around the world with her scientist parents. She finds each move difficult as she has to make new friends and then leave them. This time the family are in South America, in the heart of the rainforest, while her parents research frogs. Jessica meets a local girl, Renata, and they...
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Black Hole Cinema Club
Name: Tracy Parvin
08 March 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Have you ever watched a film wishing that you were a part of the action, the hero, the person who saves the town, saves the day, saves the world? You need wish no more. Welcome to 4Di, the fantastical immersive cinematic technology, technology that (so far) can only be experienced at the Blac...
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Aliya to the Infinite City
Name: Sue Wilsher
08 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Since the death of her parents, Aliyah has lived in Cairo with her grandfather, Geddo. Recently, he has been acting strangely, disappearing for hours on end and forgetting her birthday. When a mysterious gift arrives, things change dramatically. Geddo is taken away and Aliya finds herself whis...
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There's a Gorilla at the Door!
Name: Louise Gahan
08 March 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
There's a Gorilla at the Door is a fun, joyful book with super colourful illustrations that would captivate any young reader. Dauphine's mum and stepdad Anthony decide to throw a party. Life has been hard for Daphne ever since she and her mum had moved in with Anthony. Every...
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Secrets of the Snakestone
Name: Emma Urbonas
07 March 2024;Genre: Adventure
Secrets of the Snakestone is a thoroughly enjoyable read that thrusts you into the underbelly of 1800s Paris, joining two children in their search of a mystical stone to keep it from the clutches of an evil society. Zélie and Jules make for enthralling characters whom y...
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Croaky: Search for the Sasquatch
Name: Amanda Shipton
07 March 2024;Genre: Adventure
Croaky: Search for the Sasquatch is another amazing book by the talented author Matty Long. Croaky has many qualities that children will be able to identify with. Croaky finds it difficult to make friends so his Aunt Lilly suggests that he joins the Woggle Scouts. Hoping for a...
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The Dark Portal (no.1 in the Deptford Mice trilogy)
Name: Jane Rew
07 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
The Dark Portal (book one of The Deptford Mice series) may be a classic, but very many young readers will not have heard of it, let alone read it. Indeed, with its new illustrations both inside and on the cover, it could surely pass as a brand new title and is sure to ignite t...
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The Magician Next Door
Name: Amanda Shipton
06 March 2024;Genre: Magical Realism
Who doesn't love a beautiful story, brimming with magic? The author of The Wishkeeper's Apprentice, Rachel Chivers Khoo, has done it again. The Magician Next Door is a beautifully written story with gorgeous black-and-white ill...
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Defend the Dawn
Name: Linda Brown
06 March 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Defend the Dawn is the second book to the amazing Defy the Night series and once again this wonderful author has produced another rollercoaster adventure... The embers of revolution continue to simmer in Kandala. The country is still...
