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Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse
Name: Amanda Shipton
16 February 2024;Genre: Picture Books
Vile Virginia and the Curse that Got Worse is an absolute block buster of a picture book. The rhythmical rhyming text guides you through this wonderful tale of what happens when Vile Virginia meets her match in Angelic Julian. Children and adults alike will love the poetic jus...
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Hide and Seek: A Bletchley Park Mystery
Name: Louisa Farrow
16 February 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
For Ned, the outbreak of the Second World War and the expansion of undercover operations at Bletchley Park have offered an unexpected escape from a dismal future working in his father's funeral parlour. Suddenly, he and his mother are being sent off to Wales as part of the covert mission to ke...
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The Secret of the Moonshard
Name: Sue Wilsher
16 February 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Orphan Domino lives with the Science Barons in the Scientarium Celestis, a floating laboratory. Allergic to magic, she is forced to stay here, tormented by the other children; a complex problem for the Barons to solve. However, when a Science Baron returns and requests Domino as his assistant...
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Stitched Up
Name: Safiyya Khan
16 February 2024;Genre: Social Issues
Hanh used to be a girl who went to school and dreamed of a better future, a future where she would be a fashion designer. Now she is a child laborer working in an illegal clothing factory in Hanoi. Life in the sweatshop is brutal; the hours are long, the rewards are non-existent and the food i...
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Supertato: Eviltato vs Superpea
Name: Jo Thomas
16 February 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
The veggies are reading their favourite comic books at night in the supermarket when they find an advertisement for a kit to turn them more bad or good. What follows is a funny tale of role reversal for Supatato and evil pea which leads to some crazy supermarket antics! Supertat...
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When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
Name: Erin Quigley
16 February 2024;Genre: Family & Home
When We become Ours, an unarguably groundbreaking anthology, contains a wide range of poignant and evocative stories in a variety of genres written about adopted characters by adoptee authors for adoptee readers. The editors, Shannon Gibney and Nicole Chung, tell us there is n...
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Let's Go Home, Baby Chick
Name: Lucy Hopkins
15 February 2024;Genre: Animals
Let's Go Home, Baby Chick is a lovely, interactive book for tiny readers! Throughout the book, there are counters to move along a path which is a great alternative to the usual methods of interactivity (e.g. flaps). There are also some great common, simple words for children t...
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The Best Eid Ever
Name: Maria Faithorn
15 February 2024;Genre: Picture Books
The Best Eid Ever is a fantastic resource, and one of very few available in narrative form for children. It is a great way to teach and raise children's awareness and knowledge of the religious festival of Eid. Through detailed pictures with plenty of colour, and the vocabular...
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Stitch Head: The Graphic Novel
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 February 2024;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Stitch Head lives in Castle Grotteskew with his creator, mad scientist Professor Erasmus. As the Professor continues to experiment with increasingly dangerous ingredients, Stitch Head works hard to keep the Professor safe whilst feeling increasingly ignored and abandoned. When a stranger comes...
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The Invocations
Name: Linda Brown
15 February 2024;Genre: Supernatural
FIVE WOMEN ARE DEAD. The killer leaves no fingerprints, no DNA. Police are utterly stumped. In a world where only women can use magic and the men who know about it seek to eradicate them, three damaged young women - one cursed, one hunted, one out for revenge - will team up to track down and t...
