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Girl, Ultra-Processed: A bold, body-positive YA about friendship, dating and self-love.
Name: Linda Brown
16 January 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
Girl, Ultra-Processed is a 'no holds barred' look at diet culture and how it can affect your mind, and how young girls compare themselves to the 'perfect' images they find online. The book also looks at the negative consequences of social media, especially dating apps… ...
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The Bold Kitten
Name: Elen Green
16 January 2025;Genre: Animals
The Bold Kitten, the latest book in the well loved Animal Stories series by Holly Webb, introduces young readers to a Syrian family settling into a new way of life in the UK. One of the children, Hana, is struggling to adapt until she makes friends with a tiny kitten, one of a...
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One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust
Name: Amanda Shipton
15 January 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
One Day: A True Story of Courage and Survival in the Holocaust is a wonderfully powerful story to highlight the courage, resilience and survival instincts of Jews during the second world war. Michael Rosen has waved his magical touch at the story with carefully chosen words to...
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Saint-Seducing Gold: The second book in the swashbuckling YA historical fantasy series
Name: Linda Brown
15 January 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Saint-Seducing Gold is the second book of the stunning YA historical fantasy, The Forge and Fracture Saga series by bestselling author Ayana Gray - beginning with That Self-Same Metal - and which has been called 'noth...
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The Legendary Scarlett and Browne
Name: Clare Wilkins
14 January 2025;Genre: Dystopian
The Legendary Scarlett and Browne, the final instalment of the rollicking Scarlett and Browne series, is another feast of high adventure and biting wit. Our daring duo have seemingly dispatched the evil Brothers of the Hand but the Faith House...
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American Mystery (Don't Doubt the Rainbow 3)
Name: Ruth Cornish
13 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The eagerly awaited third book in Anthony Kessel's Don't Doubt The Rainbow series, American Mystery continues the detective adventures of hero Eddie Marble. This time the mystery stretches across t...
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Let the Light In
Name: Eileen Armstrong
13 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
When 17-year-old Leah finds herself holding her family together after the death of her dad, she finds escape in a risky and secretive love affair with a married man who makes her feel like a goddess. Her younger brother, Charlie, tries to escape his grief and solve his problem...
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Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo
Name: Beverley Somerset
13 January 2025;Genre: Adventure
In this wonderful debut novel, we meet the amazing Meticulous 'Metty' Jones. On her tenth birthday Metty receives her fate - a magical tattoo on her hand which she hopes will reveal an exciting future. All Metty wants to do is make her parents proud, but unfortunately her fate reveals that she...
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The Island Vet (3) - Devil Bird Island
Name: Amanda Shipton
10 January 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Devil Bird Island is the amazing third book in Gill Lewis's Island Vet series. When her Mum's wallet is stolen and she loses her new puffin toy, Tia is disenchanted with the big city after visiting her Granny for her birthday. They return to Haven island brief...
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The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick
Name: Emma Fidler
10 January 2025;Genre: Horror
Finnegan Quick certainly has a vivid imagination and has some very creepy, fanciful dreams in The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick. My Y6 boys (ages 10+) will love diving in to how Finnegan's dreams come to real life and how he must deal with them. There is some a...
