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Scareground
Name: Louisa Farrow
11 October 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Nancy isn’t especially privileged but she has a happy and comfortable life in with expert bakers Ma and Pa Crumpet. Even so, there are things about her that are different. She is never happier than when leaping over rooftops and she seems to be able to communicate with the sky (which is a bett...
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Rosie Frost & the Falcon Queen
Name: Donna Burkert
10 October 2023;Genre: Adventure
When Rosie is plucked from the life she knows and thrown into the strange world of Heverbridge School on Bloodstone Island, she doesn't know who she can trust. Nobody will tell her what happened to her mum, and how she died, and the one piece of the puzzle that could tell her has been taken fr...
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Foxlight
Name: Beverley Somerset
10 October 2023;Genre: Family & Home
Twin sisters Fen and Rey were found as babies at the edge of the wildlands, curled up with foxes. They were found at foxlight - "the moment when the twilight meets the dawn, and the sun and the moon and the stars weave their light together". Inside the blankets that covered them was a charcoal...
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British Museum: Celebrate!
Name: Hayley Summerfield
10 October 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
British Museum: Celebrate! is a beautifully written book by Laura Mucha, published in collaboration with The British Museum. It is a collective feast of 50 festivals celebrated around the world. The world's most exciting festivals are celebrated in this book from different cou...
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Play
Name: Eileen Armstrong
10 October 2023;Genre: Personal Growth
Play brilliantly captures the voices and stories of four very different teenage boys. Bored of their small town life and what little it seems to offer, the friends invent their own games to pass the time until they can get away, scoring points against each other. When one of t...
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Podkin and the Singing Spear
Name: Jennifer Caddick
10 October 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Podkin and the Singing Spear is book 7 of this stunning, epic series and was a joy to read. I am such a huge fan of this fantastically written exciting adventure quest series featuring heroic rabbits Podkin, Paz and littlest sibling Paz and their comrades, friends and allies u...
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Man-Man and the Tree of Memories
Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 October 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Man-Man lives with his mother, father and sister in London and is preparing for carnival. He loves dancing and is very excited about carnival. His mother, however, is ill with a mysterious illness that doctors cannot diagnose or cure. Man-Man's grandmother comes from Jamaica to look after her....
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Of Dreams and Destiny
Name: Linda Brown
06 October 2023;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Of Dreams and Destiny follows Daphne Elizabeth 'DE' McKinley's senior year at Rosetta Academy - and things are not going as smoothly as she had hoped... DE is still getting over a painful break up, there is a mysterious storm raging around the Academy that is causing its stude...
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Scare Me
Name: Linda Brown
05 October 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Scare Me is the new supernatural thriller from the award winning YA author, Teri Terry and trust me when I say, this author's imagination will have you on the edge of your seat once again... 16-year-old Liv has a secret, the ghost of her twin sister, Molly, who died at...
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The Case of the Haunted Wardrobe
Name: Jennifer Caddick
05 October 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
The Case of the Haunted Wardrobe, the second book in this fresh, lively new series Di' Island Crew, features the same group of engaging, inquisitive and diverse young characters from their first mystery, The Case of the Lig...
