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Name: Julie Broadbent
27 August 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Challenge Everything - An Extinction Rebellion Youth Guide to saving the planet is written by the young activist Blue Sandford. She was named by The Times as a 'British Greta Thunberg' and one of the UK's most impressive youth activists. It is the only official youth handbook from Extinction R...
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The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems
Name: Joanna Hewish
27 August 2020;Genre: Poetry
The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems is tragically beautiful and a story that will stay with you for a long time to come. Told completely through a range of poetic devices, this story stands out as original and moving as it interweaves the story of the main chara...
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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Name: Lucy Georgeson
27 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life - but even in the City of Lights she can't stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian - who happens to have the same name and be a distant re...
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Raybearer
Name: Julie Broadbent
18 August 2020;Genre: Fantasy
Raybearer, a debut novel by Jordan Ifueko, is a fast-paced, fantasy adventure tale. From the outset we are totally immersed into the world which our main character and heroine Tarisai inhabits.Tarisai has always longed to have a close relationship with her mysterio...
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Cinderella is Dead
Name: Beverley Somerset
06 August 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Cinderella is Dead is an unusual book - a horror story based upon a well-loved fairy tale. In the fictional town of Lille, it is 200 years since Cinderella met Prince Charming and (apparently) lived 'happily ever after'. But for the girls and women living in Lille today, life...
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Name: Lorraine Ansell
06 August 2020;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Greer MacDonald is once again reeling from events connected to the Order of the Stag, but this time no one can quite believe what she has seen, causing her to doubt her own mind. Drawn very quickly to the de Warlencourts' London home, Greer and her friends discover further secrets and secretiv...
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Name: Joanna Hewish
06 August 2020;Genre: Family & Home
Occasionally in society, we so easily forget the importance of our elderly, the importance of the bond between generations and how the elderly were once young and had dreams too. The January Stars is a stark reminder that we need to embrace our elderly, enable them to chase th...
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The Island That Didn't Exist
Name: Kelly Buxton
06 August 2020;Genre: Adventure
Reading a book to travel to another world full of magic and surprise is exactly what The Island that didn't Exist was written for. This story is perfect for adventure seekers looking to set sail.When 12-year-old Rixon's great uncle, who he has never met, dies, he l...
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The Children of Swallow Fell
Name: Kelly Buxton
06 August 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Everything changes, it's the one thing you can be sure of. Julia Green writes with intensity about the relationship between children and nature, of loss, devastation, friendship, family, love and belonging. Of survival, strength and beauty.The Children of Swallow Fell</stro...
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The Soup Movement
Name: Kelly Buxton
06 August 2020;Genre: Personal Growth
When I finished this book I needed to just sit and reflect on the journey I had just been taken on, collect my thoughts before writing this review so I could do it justice.The Soup Movement is a powerful and evocative story told through the eyes of 12 year-old Jord...
