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Cringe Club: Volume 1 - The start of a hilarious new series
Name: Emma Nelson
13 October 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Cringe Club by Emily Jane Clark is a fabulously hilarious book, written from the perspective of Kennedy King. Forced to move school by her mother - AKA The Mother - the story unfolds in a series of messages (this is an ingenious way to engage reluctant readers...
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Ice Dancer
Name: Louisa Farrow
13 October 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Ice Dancer, as the title and the jacket suggest, is all about skating - at least on the surface. It is more than that, though. Packaged with pink writing and silver stars, the book looks to be targeted as Christmas reading for girls. It would be a shame to limit it to this, al...
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Impossible Creatures: The Poisoned King
Name: Linda Brown
10 October 2025;Genre: Fantasy
When Christopher Forrester is unexpectedly woken by Jacques, a miniature dragon, chewing on his face, his heart leaps for joy. For months he's dreamed of returning to the Archipelago - the secret islands where all the creatures of myth still live . . . In this wonderful, magical sequel...
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Last Gamer Standing
Name: Logan Age 12
10 October 2025;Genre: Science Fiction
Last Gamer Standing is so good, so kid friendly and a great story overall showing how people can be so sexist at times - but people will always come through. This book is so awesome, 5 stars = I would rate it higher If I could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Murder at Christmas
Name: Sue Wilsher
03 October 2025;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Grace is delighted when she arrives in Bath to spend Christmas with her mum and younger brother, Billy. Although her dad won't be with them, they will be staying at the hotel owned by their mum's twin sister, Aunt Mollie. But when a body is found on the stairs and their mum disappears, Grace a...
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The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 October 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Fran is not looking forward to spending a week with her aunt and uncle, largely because of her rude and unfriendly cousin, Imogen. However, when she arrives, Fran finds that Imogen is missing . . . and no one seems to remember that she ever existed. Puzzled and frightened, Fran is determined t...
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Murder at Christmas
Name: Margaret Pemberton
01 October 2025;Genre: Mystery & Detective
The arrival of a Christmas murder mystery has become something of an early Christmas present from this author. This time, the two main characters are staying with their mother at their aunt's hotel in Bath. However, when the hotel manager is killed and their mother disappears, the siblings are...
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Impossible Creatures
Name: Jermani Age 11
01 October 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
I love this book because it makes me feel like I am in the book watching every move.
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Fear Files: Hide and Seek: A pacy, spine tingling horror adventure
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 October 2025;Genre: Horror
Adam has gone on a camping trip with his best friend Sol, but it is not living up to expectations. There's no staying up late telling ghost stories, no cosy hammocks and Sol even seems to have lost his sense of fun. In frustration, Adam strikes off through the mist to find what adventure he ca...
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Dracula & Daughters: Sink your fangs into a brand new adventure series
Name: Beverley Somerset
30 September 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
Famous actress Elsie Irving has died in mysterious circumstances and, for the first time in 20 years, a vampire Contagion has broken out in Temstown. Are the two things linked? Mina, her sister Buffy and cousin Bella find that they are connected by a family secret and they could be the only on...
