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Ellie Pillai is Brown
Name: Julie Broadbent
05 May 2022;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Ellie Pillai is Brown is the debut YA novel from Christine Pillainayagam. It is a powerhouse of a coming-of-age story that is funny, charming and thought provoking. Ellie is not one of the cool kids in school. Her friends are cool, but she’s not that girl, in fact most...
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Chronicles of Ancient Darkness: Wolf Brother (Book 1)
Name: Melissa Age 11
03 May 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
I have already bought the rest of the series. Wolf Brother has a very interesting plot and I like how it is set in prehistoric times. Without spoiling anything, I like how the author builds suspense and makes cliffhangers at the end of most chapters. From the first line, it im...
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The Insiders
Name: Sue Wilsher
03 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Callie, Nico, Ted and Zara are really close friends. Ted lives next door to Callie whose mum looks after him and the others after school. However, since an embarrassing incident at school, Ted has become quieter than ever, withdrawing from the group. When they notice a light on in school after...
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The Ship of Doom
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 May 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
When Luna is forced to attend a meeting in the Butterfly Room at the Greenwich Observatory, she expects an evening of boredom. But it turns out to be full of surprises. The Butterfly Club is a society with a secret - they travel in time to 'borrow' technology from the future. With two travell...
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Has Anyone Seen Archie Ebbs?
Name: Nathan Cox
02 May 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
Has Anyone Seen Archie Ebbs? by Simon Packham is a captivating story with a highly important and emotive theme portrayed by relatable characters and settings. This story excellently highlights the feelings and emotions people, in particular children, face surrounding eviction,...
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Rumaysa: A Fairytale
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 May 2022;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
At first glance this is another version of the familiar fairy tales, but this is cleverer than that. Taking the fairy tales of Rapunzel, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, this book turns them on their heads and links them together as one story, featuring Rumaysa, the girl locked in a tower....
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The Insiders
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Callie, Ted, Zara and Nico are best friends. Callie and Ted, in particular, are very close. They've been friends since nursery school and Callie once called Ted her "nearly brother". Then Billy Feldon, the class clown, plays a joke on Ted and he's embarrassed in front of the whole school. Now...
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Friends Like These
Name: Morgan Harkin
01 May 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Set in the summer of 1983, an ambitious intern, Beth, sets out in New York - alone, and unaware of some aspects of the New York way of life. With a place to stay in the sweltering heat in an apartment infested with cockroaches, a keen Beth befriends an outgoing, chaotic Edie. Whilst all seems...
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Fake
Name: Jan Blagden
01 May 2022;Genre: Dystopian
Fake is Ele Fountain's latest title aimed at the middle grade reader. This story is set in a future that appears to be not too distant from our own. There is much in the lifestyles of the various characters that will be relatable to readers. It is, however, not just another boarding school sce...
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Our Sister, Again
Name: Clare Wilkins
01 May 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
Desperate to heal the family after her sister, Flora's, death, Isla signs her mother up for grief counselling sessions. The sessions turn out to be a front for a pioneering AI company called Second Chance. Using the digital footprint of the recently deceased and information obtained from exhau...
