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Dreamweavers: Night of the Scary Fairies
Name: Emma Nelson
31 August 2023;Genre: Adventure
Just before a new school year begins, Tito starts to have odd dreams - he wakes up on a cliff edge in his Spiderman Pj's, where he encounters strange beings who turn out to be fairies (Jinn). On the first day of the new term, Tito is asked by his teacher to look after a new pupil from Pakistan...
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Inspiring Inventors Who are Changing Our Future
Name: Sue Wilsher
31 August 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
In this fascinating book, the reader discovers the stories of twenty extraordinary inventors from across the world. Coming from very different backgrounds and locations, each of the people featured has seen a need, identified the problem and set about finding a solution, using their skill to m...
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Interview with a Tiger: and Other Clawed Beasts Too
Name: Mrs M
31 August 2023;Genre: Animals
This is such a great idea...to present non-fiction material in such a fun way. The interview style is very clever, using fact and humour. Interview with a Tiger: and Other Clawed Beasts Too is an interesting way to get children to think about the environment, climate change, i...
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Izzy the Inventor and the Unexpected Unicorn
Name: Jacqueline Harris
30 August 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
Izzy is a girl who likes science and doesn't believe in magic. She feels like the odd one out in her family. Then one day a fairy appears and insists that Izzy accompany her to a magical land. There, Izzy has a quest to complete to save to save a prince, accompanied by a unicorn called Henry....
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Izzy the Inventor and the Curse of Doom
Name: Jacqueline Harris
30 August 2023;Genre: Magical Realism
Izzy is back in her second adventure, Izzy the Inventor and the Curse of Doom, combining real experiments with anarchic magic and fantasy. This time, Izzy and her unicorn friend Henry travel into the magical land to save Sleeping Beauty and break the bad fairy's curse. As befo...
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Crookhaven: The Forgotten Maze (Book 2)
Name: Jennifer Caddick
30 August 2023;Genre: Adventure
A second visit to Crookhaven – the school where being criminally bad is completely the right and most positive thing students can aspire to - is just as enthralling, dramatic and entertaining as book 1. This school for thieves teaches forgery, trickery, theft, hacking and all...
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Ten-word tiny tales
Name: Amanda Shipton
29 August 2023;Genre: Short reads
Can you tell a tale in ten words? In this unique and magnificent compendium designed to spark the imagination, Children's Laureate Joseph Coelho brings us stories of underwater worlds, demon hamsters, bears in outer space, and portals to places unknown! The tales in this book are tiny, they a...
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The Tyrannosaur’s feathers
Name: Maria faithorn
25 August 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
The Tyrannosaur's Feathers is a fantastic, current book based around how new findings and research have changed what we already know (or think we know!) about the past. For any dinosaur-mad child, or as part of a dinosaur topic of work, this is an ideal book to challenge previ...
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The Bear Behind
Name: Amanda Shipton
25 August 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
It was no ordinary Monday morning for Ivor as he watched the rain outside. Today was his first day at school and the last thing he needed was a huge Bear Behind. As he goes through his day, the Bear Behind is there each time Ivor is worried. From arriving at school, getting lost, having someon...
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We Are All Astonauts!
Name: Sue Wilsher
24 August 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
Luna Scope, aged seven-and-a-bit Earth years, is determined to be an astronaut. Full of enthusiasm, she is about to launch herself into her ambition and, fortunately, her granny is on hand to guide her with some excellent advice. Luna learns about spacesuits and telescopes, stars and space roc...
