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  • Home Is Where The Heart Is

    Home is Where the Heart Is

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    22 November 2022;

    Genre: Family & Home

    Home is Where the Heart Is is a heart-warming tale of the highs and lows of communal living. Bear moves into the forest and becomes good friends with his next door neighbour, Rabbit. When a storm destroys Bear's home, Rabbit takes him by the paw and invites him to move in. The...

  • The Missing Bookshop

    The Missing Bookshop

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    22 November 2022;

    Genre: Young fiction

    I just adore these Little Tiger short novels. The text is simple and easy to read and well spaced on the pages but the story is at a level that will spark discussion and comparison with real-life experience. The Missing Bookshop is all about the place a small independen...

  • The Snow Bear

    The Snow Bear

    Name: Wendy Kelly
    22 November 2022;

    Genre: Animals

    This classic book has been re-released by Little Tiger in a gorgeous 10th anniversary edition. The story is as lovely as it's always been and will delight junior readers, especially during the winter months. It tells the story of Sara, a little girl staying with her grandfather just before Chr...

  • Five Survive

    Five Survive

    Name: Ruth Cornish
    21 November 2022;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Five Survive is a brilliant, breathtaking book! Six excited friends set off for a welcome break together but by nightfall, their lives are at risk from an unknown assailant. The narrative is as taut and tense as the emotions of the cast of characters trapped in their broken do...

  • My First Book of Electromagnetism

    My First Book of Magnetism

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    19 November 2022;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    This First Book of Electromagnetism is a fabulously colourful and engaging non-fiction science guide by the brilliant Button Books , who excel at producing bold and very visually appealing non-fiction books that are packed with incredible facts and written and illustrated by e...

  • The Big Book of 100 STEM Activities

    The Big Book of 100 STEM Activities

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    19 November 2022;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    The Big Book of 100 STEM Activities is such a brilliantly appealing non-fiction book from publisher Button Books. The pairing of Laura Minter and Tia Williams has created a really fun and engaging set of science experiments to entertain and learn from. From a vibrantly illustr...

  • Truly Tyler

    Truly Tyler

    Name: Rikayla Age 13
    18 November 2022;

    Genre: Friendship

    I Love the Terri Libenson Series, it is the best book I ever read. I give this book a 5 out of 5 that is how good it is.

  • The Boy Lost in the Maze

    The Boy Lost in the Maze

    Name: Clare Wilkins
    16 November 2022;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    Acclaimed poet Joseph Coelho seamlessly binds myth and reality in this spellbinding new verse novel. A poetic retelling of the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, and Theseus's quest to find his father, runs parallel with a contemporary story of a teenage boy and his absent father. In An...

  • Transported: 50 Vehicles That Changed the World

    Transported

    Name: Lucy Hopkins
    16 November 2022;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Transported is a lovely non-fiction book about 50 different vehicles that changed the world. The book starts with the Polynesian Canoe (several thousand years ago) and goes chronologically until more recent inventions like the electric bike and solar powered aeroplanes. It's g...

  • The Chestnut Roaster

    The Chestnut Roaster

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    15 November 2022;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Piaf (Sparrow) is a chestnut roaster in Paris in the 1800s whilst The Eiffel Tower is just being built. Piaf is blessed (or is it cursed?) with total recall of every event in her life. There is something dangerous lurking in the background; 20 gifted children have disappeared, and Piaf's own b...