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Lucky Cat
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
15 September 2022;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Lucky Cat is a beautiful, uplifting story about an immigrant family living in America, trying to find their way in life. Their initial plans don't work out but everyone is delighted to inherit a lucky cat statue with their move. Lucky Cat is meant to bring good luck and fortun...
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National Trust: 2023 Nature Month-By-Month: A Children's Almanac
Name: Amanda Shipton
15 September 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
Discover all the brilliant things that you can see, make and do with this amazing month by month guide to the year. Published in collaboration with the National Trust, 2023 Nature Month-By-Month: A Children's Almanac is packed with nature spotter guides; exciting indoor and ou...
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Beyond the Frozen Horizon
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
In 2030, the world leaders pledged a coordinated and unprecedented response to the Climate Crisis, introducing strict Climate Laws and establishing World Wilderness Zones, including the High Arctic. Rory's mum is an environmental geologist whose new job with Greenlight, a company which claims...
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Pages and Co: The Treehouse Library
Name: Sue Wilsher
15 September 2022;Genre: Fantasy
With his Uncle Horatio still trapped in a poisoned sleep, Milo steals away with his new friend, Alessia, to find the cure. They need to find the Botanist and discover her magical treehouse - and Milo's grandmother. The children work with the Botanist to find the ingredients for the cure, forag...
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The Last Storyteller
Name: Donna Burkert
15 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
In The Last Storyteller, a comet is heading for Earth and an exodus of the chosen few has begun. Petra and her family are some of the ones chosen ones to board the three Pleiades vessels that will take them across the galaxy to a new planet, a new home. With their bodies place...
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Time Travel at Puddle Lane
Name: Lizi Backhouse
15 September 2022;Genre: Adventure
Ariella and Yosef notice that their school librarian keeps coming back to the library covered in mud. They can't resist investigating and end up transported back in time to Georgian London, where they meet the founder of their school. Time Travel at Puddle Lane is split...
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Sindhu and Jeet's Missing Star Mystery
Name: Lizi Backhouse
15 September 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Sindhu and Jeet's missing star mystery is a book with three short stories inside; the stories are fun, fast paced and easy to follow - although you could argue that they're a little rushed! Together, Sindhu and Jett solve the mystery of a woman who has left two wills, a missing movie star and...
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The Secret School Invasion
Name: Sam
14 September 2022;Genre: Funny Stories
If you're ooking for a book to encourage reading for pleasure and build reading stamina in newly independent readers, then The Secret School Invasion by Pamela Butchart is just what the book you need. This laugh-out-loud account of the amalgamation of two rival schools will ha...
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The Consequence Girl
Name: Clare Parkinson
13 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
I was grateful to receive this from a ReadingZone competition, and looked forward to the children in my primary school library enjoying it. I confess science fiction isn't really my thing. We had read Orion Lost in a year 5 book group, and I had found it slight...
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Always, Clementine
Name: Nicola Mansfield
12 September 2022;Genre: Animals
It's a strange thing to say when asked by a friend why you're crying and you answer that a mouse made you do it. The look you receive is one of confusion. I simply put this book, Always, Clementine, into my friend's hands and told them to read it, that they'd understand. <...
