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Shoot For The Stars
Name: Emma Urbonas
01 July 2025;Genre: Personal Growth
"A kickass guide to finding confidence in sport", indeed!! Shoot for the Stars is as creative as it is inspiring and I love how it contains biographies of real athletes and stories of them overcoming challenges to achieve their dreams. This book is a lesson in resilien...
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Destiny Ink - Baking Mix-Up
Name: Amanda Shipton
01 July 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Destiny Ink: Baking Mix-Up is the newest addition to the fantastic Destiny Ink series by Adeola Sokunbi. This highly illustrated chapter book is perfectly pitched at the early chapter book reader with black and white illustrations which add de...
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Go Go Dodo!
Name: Louise Gahan
01 July 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Fancy a lovely and very gentle walk through the jungle? Well, follow Dodo, after all there's nothing to worry about. Or is there? Blunt's vibrant, colourful and exciting illustrations will keep any young reader hooked, as they journey through the pages; across, through,...
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Super me
Name: Jen Bevan
01 July 2025;Genre: Adventure
A book children will instantly be drawn to with its illustration of a superhero boy and his Dad on the cover. A book of exploration and adventure. What will the Dad and his son discover in the pages of this book? A boy wakes up wanting to be a superhero. It's all he can talk about and t...
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The Invisibles
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 July 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Four children live on a magical island. They have everything they need and only one rule; never go to the Island of Darkness. But one child breaks the rule and catapults his friends into a world called Wasteland, where there are no children and it is unbearably bleak. Grace wakes up with no me...
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Kata and Tor
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 July 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
It is 1066 and King Harald Hardrada is planning to invade York with his Viking fleet. His youngest son, Tor, and his companion, Eirik, have been sent ahead to gather information, but an accident wrecks their boat. With Eirik dead, Tor is left to complete his mission alone. Whilst gathering inf...
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Mr Big Fluff Rules: Volume 3 (Happy Hills)
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 July 2025;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
The baddest hamster around, Mr Big Fluff, has decided that he is not as happy as he might be so he decides to steal some happy from Happy Hills. Will the Happy Hills gang be able to stop him? The third 'Happy Hills' book, Mr Big Fluff Rules, continues the bonkers fun and complete chaos...
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Come Back, Gosling
Name: Jen Bevan
01 July 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Have you ever loved something so much you never want that time to end? Well that's how the girl in the story feels. She loved her Gosling so much, but when she discovers in her library book how quickly geese grow up and that they fly away for the winter, she refuses to share the information wi...
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Bessie's Bees: A story about new experiences with a neurodiverse child at its heart
Name: Louise Gahan
01 July 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Bessie's Bees is a tender, uplifting picture book that captures the whirlwind world inside the mind of a neurodiverse child starting nursery for the first time. Kirk uses the brilliant metaphor of buzzing bees to show what it's like to live with ADHD. Little Bessie's he...
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Unity Street School Saves the Planet
Name: Louise Gahan
01 July 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
When the Green Team visits Unity Street School, a seed of an idea is planted, quite literally. What follows is a heartwarming and empowering tale of children taking climate change into their own hands. With guidance from their caretaker, Mr Moss, and support from the local Gre...
