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The Christmas Department Store
Name: Amanda Shipton
23 October 2021;Genre: Friends and family
The Christmas Department Store is a wonderful heart-warming story of love, laughter and family. The authors have taken the wonderfully traditional features of the festive season and given them a delightful twist. Benji is a child with the purest heart and a face filled...
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The World Book
Name: KELLY Buxton
22 October 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Pack your bags and get ready for a globe-trotting tour of the world! The World Book is jam-packed with fun and interesting facts about the countries (199) that make up our world. Discover the history, geography, wildlife, culture and cuisine from each country without leaving y...
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Freeze
Name: Beverley Somerset
22 October 2021;Genre: Supernatural
Maya awakes one morning with a strange feeling that something bad is going to happen. At school, she meets her friends Carla, Jason and Tomas and all four children say that they had experienced bad nightmares the previous night. In class, Maya sits next to a mysterious new girl. She has white...
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Earth is Big
Name: Kristen Hopwood
22 October 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Earth is Big is a colourful book of comparisons that puts our planet into perspective in its place in the universe and makes you think about it in a different way. The comparisons are thorough and not always what you might expect. For example, the first page discusses how big...
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All Through the Night: People Who Work While We Sleep
Name: Lucy Newton
22 October 2021;Genre: Picture Books
All Through the Night: People Who Work While We Sleep is a really lovely book! It tells a story of people who work in different roles during the night. Many children probably presume that everyone is at home sleeping during the night, so it is a good eye opener into what actua...
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Boo
Name: Ashley Clayton
22 October 2021;Genre: Animals
The children in the reception class absolutely loved this book! The flip flaps and pop ups are what they enjoyed the most! It was read several times so they could see the characters again and lift the flaps! The children loved talking about what the animals were dressed up as and could relate...
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Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
Name: Stephen Leitch
21 October 2021;Genre: LBGTQ+
"Love is easy and it's hard," as Ari and Dane find out in Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, the incredible sequel to Aristotle and D...
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Shadow Town
Name: Joanna Hewish
21 October 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Shadow Town is an exciting new fantasy novel with many twists and turns to keep you on the edge of your seat. It tells the story of Toby, a young man living in London with his parents. One day a mysterious shadow appears from another world, causing disruption in Toby's life. T...
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Ghost Bird
Name: Catherine Purcell
21 October 2021;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Ghost Bird is a cultural tour de force from First Nations Australian author Lisa Fuller; drawing on her culture, customs and beliefs, Lisa delivers an incredible YA story with a dark heart that has so many elements to it. In brief: Laney has gone missing. At first she's...
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Shackleton's Endurance: An Antarctic Survival Story
Name: Ruth Cornish
16 October 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Shackleton's Endurance: An Antarctic Survival Story is an excellent narrative book rich in historical fact and harrowing in detail about the fated polar expedition to Antarctica where Shackleton and his team of 27 men hoped to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. <p...
