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Wolf Girl
Name: Lauren Maidman
04 January 2022;Genre: Personal Growth
Wolf Girl is a story about overcoming shyness, making friends and being brave for the first time. Sophy is a little girl who has worries in her tummy about school and making friends. When she tries to talk, the words get lost and she worries, some people are sometimes mean and...
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Viking Boy - The Real Story
Name: Donna Burkert
04 January 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
In Viking Boy - The Real Story, Gunnar, the hero from Tony Bradman's Viking Boy, tells the history of The Vikings from where they started, to places they invaded, raided and settled. He tells about gods and monsters, crafts and skills, Viking...
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A Song for Ella Grey
Name: Dawn Woods
02 January 2022;Genre: Friends and family
According to the blurb for A Song for Ella Grey, this is 'The most beautiful book you'll read this year' - and, for me, that was true. I loved it. A modern interpretation of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, this novel is told from Claire's viewpoint. It describes her life fro...
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The Primrose Railway Children
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
02 January 2022;Genre: Family & Home
Have you ever read a book where the characters feel so real you think you know them? That they are friends and you are simply revisiting them when you pick the book up to read? This is exactly what Jacqueline Wilson has done with The Primrose Railway Children; she has masterfu...
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When the World Was Ours
Name: Catherine Purcell
01 January 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Tom Palmer's After the War; Michael Rosen's The Missing; Karen Levine's Hana's Suitcase; Morris Gleitzman's Once; Judith Kerr's When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; and now, Liz Kessler's When the World Was Ours. Vienna. 1936. Three friends spend a joy-filled day together cel...
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Freedom
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 January 2022;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Freedom isn't a long novel but it crams in so much emotional satisfaction, excitement, and adventure! It also weaves the story around real historical events in a way that feels beautifully natural. The appalling fate of slaves on the slave ship Zong and the insurance fr...
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The Righteous
Name: Linda Brown
01 January 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Renee Ahdieh is so good at her craft that once again she immersed me onto the atmospheric streets of New Orleans in The Righteous. Into its dark secluded alleyways and even darker secrets of the vampires, werewolves and other ethereal creatures that share the streets with huma...
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All Our Hidden Gifts
Name: Linda Brown
01 January 2022;Genre: Fantasy
We have all watched a creepy film where a group of teenagers pick up the tarot cards/quija board and screamed at the TV 'Don’t do it!' This is exactly what you will be doing as the get deeper into this debut YA novel... Maeve is a 16-year-old girl who lives in Ireland and due to her behaviour,...
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The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime
Name: Nicola Cleveland
23 December 2021;Genre: Adventure
The Unadoptables is a stunningly spooky and sinister story of loyalty, determination and family packed with adventure and adversity.Amsterdam, 1886. The Little Tulip Orphanage has strict rules on how babies should be delivered, but that autumn, five children arrive...
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When the War Came Home
Name: Beverley Somerset
22 December 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Set in the early 1920's, this wonderful novel explores the after effects of World War 1 on both the surviving soldiers and the families they return to. Natty lives in the small Welsh village of Libanwy with her mother, Ffion, who is a vocal supporter of women’s rights. When her outspokenness c...
