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How to be a Human
Name: Beverley Somerset
05 August 2021;Genre: Friendship
Kiki is in Year 7 at Riverside Academy. She's lost touch with her old friends and is now part of the Popular Crew, along with Lola, Zainab and Saffron. Now she's trying desperately to fit in with them. Wes is in the same year, but he doesn't fit in at all. His hair is wrong, his clothes are wr...
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Superhero Baby!
Name: Jessica Bunney
05 August 2021;Genre: Picture Books
Hold on to your nappies! Keep your rattles at the ready! There's a new hero in town, and she means business!' Highly acclaimed author Patricia Hegarty has created yet another brilliantly engaging rhyming picture book, Superhero Baby!, which will have you sniggering. We...
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The Rapping Princess
Name: Lizi Backhouse
05 August 2021;Genre: Picture Books
The Rapping Princess is a modern fairytale about finding your voice and appreciating your own individual talents. Shiloh is a princess in a musical family where all of the girls can sing, but even though she tries everything, she just can't do it! Until one day, Shiloh...
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We Have A Dream
Name: Rhiannon Cook
05 August 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Highlighting the lack of representation in the climate change battle, We Have a Dream focusses on the stories and aspirations of thirty young, indigenous people and people of colour across the globe. Compiled by 'Birdgirl' Dr Mya-Rose Craig, herself a British-Bangladeshi envir...
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The Abandoned Puppy and Other Tales
Name: Lucy Newton
04 August 2021;Genre: Animals
What more could you want than three stories about cute puppies?! My class of Year 2 children absolutely love Holly Webb's Museum Kittens series, so their excitement when I showed them this book was no surprise! The Abandoned Puppy and Other Tales has t...
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Seven Sisters
Name: Carol Wright
04 August 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Seven sisters live in a tree. They are all very different, often bickering, and do not always tolerate their differences. When a perilous storm destroys their homes they learn that they need each other to rebuild their homes and live alongside each other accepting their differences. They bring...
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British Museum: Mummies Unwrapped: Discover the world of ancient Egyptian mummies.
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
04 August 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Mummies Unwrapped is a brilliant addition to any library. It is informative, descriptive and, more to the point, thoroughly enjoyable. This books focuses solely on mummies and as such is full to the brim with information, going into precise detail in both a scientific and hist...
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Name: Ellen Green
04 August 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
How to Survive Without Grown-Ups is a fun, action-packed story about family, siblings and space travel! Eliza hasn't always got on brilliantly with her younger, genius brother Johnnie - after all, it's not easy having a sibling who gets all the attention - but when thei...
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Seven Sisters
Name: Megan Webb
03 August 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Seven Sisters is a book that tells the tale of seven very different sisters who live in the Forest of Tremendous Trees. Each sister has a different interest, ranging from art and painting to engineering. The sisters live harmoniously until one day when a new enormous, beautifu...
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The Raven Heir
Name: Donna Burkert
02 August 2021;Genre: Fantasy
Cordelia, her brother Giles and sister Rosalind have never known anywhere but the castle in the middle of the woods that their mother has raised them in. Their lives have been filled with the love and care of their mother, Alys, and their older brother, Connell. Although triplets, the three ha...
