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Agent Llama
Name: Carol Wright
08 July 2021;Genre: Spy stories
Charlie Palmer is no ordinary Llama. She is a secret agent on a special mission to find some missing underpants! I loved Charlie Palmer, 00-LLama, a strong, female, secret agent hero. The Prime Minister has lost his underpants and Charlie is called in to solve the mystery in a story act...
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Me and the Robbersons
Name: Kelly Buxton
08 July 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
An absolute riot of a book that will make you laugh from cover to cover! 12-year-old Maisie is locked in the car with her annoying older sister, Primrose, on the way to Grandma's. It's the summer holidays and it seems set to drag on and on. Maisie longs for adventure and never suspects that sh...
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Name: Kelly Buxton
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Imagine starting into a flower that only flowers once in its lifetime one moment and stumbling back in time before you were even born the next. Well for Elsie that is exactly what happens while she is visiting her Uncle John, who she has never met, to while away the long summer holidays....
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
08 July 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Elsie has to stay with her Great Uncle John, who lived in India when he was younger. He talks about the terrible thing he regrets doing when he was still a child. Elsie is catapulted back through time to India in the 1940s; can she put that mistake right? Or is it wrong to try and change time?...
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Run Like a Girl
Name: Louisa Farrow
07 July 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
Across the world, there are female athletes hurdling barriers, breaking records and notching up phenomenal personal achievements. Run Like a Girl is a celebration of these women through 50 biographical stories that explore what it took for them to reach the top of their sports...
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Kitty Quest
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
06 July 2021;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Kitty Quest is truly laugh out loud funny; it follows the story of Woolfrik and Perigold on their quest to rid their town of Meowminster of monsters. This graphic novel is ideal for the more reluctant readers in KS2 and hasn’t been on the shelf since I bought it into school. T...
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Edie and the Box of Flits
Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 July 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
I absolutely fell in love with this modern but classic feeling magical, fantastical adventure. 11 year old Edie Winter helps out with Dad's job at the London Underground's Lost Property Office. Of all the random things she finds, she never expected it to be a curious wooden box containing a mi...
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There is No Big Bad Wolf in This Story
Name: Maria Aldred
01 July 2021;Genre: Picture Books
This front cover entices you in by the familiar characters who all look slightly flummoxed and perhaps a little grumpy so the children in my class were eager to find out more and why there is no big bad wolf in this story! There is No Big Bad Wolf in This Story begins w...
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SkyWake: Invasion
Name: Stephen Leitch
01 July 2021;Genre: Adventure
Ever wondered what it would be like to be inside your favourite computer game? In SkyWake Invasion - the new sci-fi adventure novel from Jamie Russell - the worlds of the gamer and game are about to become uncomfortably close! It's just an ordinary day for teenage gamer Casey and her yo...
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You're So Dead
Name: Clair Bossons
01 July 2021;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
This book with its eye catching cover already has students talking about it. They loved the concept of influencers being lured to an uninhabited island to be picked off and murdered one by one. The main character, Plum Winter, intercepts an invite to an exclusive, high-end festival for...
