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Name: Sue Wilsher
02 April 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Sofia lives with her mother and little brother, Ermin, and their pet crow, Corvith, on the outskirts of Sienna. Their home, set in the grounds of a ruined monastery, is a charnel house made of bones, and her mother is a bone-binder, famed throughout the city for her work. Smallpox has ravaged...
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Dream Team Attack of the Heebie-Jeebies
Name: Jane Rew
02 April 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Tom Percival is another writer of extraordinary ability who can not only devise wonderfully weird story lines, but can illustrate them so amazingly well that we are drawn into every action- and emotion-packed scene as if we were really present in Erika's world. At the start of A...
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The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne
Name: Clare Wilkins
01 April 2021;Genre: Dystopian
A new series from Jonathan Stroud is always an event and this explosive new book is no exception. The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne is set in a bleak future Britain formed of seven disparate kingdoms - it's a place where mutant creatures roam the wilds and fortified Towns are...
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Everyday Magic
Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 April 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Nervous, shy, (and definitely not brave) Alfie Blackstock's life is turned upside down when he becomes an orphan and is sent to gloomy, creepy Switherbroom Hall to live with two unknown and unusual aunts who might possibly be (definitely are) witches. Added to that is the appearance, in the du...
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Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Map of Stories (Pages & Co., Book 3 paperback)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 April 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
A Pages and Co 3 - Tilly and the Map of Stories; A man walks into the bookshop Pages and Co and cannot remember what he came in for. Tilly and her family feel something is not quite right but cannot work out what it is. The wicked siblings Decima and Melville Underwood are now...
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Penny and the Little Lost Puppy
Name: Emma O Donovan
01 April 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Emily's lavish and highly detailed illustrations provide a visually arresting back drop to the tale of a young girl struggling with moving house. A lost puppy, an embracing community and a new friend make this heart-warming traditional tale one which will leave readers feeling warm and comfort...
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Name: Jane Rew
01 April 2021;Genre: Friends and family
The Incredible Record Smashers is the tale of a girl whose mum suffers with depression, and her attempts to help, which don't exactly go to plan. How did she believe that trying for a new world record (catching kumquats in her mouth) or meeting famous singer Paul Castellini co...
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Name: Catherine Purcell
01 April 2021;Genre: Fantasy
First page - double page spread of Wormwood. A map is essential if you're to introduce me to the new world you've built and expect me to embrace it, so I heartily approve of maps at the start of a fantasy...it also means that I need to grab a bookmark as inevitably I'll need to check back to m...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 April 2021;Genre: Friends and family
Luna is bursting with excitement. Today, her class are going on a school trip to an art gallery and mum is coming as a parent helper. Everyone is looking forward to going - except Finn. At the gallery, there is so much to see and do, but Finn is not behaving and there is obviously something wr...
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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 April 2021;Genre: Family & Home
If anyone can find a silver lining in a rain cloud, it will be Joy Applebloom. Her whole life has been spent travelling the world with her adventurous parents. Then, without warning, they return to a nondescript part of England to look after her grandfather. His humdrum life is hidebound by ro...
