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A Song of Gladness - a story of hope for us and our planet
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
01 May 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
A Song of Gladness is a beautiful book that celebrates the amazing variety of life on Earth. It is a story of hope and love for our planet. From a blackbird in an English garden, to a whale in the deep blue, from roaring lions on the African savanna to the tiny ladybirds, this...
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Pierre's New Hair
Name: Maria Faithorn
01 May 2021;Genre: Picture Books
Pierre's New Hair is a bear who loves hair! When his hair looks fantastic he feels it too. His idols, the Poodle Squad, have fantastic hair and he dreams of one day proving that bears can have this hair too. News spreads that the Poodle Squad are judging this year's roller ska...
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The Supreme Lie
Name: Catherine Purcell
30 April 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
In The Supreme Lie, it's 1928 and Afalia faces a natural disaster. Unprecedented rain coupled with unimaginable quantities of snowmelt from volcanic activity has caused the Furca River to burst its banks. The entirety of the Furca river basin, the forests, the sawmills, the we...
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Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Haunted House
Name: George Age 10
30 April 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This book had a lot to live up to after reading the first two books in this series - and boy did it live up to that strongly! A new family arrives in town and Zaiba and Poppy are trusted with welcoming the two children. What none of them expected to happen was a series of mysterious events in...
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Ruffles and the red red coat
Name: Judith Greenall
30 April 2021;Genre: Baby & Toddler Books
Ruffles and the red red coat introduces us to Ruffles, a very cute puppy, who loves doing all the things puppies do like sniffing, scratching and fetching. The one thing that really cramps his style is wearing his new red coat. He is not at all keen to and, after a lot of wrig...
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Bone Music
Name: Kristen Hopwood
30 April 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Bone Music is the story of Sylvia who temporarily moves to Northumberland with her mum. At first, Sylvia struggles to adjust to the village in which her mum grew up after being used to the city surroundings of Newcastle. She hears a strange music being played at night and feel...
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My Dad is a Grizzly Bear
Name: Jemma Jeffrey
29 April 2021;Genre: Family & Home
My Dad is a Grizzly Bear is a light-hearted, enjoyable read written by Swapna Haddow. With his fuzzy hair, insatiable hunger, enormous hands and love of nature, dad is obviously a grumpy grizzly bear to a boy with a wild imagination! But sometimes when things are a little scary, all that is ne...
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Name: Ellen Green
29 April 2021;Genre: Friends and family
The Super-Secret Diary of Holly Hopkinson: This Is Going To Be a Fiasco is an engaging read with gorgeous illustrations from Katy Riddell. The story takes the form of Holly Hopkinson's diary as she and her family move out of London and into the country. Although things look b...
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Zed and the cormorants
Name: Catherine Purcell
28 April 2021;Genre: Supernatural
A Cornish mystery; cormorants, curses, warm bread rolls and ghosts. Zed's family have moved from London to rural Cornwall to begin a new, idyllic life. In London, Zed's dad was finding himself ever absent due to work commitments, Zed's mum's depression was threatening to overwhelm her, Zed's s...
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The Chessmen Thief
Name: Stephen Leitch
28 April 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Chessmen Thief is the latest exciting novel by Inverness-based author Barbara Henderson. Set across the Western Isles, Orkney and Norway, the story follows 12 year old Kylan, a slave for a Norseman of Trondheim who was taken as a young boy from his island home on the Isle of Harris . Longi...
