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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...
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By Ash, Oak and Thorn
Name: Bryony Davies
01 April 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
By Ash, Oak and Thorn is full of the wonder of nature and the environment. Explore the world from a different perspective and join three funny and caring beings on their adventure. In By Ash, Oak and Thorn, the reader joins three ancient beings - Hidden Folk - on a wild...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 April 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
When disaster strikes the Forest at the start of Skin Taker, it seems as if the sun will never wake and the Clans are left in chaos. Torak, Renn and Wolf must face dangers and demons and find a way to bring back the First Tree if their world is to survive. But Torak is caught...
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Amber Under Cover
Name: Donna Burkert
01 April 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Amber Roberts: a typical schoolgirl whose life is turned upside down in more ways than one. Fearing that her parents are about to divorce, Amber is shocked to find that it is something altogether more worrying that they have been whispering about for weeks; it seems her life will never be the...
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Name: Kelly Buxton
01 April 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Skin Taker by Michelle Paver is the latest in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, which follows Torak, a spirit Walker, Renn, his mate and Wolf, his trusty companion, as their livelihood is threatened by an unnatural force in this tense, new wild adventure. Journ...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 April 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
When pizza delivery boy and would-be detective Colin Kingsley meets Princess in the local kebab shop, he has no idea of the adventure ahead of him! He becomes a member of the Golden Spatula League (GSL), a detective agency that only recruits children. Each child has a special talent and Colin...
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Emmy Levels Up
Name: Donna Burkert
01 April 2021;Genre: Bullying
When Emmy is playing the part of Emmentine in the online game: Illusory Isles, nobody can defeat her. She is master of her game. She is queen of combat. She is a celebrity. The video of her greatest defeat against The Mulch Queen is legendary in the Illusory Isles world. Nothing can burst her...
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The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne
Name: Stephen Leitch
01 April 2021;Genre: Dystopian
The Outlaws Scarlett & Browne is the latest romp of an adventure from Jonathan Stroud, author of Lockwood & Co and the Bartimaeus series of books. Set in a future Britain after The Great Cataclysm has altered the environment and landscape, where towns have a decidedly...
