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Name: Joanna Hewish
07 January 2021;Genre: Romance & Relationships
An intriguing title with a bright cover that immediately grabs your attention. A good humoured, light-hearted story that will immediately appeal to an array of teenagers.The Humiliations of Welton Blake tells the story of Welton, a typical teenage boy who has a run of bad luck. Wel...
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Name: Kyle Matravers
07 January 2021;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Football Superstars is a new series of biographies about the superstars from the world of football. Created by the duo of Simon Mugford and Dan Green, these texts are the perfect addition to any young football fan's library.Despite being over 100 pages in length, the texts are easi...
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Name: Jenny Caddick
07 January 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
A fun, fresh and very relevant new illustrated fiction book for young readers that contains big issues. Hope Jones is a 10 year old girl - part of a young generation determined to use their voices to change the world. In this second of the Hope Jones books, Hope is turning vegetarian an...
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Name: Lizi Backhouse
07 January 2021;Genre: Picture Books
Mum is bored of 'beige', she looks in the fridge and all she sees is beige! So off to the supermarket they go with a different colour challenge everyday - red foods, yellow foods, purple... which three will they choose?Written by Claire Potter, this is an absolutely brilliant book...
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Name: Elen Green
07 January 2021;Genre: Early Skills
What a joyful approach to counting, I can see fun-loving youngsters really enjoying this journey on the 'Numbers Train'! In this space-themed counting book, children board the train and shoot off along its tracks into space, where they find one sun, two rockets, three planets and so on.<...
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The Worrying Worries
Name: Susan Wilsher
07 January 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
When a little child finds a worry, they decide to keep it as a pet and take it everywhere with them. Soon, the worry starts to take over their life, making it hard for them to do anything that they normally enjoy. Feeding on fears, the worry grows to such an extent that the child knows they ca...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
07 January 2021;Genre: Supernatural
16-year- old Niamh Hughes has come to London from Ireland to attend a drama course. She is looking forward to a fun filled summer of freedom, but things take a terrifying turn when she discovers the murdered body of another student in her hall of residence. Niamh soon realises that other girls...
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Name: Clair Bossons
07 January 2021;Genre: Dystopian
If you are looking for a book that will grip you, look no further. The Boy I Am is pulling no punches. The traditional gender roles have been reversed and Jude is running out of time to impress at the auction of boys to the female elite. If he is not chosen this time around then he can expect...
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Name: Stephen Leitch
07 January 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
When former football star Edgar Kail opens his front door to find 17 year old Adi on his doorstop, he tries to shoo the boy away, thinking he is trying to sell him something. As he closes the door, however, the boy mentions a name that makes Edgar stop and invite Adi in. Adi has mentioned a na...
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Name: Hayley Summerfield
07 January 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Louie Stowell is back with yet another fantastic sequel, The Wizard in the Woods. This epic story of wizarding mystery is a marvellous addition to her previous stories in this collection. It is full of thrilling adventure, dramatic twists, library's, dragons, and evil magic. From the onset you...
