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Name: Carol Carter
01 October 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
From the moment you pick it up, The Egyptians feels like a treasure, weighty and vivid. The thick board pages and over 80 lift-up flaps feel as indestructible as a pyramid, perfect for young history lovers who will pore over it until every scrap of information has been ingeste...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 October 2020;Genre: Adventure
Another of Barrington Stokes' series of books for dyslexic and reluctant readers, The Griffin Gate is an outright winner! Adventure, fantasy and a little bit of steampunk all combine to make up a real page turner.Grace Griffin lives in Copperport, in the country of...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 October 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
World Burn Down is a thrilling adventure story with a strong environmental message. Carlos Feliz lives with his mother in Manaus, Brazil. She is a soldier working for the Special Forces Group of IBAMA - the environment agency, and her job is to protect the Amazon rainforest fr...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 October 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Olia loves Castle Mila, the ancestral home of her family, a place full of secrets and magic. Although they no longer live in the grandeur of the past, the domed castle offers them shelter and the rest of the village space to celebrate and work. But strange storms are rising and Olia's Babusya...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 October 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
13-year-old Olia lives with her parents, grandmother Babusya and baby sister Rosa, whom she adores. The family are descended from royalty and their home is the huge Castle Mila. The castle is 500 years old and with its 33 turrets and domes is full of secrets. Olia loves to explore it, searchin...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 October 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Elsie is used to being forgotten and so when her mother gets her holiday dates wrong and Elsie has to go and stay with Great Uncle John, she tries to make the best of it. After all, nothing exciting ever happens to her unlike Kelsie Corvette, the heroine of the stories Elise writes. However, s...
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Name: Linda Brown
01 October 2020;Genre: Fantasy
At the end of book two (The Mirroculust Mission), Mr Peregrine was kidnapped! Now it's up to Darwen, Rik and Alex to rescue him. In The Mirrors Shattered, the final book in the Beyond the Mirror trilogy, they go on a journey that takes them deeper into Silbrica than they've ev...
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Name: Bryony Davies
01 October 2020;Genre: Fantasy
A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth is by debut author Francesca Gibbons. The first in a planned triology, this book is a magical fantasy adventure full of heart, hope and humour.We are introduced to Imogen and her younger sister, Marie. Their mum has a new boyfriend...
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Name: Rhiannon Cook
01 October 2020;Genre: Fantasy
A Narnia for the modern age, A Clock of Stars is a magical adventure following two sisters that don't always get along. Imogen and Marie find themselves in a fantasy world after following a mysterious moth through a door in a tree but once on the other side, the door disappear...
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Frost
Name: Samantha Phillips
01 October 2020;Genre: Adventure
Part of the winter animals series by best selling children's author Holly Webb, Frost is an absolutely delightful tale of friendship between a young girl called Cassie and a fox cub she calls Frost.While her Mum is busy at work, Cassie is left in the care of her ol...