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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...
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Name: Bryony Davies
30 September 2020;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
Midnight Magic by Michelle Harrison and illustrated by Elissa Elwick is the first in a new series of young fiction. Written in rhyming verse, the text is accessible to younger readers in Key Stage One.Midnight is a black cat who is born with magical powers. She is looking for a pla...
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October, October
Name: Jo Clarke
24 September 2020;Genre: Family & Home
October, October is an emotionally charged, wholly engaging story that will leave the reader in need of a tissue! It is a compelling tale of relationships, nature love and loss. It is written absolutely beautifully from the point of view of October, an 11-year-old girl who liv...
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Name: Lauren Maidman
24 September 2020;Genre: Social Issues
The Allotmenteers is a sweet young fiction story about the Brown family who work together to not only help grow vegetables for their neighbours, but also help sort out all their problems and look after the local community. When Sally and Tom decide to help me Mum out by taking...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
24 September 2020;Genre: Friends and family
In The Hungry Ghost, Freja arrives in Singapore, sent from Denmark while her mother recovers from a hinted at depression. Staying with her father and his new wife and twin sons, Freja finds Singapore a vastly different world from the one she has left. She struggles with the ne...
