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Name: Lucy Georgeson
01 September 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
One fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighbourhood escalates into tragedy. 'Boys just being boys' turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly, at just 16 years old, Amal Shahid's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to...
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Name: James Hewish
01 September 2020;Genre: Poetry
The B on your thumb is an absolute masterpiece. It is an assortment of superbly written, humorous poems that address spelling patterns, phonics, homophones, silent letters and more. It is aimed at children between 3 and 7 years old and will almost certainly be conducive in boosting a child's r...
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Stickypines: The Bigwoof Conspiracy
Name: Dawn Woods
01 September 2020;Genre: Science Fiction
Lucy lives with her parents in Sticky Pines - a remote town away from big cities and phone signals, surrounded by woods and wildlife and the factory which provides work for nearby residents. Lucy is convinced UFOs are real and would like to prove it to those who disbelieve and humour her. So o...
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Name: Julie Broadbent
27 August 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Challenge Everything - An Extinction Rebellion Youth Guide to saving the planet is written by the young activist Blue Sandford. She was named by The Times as a 'British Greta Thunberg' and one of the UK's most impressive youth activists. It is the only official youth handbook from Extinction R...
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The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems
Name: Joanna Hewish
27 August 2020;Genre: Poetry
The Girl Who Became a Tree: A Story Told in Poems is tragically beautiful and a story that will stay with you for a long time to come. Told completely through a range of poetic devices, this story stands out as original and moving as it interweaves the story of the main chara...
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Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know
Name: Lucy Georgeson
27 August 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
It is August in Paris and budding art historian Khayyam should be having the time of her life - but even in the City of Lights she can't stop worrying about the mess she left back home in Chicago. Only when she meets a cute young Parisian - who happens to have the same name and be a distant re...
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Name: Sam Phillips
20 August 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
Written by Professor Steve Peters, the author of The Chimp Paradox, this fab book is aimed at helping children to understand and manage their thoughts emotions and behaviours My Hidden Chimp is an easy to read book, complete with colourful illustrations, that encourages its reader to explore t...
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Name: Jo Clarke
20 August 2020;Genre: Non Fiction
I imagine the challenge to create a book about neuroscience which is aimed at children would not be an easy one and yet My Hidden Chimp does an excellent job of making a complex concept understandable and relatable. The concept behind My Hidden Chimp is that, if children were...
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Name: Alison Kelly
20 August 2020;Genre: Poetry
Shauna Darling Robinson's Saturday at the Imaginarium entices the readers to let their imaginations run wild. The collection opens with 'Open Wide' in which we are invited to 'Imagine if swallowing / were real - / if we truly / took things in / through our mouths / and...
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If I had a unicorn
Name: Joanna Hewish
20 August 2020;Genre: Picture Books
What pet does every little girl dream of owning? A Unicorn. My 5 year old believes that if she wishes hard enough, she might just wake up and have a unicorn lying at the foot of her bed. If I had a unicorn explores the imagination of every small child and what it might be like...
