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Big Outdoors for Little Explorers: Jungle
Name: Lucy Hopkins
06 June 2024;Genre: Animals
Big Outdoors for Little Explorers: Jungle is an excellent book for any jungle or animal loving baby/toddler! This book will help to immerse children into the jungle world; a place most of them have probably never experienced! It's filled with life-like pictures of jungle anim...
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Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Dash of Daring
Name: Sue Wilsher
06 June 2024;Genre: Mystery & Detective
When an ingenious cipher machine, capable of converting messages into unreadable code in seconds, and its creator go missing, Alice Éclair finds herself once more in the thick of the action, this time at the Olympic training camp, where the daughter of the missing machine maker is getting read...
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The Love Interest
Name: Clair Bossons
06 June 2024;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Helen Comerford's debut novel The Love Interest is set in 2024 and provides us with a unique take on the superhero genre. I found myself hooked from the very first page. The dystopian world where some people have superpowers and there are some mutant EV creatures is very well...
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Who Ate Steve?
Name: Natalie J McChrystal Plimmer
05 June 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
Who Ate Steve? is a wonderfully tongue-in-cheek metafictive picturebook. An unknown narrator, who speaks directly to both reader and character, is a teacher trying to teach about size - what (or who) is big and small. But causing the teacher-narrator's increasing frustration i...
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Gloria Goes for Gold
Name: Lauren Maidman
05 June 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Gloria Goes for Gold is the story of a Hippo named Gloria who, with her family, are Artistic Swimming Champions. Gloria is bored of winning with her family and when the Savannah Games role into town, she fancies a change of sport and potentially the idea of winning a medal of...
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Freya's Gold
Name: Jennifer Caddick
04 June 2024;Genre: Adventure
Freya's Gold is a perfectly perilous and deliciously dramatic middle grade novel with a pacey plot, an endearingly under-confident heroine, a sharply suspicious and perfectly coiffured stranger and an unusual new acquaintance found in the unlikeliest place. The seaside...
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Bear vs Dragon
Name: Louise Gahan
04 June 2024;Genre: Funny Stories
A bear, a dragon and a rickety bridge; what could possibly go wrong? When the two characters meet on a bridge, they don't exactly see eye to eye. Very quickly their conversation gets somewhat heated and all the while, the rickety bridge gets even more rickety. This is a super, quick-wit...
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Transcendent: Book 1
Name: Louisa Farrow
03 June 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Jacob and Kira are twin geniuses from Mbale, Uganda. Jacob is quieter and more circumspect, Kira is bolder and inclined to take risks, but both are spectacularly intelligent. They designed a wireless hacking device when they were only nine years old, while their latest invention is an atmosphe...
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This Book Won't Burn
Name: Eileen Armstrong
03 June 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
18 year old Noor's life is turned upside down when her father walks out of their Chicago home unexpectedly to start a new life in London. Distraught, her mother moves Noor and her younger sister to the tiny town of Bayberry, where Noor becomes the Muslim new girl in an almost exclusively white...
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Hedgehog's Balloon (A Percy the Park Keeper Story)
Name: Jessica Bunney
02 June 2024;Genre: Animals
I absolutely adore that Percy the Park Keeper is still a prominent character known to this generation; just as he was in my childhood. He has been around for over 30 years now! Each and every one of the books in this collection is endlessly endearing and melts my heart each time I read them. <...
