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Anisha, Accidental Detective
Name: Donna Burkert
05 March 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Anisha Mistry is not your usual detective. In fact she isn't a detective at all. But when she picks up a ransom note on the eve of her Auntie Bindi's wedding, about the groom-to-be, she knows that she is the only one who can unravel the mystery. While all around her are losing their heads over...
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Talking to the Moon
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 March 2020;Genre: Family & Home
Iris is living with her grandmother, Mimi, to escape the chaos of life at home, the damp and black mould creeping across her bedroom walls and the antics of the two-year-old twins. Mimi's house is not far from her own home, but life there is completely different from home.Mimi used...
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The Crossover: Graphic Novel
Name: Dan Katz
05 March 2020;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
Josh and his twin brother Jordan are the school's star basketball players. They are close, but other than their love of basketball, they don't have a lot in common - as Josh says, 'If we didn't love each other, we'd hate each other'. As the biggest game of the year approaches, tension between...
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Trailblazers: Albert Einstein
Name: Samantha Phillips
05 March 2020;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Trailblazers is a biography series that celebrates the lives of pioneers, past and present. A great series of books, each packed full of information and facts about scientists, inventors and athletes from all over the world.Trailbrazers, Albert Einstein, The Greatest Mind i...
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Mr Brown's Bad Day
Name: Joanna Hewish
05 March 2020;Genre: Funny Stories
Mr Brown's Bad Day is a simply lovely story that jumps off the shelf. All children will delight with the adventures of Mr Brown and sympathise with his bad day. I very much enjoyed reading this story with my children.Mr Brown has a terrible day. He is a very import...
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Demelza and the Spectre Detectors
Name: Alice Fanning
03 March 2020;Genre: Adventure
Demelza and the Spectre Detectors is an exciting and spooky middle grade adventure about Demelza Clock, a junior scientist with many madcap inventions under her belt who discovers she is a Spectre Detector: she can summon ghosts. This kicks off a well plotted mystery with more than a few twists...
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A Treason of Thorns
Name: Linda Brown
27 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Violet is taught by her father from an early age that Burleigh House, her ancestral home, is always to come first, it is everything. He tells her that she will be its next caretaker and she must devote herself to keep it happy and then the countryside will thrive and prosper. This is no problem f...
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One Fox
Name: Ellen Green
27 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
I love how One Fox is described as ';a counting book thriller' - which is just what it turns out to be; giving it a lot of scope for being used as more than a counting book. In the story, one fox, with two 'sly eyes' sees 'three plump hens' (the text gives us both the numbers and the words) - and...
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What Momma Left Me
Name: Tanja Jennings
26 February 2020;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Serenity rises / through adversity to break / free of secret griefs./The reader journeys / through trials and tribulations / with Serenity,Confiding her thoughts / to her journal lets her tell / her story in versePoetry ignites / the soul as Serenity / disco...
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The Threads of Magic
Name: Andrew Mullen
25 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Pip is a young boy who makes his living by pick-pocketing and thieving, so that he and his older sister, El, can survive. One day he pickpockets the wrong man and finds himself thrust in to a dark and dangerous world full of assassins and witches! There are a range of characters in this book, w...
