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Name: Lucy Georgeson
12 April 2020;

Genre: Romance & Relationships

A funny and life-affirming take on all the big stuff you experience through puberty: love, sex, death, family, intergenerational friendships, heartbreak, kittens and kisses that turn the whole world upside down. Love is for Losers is six months in the life of Year 11 Phoebe, self-professed hat...

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Name: Linda Brown
11 April 2020;

Genre: Myths & Legends

This is the second book in the Four Treasures Novel series and once again the author Caroline Logan delivers a unique, well written magical adventure full of mystical beings from Scottish culture and legends. At the end of book one, Harris, the selkie was captured by the Faerie Queen and Ailsa d...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
11 April 2020;

Genre: Adventure

Myles and Beckett are the younger twin brothers of the more famous Artemis Fowl. In The Fowl Twins - Deny All Charges, the second of their adventures, having stolen a jet plane and then destroyed it (obviously not intentionally), the brothers are put under house arrest by thei...

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Name: Sam Phillips
10 April 2020;

Genre: Non Fiction

River stories by Timothy Knapman is an illustrated collection of facts and traditional folklore tales about five of the most well-known rivers that stretch across the continents of the world. From the Rhine in Germany and the Netherlands, to the Yangtze in Tibet and China; eac...

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Name: Ellen Green
09 April 2020;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Dastardly thieves, gadgets that Bond would die for - and pizzas! Mark Anchovy: Pizza Detective is a fun, fast-paced adventure story featuring a group of detective children who go undercover as waiters, icecream sellers - or, in Colin's case, a pizza delivery boy - who would su...

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Name: Sharon Bolton
06 April 2020;

Genre: LBGTQ+

A true coming of age novel, this story follows one summer in the life of Saoirse. Her plan for the summer is to get over the loss of her ex, Hannah, by spending her time watching horror movies (the gorier the better), partying and snogging girls. She might have to contend with her nemesis Oliv...

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Name: Daniel Katz
05 April 2020;

Genre: Dystopian

In the middle of a lake in an isolated American National Park lives the community of Wranglestone. Peter is much happier wielding a darning needle than a weapon, but in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world, his skill set is not always appreciated. Especially when winter comes, when the la...

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Name: Nikki Stiles
04 April 2020;

Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

This is the sweetest tale about how the dragon came to breathe fire. Who would have thought it; this notorious mythical creature has been misunderstood all this time?! It all began once upon a time in a magical kingdom. A kingdom dominated by stories passed down for generations about a beastly...

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Name: Linda Brown
04 April 2020;

Genre: Fantasy

Ember Queen is the concluding book to the wonderful Ash Princess series, and what an amazing, well written conclusion it has been. This book continues with all the magic, romance, power battles and friendships from the previous books, along w...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
04 April 2020;

Genre: Bereavement

Characters in a Brian Conaghan novel never have it easy. 17 year old Maggie Yates is struggling to maintain a relationship with someone once pivotal to her life who has chosen to leave her. She talks to her every day, tells her everything. Her best friend. She tells her when her dinner lady mu...

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