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Iguana Boy Saves the World with a Triple Cheese Pizza
Name: Annie Everall
24 July 2018;Genre: Adventure
Nine-year-old Dylan Spencer desperately wants to be a Superhero with a cool superpower. His brother Sam. aka Arctic Thunder, can control the weather and his sister Millie, aka Millie Monday, has laser eyes and can roast a chicken in 30 seconds (but only on a Monday). Dylan is the butt of his sibl...
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Straight Outta Crongton
Name: Carol Williams
24 July 2018;Genre: Social Issues
The third novel in Alex Wheatle's Crongton series turns its attention to 15 year old Mo, at odds with her mother and Mum's boyfriend Lloyd. Mo's dinner money is taken from her by Lloyd, and their escalating friction has led to him hitting her hard enough to knock her on the floor. She is determin...
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Floored
Name: Eileen Armstrong
24 July 2018;Billed as The Breakfast Club meets One Day and penned by seven of the leading female writers of the UKYA scene, all at the top of their game, expectations of this unique, long-awaited, much-talked about collaborative novel, were always going to be sky high. The plot is a very simple one - six st...
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The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things
Name: Eileen Armstrong
24 July 2018;I remember reading this on first publication an astonishing 15 years ago, long before instagram and iphones had even been thought of, but the messages and themes sadly remain as important as ever. Updated for a new generation, this 'girl-power classic' centres on Virginia, an overweight, body-con...
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Octopants
Name: Nikki Stiles
19 July 2018;Genre: Funny Stories
Octopus needs pants! He's all too bare, down there. The problem is nowhere sells pants for someone with eight legs, not even the 'Under-Sea Emporium', and shopping online is a waste of time... Octopus gets quite upset and doesn't understand why everyone else has a pair to suit them but he stil...
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Hansel and Gretel
Name: Kyle Matravers
19 July 2018;In this adaption of the famous traditional tale, Willow the witch becomes the main character. From the start, we are introduced to her as a good witch with kind intentions. As the story develops, we find that she has to battle with two rude and ungrateful children called Hansel and Gretel. The...
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If All The World Were
Name: Nikki Stiles
19 July 2018;Genre: Bereavement
If All The World Were... Not to be read without tissues to hand! This heart-warming picture book, so poetically written, is a must to share with any young reader and in particular those coping with the loss of a grandparent or someone close. You can't help but be touched by th...
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If All the World Were
Name: Sue Chamber
18 July 2018;Genre: Bereavement
If All The World Were is a beautiful picture book for talking about children's relationships with grandparents or an older person in their lives, and the subject of death. It's no surprise to learn that Joseph Coelho is a poet when you read the lyrical, evocative text as the r...
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The Book Case
Name: Aidan Severs
17 July 2018;Set in a boarding school for wayward girls and taking place sometime after World War 2 in the age of steam, this romp sees an unlikely band of hapless librarians hot on the case of a bank robber. Whilst it sounds like an Enid Blyton mash-up, it really isn't. Although there's plenty of the usual m...
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The Secret Deep
Name: Lorraine Ansell
16 July 2018;Aster and her younger sister Poppy are orphans who have travelled around the world to live with a relative they barely know, their aunt Iona. After a chance meeting with a local boy, Sam, on the plane, they are taken to a remote, secret ecovillage where their suspicions are soon aroused. Drugged...
