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Name: Linda Brown
08 May 2018;

Love, love, loved it! Shadowblack is the sequel to Spellslinger and was so well worth the wait. We pick up our main characters Kellen, Ferius and Reichis (the squirrel cat, still my favourite character) making their way through the borderlands, avoiding hextrackers who want to take Kellen back t...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
06 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Set in 1961, My Brigadista Year follows the fortunes of a 13-year-old girl, Lora, from Havana, who responds to the call for literacy teachers - brigadista - to go into the countryside. Here, she and her fellow teachers face the threat of violence from anti-Castro banditos, homesickness and a comp...

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Name: Linda Brown
06 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

This great debut novel is a Game of Thrones for YA readers ( sorry no dragons!). As an older reader, I have come across this theme many times before but Ash Princess really stands out and is well worth a read. Theo, who is a very strong female lead character, watched he...

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Name: Rhiannon Cook
05 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

We Travel So Far tells the migration stories of animals on land, in the air and under the water. From the gigantic to the tiny, 25 creatures feature alongside fascinating factual snippets which will delight and intrigue children from 5+. Chris Madden's illustrations have a lovely texture and cla...

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Name: Nikki Stiles
04 May 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Ziggy the striking zebra is in awe of the forest's spectacular Moonlight Show and looks forward to its arrival on a Saturday every week. This particular Saturday, Ziggy discovers a bird who had lost her chick and kindly offers to help find her. This seek and find story follows Ziggy and the bird...

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Name: Donna Burket
03 May 2018;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

In a community centre in a run down area of Manchester where 'Manchester welcomes refugees', 11-year-old Aya sits day after day, hour after hour, to see the case worker who can hopefully help them to claim asylum. Her mother speaks little English and is withdrawn and poorly. Around her is a ho...

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Name: Aidan Severs
03 May 2018;

Genre: Environment

Children's publishing seems to be experiencing a time of growth; the shelves of book shops are bursting with newly-published books for kids - so much so that it can be hard to choose which books to read. Some seem to garner much attention whilst others arrive quietly, waiting to be picked up a...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
01 May 2018;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

In No Ballet Shoes in Syria, eleven-year-old Aya is a dancer. Her head full of dreams of ballet, music and her wonderful teacher, Madame Belova. She is also an asylum seeker. Recently arrived in Britain from Syria, she and her mother and baby brother find themselves entangled...

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Name: Clair Bossons
30 April 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Think Buffy the Vampire slayer meets The Vamps. A fantastic blend of fantasy fiction and contemporary teen. This is light-hearted demon slaying peppered with witty one-liners with a few music references thrown in. The cover is eye catching and I have already had students asking to borrow it ha...

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Name: Josie Age 11
29 April 2018;

Genre: Friends and family

I would recommend this book because

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