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The Curse of the Speckled Monster: Graverobbers and Gallows
Name: Emily Marcuccilli
02 September 2018;Genre: Adventure
In this darkly comic tale that is set in the Nineteenth Century Dickensian world of orphans, hangmen and desperate poverty, young Cephas Catchpole has been enslaved to a cruel chimney sweep and forced to scramble up sooty chimneys. With smallpox ravaging the country and affecting both rich and p...
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Harry Potter
Name: Matele Age 8
29 August 2018;Genre: Fantasy
I couldn't even put this book down because it has funny and weird bits. My favourite part was when harry potter was talking to the snake or lizard.
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Name: Chloe Age 8
29 August 2018;Genre: Fantasy
This book is amazing, I couldn't stop reading it. Harry Potter will always be my favourite.
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Captain Underpants
Name: Edie Age 8
29 August 2018;Genre: Humour
I liked this book because George and Harold had a mean old principle. This book is about two, silly, smart, funny boys named George and Harold. They make funny comics and do weird, funny, crazy pranks. One day one of their teachers quit and they needed a new teacher.
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The Cook and The King
Name: Sam Phillips
27 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Written in Julia Donaldson's familiar rhyming style, The Cook and the King is a lovely story of a hungry King's search for a new cook. Wobbly Bob is keen to please the King, in his new chef's whites, but afraid of everything. Poor Bob gets the King to name his favourite dish knowing that if he...
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Bad Nana, Older not Wiser
Name: Sam Phillips
27 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
Bad Nana, Older Not Wiser, tells the tale of seven year old Jeanie's rather unusual Grandmother. As a primary school teacher, I often find myself biting my lip trying hard not to laugh at something a child might have said or done. However, Bad Nana doesn't seem to have the same 'limit switch' mos...
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The Lost Witch
Name: Lorraine Ansell
26 August 2018;Genre: Fantasy
Bea is an ordinary teenager travelling home with her family when they are caught up in the middle of a hunt between quad bikes, cars, people, dogs and three hares. Surprised to find she can hear the thoughts of a hare that has sought sanctuary in the car, she starts seeing people in the clouds...
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The Boneless Mercies
Name: Lorraine Ansell
26 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
The Bonesless Mercies: young girls brought together by circumstance and kept together by solidarity and purpose. Their job? To help those who no longer wish to live, or are dying, by aiding their departure into the next world. Exhausted by their grim existence and without a home ever to call thei...
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The Lost Magician
Name: Leanne Woolcock
26 August 2018;Genre: Adventure
'If you can imagine it, it must exist somewhere'. The latest book from Piers Torday is a story which, even within the first chapter, seems oddly familiar to a timeless classic... four children (two girls and two boys), good magic battling the darker realms of sinister characters who wish to de...
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Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes
Name: Linda brown
26 August 2018;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Holly Bourne has done it once again. This author is the Queen of tackling mental health issues for YA readers. Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes is a work of fiction but she handles various mental health issues in an informative and humorous way. The story revolves aro...
