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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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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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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...

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Name: Annabelle Age 10
16 July 2018;

This follows two girls in middle school who have fun but while Bri has brains and Izzy loves to act, neither of them tries to do the other thing. So when Izzy doesn't do a test there are consequences - someone else has to be brave and jump onto the stage to fill her place place. I really enjoyed...

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Name: Chloe W
15 July 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Splash is a touching story about a young girl, Molly, whose mum abandoned her as a toddler with her Nan and Granddad. Molly is an amazingly strong swimmer, but is embarrassed to wear a swimming costume, after her supposed best friend, Chloe, made fun of her in front of the entire gang of horri...

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Name: Linda brown
14 July 2018;

Wow, book two in the Arc of Scythe series is intense. The author has got the pitch,pace and tone perfect. A definite read for fantasy fans of Hungergames, Maze runner etc.. Thunderhead picks up a year later from the end of Scythe. Rowan has become a legend, dressed in black, he goes across the c...

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Name: Linda Brown
14 July 2018;

Genre: Magical Realism

This enchanting story is set on the real Arranmore island in Ireland, which must be a truly wonderous place to have inspired the imagination of the author in creating such a magical, fantasy adventure. From the moment that you step on the island with Fionn you are swept away on a wonderful jou...

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Name: Salliann Coleman
12 July 2018;

Genre: Friends and family

In this book the narrator is a young girl called Olivia who lives with her Mum and her paternal grandparents in a military town in England and attends a school where she has close friends from a range of social, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, with different beliefs and opinions, which immediate...

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Name: Sue Chamber
11 July 2018;

You know how children sometimes really, really want a particular toy and no other toy will do? Well, Chloe Crocodile really, REALLY wants a unicorn - that 'Big Sparkly Mellow Yellow Unicorn' - but the only way to get it is to win the talent competition... For that, she must back a rainbow cake,...

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Name: Clair Bossons
10 July 2018;

Genre: Adventure

Jess has a remarkable memory. She has hyperthymesia. This is like having a library in her mind where she can take out a book and remember every single detail of that day. Even if that day was years ago. On the surface this sounds wonderful. However it is both a blessing and a curse. Imagine no...

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