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Name: Jacqueline Harris
03 November 2025;

Genre: Mystery & Detective

Brooke is starting a new school, doubly difficult because it is the end of a term and she is neurodiverse. But just as she joinns, the head teacher is murdered and Brooke, along with her new friends from the Neurokind Club at the school, decide to crack the case. As Brooke and her mothe...

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Name: Sara Sumner
03 November 2025;

Genre: Animals

A Reindeer Called Joy is the latest instalment in the Jasmine Green series, perfect for a cosy Christmas read. Jasmine and Tom find themselves caught up in a Reindeer rescue, which leads to a brand new friendship with baby Reindeer, Joy. With the school's Winter Wonderland ext...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
03 November 2025;

Genre: Adventure

A self-proclaimed yeti expert decides that he is going to find the yeti which he is sure lives in the forest behind his house. Having packed his rucksack and donned his favourite scarf, the little boy and his dog, Milo, set off for the trees. Having searched everywhere, the little boy returns...

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Name: Alice Drury
03 November 2025;

Genre: Family & Home

Wild Journey is a thoughtful collection of stories linked together by the migration of starlings across the globe. Starting in Egypt and travelling through Morocco, Spain, France and England, it follows the lives of five different children. In each story, the starlings inspire...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
03 November 2025;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Mase, his brother Jos and cousin Connor, wake up on Christmas morning at their holiday home. But all the adults have disappeared and it soon becomes clear that something terrifying has happened to them. Going into the village, they find this is the case for almost everyone. Meeting Gloria, the...

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Name: Margaret Pemberton
03 November 2025;

Genre: Friends and family

This magical tale, based on a Russian folk tale, was first published in 2023 (in hardback) but it has thankfully now arrived as a paperback, just in time to make a wonderful Christmas present for some lucky young readers. The Snow Girl is the story of young Tasha who, a...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
03 November 2025;

Genre: Adventure

It's very quiet at Hotel Flamingo as the nights are getting darker, so Anna is delighted when she is asked to arrange a hibernation party for Mrs Turpington, one of the hotel's longest residents. Finding themselves completely snowed in, however, Anna is just feeling pleased there aren't more g...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
03 November 2025;

Genre: Personal Growth

Despite its short length, The Fear by Tom Palmer manages to convey a heartwarming story with a moral, a well rounded tale with a beginning, middle and end, and an empathic narrative based in the world of youth sport, in only 63 pages. Palmer’s body of work now has yet another...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
03 November 2025;

Genre: Funny Stories

Cringe Club is a thoroughly entertaining and engaging contemporary tween/teen fiction, written in the style of whatsapp group chats and lists between the cast of characters. It is a fun, fast-paced and relatable/relevant read for its target young audience. Author Emily Jane Clark cleverly crea...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
03 November 2025;

Genre: Seasonal

A beautifully charming Christmas picture book, featuring much loved characters from Andy Shepherd's The Boy Who Grew Dragons series. It is so wonderful to see Tomas, little sister Lolli and their dragons, in glorious full colour and bursting with magic, in this sparkling picture book. D...

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