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Tales of Scary Beasts: Six Hair-Raising Mysteries to Investigate If You Dare!
Name: Sue Wilsher
10 June 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
A selection of terrifying tales have been gathered into six sections, enabling readers to study the stories and consider the evidence to help them investigate these real-life mysteries. Tales of Scary Beasts is the latest in the 'Real-Life' series from Susan Martineau and Vick...
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How To Train Your Dragon School: Doom of the Darkwing: Book 1
Name: Tracy Parvin
10 June 2025;Genre: Fantasy
I just love Cressida Cowell: she has that canny ability to create the most wonderful characters and stories. I was first introduced to her works many years ago with the sublime picturebook, That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown. It remains one of my favourite children's book, and I urge any of yo...
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Food for All: What We Eat and Where it Comes From
Name: Louise Gahan
09 June 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
We all - humans and creatures, large and small - need food to live. But where does our food come from, and who eats what? This thought-provoking and visually rich book explores nearly 20 aspects of food and feeding, from growing crops and raising animals to the surprising eati...
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Marching Band
Name: Jen Bevan
09 June 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Come join the Marching Band as they travel through a bright and colourful world. They march through the city, a jungle and they even march under water. Count the animals and people with instruments on each page. Marching Band is an amazing rhyming book...
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Escape Room: Game Zero
Name: Jennifer CADDICK
09 June 2025;Genre: Science Fiction
Escape Room: Game Zero is a fantastically futuristic, modern and thought-provoking sci-fi adventure quest and battle for survival story, from an author who seamlessly blends classic adventure style with thoroughly contemporary settings. Christoper Edge incorporates the intrigu...
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Once I Was A Tree
Name: Jessica Bunney
09 June 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
This book is the PERFECT mix of laugh-out-loud humour and a very poignant story about the importance of trees, and stories. The paper within the book - which was once a tree - tells the story as a first person narrative; a really creative read! We hear all about the jou...
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Is it a Book or is it a Plane?
Name: Wendy Kelly
09 June 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
The first thing to note about this book is that it's raising money for charity; the publishers have pledged a percentage from each copy sold to support the work of the Play Team at Great Ormand Street Hospital. Is it a Book or is it a Plane? is a lovely book for young c...
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Fireborne
Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 June 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Lee and Annie have been friends since they met at the orphanage. Now they are both dragonriders and their pasts come back to haunt them. Will those pasts tear them apart or will the bonds forged learning to ride dragons over come what has happened? Set in a land with a recent revolutionary pas...
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Feel Your Happy
Name: Maria
09 June 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Feel Your Happy is a book that needs to be in every home and classroom and read to every child because it supports empathy and an understanding that we are all different and all unique. Sloth takes us on a journey with our senses exploring the world through sigh...
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Snow Globe 2
Name: Clair Bossons
06 June 2025;Genre: Dystopian
Snowglobe 2 brings a gripping conclusion to the ground breaking Snowglobe duology, a dystopian series set in a world ravaged by climate disaster. Exploring themes of surveillance, reality TV, genetic engineering and class inequality, this novel delivers a thought-provoking and...
