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Who Ate all the Bugs?
Name: Wendy Kelly
05 January 2024;Genre: Environment
Well this is a book NOT for the faint-hearted! Subtitled 'the TRUE and GORY story of the food chain', it absolutely lives up to the hype. Who Ate all the Bugs? tells the story of a group of garden bugs finding out about the food chain, by following the trail of corpses. Eventu...
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Catch Your Death
Name: Rachel Bolton
04 January 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Reminiscent of a golden-age mystery novel and with hidden passageways, family secrets and a snow -trapped group of people, this follow-up to This Book Kills is sure to have readers wondering just what will happen next. Two girls, Devi and Lizzie, each find...
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Wild Song
Name: Sue Wilsher
04 January 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
Things are changing in Luki's village; the ways and beliefs of the occupying Americans are creeping into everyday life. One thing which has not changed, however, is the ancients' expectations for a young woman. Caught hunting once too often, Luki is told she should marry her friend, Samkad. De...
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Only This Beautiful Moment
Name: Stephen Leitch
04 January 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Only This Beautiful Moment is a captivating and thoughtful novel exploring the lives of three men from the same Iranian family. It's an inter-generational story about family, secrets, identity, love and acceptance - and is an absolute gem of a book. The novel starts in...
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Four good liars
Name: Ophelia McCluskey Gahan
04 January 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Four Good Liars by Sarah Wish is a book about teenagers with entirely different personalities and with opposing social backgrounds who find themselves together one morning on a school bus. The course of events that unfold on that day lead to unexpected and life-altering events...
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Rainbowsaurus
Name: Elen Green
04 January 2024;Genre: Friends and family
What a beautiful celebration of families and adventure for very young children. Reminiscent of We're Going on a Bear Hunt, Rainbowsaurus sees a family going to hunt for the Rainbowsaurus and on the way, they celebrate their togetherness and their quest with a range of other a...
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Rainbowsaurus
Name: Amanda Shipton
04 January 2024;Genre: Friends and family
Rainbowsaurus is another triumph by the incredible Steve Anthony. He never fails to succeed in turning the simplest ideas into magical stories. Using repetitive phrases, animal noises and colourful images, young children will come back to this picture book time and time again....
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The Dodo Who Dreamed She Could Fly
Name: Maria Faithorn
03 January 2024;Genre: Personal Growth
Delilah the Dodo dreams of flying. Initially, scared of what others might think and say, she keeps her dream to herself until one day she decides to try. As predicted, another bird and his friends see her attempt and begin laughing. Holding her head high, she preserves and sticks to her plan e...
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Time Travelling with a Tortoise
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 January 2024;Genre: Science Fiction
Al Chaudhury has successfully travelled back in time and saved his father's life. So, everything is back to the way Al thinks it should be…only somehow it isn't. And then an accident leaves Grandpa Byron struggling to remember things, forcing Al to travel in time once more, leaving someone tra...
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Trapped
Name: Ruth Cornish
02 January 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
The new dyslexia-friendly Barrington Stoke publication from author, Sophie McKenzie is descibed by them in three words as being filled with 'peril', 'judgement', and 'understanding'. Trapped is an exciting contemporary novel about a group of young people in a singing club....
