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Name: Marie Berry
29 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

As a teacher you once in awhile find a little diamond of a book that you think, 'I must find a way of using this text in my teaching', and Snail Mail is such a book. For starters, I just loved this books itself. Cute story, fab illustrations and the pull out postcards were a really engaging and...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
29 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Dixie and Percy are dogs. Dogs who are best friends. Best friends who love to go on adventures together. In their latest adventure, the friends swap four wheels for two. They may have less wheels to worry about but there's more trouble in store for them with plenty of bumps, bangs and of cour...

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Name: Marie Berry
29 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Andy Stanton has written an interesting and engaging story about Danny McGee's adventure eating the world around him. The story is written in attractive rhyming couplets which help create a fun and responding rhythm to the story. This kind of story is really fun to read with younger children as...

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Name: Kyle Matravers
29 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

The Invincibles: The Hamster Rescue is the latest instalment in the adventures of Nell and Freddie. The two best friends are always looking for adventure and good times but in this instalment there is an unlikely hero. The day has come for Freddie to celebrate his birthday and like any best fri...

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Name: Torie Walton
28 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Introducing Paws McDraw, the fastest doodler in the west! He can doodle his way out of any danger. He always saves the day. When the bunnies get into trouble - which it seems they do a lot - they turn to Paws McDraw for help. After his heroic rescue of Little Timmy, who had fallen down a well,...

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Name: Elizabeth Harris
27 October 2016;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

In Murder in Midwinter, a busy Christmas shopping trip on Oxford Street turns into a nightmare for Maya when she sees a man threatening a woman with a gun. Horrified by what she has seen, her family notify the police. The investigation takes a dramatic turn when a body is pull...

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Name: Sam Pett
26 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Having spent the last year in hospital, Jonny needs a heart transplant before it's too late. Niamh's twin brother has just died in a tragic accident for which she feels to blame. Fate brings the two together as Jonny strives to establish an identity for his new healthy self, searching the interne...

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Name: Carol Williams
25 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Minty tells the story in this book, set in a small town in Ireland. The teenage characters, now at secondary school, have mostly all grown up together, but two new boys enter the equation, and are treated with suspicion, including the silent and mysterious Ned, whose attendance is erratic, and wh...

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Name: Sue Wilsher
17 October 2016;

Genre: Adventure

Covering events in Britain from the Old Stone Age to the Roman invasion, this title looks at the development of the human race and every day life during this period. Full of fascinating facts, this book offers an excellent starting point for work on this period of history. As well as explainin...

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Name: Karen Poolton
17 October 2016;

Genre: Real life

Lottie is very angry with the way she is treated just because she is female. After a disturbing sexual harassment incident on the way to college, she resolves to start a project, highlighting and standing up to every single incidence of sexism she comes across for a whole month. Althoug...

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