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Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Rewild - Can Nature Heal our World is an excellent book from the new David Fickling 'Explodapedia' series. It is equally interesting for older children and young adults and approaches the issues of climate change through the solution of nature. The chapters explore diff...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

EchoStar: is always listening is an excellent thriller that builds the tension until the very end and (spoiler coming…) with a great final twist! For a book of only 129 pages, Melinda Salisbury manages to create an elaborate narrative full of suspense and foreboding yet centre...

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Name: Ruth Cornish
06 May 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Drowning In My Bedroom is a fast-paced disaster story set in Manila. The author, Steve Cole, uses a torrential flood to throw light on a number of issues within this survival story: disability, poverty, inequality, modern slavery and climate change. Using the chance mee...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 May 2024;

Genre: Supernatural

Lily Halfmoon is actually a witch and is keeping it a secret from her family.  It is almost Samhain when magic is at its strongest and witches from across the world are gathering at Lily's school. A mysterious person, however, is after Lily's powerful moonstone and wants to steal her magic. Li...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 May 2024;

Genre: Funny Stories

Finley, Hunter, Gilleon and Gnash are ordinary school sharks by day, but at night they take up their other identities as the worldwide sensation rock band Jawsome. Strange things are happening, however, as first they must face the evil A.B.B.A (Alliance of Brutally Bad Angler Fish) agents and...

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Name: Clare Wilkins
04 May 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

This slick, sparky read from Sarah Naughton is full of recognisable characters and familiar teen angst scenarios. Flitting between a real-time exam and the preceding weeks, the tension steadily builds as falling outs, secrets and exam anxiety threaten to overwhelm the cohort of Franklin Academ...

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Name: Jen Bevan
03 May 2024;

Genre: Environment & Nature

Benji's Emerald King (The Woodland Explorers) is fully immersed in nature. All the additional details about tree etc would really engage children's imagination. A book for those who are exploring the world around them. I will be using this book with my Year 1 children (...

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Name: Jessica Bunney
03 May 2024;

Genre: Friends and family

Marianna Coppo's books are extremely creative and quite frankly different from any other author I've ever encountered, so I couldn't wait to get stuck into her newest title, The Best Bad Day Ever. This book is about the power of mindset and perceptions and The Best Bad Day Eve...

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Name: Jenny Caddick
03 May 2024;

Genre: Magical Realism

An eerie and creepily sinister fantasy adventure that roots its story in fairy folklore and tales of magical dark deeds, and their consequences. In a heart-wrenching storyline, a family try to come to terms with devastating grief and loss and take the first steps to construct a new but broken...

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Name: Ayva Age 14
03 May 2024;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Best book ever!!!

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