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Name: Clare Wilkins
12 October 2023;

Genre: Supernatural

Caitlin Aspey has always been in thrall to the legend of the Long Byrne witches; Jane Hollingworth and Rose Ackroyd, the last and most infamous of eighteen teenagers hung on the moor, sentenced to death on spurious charges of witchcraft. Haunted by the suicide of her mother, she lives an isola...

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Name: Jen Bevan
12 October 2023;

Genre: Magical Realism

The Night Train is a wonderful introduction to chapter books as the chapters are short and include lovely colour illustrations. Children aged five plus would enjoy listening to this book; those aged seven plus would love to read it independently. The story tells the tal...

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Name: Ark Age 13
12 October 2023;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

HappyHead is genuinely one of the best books I've read. It made me cry, it made me laugh, it made me feel so many emotions at once. It was extremely engaging, I just could not put it down! Be warned that this book does contain mature language and themes, as well as violence an...

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Name: Louisa Farrow
11 October 2023;

Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

Nancy isn’t especially privileged but she has a happy and comfortable life in with expert bakers Ma and Pa Crumpet. Even so, there are things about her that are different. She is never happier than when leaping over rooftops and she seems to be able to communicate with the sky (which is a bett...

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Name: Donna Burkert
10 October 2023;

Genre: Adventure

When Rosie is plucked from the life she knows and thrown into the strange world of Heverbridge School on Bloodstone Island, she doesn't know who she can trust. Nobody will tell her what happened to her mum, and how she died, and the one piece of the puzzle that could tell her has been taken fr...

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Name: Beverley Somerset
10 October 2023;

Genre: Family & Home

Twin sisters Fen and Rey were found as babies at the edge of the wildlands, curled up with foxes. They were found at foxlight - "the moment when the twilight meets the dawn, and the sun and the moon and the stars weave their light together". Inside the blankets that covered them was a charcoal...

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Name: Hayley Summerfield
10 October 2023;

Genre: Non Fiction

British Museum: Celebrate! is a beautifully written book by Laura Mucha, published in collaboration with The British Museum. It is a collective feast of 50 festivals celebrated around the world. The world's most exciting festivals are celebrated in this book from different cou...

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Name: Eileen Armstrong
10 October 2023;

Genre: Personal Growth

Play brilliantly captures the voices and stories of four very different teenage boys. Bored of their small town life and what little it seems to offer, the friends invent their own games to pass the time until they can get away, scoring points against each other. When one of t...

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Name: Jennifer Caddick
10 October 2023;

Genre: Fantasy

Podkin and the Singing Spear is book 7 of this stunning, epic series and was a joy to read. I am such a huge fan of this fantastically written exciting adventure quest series featuring heroic rabbits Podkin, Paz and littlest sibling Paz and their comrades, friends and allies u...

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Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 October 2023;

Genre: Representation & Inclusion

Man-Man lives with his mother, father and sister in London and is preparing for carnival. He loves dancing and is very excited about carnival. His mother, however, is ill with a mysterious illness that doctors cannot diagnose or cure. Man-Man's grandmother comes from Jamaica to look after her....

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