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  • Inside Out & Back Again

    Inside Out and Back Again

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    16 June 2023;

    Genre: Representation & Inclusion

    Inside Out & Back Again: What is it like to leave everything you know behind - including the hope that your missing father will return from war - and make a new life halfway across the world? What's it like to feel family disaster is your fault for deliberately doing somet...

  • The Girl who Fell to Earth

    The Girl Who Fell to Earth

    Name: Sam Phillips
    16 June 2023;

    Genre: Family & Home

    What if there is life on other planets, but that whoever or whatever that life is, has been taught to despise those of us on Earth for our apparent lack of emotion or care? The Girl Who Fell to Earth by Patricia Forde takes this possibility and cleverly unpicks ideas of indoct...

  • Genie and Teeny: Wish Upon A Star (Genie and Teeny, Book 4)

    Wish Upon A Star (Genie and Teeny, Book 4)

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    15 June 2023;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Grant the Genie is back in another adventure in the series. This time, Grant is in hiding with his family because the Queen has banished him from Wishaluzia for accidentally turning her into a snake. Then the genie kingdom is threatened by a huge fire-breathing cat monster and the only one who...

  • Deadlock

    Deadlock

    Name: Stephen Leitch
    15 June 2023;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Deadlock is the second action-packed adventure from author Simon Fox. "You need to get out of the house. It's not safe." is all the warning Archie Blake gets from his dad that something is wrong - when intruders enter his house! Rendezvousing with his dad, the two aim to get t...

  • Don't Tickle the Shark!

    Name: Elen Green
    15 June 2023;

    Genre: Baby & Toddler Books

    Don't Tickle the Shark brings together the familiar formats of a sound book - where you press a patch to hear a sound - and a 'touchy feely' book, where babies and toddlers are encouraged to feel different textures on a page. In this book, however, you stroke a patch to hear t...

  • The Baker by the Sea

    The Baker by the sea

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    14 June 2023;

    Genre: Family & Home

    'If you keep walking over the hills and across the fields, you will come to the edge, where the land meets the sea. And on this edge lies a village. This is my home.' Paula White's wonderfully nostalgic story, The Baker by the Sea, draws inspiration from her childhood in in Lo...

  • Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles (paperback)

    Goldilocks and the Three Crocodiles

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    13 June 2023;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    Have you ever wondered what would happen if you combined the familiarity of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the brilliance of We're going on A Bear Hunt? Well wonder no more. Michael Rosen, former Children's Laureate, has used his talents of adding humour when creating a wonderful rhyming p...

  • When Women Were Dragons: an enduring, feminist novel from New York Times bestselling author, Kelly Barnhill

    When Women Were Dragons

    Name: Clare Wilkins
    13 June 2023;

    Genre: Personal Growth

    In an alternative 1950's America a 'Mass Dragoning' occurs. Hundreds of thousands of women spontaneously sprout wings and talons and fly away, leaving fire and devastation in their wake. As a young girl, Alex Green is aware of the extraordinary events that unfolded in her town but a sustained...

  • Everything You Know About Sharks is Wrong!

    Everything You Know About Sharks Is Wrong

    Name: Lucy Hopkins
    12 June 2023;

    Genre: Animals

    A great book for shark enthusiasts! Everything You Know About Sharks Is Wrong is jam packed with facts and information about sharks, including their evolution, their purpose, how they reproduce, their relationships with other animals and the reality of how dangerous they actua...

  • My Heart Was a Tree: Poems and stories to celebrate trees

    My Heart was a Tree

    Name: Maria faithorn
    12 June 2023;

    Genre: Poetry

    Have you ever wondered what tales a tree could tell? What it has experienced and witnessed over the many years it has stood, proud, in its place? Michael Morpurgo returns, this time with an incredible poetry collection, My Heart was a Tree. This is a wonderful collectio...