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And Don't Look Back
Name: Emelia Helliwell
13 October 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
To start with in And Don't Look Back I found that, although the author had written the story well, I took time to get truly invested. However, once I did, it was an amazing read that kept me guessing the entire time. I had to keep reading just to find out how it was going to e...
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Toxic
Name: Clair Bossons
13 October 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
I really enjoy contemporary fiction where there is a dilemma or issue to resolve. Toxic is the first book that I have read about a toxic friendship, rather than a relationship, and it was a really interesting read. There is a trigger warning from the author at the beginning du...
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The Final Year
Name: Rachel Bolton
13 October 2023;Genre: Poetry
Nate is 10. He lives with his loud, bingo playing, chaotic mum and his two younger brothers who he spends a lot of time caring for. At school he is a bit of an outsider, especially once he moves into Y6 and his best friend forms other friendships. Sometimes, when things get too much, "The beas...
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The Taming of the Cat
Name: Jennifer Caddick
13 October 2023;Genre: Adventure
The Taming of the Cat is a charming (and cheese-filled) classic tale-within-a-tale story that enchants the reader completely. A nightly story is told by little mouse Brie, inside the cheese shop in which he lives, to fierce feline and enemy, Gorgonzola the cat. The minute mous...
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Julius Zebra: Grapple with the Greeks!
Name: Cecil Mgo
13 October 2023;Genre: Funny Stories
Julius Zebra: Grapple with the Greeks! is a really, very entertaining read. Loads of 'laugh out loud' moments! We particularly loved the humour in the Charon / Hades chapters. Crazily illustrated perfectly throughout. This is a fab way to engage with history. It accompanied my...
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Solve Your Own Mystery: The Transylvanian Express
Name: Jennifer Caddick
13 October 2023;Genre: Mystery & Detective
The Solve Your Own Mystery series is such a great, fun, interactive detective genre set of books for younger, independent readers. The latest in the series, The Transylvanian Express, is a lively, quick-moving and extremely fun adventure. You, the reader, alon...
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The Witchstone Ghosts
Name: Beverley Somerset
12 October 2023;Genre: Friends and family
Twelve-year-old Autumn Albert just wishes she could be like everyone else. But Autumn can see, and talk to, ghosts. Living in London, she sees lots of them, and sometimes it all gets a bit too much to cope with. When Autumn’s father dies in very strange circumstances, her whole life changes. D...
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The October Witches
Name: Clare Wilkins
12 October 2023;Genre: Fantasy
In The October Witches, the Merlyns and the Morgans have been locked in an unhappy alliance for as long as any of them can remember. Forced to come together each October to unlock their month of magic, simmering tensions underplay the ancient ritual. Gifted with power from the...
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The Black Air
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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The Night Train
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...
