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Download your Autumn Calendar

Plan ahead for your reading-based activities with ReadingZone's new termly calendar, highlighting literacy-based activities that will be available throughout the UK. Highlights this autumn include Roald Dahl Day,...

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Roald Dahl Day on 13th September

Celebrate Roald Dahl Day with some tummy-tickling chocolate cake on 13th September - and find out about all the activities taking place throughout the month in the Whipple-Scrumptious calendar from Puffin, which you...

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ASK A LIBRARIAN

Specialist school library service and public librarians are ready to answer your book and reading-related questions. Whether you are searching for a book for a young football enthusiast or historical fiction set in the Elizabethan era, these experts will have the answer.

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EXTRACTS TO DOWNLOAD

Day of the Predator

The TimeRiders are a group of teenagers who are trained to prevent travellers into the past from changing time. This is their second adventure and it sees one of the TimeRiders accidentally deposited into a period some...

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The Dead: v. 1

Hodder has launched a new horror series by David Gatward that promises to give Darren Shan a run for his money. The series follows 16-year-old Lazarus Stone's search for his father who, he discovers, has been fighting...

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