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Picture Book Competition results

The winners of the ReadingZone Picture Book Competition will be announced on Friday 21st June - sign up to the schools' enewsletter to have the results sent directly to your email box!

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Read for My School winners announced

Almost 100,000 pupils from more than 3,600 schools across England signed up to take part in Read for My School 2013 — a competition organised by The Pearson Foundation and Booktrust, with support from the Department...

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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

After Tomorrow

When you open a book by Gillian Cross you can feel confident that you will have a stimulating and enjoyable read. Here, she turns her considerable talents to a dark, but all too credible, not too distant, future...

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Through Dead Eyes

Alex joins his father on a business trip to Amsterdam and, during a tour of the town, he sees an ancient-looking mask which he feels compelled to buy. Later, in his hotel room, he puts the mask on and is sucked into a...

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