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  • Sharing The Final Year with a whole-year group

    Sharing The Final Year with a whole-year group

    Book Blog

    Wednesday, August 28, 2024

    One year group, one book, one librarian: Reading The Final Year with my whole Year 7 cohort.  School librarian Alice Leggatt shares the impact that reading an entire book had on one Year 7 group - and expl...

  • A new horror story from STAGS author

    A new horror story from STAGS author

    Author Videos

    Monday, August 26, 2024

    STAGS author MA Bennett introduces us to her terrifying Young Gothic horror novel, which draws on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein novel, and its creation in a villa in Italy.  Only for this new generation of young writers, the terrifying creatures don't stay in the book's pages....</strong...

  • Hear from Sophie McKenzie with new thriller

    Hear from Sophie McKenzie with new thriller

    Video/Vlog

    Monday, August 26, 2024

    Secrets and Lies are everywhere you look! And the storm is coming! Sophie McKenzie, the bestselling author of Girl Missing, introduces her new teen thriller, Storm of Lies!

  • A journey through hell....

    A journey through hell....

    Video/Vlog

    Monday, August 26, 2024

    YA author Jess Popplewell introduces her funny, dark re-imagining of hell, and the spark of romance as a girl and a demon find themselves bound together on a journey through the underworld....

  • Fighting to save their family farm

    Fighting to save their family farm

    Video/Vlog

    Monday, August 19, 2024

    Author Helen Peters introduces her new adventure, The Great Farm Rescue, which was inspired by her own childhood living on a farm.

  • Meet the Ancient Roman gods!

    Meet the Ancient Roman gods!

    Video/Vlog

    Thursday, August 15, 2024

    Enter the world of Ancient Roman gods, who have retired to Earth and are causing chaos.... Marie Basting introduces Auntie Medusa and Me, and a world of hilarity and trouble....

  • Look What I Found inspires nature hunts, and reading

    Look What I Found inspires nature hunts, and reading

    Growing Readers

    Thursday, August 8, 2024

    In the National Trust's 'Look What I Found' series, published by Nosy Crow, children will discover the range of natural treasures they might find on a walk through a wood, by the seaside, on a farm or, in the latest book -...

  • Discover The Secret of Golden Island

    Discover The Secret of Golden Island

    Video/Vlog

    Monday, August 5, 2024

    Natasha Farrant introduces her new children's adventure, The Secret of Golden Island, about two children who set out to win an island.