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Spooksmiths Investigate: The Cinderman
Name: Donna Ritchie
02 February 2026;Genre: Supernatural
12-year-old twins Indigo and Rusty live with their parents in a funeral parlour. Indigo likes spending time watching wild animals with her friend Dexter, and Rusty, who is obsessed with Battle Beast games. They don't believe in ghosts - the dead are dead! That is, until Indigo stumbles on a hi...
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Dead Yard: Seeds of Doom
Name: Sam
22 September 2025;Genre: Horror
Dead Yard: Seeds of Doom by P.J.Killburn is a great book to re-inspire Year 7 readers, with its mix of ghosts, humour and a smattering of Jamaican culture making this a highly entertaining read. The only downside to this fab read is that my ability to recreate the Jamaican pat...
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Girls of Dark Divine
Name: Eileen Armstrong
22 September 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Occasionally, a debut novel comes along which is so cleverly imagined, beautifully written and compulsively readable that it's hard to believe it's a first novel at all. Girls of Dark Divine definitely fits this bill. With a distinctly Phantom of the Opera feel, this is glamor...
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Mallory Vayle and Maggoty Skull in The Beast from Beneath
Name: Sue Wilsher
18 September 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
Malory Vayle is getting used to her new powers as a necromancer, but still has a lot to learn about her new, very talkative and self-obsessed, friend, Maggoty, a skull with a penchant for wigs. Having made the mistake of walking past a shop called 'Les Wigs', Maggoty is now determined to own t...
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One Cat, Two Cats: A lift-the-flap, pop-up book with 20 cats to count!
Name: Jessica Bunney
18 September 2025;Genre: Early Skills
One Cat, Two Cats is my new favourite counting picture book! My toddler and I are both cat-lovers so it was a sure winner, but it is actually the rhythmic catchy text that has won us over the most - thank you, Johnathan Emmett! The story reads, 'One cat, Two cats, Three...
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Sin Bin Island - an unmissable adventure from the Red Dwarf co-creator
Name: Elen Green
16 September 2025;Genre: Adventure
Well, what an adventure! Sin Bin Island, written by the co-creator of Red Dward is, as you'd probably expect, full of action, humour and warmth with characters who could step out of the pages. I loved it. When orphaned Jack Digby is sent to Cyril Snigg...
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Welcome to the Night-Time Train: Jump aboard for a sleepy bedtime ride
Name: Jessica Bunney
16 September 2025;Genre: Picture Books
Welcome to the Night-Time Train is a ride through a bedtime routine to settle your little ones down for sleep. This book is so cleverly written! Each time the train reaches the next stop, the destination is the next part of the bedtime routine. For example, after 'Toothbrush T...
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The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good
Name: Beverley Somerset
15 September 2025;Genre: Friends and family
At the start of The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good, Fran is not looking forward to spending a week with her aunt, uncle and her horrible, bossy cousin Imogen while her parents are away on business. When Fran arrives, she finds to her amazement that not only is Imogen mis...
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Uncle Zeedie (The Blood Texts)
Name: Emelia Helliwell
12 September 2025;Genre: Horror
Two siblings caught between divorcing parents spend some time with their Uncle Zeedie in a house in the woods. What could go wrong? Uncle Zeedie is a family friend and godparent to George and Lacey. George has found that, ever since mum and dad have been feuding, he keeps seeing or sensing thi...
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The Mubbles: When Berry Met Terry
Name: Beverley Somerset
12 September 2025;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
In this fun-packed book, we revisit the Mubbles on the Isle of Smile! Berry has found his lost bouncing balls, but everyone is too busy to play with him. Then the Uncertain Curtain delivers Terry, a super-cute dog, and Berry is delighted to finally have a playmate. However, Te...
