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Mixed: Explore and Celebrate Your Mixed Identity
Name: Louisa Farrow
06 March 2026;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
To begin with, a disclaimer. I am not of mixed identity. I found this a very informative read, though, about a neglected subject. For children whose identity is mixed, it is full of empowering explanation blended with inspirational messages from a variety of successful people whose bac...
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The Last Wolf (The Moonhaven Chronicles)
Name: Beverley Somerset
06 March 2026;Genre: Adventure
Jax, Jovi, Esau and Fourth are the Moonlighters. They love their night time adventures, sneaking out after curfew, when the moon is full, to avoid the Nighthawks and roam the streets of Moonhaven. What could possibly go wrong? There have been no sightings of werewolves for almost 40 years!...
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The Elementals: Wanzu Sets Sail
Name: Amanda Shipton
06 March 2026;Genre: Environment & Nature
The Elementals: Wanzu Sets Sail is the amazing first book in the Elementals series by Love Ssega. This carefully written early chapter book combines all of the elements that you would be looking for from a fantastic children's book - adventure, friendship, discovery a...
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Amari and the Night Brothers
Name: Brinley Age 8
05 March 2026;Genre: Fantasy
This is a great and mysterious book for kids.
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Cruise Ship Kid: Kidnap at Sea
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 March 2026;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Silver and her mum have moved ships and are now sailing on the Fabula, a much bigger ship than their previous home. Fortunately, The Gang, her on-board pals who are all over 80, are on the same ship, although her friend, Mo, who helped her solve the last cruise ship mystery, is stuck at school...
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Nova
Name: Ruth Cornish
05 March 2026;Genre: Science Fiction
Chris Bradford's latest offering is an adventure in space. Nova manages to provoke a range of emotions from terror to happiness, curiosity to celebration. The protagonist, Max Nova, is travelling to Mercury with his trucker father when disaster strikes and Max is released in a...
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I Tell Myself I'm Awesome
Name: Tina DERRY
04 March 2026;Genre: Poetry
I Tell Myself I'm Awesome is a perfect book for those days when all is not quite right with the world. This collection of poems address all of those big feelings; there are poems to make you laugh, poems to make you cry, poems to spark a debate and others to c...
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Wiggling Words
Name: Louise Gahan
26 February 2026;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Wiggling Words tells the inspiring story of a child lost in a forest of letters. A gentle, imaginative journey designed to uplift children with dyslexia and other forms of neurodivergence. Through playful language and expressive illustrations, the book acknowledges how tricky...
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I Tell Myself I’m Awesome
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 February 2026;Genre: Poetry
In I Tell Myself I'm Awesome, Joshua Seigal presents another brilliant collection, offering his usual mix of humorous, joyful, poignant and provoking poems for everyone to enjoy. T he book is bursting with poems to share, to perform, to enjoy with a friend or to enjoy a...
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University of Cambridge: Think Big: Artificial Intelligence
Name: Laura Richards
23 February 2026;Genre: Non Fiction
Another great addition to the Think Big series, created in consultation with experts from the University of Cambridge. First of all, we have an appealing and smart front cover which very clearly shows what the book is about, followed by a contents page at the front. The book starts by explaini...
