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  • Ice Apprentices: A breathtaking new children's fantasy series: Volume 1

    Ice Apprentices

    Name: Aarav Age 9
    03 February 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Ice Apprentices is about Oswin who is a young boy who had been abandoned by his biological parents. Oswin thought he had made a friend named Anastasia but she thought she was better than everyone because she was born a Barkmouth. My favourite part is when Oswin and Anas...

  • The Boy in the Suit

    The Boy in the Suit

    Name: Donna Ritchie
    03 February 2025;

    Genre: Real life

    The Boy in the Suit is a story about a 10-year-old boy and his mum. It may sound like this is an everyday book with an everyday story line. Well, this is not your everyday 10-year-old boy. Solo and his mum, Morag, crash funerals for food! Unfortunately, his mum is experiencing...

  • Ice Apprentices: A breathtaking new children's fantasy series: Volume 1

    Ice Apprentices

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    03 February 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Oswin Fields is a stray; he was saved from the Endless Expanse in the frozen world of Tundra. At the age of 14 he is summoned to Corridor, a school where he is to be trained as an ice apprentice. As a stray, Oswin is aware that he will never be considered a proper Tundran and so feels himself...

  • Ice Apprentices: A breathtaking new children's fantasy series: Volume 1

    Ice Apprentices

    Name: Mizuki Age 10
    30 January 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Where do I begin? Ice Apprentices didn't fully capture my attention from the start but when I got into it, it was definitely worth it! It included many twists and turns and secrets were revealed about otherwise unacknowledged characters...

  • Guardians of the New Moon: The Year of the Rat

    Guardians of the New Moon: The Year of the Rat

    Name: Maria Faithorn
    17 January 2025;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    The Year of the Rat is the second in the Guardians of the New Moon series and follows Rat's success at winning the Jade Emperor's race. As neither Miaow nor Ming completed the race, they did not have a lunar year named after them, but were instead awarded the...

  • Nature: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About the Natural World!

    Oh No They Aren't: Nature

    Name: Jane Rew
    17 January 2025;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Oh No They Aren't: Nature succeeds in offering a new take on the bewildering beauty and variety of life on Earth, by challenging readers' assumptions or supposed know-how. Weren't dodos slow and simple-minded? All sharks are fearsome predators, aren't they? It's quiet beneath...

  • Hunt for the Golden Scarab  (Time Keys, book 1)

    Hunt for the Golden Scarab (Time Keys, book 1)

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    16 January 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    In Hunt for the Golden Scarab, we meet Sim Lockier and his mother, Callidora, and learn they have never lived anywhere for very long. At present they are based in London. Previously educated at home, Sim now attends school and has a best friend, Nelson. Life seems uneventful u...

  • Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow's Great Race

    Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow's Great Race

    Name: Maria Faithorn
    16 January 2025;

    Genre: Myths & Legends

    Ming and Miaow's Great Race is the first book in the Guardians of the New Moon series. The Jade Emperor has created a wonderful new planet which is full of life. But now he is bored. One day, whilst watching a cat chase a mouse, he decides to hold a race which...

  • Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm: the first adventure in an electrifying new fantasy series!

    Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm

    Name: Jenny Caddick
    16 January 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm is a lively and fantastically fast-paced and imaginatively created, portal-hopping fantasy adventure with a colourful, charming cast of vibrant (fabulously named) and utterly engaging characters! 12-year-old Peregrin...

  • The Bold Kitten

    The Bold Kitten

    Name: Elen Green
    16 January 2025;

    Genre: Animals

    The Bold Kitten, the latest book in the well loved Animal Stories series by Holly Webb, introduces young readers to a Syrian family settling into a new way of life in the UK. One of the children, Hana, is struggling to adapt until she makes friends with a tiny kitten, one of a...