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The Homesick Kitten
Name: Maria Faithorn
06 January 2022;Genre: Animals
In The Homesick Kitten, Sisters Harper and Ava adore their new kitten, Sammy. They happily play, cuddle and care for it in their family flat where they live with their Mum. Everything and everyone is perfect. Until Gran, getting wobbly on her feet with old age, has a fall and...
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The Rollercoaster Boy
Name: Beverley Somerset
06 January 2022;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
In The Rollercoaster Boy, Lisa Thompson gives us a beautifully written, sensitive account of a young boy's struggle to cope with his father's mental health problems, and combines it seamlessly with an exciting mystery. Todd is 12, and his sister Laurie is six. Their par...
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The Horror of Dunwick Farm
Name: Beverley Somerset
06 January 2022;Genre: Horror
When a plane crashes near to the village of Crooked Oak, Pete, Krish and Nancy are drawn in to their most dangerous and horrific adventure yet! The plane has crashed not far from Dunwick Farm, where Krish lives with his family. Its not long before odd things start happening – cats are going mi...
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Viking Boy - The Real Story
Name: Hayley Summerfield
05 January 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Viking Boy – The Real Story by Tony Bradman is an illustrated guide into the Viking world which allows us to gain information about the Vikings and their legendary reputations as warriors and raiders. Our tour guide through this book is, Gunnar, the hero of the action-packed n...
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Viking Boy - The Real Story
Name: Donna Burkert
04 January 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
In Viking Boy - The Real Story, Gunnar, the hero from Tony Bradman's Viking Boy, tells the history of The Vikings from where they started, to places they invaded, raided and settled. He tells about gods and monsters, crafts and skills, Viking...
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The Primrose Railway Children
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
02 January 2022;Genre: Family & Home
Have you ever read a book where the characters feel so real you think you know them? That they are friends and you are simply revisiting them when you pick the book up to read? This is exactly what Jacqueline Wilson has done with The Primrose Railway Children; she has masterfu...
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Freedom
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 January 2022;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Freedom isn't a long novel but it crams in so much emotional satisfaction, excitement, and adventure! It also weaves the story around real historical events in a way that feels beautifully natural. The appalling fate of slaves on the slave ship Zong and the insurance fr...
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The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime
Name: Nicola Cleveland
23 December 2021;Genre: Adventure
The Unadoptables is a stunningly spooky and sinister story of loyalty, determination and family packed with adventure and adversity.Amsterdam, 1886. The Little Tulip Orphanage has strict rules on how babies should be delivered, but that autumn, five children arrive...
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How I Saved the World in aWeek
Name: Jan Blagden
10 December 2021;Genre: Adventure
How I Saved the World in a Week kept me engrossed. The chapter headings give clues to the next part of the story without giving anything away, and I liked that some were only a page whilst others were several pages long. This uneven pace of chapter length draws the reader into...
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Diary of a Christmas Elf
Name: Lisa Watkins
01 December 2021;Genre: Humour
Diary of a Christmas Elf is a charmingly hilarious story of Tog, an apprentice elf. Being selected by Santa isn't quite what Tog had dreamed of and it doesn't take long before he is relegated to cleaning out the reindeer stables. Tog finds himself being accused of a terrible C...
