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Fledgling
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 November 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Cassie Engel's home life is unusual. Her mother is an eccentric opera singer who spends most of her day singing and her father, broken by the war, takes refuge in drink and taxidermy. They live in a tall house built by her great grandfather on top of a tall rock, reached by a helter skelter ro...
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Shadow Town
Name: Ruth Cornish
01 November 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Shadow Town is primarily an adventure filled with fantasy and mystery. It is also a powerful thriller with psychological layers which become apparent towards the end of the book, enabling the reader to make connections between the protagonist's real life and the imaginary worl...
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The Boy Who Got Accidentally Famous
Name: Samantha Phillips
01 November 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
Billy is an ordinary eleven year old school boy, who lives with his perfectly ordinary parents and his ten-month-old sister, Lisa, who is also ordinary. Everything about Billy was ordinary; at school he wasn't top of his class, or bottom. He wasn't good at sport, or bad either. He was neither...
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A Secret in Time
Name: Natalie J. McChrystal Plimmer
01 November 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
A Secret in Time is the fourth title in Nicholls' chapter-book series about a time-travelling brother and sister who are able to jump into the antique mirror in their aunt's grand home of Applecott House and transport to other existences of their family's residence throughout...
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A Secret in Time
Name: Lucy Newton
31 October 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
A Secret in Time is a nice book for early readers who are gaining their stamina with reading! This story follows the adventures of Alex and Ruby as they begin an epic adventure after looking through their aunt's mirror. Suddenly they find themselves back in 1947, fighting thro...
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Cardboard Cowboys
Name: Jan Blagden
31 October 2021;Genre: Friends and family
It was refreshing to read Brian Conaghan's Cardboard Cowboys because it tackles the issue of negative body image from a boy's point of view. We are inside the head of Lenny, who is a loner, not necessarily from choice. All the angst and anxiety that he feels is expressed in a...
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Beyond the Mountains (A Clock of Stars, Book 2)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
31 October 2021;Genre: Fantasy
In Beyond the Mountains, the second book in A Clock of Stars fantasy, Imogen and Marie have returned from the magical land through the door in the tree. The trouble is, that no-one believes them, least of all their Mum and...
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Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas
Name: Donna Burkert
29 October 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Many moons ago, Christmas wasn't the magical time of year that it is today. There was no one to deliver presents, no one for children to write to, no tinsel, no reindeers, no magic. Until of course, a young girl called Blanche, who lived all alone under a bridge, met a mystical old lady, who g...
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Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas
Name: Hayley Summerfield
28 October 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Tinsel by Sibeal Pounder is a brilliant new Christmas book with a twist. The story is seeped with powerful themes of friendship, feisty girls, gender roles and adventure. This refreshingly original story on the origins of Santa is hilarious and heart-warming and crammed full o...
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The Good Bear
Name: Emma Nelson
28 October 2021;Genre: Friends and family
The story begins on Christmas Eve where Thea is curled up with hot chocolate and a blanket telling her daughter the story of how she met 'The Good Bear.' Thea lives with her mum in Britain and has not seen her father for four years as he now lives with his new family in...
