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  • How to Survive Without Grown-Ups

    How to Survive Without Grown-Ups

    Name: Ezrah Age 10
    10 June 2021;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Two children, Eliza and Johnnie, go on an epic adventure. The book was about a space rescue mission. The main character was Eliza Lemon. I read the book in a day, once I started I could not stop reading! I liked that it was a future friendly book and an interesting, comical, fiction book. It w...

  • Skyborn

    Skyborn

    Name: Kelly Buxton
    10 June 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Skyborn is a tumbling, twisting and turbulent adventure akin to that of Peter Bunzl's Cogheart series. Alice, who has a 'firemark' on her cheek, has turned her back on her privileged life. She is on the run from her grandfather, Lord Pattern, longing for a life of acceptance for who she is. Wh...

  • Aziza's Secret Fairy Door

    Aziza's Secret Fairy Door

    Name: Megan Webb
    10 June 2021;

    Genre: Young fiction

    Aziza's Secret Fairy Door is a fun, magical adventure through Shimmerton, a magical world with fairy princesses and other mythical creatures. Aziza's adventure begins on her birthday when she receives a mysterious present. Inside the mysterious gift is a fairy door, which Aziz...

  • Indigo Wilde and the Creatures at Jellybean Crescent: Book 1

    Name: Ellen Green
    10 June 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    What an appealing read! I was immediately drawn to the strong, magical cover and the colourful inner pages and looked forward to finding out more about the secret life of Indigo Wilde and her family - and the magical creatures they secretly look after! Indigo Wilde and her little brothe...

  • Otherland

    Otherland

    Name: Nathan Cox
    09 June 2021;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Otherland by Louie Stowell is an excellent adventure, fantasy story that opens up a whole new realm of magical fairies, gods and creatures where things aren't always as they appear. This story has something for every reader and is very hard to put down. Myra and Rohan are lifelong friends with...

  • How I Saved the World in a Week

    How I Saved the World

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    08 June 2021;

    Genre: Adventure

    According Billy’s mum, the rules of survival matter more than anything Billy can learn in class - so he's more often then on 'adventures' with her than in school. Billy adores his mum, although she's different from everyone else's, but after she lights a fire in their living room, he is sent t...

  • TrooFriend

    Troofriend

    Name: Carol Wright
    07 June 2021;

    Genre: Friendship

    Sarah’s parents, like many others, buy their daughter a 560 mark IV Troofriend as an AI friend. Sarah names her AI friend Ivy. At first, Sarah is not really interested in the new friend her parents have bought her, until she realises this may be a way to make real friends at school. Meanwhile,...

  • Skyborn

    Skyborn

    Name: Jennifer Caddick
    07 June 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Young Bastjan is following in his late mother's footsteps, working in a circus troupe, under the instruction of his unpleasant, cruel stepfather and ringmaster, Cyrus Quinn. Forced to face his biggest fears to become a death defying aerialist as his mother was, Bastjan is desperate to gain acc...

  • 100 Endangered Species

    100 Endangered Species

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    05 June 2021;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    100 Endangered Species has the cute appeal of a gift book but an admirably serious purpose. Focusing on a hundred species that appear on the IUCN Red List, it aims to highlight their uniqueness, their plight and the efforts that are being made to conserve them. The grap...

  • The Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife: Book 1

    The Exploding Life of Scarlett Fife

    Name: Megan Webb
    05 June 2021;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Scarlett Fife has Big Feelings, which can sometimes get her in trouble. She had been working extra hard to control her anger so she could take the class hamster, Mr Nibbles, home. However, one Friday, William U is unfairly awarded eight Positivity Points, meaning that he is the one to take Mr...