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Dream Team Attack of the Heebie-Jeebies
Name: Jane Rew
02 April 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Tom Percival is another writer of extraordinary ability who can not only devise wonderfully weird story lines, but can illustrate them so amazingly well that we are drawn into every action- and emotion-packed scene as if we were really present in Erika's world. At the start of A...
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Everyday Magic
Name: Jennifer Caddick
01 April 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
Nervous, shy, (and definitely not brave) Alfie Blackstock's life is turned upside down when he becomes an orphan and is sent to gloomy, creepy Switherbroom Hall to live with two unknown and unusual aunts who might possibly be (definitely are) witches. Added to that is the appearance, in the du...
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Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Map of Stories (Pages & Co., Book 3 paperback)
Name: Jacqueline Harris
01 April 2021;Genre: Magical Realism
A Pages and Co 3 - Tilly and the Map of Stories; A man walks into the bookshop Pages and Co and cannot remember what he came in for. Tilly and her family feel something is not quite right but cannot work out what it is. The wicked siblings Decima and Melville Underwood are now...
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Name: Jane Rew
01 April 2021;Genre: Friends and family
The Incredible Record Smashers is the tale of a girl whose mum suffers with depression, and her attempts to help, which don't exactly go to plan. How did she believe that trying for a new world record (catching kumquats in her mouth) or meeting famous singer Paul Castellini co...
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Name: Catherine Purcell
01 April 2021;Genre: Fantasy
First page - double page spread of Wormwood. A map is essential if you're to introduce me to the new world you've built and expect me to embrace it, so I heartily approve of maps at the start of a fantasy...it also means that I need to grab a bookmark as inevitably I'll need to check back to m...
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Name: Louisa Farrow
01 April 2021;Genre: Family & Home
If anyone can find a silver lining in a rain cloud, it will be Joy Applebloom. Her whole life has been spent travelling the world with her adventurous parents. Then, without warning, they return to a nondescript part of England to look after her grandfather. His humdrum life is hidebound by ro...
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By Ash, Oak and Thorn
Name: Bryony Davies
01 April 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
By Ash, Oak and Thorn is full of the wonder of nature and the environment. Explore the world from a different perspective and join three funny and caring beings on their adventure. In By Ash, Oak and Thorn, the reader joins three ancient beings - Hidden Folk - on a wild...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 April 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
When disaster strikes the Forest at the start of Skin Taker, it seems as if the sun will never wake and the Clans are left in chaos. Torak, Renn and Wolf must face dangers and demons and find a way to bring back the First Tree if their world is to survive. But Torak is caught...
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Amber Under Cover
Name: Donna Burkert
01 April 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Amber Roberts: a typical schoolgirl whose life is turned upside down in more ways than one. Fearing that her parents are about to divorce, Amber is shocked to find that it is something altogether more worrying that they have been whispering about for weeks; it seems her life will never be the...
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Name: Kelly Buxton
01 April 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Skin Taker by Michelle Paver is the latest in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, which follows Torak, a spirit Walker, Renn, his mate and Wolf, his trusty companion, as their livelihood is threatened by an unnatural force in this tense, new wild adventure. Journ...
