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Just Like Me
Name: Linda Canning
11 March 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Just Like Me is a wonderfully inspiring book, which celebrates the beauty of diversity and difference. It is filled with tales of the challenges and adversity faced by successful people in all walks of life, from scientists to musicians, artists to authors and everything in be...
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Name: Solianna Age 10
08 March 2021;Genre: Fantasy
I would rate this book five stars because I like how it is full of magic, danger and mystery; I also like that the genre is fantasy adventure. The thing I did not like about the book is that it was full of cliff-hangers - that made me really impatient! Other than that, Vega Jane is an amazing...
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Name: Linda Canning
07 March 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I've got to be honest - when this book dropped through my letterbox, I wasn't entirely overjoyed. One look at it told me it was not the sort of book I would normally go for. I cracked it open and prepared myself to do battle with some elaborate prose and flowery language and was delighted to f...
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Circus Maximus: Race to the Death
Name: Jacqueline Harris
04 March 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
Dido is the young daughter of the trainer Antonius. Antonius trains horses and charioteers for Rome's Circus Maximus; the greatest of all the chariot races. Dido dreams of becoming a charioteer herself, but that is impossible as girls in Ancient Rome do not take part in sport of any sort, part...
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The Girl with her Head in the Clouds: The Amazing Life of Dolly Shepherd
Name: Eileen Armstrong
04 March 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
In The Girl with her Head in the Clouds: The Amazing Life of Dolly Shepherd, 16 year old Dolly Shepherd has no second thoughts when she steps up to be the human target in an apple shooting stunt starring a showman wearing a blindfold. It proves to be just the start of her sens...
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The Dog that Saved the World (Cup)
Name: Eileen Armstrong
04 March 2021;Genre: Animals
Truth is stranger than fiction, so the saying goes, and in The Dog that Saved the World (Cup), Phil Earle cleverly draws on not just one but two of the real world stories which surround us, one from over 50 years ago and one much more recent, to create an incredible, emotional...
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Melt
Name: Kelly Buxton
04 March 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
I devoured Melt by Ele Fountain in two-sittings. This book left me stunned and collecting my thoughts. Melt is a beautifully written story about two polar opposite worlds colliding and fusing in a feat of survival.I enjoyed the parallel narratives at the beginning...
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Name: Elen Green
04 March 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
The story of Climate Change tells the story of our climate from the beginning of its formation to the creation of fossil fuels and their use today, and explains how our use of fossil fuels is impacting on our planet. As well as showing human's impact on the planet, there are suggestions for ho...
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Wigglesbottom Primary – Dino Chick
Name: Nicola Mansfield
04 March 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
Wigglesbottom Primary – Dino Chick contains three short stories that are easily accessible and laugh out loud funny, from the title story focusing on the arrival of some eggs in class (imagine the surprise when one of them turns green, what on earth will hatch?). This is follo...
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Shipwreck Island (Orphans of the Tide)
Name: Kelly Buxton
04 March 2021;Genre: Fantasy
Orphans of the Tide Shipwreck Island Fans is the second instalment in the Orphans of the Tide series and does not disappoint. Ellie, the inventor's daughter, and Seth, god of the sea, have fled the enemy's city and are in search...
