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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 October 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
World Burn Down is a thrilling adventure story with a strong environmental message. Carlos Feliz lives with his mother in Manaus, Brazil. She is a soldier working for the Special Forces Group of IBAMA - the environment agency, and her job is to protect the Amazon rainforest fr...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 October 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Olia loves Castle Mila, the ancestral home of her family, a place full of secrets and magic. Although they no longer live in the grandeur of the past, the domed castle offers them shelter and the rest of the village space to celebrate and work. But strange storms are rising and Olia's Babusya...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
01 October 2020;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
13-year-old Olia lives with her parents, grandmother Babusya and baby sister Rosa, whom she adores. The family are descended from royalty and their home is the huge Castle Mila. The castle is 500 years old and with its 33 turrets and domes is full of secrets. Olia loves to explore it, searchin...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 October 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Elsie is used to being forgotten and so when her mother gets her holiday dates wrong and Elsie has to go and stay with Great Uncle John, she tries to make the best of it. After all, nothing exciting ever happens to her unlike Kelsie Corvette, the heroine of the stories Elise writes. However, s...
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Name: Bryony Davies
01 October 2020;Genre: Fantasy
A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth is by debut author Francesca Gibbons. The first in a planned triology, this book is a magical fantasy adventure full of heart, hope and humour.We are introduced to Imogen and her younger sister, Marie. Their mum has a new boyfriend...
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Name: Rhiannon Cook
01 October 2020;Genre: Fantasy
A Narnia for the modern age, A Clock of Stars is a magical adventure following two sisters that don't always get along. Imogen and Marie find themselves in a fantasy world after following a mysterious moth through a door in a tree but once on the other side, the door disappear...
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Frost
Name: Samantha Phillips
01 October 2020;Genre: Adventure
Part of the winter animals series by best selling children's author Holly Webb, Frost is an absolutely delightful tale of friendship between a young girl called Cassie and a fox cub she calls Frost.While her Mum is busy at work, Cassie is left in the care of her ol...
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Name: Bryony Davies
30 September 2020;Genre: Early Readers & Young Fiction
Midnight Magic by Michelle Harrison and illustrated by Elissa Elwick is the first in a new series of young fiction. Written in rhyming verse, the text is accessible to younger readers in Key Stage One.Midnight is a black cat who is born with magical powers. She is looking for a pla...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
24 September 2020;Genre: Friends and family
In The Hungry Ghost, Freja arrives in Singapore, sent from Denmark while her mother recovers from a hinted at depression. Staying with her father and his new wife and twin sons, Freja finds Singapore a vastly different world from the one she has left. She struggles with the ne...
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Name: Hayley Summerfield
20 September 2020;Genre: Family & Home
October, October by Katya Balen is truly a feast for all the senses. The words are so beautifully written that the book makes you feel part of the natural beauty that October lives and breathes every day, as well as a part of the wild whirling chaos of the world beyond the woo...
