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Guardians of the New Moon: The Year of the Rat
Name: Maria Faithorn
17 January 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
The Year of the Rat is the second in the Guardians of the New Moon series and follows Rat's success at winning the Jade Emperor's race. As neither Miaow nor Ming completed the race, they did not have a lunar year named after them, but were instead awarded the...
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Oh No They Aren't: Nature
Name: Jane Rew
17 January 2025;Genre: Non Fiction
Oh No They Aren't: Nature succeeds in offering a new take on the bewildering beauty and variety of life on Earth, by challenging readers' assumptions or supposed know-how. Weren't dodos slow and simple-minded? All sharks are fearsome predators, aren't they? It's quiet beneath...
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Hunt for the Golden Scarab (Time Keys, book 1)
Name: Beverley Somerset
16 January 2025;Genre: Adventure
In Hunt for the Golden Scarab, we meet Sim Lockier and his mother, Callidora, and learn they have never lived anywhere for very long. At present they are based in London. Previously educated at home, Sim now attends school and has a best friend, Nelson. Life seems uneventful u...
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Guardians of the New Moon: Ming and Miaow's Great Race
Name: Maria Faithorn
16 January 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
Ming and Miaow's Great Race is the first book in the Guardians of the New Moon series. The Jade Emperor has created a wonderful new planet which is full of life. But now he is bored. One day, whilst watching a cat chase a mouse, he decides to hold a race which...
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Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm
Name: Jenny Caddick
16 January 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Peregrine Quinn and the Cosmic Realm is a lively and fantastically fast-paced and imaginatively created, portal-hopping fantasy adventure with a colourful, charming cast of vibrant (fabulously named) and utterly engaging characters! 12-year-old Peregrin...
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The Bold Kitten
Name: Elen Green
16 January 2025;Genre: Animals
The Bold Kitten, the latest book in the well loved Animal Stories series by Holly Webb, introduces young readers to a Syrian family settling into a new way of life in the UK. One of the children, Hana, is struggling to adapt until she makes friends with a tiny kitten, one of a...
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Inkbound: Meticulous Jones and the Skull Tattoo
Name: Beverley Somerset
13 January 2025;Genre: Adventure
In this wonderful debut novel, we meet the amazing Meticulous 'Metty' Jones. On her tenth birthday Metty receives her fate - a magical tattoo on her hand which she hopes will reveal an exciting future. All Metty wants to do is make her parents proud, but unfortunately her fate reveals that she...
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The Island Vet (3) - Devil Bird Island
Name: Amanda Shipton
10 January 2025;Genre: Environment & Nature
Devil Bird Island is the amazing third book in Gill Lewis's Island Vet series. When her Mum's wallet is stolen and she loses her new puffin toy, Tia is disenchanted with the big city after visiting her Granny for her birthday. They return to Haven island brief...
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The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick
Name: Emma Fidler
10 January 2025;Genre: Horror
Finnegan Quick certainly has a vivid imagination and has some very creepy, fanciful dreams in The Nightmares of Finnegan Quick. My Y6 boys (ages 10+) will love diving in to how Finnegan's dreams come to real life and how he must deal with them. There is some a...
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Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About Amazing Women!
Name: Jane Rew
10 January 2025;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Remarkable Women: Fascinating Facts You Never Knew About Amazing Women! succeeds in engaging readers by asking questions that challenge our assumptions (Pocahontas was a princess, wasn't she? Marie Antoinette said 'Let them eat cake!', didn't she?) and extend...
