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Big Weather
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 October 2015;Genre: Adventure
This book looks at extreme weather conditions. Big Weather is full of interesting facts, supported by some amazing pictures. The book explains extreme weather conditions in a number of ways - Q and A, diagrams, sections of text, fact files - which makes the subject easy to understand. The book w...
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Fox Investigates: A Brush with Danger
Name: Lizi Coombs
20 September 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is an animal based, humourous crime book.... how do you categorise that?! Adam Frost has written a series of Fox Investigates , and I've read two of them - this one and A whiff of mystery. I found them both fast-paced, witty and funny whilst also being easy for children to access. The stor...
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The Water Horse
Name: Lauren Maidman
23 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is the first in a new series of books in which best-selling author Holly Webb has taken a new and interesting take on mixing magic, animals and a touch of History. In this tale Princess Olivia has to come to turns with growing up, dealing with her formidable Aunt and Cousin as well as trying...
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Dino Dinners
Name: Lizi Coombs
20 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
From The Natural History Museum, this book presents facts about Dinosaurs, hand in hand with playful rhyming verses that bring the animals to life. This book is more accessible than 'Wooly Mammoth' of the same series and has a more jokey approach to the description of the dinosaurs in the verses...
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Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face and the Bees of Stupidity
Name: June Hughes
18 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
This is another in a series of books featuring the exploits of Stinkbomb and Ketchup-Face, the brother and sister mystery-solving duo from the isle of Great Kerfluffle. The mystery this time involves a group of missing evil and wicked badgers, stolen clothing, a swarm of bees (or maybe not) and...
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Puppy Academy: Scout and the Sausage Thief
Name: Kerra Dagley
16 August 2015;Genre: Adventure
Scout is a German Shepherd puppy at the Sausage Dreams Puppy Academy for working dogs in Little Barking. Her parents are both well-known working police dogs and Scout hopes to follow in their paw prints when she grows up. The story is set on an important day for Scout, as she gets ready to take...
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Creature teacher Goes Wild
Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;Genre: Young fiction
Mr Hyde is a teacher with a difference. When he gets excited, he turns into a wild uncontrollable creature that leaps about and causes all manner of mayhem. He cannot stop himself from becoming Creature Teacher so Jake, Nora and their classmates have taken it upon themselves to protect him from t...
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Knight in Training - A Horse called Dora
Name: June Hughes
12 August 2015;Genre: Young fiction
This is the second in a series of books about Sam J. Butterbiggins and his quest to become a knight. Sam lives with his Aunt, Uncle and Cousin in Mothsdale Castle, a place which doubles as 'Luxury Holiday Accommodation for Dragons, Griffins and Other Regal Beasts', and, in the first book, he disc...
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Wigglesbottom Primary: The shark in the pool
Name: Dawn Woods
11 August 2015;Genre: Funny Stories
This is the second book about life at Wigglesbottom Primary school. Three chapters of madness designed to appeal directly to primary age children. These children are faced with really dangerous situations which demand action on their part, but not necessarily the reaction their teachers would ex...
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Knight in Training - A Horse Called Dora
Name: Rose Palmer
31 July 2015;Genre: Young fiction
This is the second book in the Knight in Training series but the first that I have read. I will definitely look out for number one and look forward to numbers three to six! A Horse Called Dora sees our hero , Sam J Butterbuggins, musing over his diary about such things as trees that wave (in a 'h...
