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Build It
Name: Bruce Robinson
19 October 2017;Genre: Adventure
A thoughtful, detailed and beautifully illustrated treasure trove of a book containing a wide range of progressive STEM activities for children from 5 to 85. Built It's layout, easy to follow instructions and appropriate scientific detail, lends itself to both the teacher and student who wants...
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Rose Raventhorpe Investigates: Rubies and Runaways
Name: Azra Age 9
16 October 2017;Genre: Mystery & Detective
You might thing that Rose was an ordinary Victorian girl but you'd be wrong. Read how Rose looks after herself in a freezing winter of mystery and murder. I love this book because of the adventures Rose gets up to! I'd recommend it for anyone aged 9 or 10.
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The Wizards of Once
Name: Emily Marcuccilli
09 October 2017;Genre: Fantasy
My review copy of Cressida Cowell's The Wizards of Once was barely out of its packaging when an eager Year 5 reader, desperate to read it, asked whether she could borrow it first. She devoured it in two days flat and declared it to be 'entrancing and mysterious'. How right she...
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The Dollmaker of Krakow
Name: Josie Age 10
06 October 2017;Genre: Historical Fiction
I would rate this fabulous book 10/10!!!! An emotional story of magic, friendship and hope, yet also the shocking reality of life in 1939 Poland. It is a lovely read for 10+. A unique combination of fantasy and history - with a tragic ending which reflects how many stories ended during World War...
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Sky Dancer
Name: Emily Marcuccilli
05 October 2017;Genre: Environment & Nature
Sky Dancer is a bold and beautiful tale of friendship, nature and community. It is a story about three young people from very different backgrounds who find themselves swept up into a complex world of communities at war with one another over issues of tradition, conservation a...
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Name: Alison Kelly
01 October 2017;Genre: Poetry
This is Hip Hop artist and poet, Karl Nova's first collection of poetry for young people. Aptly titled Rhythm and Poetry, it offers insights into Nova's life, recounted energetically in rap (hence the acronym from the title). Almost as important as the raps themselves, are the...
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28 September 2017;Genre: Bullying
"Some experiences - like walking into an exam hall or moving to a new school - never leave you and for Rosalind, transitioning to secondary school is made even more complicated by a terminally ill brother and her selective mutism. Unable to speak to anyone outside her immediate family except f...
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Witch for a Week
Name: June Hughes
27 September 2017;Genre: Adventure
Elsie helps out in her family's shop, the grandly named Pickles Emporium. Unfortunately, the grandest thing about it is its name and it struggles to win customers and sell its wares. On one run-of-the-mill afternoon, however, the shop is visited by Magenta Sharp, a local witch looking for a caret...
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National Trust: The Secret Diary of Jane Pinny, a Victorian House Maid
Name: Ellen King
25 September 2017;Genre: Adventure
The Secret Diary series from Nosy Crow delves into specific periods in history to show what life would have been like at the time for young people honing their crafts and skills, whether as a young page learning to be a knight in The Secret Diary of John Drawbridge: Medieval Knight in Training, o...
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The Wizards of Once: Book 1
Name: Susan Wilsher
19 September 2017;Genre: Fantasy
Once there was a boy who had been brought up as a Wizard, believing that all Warriors are bad. However, Xar (the wizard) had no magic - and would do anything to get some.Once there was a girl who was a warrior - people who believed that ALL magic was bad and should be destroyed. Ho...
