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Sleeping Beauty: A Mid-Century Fairy Tale
Name: Sue Wilsher
20 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
Set in the 1950s, Annabel - lover of science fiction - is living under an evil spell. Cursed on her first birthday by a spiteful witch to prick her finger on a needle and die, Annabel lives with her two aunts, who have done their best to lessen the spell. Despite their care, she does prick her fi...
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The Sleeper and the Spindle
Name: Sue Wilsher
18 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
A mixture of elements of Sleeping Beauty and elements of Snow White, The Sleeper and the Spindle is a very Neil Gaiman twisting of these fairy tales. No reference is made to these tales for 'names are in short supply in this telling'. Princes are very much in the background - hanging in the rose...
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Marge in Charge
Name: June Hughes
12 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
Jemima Button is seven and her brother Jake is four. Their parents, when they go out, leave them with a babysitter. So far, so normal. The new babysitter, however, is far from normal, though the children's parents never find out just how far from normal Marge really is. She arrives, short, seriou...
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Beaky Malone: World's Greatest Liar
Name: Emily Beale
11 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
Dylan Malone aka Beaky, could possibly be the world's greatest liar. Whether he's leading expeditions to the north pole, boasting of his psychic abilities, boxing swans in the park or dodging deadly deceases - Beaky will have a creative answer for everything. However, when extended family members...
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Knitbone Pepper Ghost Dog and the Last Circus Tiger
Name: Kerra Dagley
05 June 2016;Genre: Adventure
The inhabitants of Starcross Hall are all really quite unusual. It's a place where normal house rules simply don't apply. It's where generations of beloved Pepper ghost pets, a goose, monkey, hamster, amongst others, play hide and seek. Winnie, the youngest Pepper is the only living person who...
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The Wolves of Currumpaw
Name: Emily Beale
16 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
In 1862, New Mexico, a lone pack of wolves roams a dramatically changing landscape. The notorious mob of grey american wolves have terrorised the region's livestock, desperate for food due to the loss of their natural habitat and food sources. They are led by Old Lobo the king of the Currumpaw va...
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Dave Pigeon
Name: Emily Beale
10 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
Cross my heart and hope to fly, stick a peanut in my eye - the daring tale of best pigeon friends Dave and Skipper, as they attempt to rid themselves and their new home, from 'Mean Cat'. The feather-filled story begins with the friends recalling their first meeting during a failed croissant heist...
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Pocket Pirates; The Great Drain Escape
Name: Lizi Coombs
06 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
This story follows some little pirates who live in a toyshop as they explore the world. In this story, Buttons the cabin boy sneaks off outside to explore, this eventually leads to the whole crew venturing out and getting swept down a drain! After many shenanigans, they all eventually fiend thes...
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Tamsin and the Deep
Name: Lorraine Ansell
04 May 2016;Genre: Adventure
Tamsin and the Deep is a graphic novel, excellently illustrated by Kate Brown and published by David Fickling Books in partnership with The Pheonix Comic. As a prolific reader of comics and graphic novels (Calvin and Hobbes was a particular favourite) when a teenager myself I can honestly say thi...
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There's A Dragon In My Backpack
Name: Emily Beale
30 April 2016;Genre: Adventure
Pan the miniature dragon is back and he's up to even more mischief! There's A Dragon in my backpack is the hilarious fast paced sequel to Theres A Dragon in my Dinner, where we were first introduced to the loveable minuscule prawn cracker-guzzling dragon, when he is delivered to Eric's house with...
