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Urban Outlaws: Lockdown
Name: ReadingZone
22 October 2015;Genre: Adventure
Fans of series including Alex Rider and TimeRiders will thoroughly enjoy these fast-paced, gadget-laden stories in which a group of highly talented and motivated teenagers - the 'Urban Outlaws' of the piece - grapple with computer viruses, shadowy mentors and some very bad guys. Lockdown is the t...
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Pugs of the Frozen North
Name: June Hughes
11 October 2015;Genre: Adventure
Pugs of the Frozen North is the third 'Reeve and McIntyre Production' and continues the pairing of illustration and text, where you really cannot imagine one without the other. Every page has something to look at, all in various shades of green and grey, making it very readabl...
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The Misadventures of Charles Darwin
Name: Dawn Woods
05 October 2015;Genre: Adventure
An accessible biography of Charles Darwin with chapter headings to entice and interest children. From stinky schoolboy to seasick sailor, Darwin's life is told and the importance of his discoveries in the context of the time explained. This latter is important as children will not necessarily be...
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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...
