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Can You Get Rainbows in Space
Name: Jenny Caddick
08 February 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
Can You Get Rainbows in Space is a beautifully bright and scientific non-fiction epic book with all you ever wanted to know about light and colour, explaining just how we get to view the world in so many glorious shades. It is a delightfully bold and eye catching hardback and...
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Diary of an Accidental Witch - Magic Ever After
Name: Jennifer Caddick
08 February 2024;Genre: Magical Realism
Diary of an Accidental Witch: Magic Ever After is book six in a sparkling series that will have its young readers spellbound. As always, young student witch Bea Black opens her delightful, dramatic diary to us and we follow the next installment in her lively, family, fr...
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This Book Will Make You An Artist
Name: Maria Faithorn
02 February 2024;Genre: Non Fiction
This Book Will Make You An Artist is a bright and captivating book that proves that anyone, anywhere, can become an artist. With just a few simple resources that can easily be sourced, this book guides you through works of many famous artists. Learn about pointillism an...
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My Brother Plato
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 February 2024;Genre: Historical Fiction
Potone is eight years old, and her brother Plato is seven. They live in Athens with their mother Perictione and stepfather Pyrilampes. They have an older stepbrother, Demos, who is aggressive and unpleasant towards them. Athens is at war with the ferocious Spartan army; Pyrilampes was a...
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Bronte Tempestra and the Lightning Steeds
Name: Natalie McChrystal Plimmer
29 January 2024;Genre: Fantasy
Bronte Tempestra and the Lightning Steeds by Bex Hogan is the first title in a new chapter book series about a nine year-old princess who is desperate to become a knight. When Sir Sebastian's School for Squires finally opens its doors to girls, Bronte's dreams come true...
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Diary of an Accidental Witch - Stage Fright
Name: Jennifer Caddick
26 January 2024;Genre: Fantasy
A boisterous return to the diary of Bea Black in Book 5 of this lively, fun series about an 11-year-old aspiring witch and life in Little Spellshire at the School for the Extraordinary Arts. It is all high energy excitement and drama as the young witches in training are about to stage a school...
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Stemville: The Bee Connection
Name: Sue Wilsher
21 January 2024;Genre: Environment & Nature
Meet Mason B. Chandler, owner of Stemville's private detective agency. In her first case, Mason follows the clues to solve a sticky situation which has caused Bug Borough to come to a standstill. Not only does she reveal the truth about what happened, Mason introduces readers to the fascinatin...
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Stitch
Name: Jo Clarke
19 January 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Clumsy, excitable and loveable Henry lives in a castle with his friend, Stitch. Both characters are the creations of the professor, who has pieced them together from dead body parts as part of an experiment. When the professor dies, his nephew, Hardacre, arrives, determined to understand and t...
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The Shape of Rainbows
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 January 2024;Genre: Poetry
The Shape of Rainbows is packed with wealth of poems which are perfect for sharing and performing, savouring and contemplating. There really is something for everyone to be found in these pages, all accompanied by Will Hughes's witty illustrations. Classes would have gr...
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Beastlands: Race to Frostfall Mountain
Name: Janet Fisher
19 January 2024;Genre: Fantasy
On the island of Ramoa, three young people live in three very separate societies. Kayla lives in Sophiatown where she is a Sky Cadet with her pangron, Faro. He is taken from her after another pangron is stolen. Alethea is a healer carrying on her father's work living in the Blue District, wher...
