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Amari and the Night Brothers
Name: Brinley Age 8
05 March 2026;Genre: Fantasy
This is a great and mysterious book for kids.
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Runaways: An irresistible story about finding your true home
Name: Zack Age 12
05 March 2026;Genre: Family & Home
I personally think that Runaways is a particularity interesting book. My first reason is the structure. This book does have the normal chapters but it is told from two different perspectives . My second reason is that it is intriguing because you don't know whats going to happen next.
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Nova
Name: Ruth Cornish
05 March 2026;Genre: Science Fiction
Chris Bradford's latest offering is an adventure in space. Nova manages to provoke a range of emotions from terror to happiness, curiosity to celebration. The protagonist, Max Nova, is travelling to Mercury with his trucker father when disaster strikes and Max is released in a...
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Advice from a 12-Year-Old Nobody
Name: Ruth Cornish
05 March 2026;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
In Advice from a 12-Year-Old Nobody, Helen Rutter has written a heartbreakingly realistic story about the break up of a family from the main character, Vinny's, point of view. Vinny is struggling to cope with his feelings about the distance felt between him and his Mum...
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I Tell Myself I'm Awesome
Name: Tina DERRY
04 March 2026;Genre: Poetry
I Tell Myself I'm Awesome is a perfect book for those days when all is not quite right with the world. This collection of poems address all of those big feelings; there are poems to make you laugh, poems to make you cry, poems to spark a debate and others to c...
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Wiggling Words
Name: Louise Gahan
26 February 2026;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Wiggling Words tells the inspiring story of a child lost in a forest of letters. A gentle, imaginative journey designed to uplift children with dyslexia and other forms of neurodivergence. Through playful language and expressive illustrations, the book acknowledges how tricky...
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I Tell Myself I’m Awesome
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 February 2026;Genre: Poetry
In I Tell Myself I'm Awesome, Joshua Seigal presents another brilliant collection, offering his usual mix of humorous, joyful, poignant and provoking poems for everyone to enjoy. T he book is bursting with poems to share, to perform, to enjoy with a friend or to enjoy a...
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University of Cambridge: Think Big: Artificial Intelligence
Name: Laura Richards
23 February 2026;Genre: Non Fiction
Another great addition to the Think Big series, created in consultation with experts from the University of Cambridge. First of all, we have an appealing and smart front cover which very clearly shows what the book is about, followed by a contents page at the front. The book starts by explaini...
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Koalas in Capes: The Zombie Chickens
Name: Emma nelson
23 February 2026;Genre: Funny Stories
Koalas in Capes: The Zombie Chickens is a funny adventure story, perfect for readers aged 7+ who love laugh-out-loud, madcap stories. Set in the world of Pawtonia, this brings super-powered koalas Archie and Bob as they face their first challenge as superheroes - to stop the e...
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Adventuremice: Of Mice and Mummies
Name: Sue Wilsher
23 February 2026;Genre: Adventure
When Meepie and Pedro discover a stone covered in hieroglyphs whilst playing hide-and-seek in the sea, the Adventuremice realise it is a Very Important Discovery and set to work, preparing to transport it to a museum. However, arch-mouse-criminal Gorgonzola is determined to intercept them and...
