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The Time Machine Next Door: Explorers and Milkshakes
Name: Jane Rew
10 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
Sunil and Alex (his babysitter, strangely) use the BM (time-travelling) machine to meet notables Neil Armstrong and Ernest Shackleton, as well as a kiwi called Wiki and a cat called Mrs Chippy. The Time Machine Next Door: Explorers and Milkshakes, a nattily illustrated,...
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The Boy Who Saved a Bear
Name: Emma Nelson
10 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
The Boy Who Saved a Bear is set in beautiful Sri Lanka. Whilst working in the library, Nuwan accidentally takes an important and valuable key that has been hidden in one of the books. Nuwan doesn't realise that the key is meant for great things until he encounters the libraria...
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The Tiger Who Sleeps Under my Chair
Name: Sue Wilsher
10 April 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Kept in seclusion by her father, Emma Linden dreams of the time she spends at Kersbrook in Devon with her brother, James, and of following in the footsteps of Mary Anning, the famous fossil- hunter. However, she becomes increasingly concerned about James when he becomes obsessed with Bhayankar...
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Spellstone
Name: Jacqueline Harris
09 April 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Evie is an ordinary twelve-year-old girl. Sher feels invisible much of the time and that no-one seems to notice her much. One day she meets a strange man who tells her she has magical abilities and is part of the ancient Order of the Stone. Together with the other members of the Order, she mus...
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Spellstone
Name: Louisa Farrow
08 April 2023;Genre: Fantasy
Spellstone is a gripping piece of storytelling for lovers of fantasy fiction. The bones of the plot are familiar: a renegade wizard turned evil who is hunting down the good wizards; a mysterious Spellstone which will make him unstoppable; and a 12-year-old sorceress - courageo...
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Interview with Blackbeard and Other Vicious Villains - Ten talks between time-travelling author Andy Seed and some of history’s most fiendish villains.
Name: Jane Rew
07 April 2023;Genre: Non Fiction
In Interview with Blackbeard and Other Vicious Villains, you will find the usual suspects - Nero, Ivan the Terrible, Bonnie & Clyde - but there is also a spattering of more obscure names, like Zheng Yi Sao and Victor Lustig. We learn (e.g. that Blackbeard's real name was E...
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Royal Animals: An Illustrated History
Name: Wendy Kelly
07 April 2023;Genre: Animals
Royal Animals: An Illustrated History is a very timely addition for any school projects this summer regarding royalty. Most children are animal lovers and this book may well spark the interest of a child who hasn't quite taken to the humans being discussed! It's a glori...
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Alex Neptune, Pirate Hunter: Book 2
Name: Donna Chadwick
07 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
Alex Neptune, Pirate Hunter is a great sequel in the Alex Neptune series, which explores Alex's new-found powers to control the ocean. The story is full of twists and turns as Alex tries to counteract pollution and pirates to find a missing dragon egg to help clean the oceans....
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City of Secrets: The Wildsmith #2
Name: Beverley Somerset
07 April 2023;Genre: Fantasy
War is still raging in Rowan's home town of Holderby, and she and her mum are living safely by the Wild Forest with Grandpa. Rowan is happily learning to be a wildsmith like him; she can talk to and understand the magical creatures who inhabit the forest. Everything changes when Rowan's dad ar...
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Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch
Name: Jen Bevan
05 April 2023;Genre: Adventure
Welcome to Miracula and the first in a series of books about Ivy Newt and her friends. In Ivy Newt and the Storm Witch, it's Ivy's birthday and her parents perform a magic show for her which goes wrong. Ivy and her friend Tom go on an adventure to find out what has happens to...
