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Giggling Ghosts
Name: Sue Wilsher
07 October 2025;Genre: Early Skills
In a busy town, when it's quiet after dark, there is a house full of ghosts who are ready to scare! Sneaking and spinning, gliding and booooing are all great fun, but their favourite thing to do is giggle. Perfect for sharing, Giggling Ghosts offers a fun, interactive story time...
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Giggling Ghosts
Name: Lucy Hopkins
02 October 2025;Genre: Early Skills
Giggling Ghosts is an interactive, humorous book which may help to avoid any spooky feelings about ghosts! This is a nice story for children to enjoy, especially around Halloween. The friendly ghosts may help ease any worries some children have about 'spooky things'. It would...
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Name: Amanda Shipton
01 October 2025;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
You are immersed in the world of Wiskling Wood from the very moment that you open this memorising book. It is clear that Harriet's childhood hobbies of drawing and creating miniature worlds for tiny characters were not wasted. In The Diary of Wiska Wildflower: T...
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Dracula & Daughters: Sink your fangs into a brand new adventure series
Name: Beverley Somerset
30 September 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
Famous actress Elsie Irving has died in mysterious circumstances and, for the first time in 20 years, a vampire Contagion has broken out in Temstown. Are the two things linked? Mina, her sister Buffy and cousin Bella find that they are connected by a family secret and they could be the only on...
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A World of Cats: A Celebration of Fascinating Facts and Amazing Real-Life Stories for Cat Lovers
Name: Sue Wilsher
26 September 2025;Genre: Animals
I love most animals, but I have always been fascinated by felines and have shared my home - and my heart - with many cats over the years. In her introduction, Carlie Sorosiak says her first word was 'kitty’; mine was 'Sarah' (or an approximation!), the name of our blue-cream Persian! <s...
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This Is Not A Small Voice: Poems by Black Poets
Name: Sara Sumner
24 September 2025;Genre: Poetry
This is Not a Small Voice is an inspiring anthology of poems by Black poets. This beautifully presented cloth bound book brings together a collection of poems specially chosen and collated by Traci N. Todd and Illustrated by Jade Orlando. The poems in this collection co...
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Bury Your Friends: The nepo-baby thriller from YA bestseller Benjamin Dean
Name: Eileen Armstrong
23 September 2025;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Not for nothing has Dean been awarded the 'King of YA thriller' crown and his latest, long-awaited novel, this time with a unique slasher twist, absolutely does not disappoint. A dream 'end of A levels' party weekend for a group of perfectly privileged nepo teens in an...
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Dead Yard: Seeds of Doom
Name: Sam
22 September 2025;Genre: Horror
Dead Yard: Seeds of Doom by P.J.Killburn is a great book to re-inspire Year 7 readers, with its mix of ghosts, humour and a smattering of Jamaican culture making this a highly entertaining read. The only downside to this fab read is that my ability to recreate the Jamaican pat...
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Girls of Dark Divine
Name: Eileen Armstrong
22 September 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Occasionally, a debut novel comes along which is so cleverly imagined, beautifully written and compulsively readable that it's hard to believe it's a first novel at all. Girls of Dark Divine definitely fits this bill. With a distinctly Phantom of the Opera feel, this is glamor...
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The Odyssey of Phoebe Quilliam
Name: Sue Wilsher
19 September 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
Phoebe has inherited her love of art and stories from her grandmother, Cass, spending much time with her in the sunny studio where they paint and share Greek myths. But Cass is struggling to remember things and has to go into a home. When Cass's home is sold, Phoebe pays it one last visit and...
