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Polly Bee Makes Honey
Name: Samantha Hughes
02 September 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Polly Bee Makes Honey is the second title of a new non-fiction series aiming to help children understand and appreciate where their food comes from, and to be more environmentally aware. A girl follows Polly the worker bee collecting pollen and nectar from various flowe...
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Green Rising
Name: Linda Brown
02 September 2021;Genre: Dystopian
Hester is the daughter of the owner of Dalex, a huge company with huge earth damaging emissions, but she is also a 'Greenfinger', a person who can grow plants from within their body. When her dad asks her to head up a project using 'Greenfinger' teenagers, she meets, for the first time, with...
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Sky
Name: Maria
02 September 2021;Genre: Friends and family
This new book written by the talented Holly Webb was a Christmas reading treat. Sky is set in Scotland and follows a special Christmas visit by Lara and her parents to her grandparents. While on this special visit, Lara meets a family of snowy owls who take her on magical adve...
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A Thing Called Snow
Name: Sharon Porter
02 September 2021;Genre: Animals
A Thing Called Snow unfolds as the hare and the fox grow up and await their first winter with this thing called snow. Charmingly illustrated by the author, the pictures really capture the joy of the first realisation of what snow is. My children actually aww-ed at the end when...
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Be Resilient: How to Build a Strong Teenage Mind for Tough Times
Name: Clair Bossons
01 September 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Nicola Morgan has a Diploma in Youth Counselling, has written over 100 books and won many awards including the School Library Association's Outstanding Contribution to Information books. I already have several of her other books on our Self Help Shelf in the library, so was thrilled to receive...
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Don't Doubt The Rainbow - The Five Clues
Name: Ruth Cornish
01 September 2021;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The Five Clues is a page turning mystery which immerses the reader in the world of ethics and science. Edie is secretly left a set of clues by her activist mother in the event of (what turns out to be) her suspicious death. She uses her natural intelligence and her close relat...
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Fireborn: Twelve and the Frozen Forest
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 September 2021;Genre: Fantasy
Twelve has pledged her life to the Hunting Lodge. She has given up her name and is now a Huntling, training in the art of fighting monsters and keeping the peace in the land of Ember. Once she has earned the right to be a Hunter she will be able to choose a new name. Until then, she is a numbe...
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The Dragon with the Blazing Bottom
Name: Elen Green
01 September 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
The Dragon with the Blazing Bottom is a funny, fast-paced rhyming picture book that will have young children giggling at the hapless dragon's inability to breath fire - before producing flames from an unexpected source, his bottom! And what child doesn't enjoy stories about bo...
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The Night the Moon Went Out
Name: Samantha Phillips
01 September 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This is an absolutely lovely read, ideal for a young reader who still lacks the confidence to 'go-it-alone' with their book selection. The Night the Moon Went Out by Samantha Baines is a colour banded (Dark Blue) chapter book by Bloomsbury Education. Aimed at Year 5 expected l...
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Savage Island
Name: Emelia Helliwell
01 September 2021;Genre: Horror
Set in the UK, a group of friends are looking for an adventure before going off to university and happen to have one fall right into their laps. Is this a coincidence? This one even came with the chance to win a life changing sum of money. How could they not try? In Savage Islan...
