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  • Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature!

    Keisha Jones is a Force of Nature!

    Name: Dylan Age 8
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Amazing book, it's so inspiring you should read it. It is a message to stop climate change.

  • Bad United: Fast as Lightning

    Bad United: Fast as Lightning

    Name: Amanda Shipton
    15 August 2025;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Fast as Lightening is the latest instalment in the Bad United Series. Louise Forshaw continues the series with this brilliantly written graphic novel. The page designs with different layouts and illustration sizes add interest and the limited language and well...

  • Brave Bears Don't Get Scared

    Brave Bears Don't Get Scared

    Name: Lizi Backhouse
    14 August 2025;

    Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing

    What a gorgeous book! This beautifully illustrated book features lots of scary creatures - bears, porcupines, dragons and scorpions included - who surely aren't scared of anything...are they? Brave Bears Don't Get Scared provides a gentle introduction for talking to chi...

  • Dungeon Runners: Ocean Chase

    Dungeon Runners: Ocean Chase

    Name: Jane Rew
    14 August 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    For those unfamiliar with Dungeon Runners, there are some initial, helpful introductions at the start of the third book in the series, Dungeon Runners Level 3: Ocean Chase; to the commentators, to our regular heroes Kit, Thorn and Sandy,...

  • My Teacher is a Diamond Thief!

    My Teacher is a Diamond Thief!

    Name: Margaret
    11 August 2025;

    Genre: School Stories

    My Teacher is a Diamond Thief!, the 15th adventure for Izzy and her friends, sees them coping with a new teacher at their primary school. But very soon they see signs of some very strange behaviour; after all who gets their own name wrong, or gives out work sheets that are not...

  • One Cat, Two Cats: A lift-the-flap, pop-up book with 20 cats to count!

    One Cat, Two Cats: A lift-the-flap, pop-up book with 20 cats to count!

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    08 August 2025;

    Genre: Early Skills

    Bright and beautiful, One Cat, Two Cats is quite simply brilliant! Bursting with gentle humour, children will love the simple rhyming text and the feline antics on every page. The book is wonderfully interactive with lift-the-flaps and pop-ups galore en...

  • Minna's Masks (Wonderfully Wired Stories)

    Minna's Masks

    Name: Jen Bevan
    08 August 2025;

    Genre: Representation & Inclusion

    Minna uses masks to help her navigate life. But when Minna starts at a new school, and forgets to bring her masks, she has a tricky day. Everything is just too much and in the end she becomes dysregulated. Minna doesn't know what to do until a boy from the class shows her his mask and Minna re...

  • The Changeling Child

    The Changeling Child

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    08 August 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    With a new project threatening both the natural world and the Faerie realm, Saga and Alfred are brought together once again. As a demi-fae, Alfred must journey deep into the magical kingdom, leaving Saga behind to unravel the 12-year-old mystery of a missing child who is, perhaps, the key to e...

  • Flamefall

    Flamefall

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    08 August 2025;

    Genre: Fantasy

    The city is starving, and unrest is brewing. Across the water enemies are gathering. Tumultuous events are unleashed when these three things come together. In the middle of it are Annie and Lee and in New Pythos, Griff. These three will be drawn together and thrown about with the events that u...

  • Things I Learned While I Was Dead: Discover the heart-wrenching YA sci-fi about sisterhood and the ethics of medical science

    Things I Learned While I Was Dead

    Name: Sam
    07 August 2025;

    Genre: Science Fiction

    The most important thing in the world to 17-year-old Calico is saving the life of her younger sister Asha. After years of unsuccessful medical treatment, Asha is now dying. So, when Calico is offered the possibility of a miracle cure for her sister, she jumps at the chance. However, all is not...