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How to Survive Without Grown-Ups
Name: Grace Age 9
12 June 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
How to Survive Without Grown-Ups is a very funny story about a brother and sister who explore a mystery of what happened when mum and dad went to space. A lot of cool things occur in this grand book! It makes me feel like I'm in the story watching it happen. I would recommend this book for 7-1...
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Earth’s Aquarium
Name: Sharon Porter
10 June 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
This dazzling picture book has 15 watery environments for the reader to explore, each with a double page spread with an introduction describing the habitat, followed by another double page spread of the creatures which live there. We didn't realise there were so many different water hab...
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Move, Mr Mountain
Name: Marie Berry
10 June 2021;Genre: Friendship
I really liked Move, Mr. Mountain and resonated hugely with the sorts of challenge we face with children every day. The story is about Mr. Mountain, a great established mountain and his nose is significantly put out of joint when a small girl Lily, tells him to move so she can see behind. Mr....
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The Crossing
Name: Sharon Bolton
10 June 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
On the face of it who would think that Natalie in Dover, and Sammy in Eritrea, have any common ground? Certainly not the right wing groups protesting about the refugees landing on the Kent coast. The Crossing is a well-crafted verse novel which explores the many facets of the...
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Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
10 June 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Vashti Hardy has done it again! Harley Hitch and the Iron Forest is an absolute triumph and a joy to read, in fact this book has not seen the shelf since it arrived in school. The story starts in the unusual town of Inventia, a place where science and engineering rule, where the trees a...
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Move, Mr Mountain!
Name: Wendy Kelly
10 June 2021;Genre: Friendship
This is a lovely story about an unlikely friendship between a little girl called Lily and a mountain in her village. Lily is a sassy and opinionated young lady who thinks the mountain should move, so she can see what lies beyond. The mountain reacts badly to her demands and causes some extreme...
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How to be a Footballer And Other Sports Jobs
Name: Kyle Matravers
10 June 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
How to Be a Footballer is the definitive guide to the world's number one sport…football. This nonfiction text covers every aspect of the beautiful game in an engaging, informative and accessible manner. Guided by questions, each double page spread provides the answers needed t...
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A Gathering Midnight
Name: Linda Brown
10 June 2021;Genre: Fantasy
A Gathering Midnight is the sequel to Midnight's Twins and what a great action-packed second book it is. I really could not put this down; adventure, action, myste...
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Me and the Robbersons
Name: Jennifer Caddick
10 June 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
Me and the Robbersons is a quirky, unique, witty and fun adventure full of odd, crazy and heartwarmingly hilarious events. Bored Maisie is not looking forward to the summer holidays with her boring, disinterested parents and utterly annoying sister, Primrose AT ALL…Until a fam...
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Escape the Rooms
Name: Nicola Mansfield Niemi
10 June 2021;Genre: Funny Stories
Escape the Rooms is a laugh-out-loud, surrealist tale that leads our two main characters through a journey that is so much more than it seems. It starts when we meet Jack at the fair, doing anything he can to just get through the day, when he suddenly finds himself in a 'Room'. Here he meets C...
