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The Secret Detectives
Name: Benhur Age 10
05 June 2021;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I recommend The Secret Detectives to detective lovers aged 8-12 years old. It is about a girl named Isobel Petty who witnesses a horrific deed - someone being thrown off the S.S. Mariana. Isobel and her two new friends (Sam and Lettie) have a mission to find the culprit before...
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Big
Name: Emma O'Donovan
03 June 2021;Genre: Picture Books
BIG is an almost wordless picture book about a small boy with big dreams. After watching his brother having all the fun, a young boy wishes he was BIG. When his dream comes true, but he keeps getting BIGGER and BIGGER, he realises that sometimes it's good to be small. The image-lead nature of...
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Burning Sunlight
Name: Ruth Cornish
03 June 2021;Genre: Environment & Nature
Burning Sunlight is a brilliant read on many levels. Firstly, the author has caught the emotional mood swings of a teenager extremely well. As a parent, it almost made for uncomfortable reading but feels authentic and honest and offers the reader a fresh account of a teen stru...
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The Swallows' Flight
Name: Lucy Georgeson
03 June 2021;Genre: Historical Fiction
The Swallows' Flight is a companion novel to The Skylarks' War, which I would urge you to read first if you haven't already done so. The story alternates between Ruby, Kate, Dog (Pax) and friends Erik and Hans in Germany as they navigate the i...
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Hurricane Child
Name: Jane Rew
03 June 2021;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
We begin this story with 12 yr old Caroline Murphy living with her dad on Water Island in the Virgin Islands archipelago. Her mum left home 1 year 3 months ago, without explanation. How is an adolescent supposed to cope with that, how understand it? How can she possibly learn to live without h...
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The Three Impossibles
Name: Jo Clarke
03 June 2021;Genre: Adventure
The Three Impossibles is exactly that: impossible to put down, impossible not to love and impossible to forget. In this fantasy adventure we meet Mim, a feisty protagonist with an Enquiring Mind. Mim always seeks answers and has determination and perseverance in bucket loads....
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Grow, Forage and Make - Fun Things to do with Plants
Name: Joanna Hewish
03 June 2021;Genre: Non Fiction
Grow, Forage and Make - Fun Things to do with Plants is a fantastic non-fiction book that easily shows children how to design, create and grow using nature around them. I absolutely adore the style of this book; it feels and looks natural through its font choice, colour pallet...
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Sports Legends: 50 Inspiring People
Name: Sam Phillips
03 June 2021;Genre: Personal Growth
What an absolutely fantastic book! Sports Legends, 50 Inspiring People includes a selection of tales from well known athletes who at different stages in their lives have overcome a variety of challenges and issues in order to achieve their goal and ultimate sporting fame. Negative body image,...
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Tim Hopgood's Wonderful World of Colours
Name: Ellen Green
03 June 2021;Genre: Baby & Toddler Books
This is a beautiful board book that cleverly takes the introduction of colour a little further than most board books for young children. In Tim Hopgood's Wonderful World of Colours, we are introduced to red ('like strawberries'), blue (like the sky) and yellow (like the sun), and then we are s...
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Everyone Dies Famous In A Small Town
Name: Maddie Age 14
02 June 2021;Genre: Real life
This book was a different style from what I usually read. It was a collection of stories from teenagers' lives, but all of them are linked somehow as I read through snippets of their lives. It follows different people through Alaska, starting with Gina's life being flipped upside down when her...
